GA- Insurance is a bet. Insurance companies are bookies, and they make good money skimming a vig off the top of the premiums. When you own as much property, dispersed as widely as the state of Texa...

Jennifer Kim wins the award for "Understatement of the Year."...

Imagine that... a full-of-herself, busy-body 2nd year law student. I don't necessarily agree with the tanning salon tool's comparison of this silly law with great injustices (fugitive slave act, Nazi...

So a troubled college student vents some disturbing thoughts to friends, who proceed drop the dime on him. The cops offer their "treatment", which involves felony charges and stigmatizing publicity. ...

According to the Daily Texan, the guy who made these is a former UT computer science student who moved to the east side 5 years ago when he was in school. He grew up in Buffalo and was inspired by th...

Too many dumbass things to comment on, but I'd like to ask (to start): Are there any other people you'd like to ban from interacting with their elected officials? I know you don't agree with Suttle o...

You do that to your "good friends"? I wouldn't admit it, either....

[offtopic] LM, do you have someone paying you by the post? [/offtopic]...

nothing from sal costello, yet?...

I'm not saying don't worry. I'm saying don't worry about new upscale housing that isn't displacing existing housing, i.e. net new units. Prices are probably going up (definitely in current dollars, ...

Sure she's helping. If there is a net gain in housing units, it's helping- even if it's added on the high end. If there isn't sufficient supply of high end housing, the people in that sub-market w...

LM, Are you suggesting that all the people moving here would stay away if we didn't build new housing? Do you think that the only thing drawing newcomers is these flashy new condos? People may be co...

Maybe they should reexamine that shitheel for the death of his fiance, Stacy Stites. I know they found a perfectly good black man to pin the murder on (and consign to death row), but while they're pi...

Haven't "we" been doing that forever? Sex isn't being used to sell coffee- coffee's a commodity that moves itself. Sex is being used to differentiate one seller's commodity product from those of the...

M1EK, The trouble with that defense is that Hizzoner told the super to hold the truck there until the cops got there, then didn't summon the cops. In doing that, Wynn prolonged the inconvenience to t...

M1EK, The trouble with that defense is that Hizzoner told the super to hold the truck there until the cops got there, then didn't summon the cops. In doing that, Wynn prolonged the inconvenience to t...

I didn't know that Will Wynn was as much of a princess as Jennifer Kim. Heaven forbid that he suffer any inconvenience- that's for the little people!...

It's simple because the places you listed, for the most part, didn't displace anything that wasn't just as bad (Unless you want to blame McCormick and Schmick's for the loss of Ted's Greek Corner, whi...

Don't like? Don't go. That fucking simple. kthxbye....

You've only been here 6 years? You need to get out of east Austin and go back to upstate Bostoyorksas City, you pale-ass gentrifier!!1!!ONE! ...