Take a break today.

Okay, okay, I hate to be tacky.  Oh hell, who am I kidding?  I majored in tacky at college.

A group of Texas women decided it was time to support their men, who they rightly refer to as a “bunch of redneck men.”  The wife of Open Carry Texas founder CJ Grisham decided it was high time to counteract Moms Demand Action, an anti schoolhouse massacre group.

She decided to turn herself into a pickup truck gun rack and invite all her gun packin’ girlfriends to meet her in San Antonio to show off their guns.  They refer to themselves as Goddesses with Guns.

I don’t think Aphrodite is gonna have to turn in her crown.

(See, sometimes tacky just walks into your house without even knocking on the door giving you no choice but to invite it to dinner.)

The San Antonio Express News says that about 40 people showed up at the rally, but that they were “mostly men.”

Sadly, there are few Goddesses with Guns in Texas so if you want one, I suggest you grab one soon.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Hell, even people in foreign states know that Texas women are being asked to fetch the beer and shuddup by the Republican Party of Damn Texas.  Wanna know how many hooter toters they have on their statewide ticket?  The same amount of Baptists wearing funny hats at the Vatican. As in zero. None. Nada. A couple less than two.

It’s only Tuesday and they’ve hit us twice this week already.

In separate appearances, a Republican political consultant called the low number of rape and incest victims a “minor issue” in the abortion debate, and GOP lieutenant governor candidate Dan Patrick dismissed the idea that government should be involved in pay disparity issues for women.

Tell me, Dan the Man, who exactly would be in charge of pay disparity issues?  You got your choice, son.  It can either be government or me with a big stick.  I think government would be your safer choice here.

Yeah, THIS guy.

And then we have this, the words of a man about rape and incest.

In an appearance on Lone Star Politics on KXAS-TV (NBC5), GOP consultant Matt Mackowiak was asked about Greg Abbott’s belief that abortion should be outlawed, even in cases of rape and incest.

“We can get into minor issues that are one or two percent of the problem, but ultimately Texas is a strong pro-life state,” Mackowiak said.

When challenged whether victims of those crimes would consider it minor, Mackowiak clarified, “It’s minor in terms of the percentage of the cases.”

Hell, rape itself does happen to you all that often either, Matt.  Wanna legalize that?

You know what this is?  This is caca del toro.

Do you know what you get when you mix testosterone with cheap Aqua Velva and a heap of ego?  The Texas Republican Party.

If they let people with guns into the capitol, they are gonna have to let me in with roach spray.

Republican Donald Trump – I love saying that – made a political prognostication.

He dove head first into the tweets:

Speaker?  Really?  You sure ’bout that?

And trust me, if Mitch gets $’s, it’s going in Mitch’s pocket, not Kentucky’s?

Our friend Kary is inlvovely Syracuse, New York.  He had to drop by a mall to get his glasses fixed.

Sadly, the mall had an art store.

Does anybody have a guess of what this is about?  I do, but it’s creepy to say it. I mean, a black lizard?

Holy cow.

Stephen F. Austin State University is nestled against the pine trees in deep east Texas.  It’s a pretty campus and it used to be surprisingly enlighten for being behind what we call The Pine Curtain.

There’s been an incident at Stephen F Austin University pitting their art gallery director and Louie Gohmert in a battle of intellectual curiosity.

This week, a United States District Judge refused to grant summary judgement in favor of the university. Here’s the meat of the matter.

Christian Cutler, then of Nacogdoches, brought the suit in October of 2011. His claim is that he was asked to take part in an art show hosted by Rep. Louie Gohmert in Tyler. Cutler said he declined the invitation because his political views were not aligned with Gohmert’s. He believes he was fired in September of 2010 because the university was politically motivated to make an example of him, having learned that he offended Gohmert.

The university and Louie Gohmert say that’s not true.

So here I sit, trying to decide if I believe Louie Gohmert or anybody who is not Louie Gohmert.

And Louie did get a word in.

“[Cutler] is traveling around the country, misrepresenting what he promised, and that he let his politics get in the way of not only keeping his promise, but also doing what was good for the university,” Gohmert said.

Okay, so I’m trying to figure out if Louie is talking about Cutler or himself.  See, this sounds a whole lot like what Louie does every day.  I’m sure you can understand my confusion.

Thanks to Mary for the heads up.