We couldn’t resist having fun with this photo we found on Hutchison’s Senate website of her at the South Texas Nuclear Power Plant:

Make your own LOL version of this photo. We’ll publish the best here at Capitol Annex. Put them in your flickr album, on your blog, or elsewhere, and leave us a link in [...]

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It only happens once every two years (barring Special Sessions), but for those of us who follow the legislature (and, I’m sure, for the staffers and legislators themselves), paying close attention to everything the Lege is doing can be…well, somewhat tiring.
Here at Capitol Annex, as much as we love Lege watching, we’re getting a bit [...]

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I don’t know whether this is fact or fiction, but evidently at one point in the past, children could play with a very low-level atomic energy lab. Check it out.
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It’s not politics, but it’s Saturday, so we’re just writing about what amuses us.
Seriously, though. This is so 1997.
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In honor of the YCT’s nativity scene at the University of Texas, here’s one of our own (click to enlarge):

Enjoy!
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In the spirit of the Holiday season, and with legislators end-of-year gifts to themselves in the news, I thought it’d be interesting to speculate on what gifts lobbyists would give to important personages in the Lege—that is, if they gave anything other than checks.
Today, I decided to start off with an easy one: Speaker Tom [...]

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Every Thanksgiving, we realize that there are certain things that are bound to happen. Over the years, I’ve mentally compiled many of my Thanksgiving experiences and determined that these things are, in fact, laws of nature. They will happen.
So, without any further ado, the Laws of Thanksgiving.
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This cartoon is a bit biased against Hillary Clinton, but it’s still funny. Beware, though, if you are at work: it’s musical and may not be appropriate for all workplace environments.
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It’s not exactly politics, but God knows, when their careers in music and TV run out, the Simpson Sisters may well turn to politics. So, in advance of the possibility of two more idiotic ‘independent’ candidates for governor in a couple of decades, check this out:
Pop siblings Jessica and Ashlee Simpson have been criticized by [...]

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It may not be as amusing as the dead pigeon story of last week, but evidently bats are causing some problems in Cuero:
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