Although 2008 is fully upon us, some in Houston are still reveling in the warm memories of holiday parties gone by. Take David Harris — not the dead David Harris who was married to Clara, but some property management David Harris. Mr. Harris apparently had such a good time at the holiday party he hosted for his property management company, he’s decided to take a stroll down memory lane with the office of the Harris County District Attorney’s Office.

Ah, holiday parties — friends and colleagues celebrating the end of one year, and all of the accomplishments that came with it, open bars, heavy hors d’oeuvres, elected officials who show up uninvited, brandish weapons, threaten guests and aggressively kiss other peoples’ spouses — wives primarily.

According to a complaint filed with the Harris County DA, State Rep. Boris Miles (D-The Literal Crazytown) showed up at Harris’ company holiday party, at the tony St. Regis Hotel, threatening guests with a handgun and dusting off the old chestnut, “There ain’t room enough in this town for the two of us,” which, though hackneyed, speaks to Miles’ appreciation for Houston history…

…which, as we all know, has had a reference to that phrase on its city seal for some time.

Harris also said that Miles yelled that he is a “gangster” and a “thug,” to which Houston’s sizable gangster-thug population, put off by the swanky location of Miles’ thuggery, responded “nuh unh!,” while former State Rep. Al Edwards replied, “woo hoo.”

Edwards, who was defeated by Miles in the 2006 primary, is running again for the District 146 seat, pledging to return to the Capitol with 27 years of “committed experience, dignity and integrity,” and almost 50 years of incoherent, tangentially relevant rambling, both in business and on the floor of the Texas House.

So the investigation into the allegations now proceeds in the office of Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal, where the truth of the matter will be sorted out in an environment of professional and detached objectivity.