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Keeping Up with KXAN

I was just checking out the KXAN website to see if I could find a picture of that Mexican flag Jim Swift showed in his report on the immigration rally. No flag, but there’s a pretty fantastic shot of Jim himself on the “Out on the Porch” page:
People in Austin know that Jim usually wears [...]

What Goes Around, Comes Around

I took Emma and Mazie to the rally and march for immigration reform on Monday. Pick up didn’t go quite as smoothly as I’d hoped and Emma had to threaten Mazie to get her out of the gym where they normally spend Monday afternoons. Mazie, my semantic-loving clone, corrected me whenever I told her that [...]

Coming Out of the Closet: Part One

My friends Sarah Pelmas and John Perry are going to be on the Today Show tomorrow morning. They’ve been flown to New York with their respective partners (Matt and Rob) and best friend Kate to discuss their nascent anti-consumerist movement called The Compact. In a nutshell, they all agreed to not buy anything new for [...]