New Orleans Texas is a red state with a headache. The cities are becoming bluer and bluer, and a huge number of the F150 pickup driving, cowboy boot wearing folks are Latinos. A visit to Houston might be educational for the president. For example, President Trump doesn’t understand that the border stretches all the …
Month: June 2019
Rules and Standards need Umpires
Houston Sometimes we find surprising light in dark corners. At least, that’s how I felt reading a kind of weird conversation between two, seemingly random, people as an op-ed in the New York Times. It turned out this was a kind of bizarre experiment of sorts from one of their opinion writers, Charlie Warzel, and …
Power Drains and Climate Change
Houston A head scratcher for me around climate change has always been the issue of how much energy we waste in the slips between the cup and the lip, so to speak. Oil pipelines lose from 5 to 10% by some estimates in leakage from inadequate maintenance, breakdowns, and, for those following the issue in …