Mike Wiggins denies nothing

​Mike Wiggins, Guadalupe County Judge and a former DPS sergeant, has been arrested for having weed in a College Station hotel room.

Wiggins, a Republican first elected in 2006 to lead the county, which is east of New Braunfels, was attending a convention there when the cops were called because a staffer smelled burning marijuana about 11 p.m. Monday.

Cops found a silver grinder, rolling papers and a plastic bag containing 20.1 grams of dope in Wiggins duffel bag after he consented to a search.

The Seguin Gazette reported:

Wiggins, who also served as Seguin's Department of Public Safety sergeant, said Thursday afternoon that there was nothing he could deny.

"It is what it is," he said.

Party on, Guadalupe.

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THANK YOU, Mississippi.

​A Mississippi lawmaker has completely and utterly disgraced Texas politicians by being the first to introduce legislation to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

And not because, as Stephen Colbert once put it when he made the same suggestion, "we broke it, we bought it."

No, Rep. Steve Holland wants it changed because it just should be changed, dammit.

We couldn't agree more, but we don't think Holland -- who would change his name to Holland-America if there wasn't already a shipping company by that name -- doesn't go far enough.

More name changes needed:

5. St. Tony: The Alamo City will not only lose its unpleasant Mexican-ness, it will find itself more hospitable to the Jersey Shore crowd, thus boosting tourism and tanning-parlor revenues.

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Rich Oller, cutting-edge football analyst.

​Rich Oller, the acting city manager of League City, has been suspended for a week following a long closed-door council session investigating his use of the N-word at City Hall.

Yourbayareanews.com reports that Oller was discussing the previous night's BCS title game between LSU & Alabama last month with two city employees when he dropped the N-bomb in what was no doubt an astute analysis of the game.

An anonymous e-mail tipped off city council to the incident, and they investigated.

"Use of the N-word in a city facility, it's just not acceptable by our policies and just common decency," Councilman Andy Mann told the Galveston County Daily News.

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Pat Lykos returning fire.

​The grand jury that has been investigating whether the District Attorney's office broke any laws regarding blood-alcohol tests from so-called "BAT" vehicles did not issue any indictments, but it went out with a bang.

Jury foreperson Trisha Pollard distributed a letter, apparently backed by all the panel members, that criticized DA Pat Lykos's office for trying to intimidate them and investigate witnesses. They also slammed a prosecutor for taking the fifth.

"Nothing prepared us for what unfolded," the letter said, saying prosecutors had hung around the hallway outside the grand jury's meeting room and that a person in what seemed like "a government-issued car" photographed them returning from a lunch break.
"The stain upon the {DA's office] will remain regardless of any media statements issued or press conferences performed by anyone."

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(Don't) get to know me!!!

​A new poll for Texas's open U.S. Senate seat has bad news for Houston's Craig James, former SMU star and ESPN analyst.

Most people don't know the guy. Those that do, don't like him.

James had the biggest gap between "favorable" and "unfavorable" ratings, a whopping 15 percent.

Two-thirds of those polled by Public Policy Polling had no opinion on James, but 24 percent had an "unfavorable" opinion of him, with just nine percent "favorable."

In other news, 24 percent of the people polled watch ESPN and nine percent do not, we're guessing.

Good news for James, though: In the highly unlikely event he wins the GOP nod, he's favored over any of the Democratic candidates.

Maps are hard.

​The Texas primary is allegedly a little more than two months away, but some people still don't know what congressional or state-legislature district they're in, and the people running for those seats don't know who to court.

The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected a redistricting map drawn up by a panel of federal judges in San Antonio, who had found the original maps created by the GOP-dominated legislature to be unfair to minorities.

The supremes said the judges should not have cast aside the lege's map while making their own.

"As the Justices point out, courts are ill-suited to make policy judgments and redistricting is primarily the responsibility of the State," Texas AG Greg Abbott said. "The Court made clear in a strongly worded opinion that the district court must give deference to elected leaders of this state, and it's clear by the Supreme Court ruling that the district court abandoned these guiding principles."

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Photo by Miya Shay

You vill support der Texans!!!

​The pure joy of an NFL playoff run is captured here in a photo by KTRK's intrepid Miya Shay.

"Mayor @AnniseParker says Friday is #GoTexans day. Urges all to support @HoustonTexans, wear team colors," Shay tweeted.

We can't say for sure, but it looks like there will be stern penalties for anyone who dares ignore the mayoral diktat.

The Perry machine dispatches another opponent.

​The Rick Perry juggernaut continued to lay waste to GOP primary opponents, neatly dispatching former Louisiana governor Buddy Roemer in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary.

Perry grabbed 1,735 votes in the Granite State, almost doubling the 920 votes received by Roemer, who had been perceived as the front-runner (in the Roemer household).

Roemer was not immediately available for comment, apparently continuing his campaign strategy of not being flashy, or known.

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The court gives a go-ahead.

​The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the temporary injunction on Texas's so-called sonogram law, clearing the way for abortion providers to enforce the new mandate.

The law, championed by Senator Dan Patrick, requires a sonogram whenever a woman seeks an abortion. The law requires the woman, in almost every case, to see the sonogram, hear a description of the fetus from the doctor and to hear the fetal heartbeat.

"I am extremely gratified that the sonogram bill will finally take effect," Patrick said. "I have worked to pass this bill for five years and I am grateful to the Fifth Circuit for their rapid action on this important issue."

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​Today Richard Nixon would have turned 99 years old, though he passed on to the big country club in the sky back in April 1994, at the age of 81. His wife Pat passed on the year previous, and Nixon was active until the end of his life, still making appearances and granting interviews, as the stains of Watergate began to wear off as he aged.

Nixon has always been a prominent political clown in pop culture, a sort of shorthand for evil politicking trickery and shady dealings. It didn't help that his nickname was Tricky Dick and that his hangdog visage was ripe for anger and parody. Younger folks who weren't alive during the Watergate scandal and fallout can't fathom how hated he was at one point.

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