Did you know Tuesday, February 9th was National Pizza Day? (Neither did I, which means that we have too many "days")
Transition to low-carbon energy will be 'extremely difficult'. Fuel Fix - If you're poor, or live in a developing country, it's going to be brutal. Al Gore's plan to save Gaia includes a healthy shot of population reduction after all.
Android has 85% of global market share. - To be honest that number surprised me.
Houston Pedestrians Rejoice!
Austin's City Leaders REALLY don't like Lyft and Uber. - Progressive politicians don't like the "gig" economy because it's a challenge to the patronage system that they enjoyed with the cab companies.
Your almost daily reminder that reporters very seldom really understand the subjects they are reporting on. - And longevity does not equal expertise.
Somehow, Houston's pillow-soft revenue cap has become the cause of all the woes. - It's amazing to watch the story get framed by a former newspaper of record whose current job is to carry the water for the current administration.
A lesson in World Classiness. Old Conventional Wisdom: "Municipal golf courses are world class!" New Conventional Wisdom: "Municipal golf courses are elitist and exclusionary. What WE want are botanical gardens!"
Color me shocked. I'm amazed that pro-abortion/PP advocates determined that defunding PP would have negative effects on women's health. Of course, to say this with a straight face you have to almost entirely limit "women's health" to abortions and taxpayer subsidized birth control.
Leadership, Grier Style. - Is there any Houston Area Government Agency (outside of the County) that's not running at a deficit?
Devon Anderson is reaping the whirlwind she has sown. And she's angry about it to boot, which should make for some interesting election copy.
This is always how trinket governance starts. Some well meaning, but naïve, young new urbanist with zero real-life experience forwards an idea that they think should be 'privately funded' not realizing that public easements such as bridges and roads are treated very territorially by local politicians and are often viewed as legacy builders. Meanwhile, Houston is drowning under a sea of red ink.
The minimum-wage patronage project. In reality, progressive groups use gimmicks such as minimum wage hikes to shrink the pool of available jobs and increase the likelihood that the awarding of the same will now flow through their political mechanisms. Those who cannot work are thrown into the entitlement machine and are continually threatened with being cut-off from the supply if the dealer is ever to be unelected.
It's a brilliant plan really, you gain dependents both by restricting, and controlling, the labor market and then addicting those who cannot gain entrance on the drug of hand-outs.
New Urbanists hate the Grand Parkway but clear-thinking Houstonians should view it as yet another chance to escape the city limits and move to a lower-cost, less regulated, higher-opportunity area.
Gov. Abbott's priorities. - He sure is displaying a penchant to focus on hot-button issues of minor importance. That's a little discouraging.
The lipid theory has been all but debunked. - Yet many activists still cling to it's fallacy.
It's very clear here that Ms. Falkenberg doesn't understand the meaning of "access". Because she's confusing it with "taxpayer paid" which is often misclassified as "free" by the more dim among us.
Speaking of dim..... A vote for Sanders is a tacit admission you neither understand economics, or how taxation works.
I don't know about you, but I don't find people losing their jobs to be funny. - It appears that the Chron is OK with it provided the job losses are from approved industries.
Dome Derangement Syndrome. First Emmett, now the Chron Editorial Board. Hold on to you wallets.
There is a baseline of stupid in Houston The people opposing these lights are below it.
There are two schools of thought in modern racial thinking.
1. That 'race' is an increasingly meaningless term. This is because we have so much mixing in our backgrounds that almost everyone contains ancestry that appears to be cut from a quilt rather than a bolt of silk. These people tend to be more optimistic in nature.
2. Segregationist writing. Which, in my opinion, is pessimistic and self-limiting. It assumes that certain races are incapable of making rational decisions, lack the skills to succeed, and will not thrive unless they are gifted large sums of money and given advantages over others.
When you can't win elections you're stuck snickering at stuff like this. - It's almost sad what the Texas Democratic Party has done to itself. If it's members weren't such angry people I'd almost feel sorry for them.
Add 'How taxes work' to the list of things Tomlinson doesn't quite get. - Let's see, he lives in Austin, writes (ostensibly) about Houston and is a business columnist that apparently has never done much work outside of journalism? That actually fits for the Chronicle.
And finally......
A joke of a budget from a joke of a President. - It's too early to talk about it now, but history is not going to be kind to President Zero and that's a bummer. The man just wasn't big enough for the office. This last budget almost feels like an admission of that. Not an intentional admission mind you, because that would take self-awareness.
