Thomas J. Henry threw his daughter one of the most lavish quinceañeras San Antonio has ever seen. Mr. Henry is a personal injury attorney who recently relocated his practice to San Antonio. Since that time he has been spending money like a drunken sailor.  He has donated to charities, politicians and other worthies, according to Democratic lights. Nobody urged caution, they just lined up like pigs to swill.

He just spent 6 million dollars for his fifteen year old daughter’s quinceaneras.  This is a coming out party for young ladies.  In some quarters it involves a case of beer and the back seat of a Chevy.  Mr Henry has done well for himself, loves his daughter and he can afford it, so he wrote the check.

Now he is being taken to task.  He is just now finding out, if he didn’t already know it, that all that money he earns, that he is paying taxes on, isn’t really his.  How dare he spend such an outrageous sum on his daughter? That money could have been better spent on junkies, whores, perpetual welfare cheats and puppies! Mi dinero, su dinero!

There is a slogan that originated in San Antonio, that pops up in yard signs usually at election time: “NO SELFISHNESS”  These signs first appeared in “09” not the year the zip code. This area is not a bastion for rational thought. It was a counterpoint for signs that said “NO SOCIALISM”.

I have never figured out how laying about spending every dime one has, to smoke, snort, shoot or drink one’s way to oblivion, at the expense of family is not the model for Ultimate Selfishness.  But then I’m not a liberal. I am cursed with a rational view of things.

So now Thomas J. Henry is being taken to task because people incapable of earning that type of money he earns, have decided he can’t be trusted to spend it properly. Some people never learn.  Blackmail is never pretty, whether it is practiced by the kid who owns the ball and threatens to take it away, or the adult he has become who looks down his nose and says tsk, tsk.