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Take this NYTimes Op-Ed column, please

Lone Starlets – New York Times
Dear Mimi Swartz (yes, that is how she spells her name–I know it seems like a misspelling), editor of Texas Monthly,
Please explain your recent Op-Ed in The New York Times. Please explain why your response to the death of Molly Ivins in The Paper of Record is to write this [...]

Election Day Goodhair Sighting!

Chris and I just got back from picking up sweet Thea the dog’s ashes and figuring out where to donate her copious medicine chest. Whom did we see at Bryker Woods Vet but the one and only Governor Goodhair, in a red (nice) RunTex shirt and navy wind pants. Apparently, being the governor of Texas [...]

Kinda Like Going On A Bender

This afternoon, after getting Mazie from piano in the ridiculous rain, I decided to take a look at Daily Kos. Didn’t expect anything new–what ad’s on in Tennessee today, how things are going in Missouri, more on their Taxi Driver-esque approach to the Connecticut senate race. No reason to find this:
TX-Gov: Surprisingly, Bell can win [...]

The Big Dog is coming!

Dog. Dawg. However you spell it, however you pronounce it, according to an AP story embedded in chrisbell.com, Bill Clinton is coming to campaign for Chris Bell. So there you have it–the national Dems must sense that we in Texas are tired of standing alone, fighting alone, losing alone, and standing up again alone.
According to [...]

Poor Kinky

My two cents on the whole “Would Ann have endorsed Kinky for governor” flap:
Susan, Joe and I got to the memorial service pretty early, so we had a lot of time to chat and think before it got underway. (Great people watching–the two women sitting on my right knew everybody down on the floor, pointing [...]

What I Left Behind

This is one of those posts I tried to start a couple of times and gave up. What I had to say went better in email, so email it’s been. Ridiculously long, well-argued emails. The people reading some of these emails have probably been thinking, “Clearly, Liz has no life.”
Why Liz, not Lize? Most [...]

Maybe I’ve Found the One

For those of you out there who aren’t exactly down with my hip hop turn (and obsessive reading of okayplayer.com), here’s a little gem for you. I like to call it:
Al’s Hip Hop Vacation (LOL)
Just want to go on record: major, major fan since 1988. The Jesse Jackson caucus and the Al Gore Caucus decided [...]

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 [...]

Looks Like God Might Be Picking Sides

I think a little weekly recap is in order:
First, the power of the Uberblondes is revealed and I become willing to make the ultimate sacrifice. Two days later, DeLay quits the race and announces that he’s moving to Virginia. (He’s my friend Eve’s problem now.) Next, we learn that Katie Couric harnessed the superpowers of [...]

Elizabeth S. Burr’s Superpowers for Real, New York Times reports

Some of you are not aware of my hair’s role in Tom DeLay’s downfall. Briefly, in 2004, it became clear that my hair cuts and Tom DeLay’s woes were linked. I accepted the responsibility any super has to use her powers for good and decided to chronicle the connection in a blog. The beginning of [...]