But in the summertime I run a combine crew, follow the harvest from Texas way the hell north to the Canadian border. We just got done cutting barley for Coors and Anheuser Busch. But then I got this little black box deal on the side (You know what I mean?) CHRIS You mean those ...
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Have you ever heard of the “herd effect?” A couple of weeks ago, my wife gave me a birthday gift of visiting my parents in Texas. She also got me tickets to my favorite baseball team, the Astros. Despite the Astros’recent scandals, my lifelong fandom, rooted in my Houston upbringing...
“Wouldn’t it be nice if she did this one time to answer any of your questions?” Stefanik said to a gaggle of reporters. “I don’t think that’s going to happen any time soon. It’s because she has not been able to do that — to answer the most basic questions...
SpaceX’s Starship launched a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on Thursday. Pic: AP “Preliminary indication is that we had an oxygen/fuel leak in the cavity above the ship engine firewall that was large enough to build pressure in excess of the vent capacity,” SpaceX ow...
After the tensions have dissipated you can look in your own suitcase and find that dirty laundry that needs to go in the wash. Or, you find a way to calmly say “this bothered me and this is why.” Most importantly, you find whatever it is you did wrong, because w...
“We have to figure it out,” fellow All-Star Devin Booker said. “Everybody has to give a little bit more. I look at the beauty in it. He gets to rest his legs. He gets to get ready for a long postseason that we’re trying to make happen. So we got to hold it down w...
Tornadoes still mostly hit states like Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. However, since 1979, the number of tornadoes in the Great Plains has decreased. At the same time, states east of the Mississippi River, except Florida,have seen an uptick in tornado activity. If this trend continues, highly...
This Ikebana is so big you’d think it was in Texas. But as you all know, this Philly series is dedicated to all that’s Philadelphia. Philly has gotten a lot of attention within the last week but that isn’t what this blog is about, so I’m not going to talk about it here. ...