By Alex Wukman I don’t know why I do this to myself. I really shouldn’t watch Sunday talk shows or read the newspapers, it only angries up the blood. But I do, and it’s still all Herman Cain all the time. There’s the report that he’s raising a cool $1 mil a week,but doesn’t have the organization in place to do anything with the money. Oh yeah, there’s also the story that the current GOP frontrunner, who might win the First in the Nation Caucus, has become a punchline to a guy who admits he’d double-cross us. Sadly, that’s not ... Read More »

By Alex Wukman How often do you find yourself wondering exactly how early is too early to start drinking? If you’re like me, 10 a.m. this past Sunday was about the time you wanted to Irish up your coffee. For those of you who don’t aspire to be paid obscene amounts of money to pontificate meaninglessly in an increasingly irrelevant industry–or have a life–Herman Cain, Mr. Black Walnut himself, was on Meet the Press this past weekend. Anyone wondering why a man who admits that he isn’t familiar with the neoconservative movement was invited on a very serious talk show ... Read More »

By Alex Wukman Two Weeks Ago: “Where’d you get your information,” snarls the tanned, blonde late-20s guy with the popped collar polo shirt, cargo shorts and flip flops. We’re at Liberty Station drinking and talking politics, well I’m drinking and he was talking politics to his friends until I interrupted by telling him “Hitler wasn’t a Marxist, Leninist or a Socialist. He was a right wing fascist.” I tell him I got it from a history and government class I took in college. “Pshaw,” let’s call him Broseph says. “University. More like liberal indoctrination factory.” He swivels in his bar ... Read More »

By Alex Wukman I’ll admit it, I’m a news junkie. I’m so much of a news junkie that I watch the BBC while reading the AP on my phone. My love of news has put me at odds with people in the past, I was one of the few people who supported UH buying KTRU because I’m selfish and wanted more NPR. And I especially love news radio, both the format and the brilliant sitcom. Listening to KTRH’s headline recap while riding around with my father during hot Houston summers is one of the few good memories I have of ... Read More »

By Alan Smithee A new poll released by the Texas Freedom Network finds that 80 percent of the 972 possible voters surveyed want high schools to teach contraception, including birth control and condoms, along with abstinence. According to the poll, support is fairly well spread all across the spectrum. TFN states that “77 percent of Protestants, 82 percent of Roman Catholics and 70 percent of people who identified themselves as “born again” Christians” support teaching about contraception.  Additionally 97 percent of liberals, 93 percent of moderates and 63 percent of conservatives want their children to learn how not to get ... Read More »