My young friend Javier Gamboa is just about the cutest darn thing you’ll ever see, plus he’s smart as an owl with a dictionary.  He is head of communications at the Texas Democratic Party and has come up with some dandy games to play.

You know how everyone is always talking about Donald Trump being racist and crazy?  But nobody hardly ever talks about how Texas boy Dan Patrick makes Trump look like a sweetie pie.  So, Javier came up with a way to tell which was which.

Click on over right here.  Let me now how you did.

Okay, so in Cleveland last March a police office shot and killed an 18 year old unarmed man who had just burglarized a convenience store.  While the case is being investigated, Officer Alan Buford is assigned to desk duty and not allowed to work any extra security jobs on the side.

His fellow officer felt sorry for him so they decided to do a fundraiser and have a raffle to raise money for him.  The raffle part is where I have a problem.

They are raffling a Glock 26, which is the same size most officers in the department use, and could have been the same kind of gun used to kill the 18 year old.

The police association said they didn’t find this distasteful in the least. “That is what we do. We take care of each other when nobody else does,” said an association representative.

This is not Officer Buford’s first brush with the law.

Buford was arrested in 2010 and charged with felony hit-and-run after police said he drove away from the scene of an accident. He eventually pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges and was allowed to return to work.

Yeah, I guess they do take care of each other.

Thanks to chloe bear for the heads up.

David Barton is a Texan who fancies himself the intellectual lead of the religious right.  I suppose he does have a triple digit IQ.  But, it’s not much higher than the temperature of an average Texas August.  In the shade.  Before noon.

Yesterday on his radio show, Barton announced that putting a woman on the ten dollar bill would ‘denigrate’ the Treasury Department.

And the reason it would denigrate the Treasury Department is … not near enough white males on our money.  Okay, so I made that up, but that is real close to what he’s saying.

Now he makes some other argument about our founding fathers.  Hell, Hamilton wasn’t put on the ten dollar bill until 1923.  He’s staying on the ten dollar bill but there will be a hooter toter on the other damn side.

All hat and no … brains.

Thanks to everybody for heads up.

Well, this is just dandy.  Two billionaire brothers, usually intensely private, just dumped $15 million on Ted Cruz.

The brothers made their money in fracking and stay very low profile because they belong to a crazybutt church that takes every single word in the Bible literally which means they cannot explain if Adam and Eve had belly buttons.

As of last year, they owned more than 310,000 acres of land in the state, making them Montana’s largest private landowners, according to The Billings Gazette.

Today, Forbes pegs their net worth at about $1.4 billion each.

At the heart of their life, still, is the Assembly of Yahweh, which preaches a mix of Christianity and Judaism and holds the Bible as infallible.

They gave this damfool $15 million to make their religion seem normal.

Neither Ted nor the Assembly of Yahweh are normal.

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina – the home of Vanna White from The Wheel of Fortune and I bet you didn’t know that – is kinda nut country despite being on one of the most beautiful beaches on the east coast.

They have a minister there by the name of Danny Banks.  Danny got all wound up this weekend and told his flock that “allowing their children attend sex education courses in public schools was like letting kids play with rattlesnakes and cobras.”

Think you could have gotten a little more phallic there, Danny?

Thanks to Carl for the heads up.