I’m back in town after a very merry Christmas in Oklahoma.
We stopped on the way up for a little day hiking in the Ouachitas. I’m going to have to get back there more this spring. I’ve missed those mountains.
Since my little hiatus here:
* UH had a dreadful bowl game, raising again the same old question of how to look at this coaching staff — are they an inept collection of high school coaches who can’t beat even
I’ve occasionally linked over to the Pegasus News guys, who are attempting to put together a hyperlocal online news/views “thing” in Dallas.
I’ve also linked over to my buddy Cindy Chaffin’s Texas Gigs site.
Imagine my surprise to discover that the Pegasus Folks and Cindy have teamed up to put Texas Gigs on Web 2.0 Amphetamines. Cindy’s old blog is still a part of the mix, but the site is now a much bigger, interactive hyperlocal online music news/views
Parcells sees hopes fading (Richard Justice, Houston Chronicle)
Now it’s the Cowboys who’ll wonder where this season is going. No Dallas team has ever missed the playoffs after starting 7-3.
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If they end up out of the playoffs, a dozen issues will come up.
Will Parcells return? He was never considered a long-term solution in the first place. He has a history of leaving abruptly.
Parcells wouldn’t address any of those issues on Sunday. It was as
Iraqis in former rebel stronghold now cheer American soldiers (Oliver Poole, Telegraph)
In the low-slung concrete buildings of Tal Afar, a city built on dirty sand and mud, George W Bush sees the potential for military success in Iraq.
In recent weeks it has been one case study the American president has consistently cited in order to buttress the rhetoric that the insurgency, and the killing, can be ended.
Tal Afar was the site of the largest military