Need Conceal & Carry Law for Tampons

Some things can only happen in Texas (one of my least favorite states – a state I probably would never have visited if my sister had not lived there for so many years). Confiscating tampons is one of those things.
by Charlie Leck

Texans have often talked about seceding from the Union. Most of the time, in response, I’ve raised a glass toward the state and sung out loud, “So long, it’s been good to know you!”

One of my favorite columnists – whose columns I rarely miss – is the Washington Post’s Alexandra Petri. She is a satirist with an immense sense of humor. She’s also a marvelous writer. Her column Friday (12 July 2013) was titled: Security at Texas legislature confiscated tampons, let guns go! (The exclamation mark is mine. I thought it was needed.)

Here’s one paragraph from the four paragraph column…

“Among the latest updates from the Unwanted Texas Efforts To Pass Stringent Anti-Abortion Legislation came the gem that the state senate security was confiscating tampons from spectators entering the gallery to watch debate on HB2. Guns, of course, were still allowed in the gallery for those with concealed carry licenses. The difference between guns and tampons is that if you walk into a crowded locker room waving one of them aloft, every man there will run away screaming in fear for his life, and if you walk into that same locker room with the other one, everyone will just shrug and say, 'Oh, hi, Gilbert Arenas.’”

Believe me, you can read the entire column in a minute, so (this time) take my advice and have yourself a chuckle. You might also get hooked on Ms. Petri’s work.

As for the Texas state legislature, they’ve gone and passed a skunky, stupid anti-abortion bill. They are still cave men down there. One of those cave men, Texas Governor Rick Perry, has promised he’ll sign the bill.

Geez, I hope the Cowboys finish last in their division in the NFL this coming season!

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How about a little CompPost?

I found a new blog and finding a wonderful, new blog always makes my day! If it hadn’t been for Rush I may never have discovered her.
by Charlie Leck

I have found a new blogger that I am going to, henceforth, refuse to miss. I invite you to examine her (not in the anatomical sense, mind you) and see what you think. There is actually a pretty good chance she may invite you to have a sandwich with her. She’s that kind of placid, agreeable person.

Oh yes, her name!
I nearly forgot. Well, her blog is called CompPost. Geez, Louise, isn’t that clever? She’s also very witty with words and she likes puns. Her blog appears quite regularly in the Washington Post. In the Post! Get it?

Rush Limbaugh has called her writing “b-b-b-b-b-i-itchy,” as in bitchie or bitchy – or, on a different level, catty or venomous. Yes, it was Rush who said this about her. I wouldn’t kid you about this. Rush doesn’t think she’s very funny (or humorous) – or even witty or clever. That may be all it takes to convince you to check her out.

Oh, yes, her name! Did I forget again? Her name is Alexandra Petri. Now isn’t that a name? Every blogger should have a clever, attractive and lovely sounding name. Just juxtapose Alexandra Petri against Charlie Leck and you see what I mean. The fact that she’s also cute, in a coquettish sort of way, should have nothing to do with my commentary; yet, she’s got these devilish eyes and charming, disarming smile that makes you want to have a sandwich with her (as I might do with one of my daughters, say; for she is approximately fifty years younger than I) as she invited Rush to do.

There are lots of clever blogs that play with words and tease you to sharpen both your wit and your astuteness (such as Dick Cavett’s clever blog in the New York Times), but I think Alexandra’s is more creative than most such approaches.

This is a long, roundabout way of making a recommendation to you, but that’s what I’m doing. I think you should check her out. In the meantime I’m adding her to the list of blogs I follow…

Margaret & Helen

Dick Cavett

Tony Rugare’s Musings from Tony’s Keyboard

Stanley Fish’s

Trout Caviar by Brett Laidlaw

Old Picture of the Day by PJM

Robert Reich

…and I’ll report to you on occasion what she’s up to. And again, anyone who gets Rush Limbaugh’s goat can’t be bad at all. Not bad at all!

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