Rick Perry’s painful debate performance (heh)…Ramiro Fonseca, HISD Dist 3 candidate & target of an insanely bigoted campaign flier joins us in studio…& if a right wing politician paid homage to & honored a fundamentalist, homophobic, racist, anti-Semitic bigot, we’d be all over him. Just because he’s a Democrat...

In the Chron: The Chronicle on Sunday rightly withdrew its endorsement of appalling bigot and HISD District III incumbent Mauel Rodriguez, Jr. A last-minute campaign flier for Rodriguez displays appalling homophobia. The flier urges recipients not just to vote for Rodriguez, but to vote against his opponent, Ramiro Fonseca, because he has been endorsed by...

Jamin, Scott & Jacob from Occupy Houston came by the studio and talked about divesting from big banks, Michel Moore’s expected appearance, jazz hands & what’s next for the movement. Plus, Dallas has 10x more occupiers than Houston – my idea for attracting participants with the prospect of sexytime. We also finished out pledge drive...

Yesterday, satirical French newspaper Charlie Hedbo published an edition guest edited by “the Prophet Muhammad” and was promptly firebombed. Here’s the cover that “provoked” the attack: It should go without saying that whether the publication is funny, juvenile, both or neither is completely irrelevant. Nobody has a right not to be offended,...

Texas’ most evidence-based governor ever, Rick Perry, put the smackdown on those lazy Occupy Wall Street losers last Friday: “I don’t know if it can be proved up or not,” Mr. Perry conceded, “the young man’s name was Jeremy and he was 38 years old. But he said, ‘We got here at 9 o’clock, and those people, this was in Toronto, I think Bay Street...