by Stephen Thompson
You know that creepy old codger who lives alone at the end of your street, hates kids, and has fifteen feral cats lounging under his dilapidated porch? Guess what he has …

By Alex Wukman
Unless you are a regular reader of right wing sites Pajamas Media and Big Government you wouldn’t have known that t Houston based ‘election integrity’ group True the Vote held its first annual …

By Alex Wukman
There are days when the universe makes sense; news stories explode across the internet and everything is right with the world. Then there are days when it seems that someone, somewhere, just decided to …

by M. Martin
There is a debate on citizenship that conservatives want to have.  There is another debate on citizenship that some progressives are trying to have-so far, typically, without much success.  There are arguments to …

My education at Texas public schools contains a knowledge gap that students who came before and after me were able to fill. I was a product of the “evolution black-out” in public education that took …

Autism is Anarchy
WE ARE HERE, WE ARE WEIRD, DEAL WITH IT.
Greetings and Salutations, America!
Autism is  a delightful and quite popular permanent federally-recognized disability. According to the USA Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the wonderful and …

By Jack Daniel Betz
The coverage surrounding the tragic shooting that occurred Saturday afternoon in Tuscon Arizona has blossomed into a full-blown shitstorm, obscuring truth and objectivity. Both conservatives and liberals (and even the irrelevant gossip-monger, …

Gather around you fellow haters, cynics, and video game store clerks and bask in the hate that is our annual ‘Worst of Houston 2024’; a collection of the worst antics of 2024 in Houston and …

By Jack Daniel Betz
For Christmas this year, I received the much welcome gift of the (no brands in this article) e-reader.  When the gift-giver first hinted that they were going to give me an e-reader …

By Nick Cooper
Illustration by Shelby Hohl
On December 14th KPFT’s open journal program was hosted by the Israeli Consulate of the Southwest Region, in a show they have labeled “The Voice of Peace.” Open Journal is …