Subject: George H.W. Bush

• So It's Govt' Money -- Don't Have a COW

  October 24, 2006

• Get Lit: Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and the Battle to Save Baseball, by Jose Canseco

  April 27, 2008

• Get Lit: Always By My Side: A Father’s Grace and a Sports Journey Unlike Any Other, by Jim Nantz

  May 3, 2008

• If Only I Had Bashed Houston, I'd Have Been President

  August 20, 2008

• God Bless the Houston Astros

  September 4, 2008

• Stirred and Shaken

  The Houstonian's George Herbert Walker Bush martini

  July 5, 2001

• Up In Smoke

  Enron used political ties to rid itself of regulators. But in the end, its supposed free-market trailblazing only burned investors.

  February 7, 2002

• King Kinder

  Rich Kinder has made a cool billion dollars since leaving Enron. Now he’s ready to take over the world, or at least the nearest pipeline.

  March 6, 2003

• Come On Aggies! Cheer For The President! He's Almost As Good As Your Football Team!

  It's not easy being a George W. Bush supporter these days. Even at Texas A&M.The Aggies, of course, have the somewhat dubious honor of having Bush deliver a speech to their December graduates. If there's anyplace in the US outside of Utah, or maybe Kennebunkport, where this event would go over well, it's A&M.After all, it's the home of the George H.W. Bush Library.But the Facebook page touting the visit seems to be having an attack of the grumpies.

  December 2, 2008

• They're Making A Documentary About The Dome, And They Want Your Family Keepsakes

  Via the always-entertaining Bayou City History blog at the Chron we learned of a budding documentary about that quaint old abandoned building that used to be the Eighth Wonder of the World.Chip Rives, one of the producers/directors/writers of The Dome, tells Hair Balls he and his partner have done interviews with Nolan Ryan, Bum Phillips and Dan Pastorini, but also some of the non-sports people connected with the place (George HW Bush; Judge Hofheinz's daughter Dene).A preview on their websi

  June 3, 2009

• The First George Bush, A Houston Stud Muffin

  There's a process under way to pick someone to be vice-president of the US.One candidate is "very attractive," but is young and doesn't have much experience.A rival to that candidate moans that he would never "win a personality contest" with the young foe.Who's the sparkling but inexperienced veep possibility? Sarah Palin?Nope -- it's Houston's George H.W. Bush, who apparently was considered a very handsome man by Henry Kissinger and US Attorney General Elliott Richardson back when Gerald Ford w

  December 24, 2008

• Living In W's Hood

    Josh Harkinson used to write for us here at the Houston Press before he decided that living in San Francisco was somehow a lifestyle upgrade.Now he writes for Mother Jones, continuing his stellar career of raking muck.It turns out that Harkinson grew up just six blocks from where George and Laura Bush will be living, the exclusive Dallas neighborhood of Preston Hollow. (Frankly, we were completely unaware of Harkinson's exalted roots, or we would have watched our table manners better

  January 23, 2009

• Aftermath: Broken Social Scene at Numbers

  Photos by Mark C. AustinOn the one hand you have your "scene," you know the one. With the super-skinny jeans, the ambivalently knotted skinny ties, the American Spirits blown carefully through the nose, the ironic hair. And on the other, you have your Broken Social Scene. With the music. And those voices. And all the majesty that comes with perfect-sounding noise. And the confusion of where is that sound coming from, wait, did I just hear that? And, you know, the music. Welcome to the ye

  February 3, 2009

• 25 More Random Facts About the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo

  Photo by JaseMan Okay Mr. Connelly, I read your post from yesterday about the "25 Random Facts About the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo." So I consider myself tagged, and will now do my 25 Random Facts About the Rodeo, derived from the way too many years I worked that damn thing as part of the in-house video crews. 1. If I'm ever in any kind of fight - bar, gun, knife, cat, dog - I ask only for the aid of a rodeo clown. Rodeo clowns are the toughest, baddest bastards I've ever met. Not eve

  February 25, 2009

• Hogg Leftovers

  April 27, 2000

• 25 More Random Facts About the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo

  Photo by JaseMan Okay Mr. Connelly, I read your post from yesterday about the "25 Random Facts About the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo." So I consider myself tagged, and will now do my 25 Random Facts About the Rodeo, derived from the way too many years I worked that damn thing as part of the in-house video crews. 1. If I'm ever in any kind of fight - bar, gun, knife, cat, dog - I ask only for the aid of a rodeo clown. Rodeo clowns are the toughest, baddest bastards I've ever met. Not eve

  February 25, 2009

• Guantánamo's Final Days: Profile in Cojones

  Top Pentagon lawyer Alberto Mora risked his career arguing against Guantánamo abuses. Now he's an Obama man

  February 26, 2009

• The Simpsons Movie

  Breathe easy, Simpsons fans

  August 2, 2007

• Enron's Judge Not

  U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal abruptly recuses herself without explanation

  February 14, 2002

• Well-Heeled Soirée

  June 29, 2006

• Mexican-American Culture

  Pancho Villa's purloined pate

  April 5, 2007

• Conflict of Interest

  A gay Republican for City Council?

  November 30, 2006

• Getting Schooled

  A legendary debate teacher has a lesson plan to knock off Congressman John Culberson

  November 2, 2006

• Hip-hop as She Is Rapped

  Translating the German Wikipedia entries of Houston's top MCs

  June 22, 2006

• Dragon Slayer

  A new Republican challenger steps forth to take on Tom DeLay

  December 29, 2005

• Super Bummer

  Vendors says they were never paid for a Bowl party

  September 22, 2005

• Art Lite

  At two new shows, it's half the substance, all the style

  June 30, 2005

• Renaissance Man

  A cop learns the pain of piercing

  April 21, 2005

• Great Clips

  Tennessee schoolkids teach the world a lesson in an inspirational documentary

  February 24, 2005

• Love It, Fear It

  A Brit flourishes by studying Houston

  January 27, 2005

• Draining the Swamp

  A scorched-earth management philosophy is sucking the life out of our region's wetlands

  January 13, 2005

• Chasing Its Tale

  The Chron gets scooped on Bush -- by one of its own

  November 18, 2004

• Welcome to Fire Island

  While communities across the country block LNG terminals, Quintana just shrugs

  May 27, 2004

• The Icebox Revisited

  Houston had one of its most shocking race murders 45 years ago. But exactly whose tragedy was it?

  March 11, 2004

• History for Dummies

  Neil Bush touts a school curriculum for guys like himself

  February 26, 2004

• Best Role Model

  Terry Hershey

  September 25, 2003

• Deal of a Lifetime

  Drug addicts can get hard cash to be sterilized or go on birth control. Is it ridding the world of unwanted babies -- or just ducking the underlying problems of abusers?

  February 27, 2003

• All About the Kids

  Things are going to get ugly on the Kid-Care front

  October 24, 2002

• He's Still Our Guy

  The Chronicle stays loyal to Kenny Boy

  January 31, 2002

• A Portrait of the Artist as a Capitalist

  Painter Vladimir Gorsky learned how to work the system in the Soviet Union for personal gain. He discovered that things operate much the same way in America.

  February 22, 2001

• RodeoHouston: Some 'Splainin to Do

  Secret correspondence from the rodeo

  January 25, 2001

• Left Return

  Once burdened by debt and internal politics, a rejuvenated Texas ACLU is back mixing it up with those who dare to trample on the U. S. Constitution.

  January 18, 2001

• Hitchin' the Wagon

  A horse trailer turned taqueria gets corralled in Montrose

  November 23, 2000

• Double Image

  Does selling George W. Bush mean Mark McKinnon has sold out?

  October 7, 1999

• The Man Who Would Be Kingmaker

  Karl Rove has masterminded all of Bush's political victories. Now he faces his toughest challenge: convincing you that the presidential front-runner owns his own soul.

  June 17, 1999

• The Woman George W. Bush Didn't Marry

  The question is why

  March 25, 1999

• The Acadian Bakers in Montrose

  Photos by J.C. ReidMontrose has seen some exciting new restaurants open lately: Poscol, Little Big's and Feast. It's fun to discover something new. But there's also the opportunity to "discover something old" in the Montrose. For the last 15 years I've lived a block away from the intersection of West Alabama and Audubon Place. At the northwest corner of the intersection is an unassuming shopping center. Since moving to the neighborhood, I've driven, biked, walked, and jogged past it literally hu

  June 17, 2009

• Spy Story

  September 17, 2009

• George H.W. Bush To Aggies: Please Don't Be Aggies When Obama Visits

  ​President Obama is headed to College Station Friday, at the invitation of former President George H.W. Bush, to speak about community service and whatnot.Obama, having already spoken at Notre Dame earlier this career, apparently decided to find an even more hostile environment. (Next stop: Bob Jones University! Then Al-Qaeda headquarters and then, The Woodlands.)Bush obviously is hoping very much for a polite, respectful reception for Obama in Aggieland. He also has a pretty good idea of just

  October 15, 2009

• The Obama Invasion Of Aggieland Has Almost Begun; Where To Get Live Coverage

  Photo courtesy The Battalion​Some Aggies got upset with our interpretation of President George H.W. Bush's open letter to them saying "Chill out, brosephs, when Obama comes to town."Now the President is in town, and how are they doing?You can follow along at The Battalion, the campus paper, which is offering all kinds of live coverage of the event, which is designed to promote volunteerism (and Marxism, we have to assume.)The paper reports 600 protesters have shown up at Spence Park in College

  October 16, 2009