Second in a Series.
The Century Oak’s arching limbs form a natural grotto, a shaded refuge of tranquility on Texas A&M’s bustling campus of 48,000 students. For generations, students proposed marriage under this hallowed canopy. Thus, in April of 2002, it was only natural that John Scroggs would invite a very special fellow Aggie to accept [...]
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From Recognition Litigation of the 70s to Gay Marriage Battles of Today; Proposition 8’s Long and Intrusive Reach to Texas A&M, Part 2
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Clair Nixon, gay marriage, Jeffrey Puryear, John Koldus, John Scroggs, Latter-day Saints, Massina Hof, Paul Robles, Prop. 22, Prop. 8, Proposition 22, Proposition 8, Texas A&M on January 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Barack Obama Visits A&M’s Kyle Field — Yes He Did!
Posted in Uncategorized on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
January 20 was more than Inauguration Day. It was the first day of the new semester in Aggieland. Nevertheless, President Elsa Murano—who as a Hispanic woman is not the typical Texas A&M chief executive—hosted faculty and students in the Zone Club at Kyle Field. It must have been a bitter [...]
Aggies Do Not Lie, Cheat nor Steal, but Breaking Up Other Aggies’ Marriages is Apparently an Honorable Endeavor: Prop. 8’s Long and Intrusive Reach to Texas A&M, Part 1
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Clair Nixon, gay marriage, Gregory Coleman, Jeffrey Puryear, John Scroggs, Latter-day Saints, Mormons, Paul Robles, Prop. 8, Proposition 8, Texas A&M on December 31, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Part one of a series.
Jeffrey Puryear and Clair Nixon form the Aggie archetype. Both earned degrees from Texas A&M and both returned to their alma mater to contribute to its academic mission. Each is devoted to his family, work, and church, owns his own house and pays taxes—conforming in every way to the [...]
President Bush Splits Doubleheader: Aggie “25 Percenters” Whoop; Iraqi Pitches Shoes
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bush shoes, George W. Bush, Iraq, Iraq War, Muntadar al-Zaidi, President Bush, Reed Arena, Texas A&M Graduation, War in Iraq, Whoop! on December 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The former owner of the Texas Rangers baseball club split a doubleheader last weekend.
Aggies and Iraqis took to their feet in response to George W. Bush, but W.’s reception on the College Station leg of his presidential adoration tour proved more accommodating. Less than 48 hours after an Aggie graduation convocation warmly “whooped” a failed [...]
Texas A&M Graduation: What Should George W. Bush Say? Tell Us About Our Jonathan, Mr. President!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged George W. Bush, Iraq War, Jonathan Rozier, Texas A&M Graduation on December 10, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Once again, Aggieland serves as a refuge for the Bush clan. Years after Pappy Bush located his presidential library here, Bush the Younger gives what could be the last college commencement speech of his presidency Friday. Texas A&M, once dubbed be the American university with the most nostalgia for Ronald Reagan, is one of the [...]
Robert Gates: Are Aggies Ready for a Critical Examination of his Texas A&M Presidency?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aggie Bonfire, college tuition, Obama cabinet, Phil Gramm, Robert Gates, Texas A&M on December 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When Robert Gates left Texas A&M for the Pentagon several years ago, at Pappy Bush’s behest to pull incompetent W.’s chestnuts out of the Iraq War fires, a debate raged on Aggie web forums: Should possibly the greatest president in Texas A&M history be awarded the vaunted Aggie Ring? Eventually, common sense prevailed and Gates [...]
Random Thoughts on the Romei Conviction
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Arts Council of the Brazos Valley, Bill Turner, Dick Birdwell, P. David Romei, Richard "Racehorse" Haynes, Steve Fullhart on November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m writing while sitting in the courthouse gallery on Monday morning, at the punishment phase of P. David Romei’s felony trial. Saturday night the jury convicted the former Executive Director of the Arts Council of the Brazos Valley on two of the three counts of theft and misappropriation of public and private funds. Today the [...]
Romei Cross was a Stiff Right Cross
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Arts Council of the Brazos Valley, Bill Turner, P. David Romei, Richard "Racehorse" Haynes on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I went to see District Attorney Bill Turner’s cross examination of P. David Romei Tuesday afternoon. It was brutal. Romei, already worn out by some eight hours of direct examination over two days, sparred in a spirited fashion with the DA, but Turner won every round on points, if not by knockout. The twelve jurors [...]
Care to Moderate the Texags.com Moderators?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Brandon Jones, Texags.com on November 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Texags.com has become probably the most widely read collegiate sports fan forum that is dedicated to a particular team. Since being purchased by Brandon Jones ‘95 late in the last decade, it has become almost an institution in Aggieland, at least among those of us old and new Ags who cling to our computers. The [...]
Does Texas Need a P. David Romei Law?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Arts Council of the Brazos Valley, P. David Romei on November 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I was a kid growing up in Louisiana, no public building, bridge, highway or any other taxpayer-funded project could bear the name of a living person. Why? Louisiana masons over the years made a killing chiseling off the names of politicians and public officials who had taken up residence in state or federal penal [...]
