I like Will Rogers. "A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries." But some times one has to go with Risky Businessman Joel Goodsen’s dad and say, “What the heck!” and make your move.

In the interest of full disclosure: I am confidently religious. I believe in everyone else’s right to be wrong.

I believe in God. Not just a god. Not the god of my choice. I believe in THE Living God who created mankind with the capacity for reason and faith — two sides of one coin. Too much reason and too little faith renders an “any thing goes” rationalism. Too much faith with too little reason renders fanaticism. Depending on the situation, my call can be heads or tail.

“If you want to seed a place with activity, put out food.” This is how William Whyte begins his discussion of food vendors in his 1980 groundbreaking work on urban development, The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Using time-lapse photography, Whyte systematically studied plazas and parks in New York, showing what could be done to make them more vibrant and functional. He describes lifeless plazas transformed by the introduction of a single food stand and the feedback loop of food vendors drawn to active areas, which in turn become more lively, drawing more vendors. And he describes the draconian regulations placed on vendors at that time in New York, backed up by the force of police sweeps in popular locations. Whyte helped ease some of those regulations, and eventually this more welcoming stance migrated to other cities.

Thirty years later, numerous studies have been conducted, with cities like New York, Portland and Austin functioning as large-scale laboratories. A book reviewing the best food trucks in America is slated to be released in April.

Husky Hall of Famer Trey Martinez Fischer enjoyed the Super Bowl at the White House Sunday. That’s a long way to go for a good party and his team still lost. I have no idea where fellow state rep Mike “Visible-rreal” was for the game, but he is easy to find in the Express-News. His implicit suggestion that the few voters in SAISD elections choose idiots has drawn fire. While something needs to be done it is clear that having Mayor Castro pick board members is not it. So much for teamwork.

In the meantime, things appear quiet on the Bexar Republican side of the field.

The Texas Constitution makes it easy – like reaching goals and losing weight are easy.

The budget will be balanced. But this time the gimmicks that crafty state budgeteers employ may be laid bare and abandoned.

The "Not Conservative Enough" tsunami against Texas House Speaker Joe Straus amounted to little more than  two little boys peeing in the pool: Embarrassing to adults, but ultimately insignificant.

Congratulations to the conservatives who supported the San Antonio Republican. While they are not “Not Conservative Enough” (those who are we'll call Connies), they are good enough conservatives for Texas. On Tuesday, they re-elected one of their own Speaker.

I was excited on election night, Nov. 2. Then someone broke out the Kool-Aid and called it a tea party. Apparently, this victory is denied its many fathers.  The Connies claimed this victory as parthenogenically born by the huntress goddess Mother Connie. I checked my edition of Myths of the Greeks and Romans. She may have given birth to Hubris under an alias, but not Victory.