Kicking an opiate habit is a bitch. Before the advent of modern medical and pharmaceutical interventions, counseling, and peer support groups, the nationwide de facto
Our Fearless Leader
A week after our city’s elected officials voted to give City Manager Tommy Gonzalez and City Attorney Karla Nieman merit
A Long Walk on a Short Pier
More good news. From this week’s El Paso Inc.: As they exhaust pandemic aid and see no end to the
Our Charitable Overlords
Here’s a perspective on charitable giving by the rich during the pandemic, from that socialist rag, the Guardian. Private philanthropy
We Could Have Had City-Wide High-Speed Internet Instead
You know I’ve been saying that the real cost of all those vanity projects for the leisure class is what
Getting What You Pay for?
Here’s an article in Forbes titled Why Texas Is In Trouble—78,064 Public Employees With $100,000+ Paychecks Cost Taxpayers $12 Billion:
El Paso’s Climate Refugees
Here’s a long read from ProPublica and the New York Times Magazine: Conjoined to the Mexican city of Juárez, the
Agents Provocateur
Agents provocateur are a standard element of the anarchist playbook. They’ll get in with some peaceful protestors, and then break
It’s the Water
Alert reader Mr. Natural tipped me to this article from NewAtlas.com: A new systematic review of more than a dozen
Amazon is Coming
From the El Paso Times: Amazon, the giant online retailer, plans to open one of its distribution centers in El Paso, company
The Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the United States of America
From the aforementioned document: First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free
CJNG on Display
This is, purportedly, the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación, displaying their firepower in Mexico. Here they are in the town of
What Are Your Neighbors Up To?
Did you see this story in the news? From OPB.org: In the early hours of July 15, after a night