Muddy Water & Mischief

Some of you may have heard about the unfortunate incident at the Texas GOP convention, resulting in a major cleanup near the stage. Many have seen the video, Like most of you, I assumed I had heard the whole story. I had not.

What follows is a personal statement from Paige the African Elephant, submitted exclusively to Muddy Water & Mischief with the help of a Nigerian Prince who has asked not to be identified, but who is offering a generous fee if only we help him move some money out of the country. I am looking into it.

A Plea for Dignity, Guest Submission by Paige the African Elephant

In America, scales decide who gets to fight, who gets to watch, and who sits it out. The only ones using them for something sane are the mules.

Weights and Measures: Of Mules and Men

Five physicians were physically ejected and threatened with arrest from a medical conference in New Orleans for handing out a journal article critical of cuts to NIH research. The NIH director who was supposed to give the keynote address, fled before he had to face an audience who may not have been receptive to his message. Our children are among those being betrayed by NIH cuts.

The Betrayal of Children

Fifteen of the twenty four oldest members of Congress are Democrats. For a party that calls itself the future, that is a losing record, and it is long past time to get out of its own way. The Democratic Party is in the fight of…

Soup, a Nap, and a Graceful Exit. Please.

Baton Rouge’s own Boosie Badazz is in trouble again. Houston trouble this time. Hookah trouble, specifically. According to authorities, the rapper, born Torrence Hatch Jr., known professionally as Boosie Badazz, known to the Harris County justice system as a defendant, allegedly struck a security guard in the head with a glass hookah at a Houston nightclub. He now faces assault charges.

Boosie Badazz, American Mentor

Bob Cornyn and Bill Cassidy woke up, tired and anxious, after having the same dream last night. They were both back in high school. MAGA High School. A place they used to love. They were never big men on campus but they were big men adjacent, and that was good enough for them.

Tough Times at MAGA High

How Louisiana keeps selling itself to industry and calling it progress. I never met Joyce Piercy. I found her in a Fortune magazine story by Sharon Goldman, published this past March, tucked into the middle of a long piece about what a $27 billion data…