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Weekly Wrangle

The Texas Progressive Alliance is still waiting for Greg Abbott to ask for its opinion on the interim redistricted maps that remain a bone of legal contention as it brings you this week's roundup.

Meanwhile, Off the Kuff ran the numbers for those maps that were proposed by AG Abbott.

While we may have plenty of jobs in Texas, many don't pay very well, which has led to a chasm of income disparity. WCNews at Eye On Williamson make clear that economic inequality in Texas needs to be addressed.

Sex Ed 101 by Louie Gohmert featured lectures on both caribou and human sexuality last week. Read on, if you dare, at Brains and Eggs, but have some anti-nausea medication close by just in case.

At TexasKaos, Libby Shaw reports that the blob of hate-filled vitriol known as Andrew Breitbart lost his marbles at the most recent conservative confab last weekend . Quelle shock! Read about it here: Esteemed Conservative Leader Loses It at CPAC.

Neil at Texas Liberal used a well-done Coca-Cola display at a local store to ask folks to show some Valentine's Day love for our fellow working people.

CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme wonders why Republicans hate women so very, very much.

Sunday Funnies

 

Nothing's Rusty About This Taco

Great News Dallasites!
There's a place in the city to get authentic Mexican street tacos, and you don't have to drive to Oak Cliff to get them.
I'm talkin' bout Rusty Taco on Greenville Ave.  http://www.therustytaco.com/
Having developed a taste for street food in Mexico, I've had my share of this stuff and I can tell you that their orange habenero sauce is as good as you'll find anywhere.
Great selections here, but I'm partial to the beef fajita and slow cooked pork.
The veggie and chicken are tasty, healthy alternatives, but the fish tacos are sinful.
Delicious sauces and an amazing patio when the weather is nice.
Don't be tardy for this taco...

Check Out Who's Gilligan

Nuff said.

Funnies

“Newt may be toast already. The Republican establishment have the knives out for him. Tom DeLay said Newt Gingrich was the most despicable human being he has seen since shaving this morning.” -- Bill Maher

Why Dallas Stinks

GQ's Chandler Burr,  globe-trotting scent critic, anoints the 10 best—and single worst—smelling cities in the world.

 10. Dallas
Cities, like people, have their own smell, their own body odors and perfumes that take on personalities. Dallas is one of the strangest scents I have ever encountered. Highways of strip malls and gas stations and exit signs. Insanely wide streets. It's very New World-smelling. It almost has a non-scent scent. Like many cities, you get concrete, car exhaust, and dust. If you really focus, you can pick up on the nearly undetectable Texas live oak. It's best during thunderstorms, though. The crisp smell of lightning and rain and vast flat space pervades and takes on a three-dimensional quality.

 I think it's a pretty fair assessment; if you live here, you know the smells are seasonal.

Right now, you can't smell anything because your nose is plugged with allergies; we've had a mild winter so far. *sneezes*

In the Spring, you'll still be battling those allergies, but this time you'll be dealing with the sauna-like rain Burr speaks about in the article, here. 

Dallas smells like an LA Fitness at noon. It's a warm, steamy and dirty experience.

BTW, don't Google images of "hit the showers," or "dirty locker room." Trust me on this...

The janitor is trying to clean it up with some high powered concoction that smells great, but mixed with the high levels of C02 in our atmosphere, is a enough to choke an elephant.

The Summer in Dallas smells like trash; as the city only sees fit to pick up our garbage once a week.

(How many of those 100 degree days did we have.) Pew Eee!

As the leaves start to turn in the Fall, the whole city smells of marching bands, football teams, cheerleaders and BBQ pits, grilling up meat. 

It's wondrous place for carnivores and fans of the gladiatorial games, that's for sure.

Mix all that. 

Then sprinkle in the last half dozen or so, Mayors, DISD Supers, Chiefs of DPD and a heavy dose of John Wiley Price, and bake at 350 for 1 hour.

Remove from oven and toss in garbage.