When the Going Gets Tough the Tough Get Funny

It is so hot around Texas I am sweating through my third set of clothes just typing this. Blogging is hard.

I saw a couple of things from around the state I wanted to mention. Ciro looked like he was pulling out of the race against Bush toady, Henry Bonilla. Having announced so last night at a labor hall. He was downcast over his perceived place in the race, or something, I am not sure. But it is not settled yet. From the less creepy side of "Strange Bedfellows":

But this afternoon, campaign spokeswoman Gina Castañeda called to say, essentially: Woah. Rodriguez, she said, had given himself until 5 p.m. Friday to make up his mind about whether to push ahead with his campaign or fold it up.

"He's mulling it over," Castañeda said. "He's talking to his family and he's talking to his supporters."

And what about his comments the night before to the San Antonio AFL-CIO Central Labor Council?

"He acted in some haste," she said.

But reading down into the creepy side, another story

Things have been quiet — too quiet — after last weekend's Austin American-Statesman vs. Pink Dome flareup sparked by a blog fight between two gubernatorial campaigns.

It all started with skirmishing on Gov. Rick Perry's blog between Perry's camp and challenger Carole Keeton Strayhorn's spokesman Mark Sanders.

When Perry's folks resorted to posting Sanders' 1980s photo from his days in the Capitol press corps — complete with of-the-era eyeglasses and big mustache — it caught the attention of the Statesman's Jason Embry.

Embry's reference in his item to In the Pink Texas as "the only political blog in the state that's actually, you know, funny" drew the notice of Pink Dome, which lashed back Sunday at Embry's "teenage skill level" of insult.

Jason, your turn.


Well, I can tell you she is very funny. Go see yourself at www.inthepinktexas.com

You know the gods must be crazy when the Chron blog (the CHRON BLOG?!) weighs in on a blogger spat.

It all started with a blurb by Jason Embry in the Statesman on the Perry Blog and an unfunny commenter named Carole Strayhorn’s Golfish, a rip-off of John Cornyn’s Box Turtle, which has since been copyrighted. (Now there’s Mark Sanders’ Cocktail. OMG, Rick Perry’s Cock Tail would be SO MUCH FUNNIER.)

After plying him with drinks, Embry vowed to refer to my blog as the only funny political blog in Texas. Which, of course, is an outright lie since we all know that BurkaBlog is a laugh. riot.

I told you she was funny.