Rick Perry Makes Presidential Debate Debut. Do you think he succeeded in fending off his rivals’ attacks? I really wouldn’t know myself because 1) after moving almost exactly two months ago, I’ve yet to call DirecTV and have my service transferred; 2) the most Republican person I follow on Twitter is @timmytyper; and 3) I’m sort of a biased judge.
Things Are Still Tense Over at the Dallas County Elections Commission. It began in January when longtime boss Bruce Sherbet was allegedly forced out by John Wiley Price and Clay Jenkins. Now they’re batting over Sherbet’s potential fulltime replacement, one Toni Pippins-Poole. At issue are accusations that she is a political ally of Price, and also that no one can say her name with a straight face.
Things Also Tense Between Dallas City Council and the Redistricting Commission. The main sticking point seems to be that there are fewer African-American districts in the proposal, and current council members Vonciel Jones Hill and Dwaine Caraway would be in the same district. My main problem? Not once in that story is the term “gerrymander” used, and that just seems like a missed opportunity in a story about redistricting. I’d be happy with even a “No one is accusing anyone of gerrymandering,” or something like that. That’s just off the top of my head.
Child Psychologist Tries to Tell Me How to Raise My Kid. I mean, I guess if my son asked me about 9/11, we’d talk about it. Sure. And we probably will, because I’m sure they’ll mention it at school. But I’m not going to be proactive and bring it up. Sorry. You know what made him cry the other day? The fact that we saw a stray dog and there was nothing he could really do about it, and he just wanted this dog to have a home. And a few weeks before that? He left a stack of Pokemon cards at camp, and that was just the end of the freaking world. And last year, I suggested to him that he was being a jerk (because he was being a jerk), and I had to apologize to him (for correctly identifying that he was being a jerk) because he was doing that thing where he was crying so hard that you think he might choke or hyperventilate. I’ve got a lot on my plate, Milton Gearing, so step off. Let’s just see if we can shine this on until I have to have an irritating conversation with him about politics when he’s 16 and thinks he knows everything.
