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ScaiaBlog's personal journey is never finished
Maybe I've been too hard on Atlanta. Listen, no one in Texas has a positive memory of any Game Sixes, but this week, we learned maybe, just maybe, the Atlanta Braves had changed.
Nov 4, 20212 min read


These men deserve credit for capturing Germans
The Wings Over Dallas Airshow is taking place this weekend at Executive Airport.
Oct 29, 20212 min read


Art in the form of smoked meat
Television had given me mixed messages about slow cookin': Either it's the wood that makes it good, or I wanted to taste the meat, not the heat.
Oct 22, 20213 min read


How party subs can help kids learn
You might not believe this, but I was a bit of a rabble-rouser in high school. This came up this week as part of microphone shovin'.
Oct 15, 20212 min read


After enduring these delays, the passengers deserve a Croissan'Wich
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.
Oct 11, 20212 min read
When does the tot become a hash brown?
Whataburger has been trying to help us through this pandemic.
Oct 4, 20212 min read


How will ERCOT reform affect gas station hot dogs?
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...
Sep 30, 20212 min read


This is where we are as a society
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.
Sep 23, 20213 min read


The Shoat Webster of blogs
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.
Sep 20, 20213 min read


I'm ragged, but I'm right
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."
Sep 7, 20212 min read


If only more people posted about politics on Facebook!
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.
Aug 27, 20213 min read


In which I unravel Big Pumpkin's master plan to divert our attention
"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?"
Aug 25, 20212 min read


It's like a big family reunion
We've earned a break from COVID, haven't we?! That brings us to the State Fair of Texas.
Aug 13, 20215 min read


The pandemic of love is a curious thing
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...
Aug 10, 20213 min read


Ain't no one tells this cowboy what to do
You'll never believe this, but I was a bit of a rabble-rouser in school. That issue came up several times this week.
Jul 31, 20212 min read


A millennial's guide to financial solvency
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.
Jul 27, 20213 min read


How to save a life AND win a free trip to Ohio
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.
Jul 22, 20213 min read
The Shiner Entente
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:
Jul 15, 20214 min read


It really wasn't the heat so much as the humidity
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.
Jul 9, 20213 min read


Even without a celebrity hot dog eating contest, our fortunes are changing
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.
Jul 2, 20212 min read
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