- Verbal virus-infected Biden needs our pity (John Kass, Chicago Tribune)
- 100 Days: 'Harry, I Have a Gift ' (Daniel Henninger, WSJ)
- President of Everything (Brian Doherty, Reason)
- Obama's liberal arrogance will be his undoing (Jonah Goldberg, LA Times)
- Obama sows seeds of demise (Dick Morris, The Hill)
- Declining Notre Dame: A Letter from Mary Ann Glendon (First Things)
- Flu by any other name wouldn't be as tasty (John Kass, Chicago Tribune)
- The Politics of Liberal Amnesia (Bret Stephens, WSJ)
- The GOP After Specter (Kimberley Strassel, WSJ)
- The price of a porcine panic (Michael Fumento, Forbes)
- The Taliban and Pashtun Nationalism (Michael J. Totten, Contentions)
- HTC Snap on internal Sprint list (WMExperts) I loved my Dash on T-Mob. Since it’s unlikely the Pre will be allowed on SERO plans, this could well be my next phone.
- Kubiak likely to sing playoff tune (John McClain, Houston Chronicle) Draft season is over, and Chron cheerleading season has officially begun. Really pathetic.
- Houston's Clear Thinkers: McClain keeps mailing it in (Houston's Clear Thinkers) The necessary corrective to the nonsense directly above.
- UH coaches remain positive despite AD shake-up (Steve Campbell, Houston Chronicle) Such weak reporting on this forced “retirement.”
- Off-season moves make Dallas Cowboys more 'Wade Friendly' (Mac Engel, FWST)
- Tech's Pirate sails his own direction – often into stormy seas (Kevin Sherrington, DMN)
- Tech, Aggies feud boils over into the offseason (Brent Zwerneman, Houston Chronicle College Station Bureau) College Station bureau? Umm, okee!
- First Couple of Americana Sings of Setback, Sorrow (Barry Mazor, WSJ)
- Beloved Arena Theatre gets a second life (Ken Hoffman, Houston Chronicle) I think I’ll be catching the Gipsy Kings in this intimate setting. I saw them at Cynthia Woods Mitchell, and it sucked, as shows there do.
- Wine Aroma Wheel This is pretty cool.
- Sienna Sip and Stroll: Pinot Gringos and All Their "Trick Wines" (VintageTexas)
- Big Establishment Acknowledges the Blog-O-Sphere (Cepage Noir)
- Biodynamic Wines: Of Cow Horns and the Cosmos (Dave McIntyre, WaPo)
- Risky Business (Nate Blakeslee, Texas Monthly) I don’t miss the Dan Patrick orbit. Not one bit.
- One Sexy Cephalopod (Whole Fish) I would have loved to get to the restaurant before they ran out of these babies.
- Lots of barking over getting a bite with a dog (Ken Hoffman, Houston Chronicle) Everything old in Houston becomes new again. But Ken Hoffman is still right on this.
- Hoffman: Just say no to dogs in restaurants (bH) See above.
- Everybody panic! Part dos (MeMo)
The swine flu panic has had an unintended consequence, but not an unexpected one. It has made people a little happy. Now I am not making light of death, especially a toddler’s death, but really, we are all a little in love with anything that takes us out of our daily lives.
I sometimes wonder if this woman has brain damage. And then occasionally she’ll write a blog post that erases all doubt.
- Swine flu is for punks (Trent Seibert) More sense on the topic than I’ve seen from any other Houston media member!
- Comments from an unperson at an unblog (Unca Darrell) I love this post!