How ‘King of the Hill’ Popularized a Less Cartoonish Vision of Texas
For a dozen years, the animated TV sitcom King of the Hill worked to shake Hollywood from its habit of depicting Texas as a fantasyland of cowboys and oilmen. Its original run ended in 2009, but now t...
Why Fire Ants Are Even More Evil Than You Thought
Texas has plenty of native things that can potentially hurt us, like scorpions and coyotes and, well, lawmakers, so the last thing we needed was a hostile carpetbagger from out of state. But in the 19...
History Tells Us How the Texas Democrats’ Walkout Will Likely End
There is a lot of bluffing and braggadocio happening among both Democrats and Republicans right now about the attempt of Democratic state lawmakers to stall the passage of Trump’s mid-decade gerryma...