Former Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox, who died in his sleep Thursday at his home in Dripping Springs, will lie in state today in the Texas House of Representatives chamber of the Texas Capitol; hours are from 3 to 7 p.m. As the Star-Telegram noted over the weekend, "The last dignitary whose body lay in the Texas Capitol -- in her case,
in the rotunda -- was Mattox's political archrival, former Gov. Ann
Richards."So happens that Mattox's brawl with Richards more or less tops this morning's ob
If you missed Pacman Jones on CBS' NFL pre-game Saturday afternoon, here are the highlights lowlights:
*His hair was in a sorta mohawk, stolen from Wesley Snipes' Blade, and he was wearing a cheesy, white sports jacket, a la Don Johnson in Miami frigging' Vice.
*He used "man" as some of puntcuator five times, man.
*Even more shocking and appalling, he said he thinks he'll be a Dallas Cowboy in 2009.
You already know what I think of him. After watching ESPN's Outside the Lines report t
"This is the movie that puts a happy face on alcoholism...and seems to imply that not only can a man make the right choices about life-altering matters when blind drunk but that sometimes it actually helps." (Playboy magazine on the 1981 Dudley Moore film Arthur. About the most succinct and accurate description of this movie one could write. No wonder it is one of the few romantic comedies without battle scenes a guy can watch.)
The 'Boys venture into this series of dismal, dimly lit exits along I-95 on Sunday night. To
help us all to know the King of Prussia mall city a little better...A recent government study cited Philadelphia as the city with America's highest rate of alcoholism. In a footnote, this same study pointed out that alcoholism was not a problem in this case, it being a necessary catalyst for procreation.**We can't seem to locate this document, but remember very clearly either reading it, having it rea
