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Airlines and their unions may not agree on much. In fact, a quick search of my photos library turned up several picketing events held by various American Airlines and Southwest Airlines unions outside DFW and Love Field.

Whataburger has been trying to help us through this pandemic.

You may have forgotten about this, but back in February, Texas had a slight issue with its power grid . You may not have heard . I don't...

More flight attendants than ever are signing up for self-defense classes. That's good because the TSA is also finding more guns than ever at checkpoints.

I decided I should get to the bottom of this Portland-Texas feud. Loyal Scaiaholics know I travel to SuperOregon each year for the Pendleton Round-Up.

We all feel beaten down by the pandemic and politics. And by "beaten down by the pandemic and politics," I mean, "beaten down by everyone you know yammering on about the vaccine and/or Afghanistan whether you wanted to hear from them or not."

One of my college professors was Steve Bell, the first news anchor of Good Morning America. I'm not an old man, but at the time, he talked about how partisan news shows were starting to gain popularity.

"How do we get people to stop arguing about COVID?" the marketing consultant in the red tie asked the marketing consultant in the blue tie. "And start arguing about our product?"

We've earned a break from COVID, haven't we?! That brings us to the State Fair of Texas.

I've now been blogging about COVID-19 for about a year and a half. As a society, we've used that time to argue constantly, and totally...

You'll never believe this, but I was a bit of a rabble-rouser in school. That issue came up several times this week.

Loyal Scaiaholics will recall I'm not an old man. In fact, I am a millennial. But, in a sequence of events many of us experience, I have been getting older. This week, I turn 40.

Listen, society, we've been through a lot. Even outside of Texas legislators on the lam, COVID-19 hospitalizations have more than doubled in the past month, crime has been trending up in Dallas and other cities, the Moops caused a stand-off on a highway in Massachusetts, and crews have been clearing the site of the condo collapse in Florida.

A couple days ago, a Facebook memory popped up in my feed. I had posted a press release sent by Texas DPS in July of 2013. DPS was notifying people of bag inspections before you could walk into the Texas Capitol:

Define irony: At the job where I've started questioning my future, I've now had two separate incidents in which I've had a health issue entirely connected to work. I'm still not convinced the first one happened, but I had another li'l situation this week.

If you're thinking this pandemic was just cooked up in a darkened room by my opponents in the celebrity hot dog eating contest in Fort Worth each Independence Day, you might be right.

Have I ever told you I used to live in Oregon? The saga started out in SuperOregon. Then I moved on to the big city, living in Portland about three years. Fun fact about both Standard and SuperOregon: They sometimes get hot in the summer.

One Scaiaholic tweets incessantly about hashtag: transit alternatives. I'm sure he's a thorn in the side of the T, but listen, I'm sure I'm a thorn in their side, too, because I still call them, "The T."

I've been visiting home back in Ohio the past few days. Has anything, say, has anything interesting been happening back in Texas?

Last year, air travel dropped 60%. Apparently, the International Civil Aviation Organization did not take into account the DFW to Dayton, Ohio route. I flew home for a bit last summer on a plane that was full enough to cause me to take a picture.