Labor Day
Big Red Car here honoring Labor Day and all those who work, know the dignity of work, and celebrate its nobility.
09/4/17
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08/30/17
Houston, We Have A Problem
If you want an idea of what’s going on in Houston, look at this picture.
God bless Houston. God bless Texas.
08/5/17
Russian Espionage
Russian espionage, Big Red Car? Huh?
Big Red Car here on a lovely, cool, sunny ATX morning. Ahhh, breathe in the air of the last free state in the Union. On Earth as it is in Texas!
So, the Russians are engaged in espionage of the garden variety. Not the “collusion” kind, the real kind.
Wiley Russian spies looking for American secrets to purloin. Be on the lookout. Please note the skirt hems. A dead giveaway when dealing with Russian spies. Also, the footgear. Recent FSB grads getting ready to go out to the field.
Let me explain it to y’all.
08/3/17
The Flake — Senator Jeff Flake, Undocumented Democrat
The flake, Big Red Car? Who is the flake?
Big Red Care here on a sunny ATX day, not as sunny as usual, but nice, nonetheless. Today, the Big Red Car has a potato stuck in its tailpipe about Senator Jeff Flake, junior Undocumented Democrat #nevertrump Senator from Arizona.
We have two undocumented Democrat Senators from Arizona — Jeff Flake and John McCain. Couple of pieces o’ work?
So, Jeff Flake has written a book. A sitting Senator has written a book. The book is
06/16/17
Hero — What Does a Hero Look Like? DAVID BAILEY HERO
HERO — DAVID BAILEY — HERO
This is what a hero looks like, if your definition of a hero is someone willing to risk their neck to save someone else’s butt. The Big Red Car is fine with that definition. The Big Red Car has had the privilege of knowing a lot of brave people.
The guy on the crutches is one of two persons who shot it out with the shithead with the rifle at baseball practice in Virginia. Looks ordinary enough that you would not take note at a car wash? When the chips are down, it is guys like this who protect us.
06/16/17
Razors — Attracting Lightning
Razors, Big Red Car?
OK, Big Red Car here talking about when a successful small company competing with a bigger company attracts the attention of the bigger company and the bigger company takes action.
Big Red Car, what are you talking about?
OK, it’s about the razor business and entails three companies:
1. Dollar Shave Club (first mover in the space) — razor blade subscription service;
1. Harrys (with Warby Parker vibe) — makes their blades in Germany where they own a factory; and,
3. Gillette — which just re-launched its own subscription blade service, Gillette On Demand. Gillette is the “bigger company” of which we spoke. [Cue the ominous, dark, Darth Vader music in the background. Please.]
Each company is a little different, but at the end of the day (cliche alert) they want to get you to join a “club” so they can sell you razor blades. They will almost give you the razor itself if you will just become a faithful purchaser of their subscription based blades.
There are others in the subscription razor business, but these are the big three, y’all.
06/12/17
CEOs Only — Shoptalk Networking
Big Red Car here in a bright, sunny ATX masterpiece. We will be talking about CEOs today. Ahh, the poor, lonely CEO.
So, The Boss likes to go to Lakehills Church out on the edge of Austin toward the Hill Country. Never takes the Big Red Car because somebody doesn’t like getting their church hair messed up, but I listen in through the electronics in the Lexus. A Big Red Car has a long reach, y’all.
So, the pastor gives a sermon and mentions a favorite passage from Proverbs:
“As iron sharpens iron,
So, one person (friend) sharpens another.”
It is intended in a Biblical and religious way to lobby for the assembly of Christians to further their faith, but the Big Red Car is thinking of it from a different perspective.
05/12/17
Jessica A Ellis, Combat Medic
Jessica A Ellis was a combat medic who was killed in Iraq on Mother’s Day 2008.
Sunday is Mother’s Day. It made me think of her.
May 29, Monday, is Memorial Day. I will think of her again.
On Sunday, I want you to take a second and think about the price of freedom and who we ask to pay it. If a tear comes to your eye, all the better.
Jessica A Ellis, combat medic, KIA 101st Airborne Division, Iraq, May 2008. Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Army Commendation Medal, M4 Expert marksman.