Somebody’s got a case of the Mondays
- It’s tax day
- It’s hot
- Do you know where your legislators are?
Upside – your Saturday freak-out was unwarranted, and there are resources available to help you file today. Downside – your Monday freak-out is entirely warranted, because H&R Block and lawmakers can’t even figure out their own taxes.
Upside – Austin has Barton Springs and several area swimming holes to cool off. Downside – water levels will keep dropping without rain, and what’s left is dirty, and it’s only going to get dirtier.
Upside – the MoFo won’t take “don’t know” for an answer, and sends the Lege back to work on tax reform and school financing. Downside – their solution will only be good enough for public schools to limp along until the next funding crisis.
AMD is now astroturfing the radio with an ad in which one of their ’employees’ waxes ecstatic about the new office complex. Heard several times on 590 AM this weekend.
Hey, if I were an AMD employee, I’d be stoked too. The only thing I’d miss about the old complex is getting to eat at El Maison. But all the pastoral niceties of catching rainwater and re-introducing native species don’t seem too relevant to the argument of whether AMD’s traffic and related development is going to f**k up the aquifer.