My friend Steve in North Texas —

Since I hate Homeowner’s Associations with a purple passion, I snorted out my nose when I saw this.

This story takes place in Texas, of damn course.

There’s a semi-famous steakhouse in San Antonio known as the Little Red Barn Steakhouse.  Their employees wear fake guns and holster because … I dunno, it seemed like a good idea at the time, I guess.

During the lunch hour, a table of men got plenty riled up when the waiter screwed up their order.  The rest of the event was handled in customary Texas fashion.  There are just no words to tell this story properly, so I’ll steal some from the teevee station that covered it.

“The customers mentioned that he messed up their order, so when the waiter went to the side to step back, one of the customers got loose and started beating on the waiter,” the witness said.

She added that the waiter was able to get away and returned with a gun.

“All I saw was a black gun, cocked it back, went up in the air and shot,” the witness recalled.

The scene after that was described as “pandemonium,” instead of the more familiar Texas description of, “damn goat rodeo.”  A witness speaks —

“There was old ladies on the floor, one in the back actually crying,” she noted. “It was scary.”

Yes, old ladies crying often scare me, too.

It just doesn’t get any worse than that, does it?  Most Texans I know would just get under a table or behind the bar and take their steak with them.

The waiter and the customers left the scene immediately.  I kinda suspect they went over to Clyde’s Ice House and Cantina to get some more beer.

But here’s the part that even you people from foreign states will love —

Police say that all of them could face charges, and the waiter could lose his job since the restaurant told KENS 5 that it’s against company policy for employees to carry guns.

The waiter “could” lose his job.  He could.  He won’t, ya know.  This is Texas, Honey.

Thanks to Charles for the heads up.

By now you’ve heard that the daughter of Democratic Senator Joe Minchin is the CEO of the company raising the price of Epi-Pens to outrageous amounts.

Her name is Heather Bresch and shame on her.  More shame on her daddy.

Mylan employees and the company’s PAC contributed a total of $60,750 to Manchin between 2011 and 2016, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

This isn’t the first time a business decision by Mylan has proved awkward for Manchin. In 2014, through a deal with Abbott Laboratories, the company was able to incorporate in the Netherlands — a move that let it lower its tax bill through what is known as an inversion.

Not only that, but the executives of the company that owns Epi-Pens gave themselves big fat raises.

And, of course that’s not all.  Minchin’s daughter a few other skeletons in her closet.

A 2008 inquiry found Bresch didn’t complete the coursework for her MBA granted by West Virginia University. The school had received a $20 million donation from Mylan chairman Milan Puskar in 2003.

Several of the university administrators resigned in the aftermath, including president Mike Garrison. The former Mylan consultant and lobbyist had gone to high school with Bresch, the daughter of West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, and was a longtime family friend.

The proverbial Pandora’s box is open and I’d be willing to bet that the price of the Epi-Pen goes down and Minchin finds that he needs to spend more time with his family.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Holy Christian Dior.

And Trump immediately tweets that he hasn’t read it.

I think the part that makes me cringe the most is the E Pluribus Awesome.  Ya know, “out of many, one” is the thing that Republicans are messing with the most.  They don’t like the united part of United States and they sure as hell have no intention of ever, ever, ever becoming one with people who aren’t as white as Coulter.

The other thing Coulter screwed with is replacing God’s name with Trump.

A book.  A damn book.

Thanks to Harvey for the heads up.

So, you’ve heard that the rent on Donald Trump’s campaign offices in Trump Tower went from $35 thousand to $169 thousand, even though he now has fewer employees working there.

Trump nearly quintupled the monthly rent his presidential campaign pays for its headquarters at Trump Tower to $169,758 in July, when he was raising funds from donors, compared with March, when he was self-funding his campaign, according to a Huffington Post review of Federal Election Commission filings. The rent jumped even though he was paying fewer staff in July than he did in March.

The Trump campaign says it now needs more space.  That’s odd being as how he has fewer staff now.

Oh no, Melania!  Have they got Melania under house arrest there?

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

One day after Kellyanne Conway announced that Donald Trump does not hurl “personal insults,” Trump was found with his finger attached to Twitter to … yeah, hurl personal insults.

Trump is now crossways with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.

Joe responded —

Trump responded to Joe —

Okay, so maybe Kellyanne is a little bit right.  He’s not hurling personal insults.  He’s coughing them up like fur balls.