Food, festivities, and discussions
My girlfriend and I had a delightful holiday dinner and discussions on all kinds of subjects. We talk about fashion, art, music, history, politics, travel, science, industry, food, and a host of other things that interest us. The tone of our discussions can be technical, serious, or downright silly.
The End Gun Violence sticker is one I got from Move On.org. The Santa Fe High School shooting took place May 18, 2018, just over a week before. I went to school in Alvin, a few miles to the west of there during the mid 1960's and again in the mid 1970's. There is no town called Santa Fe, Texas, but the small towns of Algoa, Alta Loma, and Hitchcock along the Santa Fe Railway west of Galveston have a consolidated school system by that name.
People in the Coastal Plains grow rice, raise cattle, or work in the many petrochemical plants in the area. Ground subsidence from pumping out oil and storm surge from hurricanes are major problems as is the nasty air and water pollution from the chemical plants. People who live downwind of the petrochemical plants have high cancer, respiratory illness, and learning disability rates. Sub-urban sprawl from Houston has encroached on a lot of the good rice farmland and coastal grasslands, and Hurricane Harvey proved in 2017 that a good bit of the land is vulnerable to flooding and should never have been built on. Many people keep guns for hunting game or shooting large, invasive coypu rats, alligators, rattlesnakes, water mocassins, and coyotes. All too many adults fail in their duty to keep their guns locked up and out of reach from their children. So far, this is the 22nd school shooting this year, and most RepUGLYcan politicians are trying to sweep it under the rug with nonsense about the design of school entrances and the supposed need to arm our underpaid, overworked teachers.
Food, festivities, and discussions
My girlfriend and I had a delightful holiday dinner and discussions on all kinds of subjects. We talk about fashion, art, music, history, politics, travel, science, industry, food, and a host of other things that interest us. The tone of our discussions can be technical, serious, or downright silly.
The End Gun Violence sticker is one I got from Move On.org. The Santa Fe High School shooting took place May 18, 2018, just over a week before. I went to school in Alvin, a few miles to the west of there during the mid 1960's and again in the mid 1970's. There is no town called Santa Fe, Texas, but the small towns of Algoa, Alta Loma, and Hitchcock along the Santa Fe Railway west of Galveston have a consolidated school system by that name.
People in the Coastal Plains grow rice, raise cattle, or work in the many petrochemical plants in the area. Ground subsidence from pumping out oil and storm surge from hurricanes are major problems as is the nasty air and water pollution from the chemical plants. People who live downwind of the petrochemical plants have high cancer, respiratory illness, and learning disability rates. Sub-urban sprawl from Houston has encroached on a lot of the good rice farmland and coastal grasslands, and Hurricane Harvey proved in 2017 that a good bit of the land is vulnerable to flooding and should never have been built on. Many people keep guns for hunting game or shooting large, invasive coypu rats, alligators, rattlesnakes, water mocassins, and coyotes. All too many adults fail in their duty to keep their guns locked up and out of reach from their children. So far, this is the 22nd school shooting this year, and most RepUGLYcan politicians are trying to sweep it under the rug with nonsense about the design of school entrances and the supposed need to arm our underpaid, overworked teachers.