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I find myself between a rock and hard place at the start of this new year. I have been invited to participate as part of a change team for a major initiative, with the requirement that I be in another city for a meeting this week. Though I never received an official invitation (I was told to expect a call from someonewho never called with the invitation), nor any particular details about the meeting...

Last year I wrote a post about a Burger King in Houston being open on Christmas Day. The post was prompted by the picture you see above. I took that picture last December on a very rare snowy day in Houston.(Picture copyright Neil Aquino.)My feeling was that Burger King did not need to be open on Christmas Day. The employees would want to be at home with family and Burger King on Christmas Day seemed depressing....

Here is Patriotic Ocean Santa.I saw him on the Galveston Seawall three days ago.He sure must have been hot in that suit because it was 82 degrees three days ago.Please have a nice and safe holiday. Please be kind to others.(Photo copyright Neil Aquino.)...

Thank you to Des and Carguy for reminding me of my proudest moment as a college opinion writer. During my junior year, I wrote this column much to the chagrin of the religious zealots in the TCU community. I am proud to say the column actually became syndicated by some paper in Louisiana. Here, I list as many of the lines as I remember uttering.1) If you believe the Bible is the inerrant word of...

Submitted for your approval by The Daily Hurricane's very own Original King of Comedy. The one, the only, carguy.If when you hear the word ACORN you think of lazy people living off your money, not an oak tree, you just might  be a Republican.If you are positive Barack Obama was really born in Kenya or some other South American country, you just might be a Republican.If  you think 11 aircraft carrier groups are good, but...

. ...as we jingle your bells: "Travelers passing through Los Angeles International Airport are finding that security officers have more than a scan or pat-down for them this holiday season. They're offering musical entertainment, too. The LAX TSA Choir, a group of 17 singers and musicians, all of them officers of the Transportation Security Administration, have been surprising passengers with performances of holiday music and other tunes in the midst of one of the nation's...

On my December 12 post about Social Security, a regular reader and contributor here at The Daily Hurricane, RockheadedMama, submitted the following comment. It gives a good overview of the history of the program as well as where it may be going in the future and I thought it was worth repeating."Social Security was always meant as a social insurance program; it was always meant as a way to protect the elderly who continue even...

What should to get this Christmas for the people in your life that you don't like?The Texas Liberal Panel of Experts has some suggestions of books that you can give such persons.Extinct recommends Fed Up! by Texas Governor Rick Perry as a literary lump of coal for that unspecial someone.Fed Up! talks about how to get the federal government out of your life while you collect social security and as your Congressperson asks for earmarks to build yet...

I know this is somewhat offtopic, but I don't feel like discussing politics today. I decided to move on to another depressing topic. Everyone here knows baseball is my first love, but I have civic pride, so I root for the other two major professional sports teams as much as I can. I'm not an expert in those sports, so I do the best I can with the knowledge I have. Fortunately, I have coached...

We're an angry people. I suppose we've always been. Someone levies a little extra tax on our favorite beverage and the mail and we start a revolution. I wouldn't call the reasons for the American Revolution flimsy, but we're not talking South Africa or Rowanda here either. We all have our examples around our little worlds. For me, it is more and more evident inside the classroom. By now, everyone has heard about the tragedy...