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Friday Night Lights
Big night here on the Texas prairie. High school football is back. The local gridders had their home opener at the newly renovated Clark Stadium versus the Skeeters of Mesquite. Ironically, The Princess missed the first home football game of her senior year because she had to work. She was much chagrined to find that Mom, Dad and Little Brother…
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My Favorite Internets Feature
You can tell football season is nearly here when Extrapolater kicks off his annual Porn Name All-Star talent search. It’s sort of like American Idol but without all the crappy singing, snarky judges, gazillion dollar production and promotion budgets…OK it’s nothing like American Idol but I bet I get 6 or 8 hits just for having the words American Idol in…
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Saved By The Bell
School finally started this week for the wee ones. Princess kicked off her yearlong public school farewell tour as a senior and Budman became an almost-big fish at the Middle School as a 7th grader. “But Semitough” you say. “Doesn’t school start much earlier down there deep-in-the-heart’o?” Not any more. The Texas Legislature, in their infinite wisdom has decided that…