Sarah Palin

American Atheists Call Out Robert Jeffress, the Pope, GOP Politicians on New Texas Billboards

If you're tired of seeing Rev. Robert Jeffress' elfin little face at every turn, it might be best to avoid the highway for awhile. The pastor, along with one of his most charming quotes -- "What they [homosexuals] do is filthy" -- will be appearing on a billboard along a highway in Austin beginning ... More >>

Presidential Debate: Thoughts on Manners, Accents and Ass-Kickings

OK, they're finally getting down to the part of the last presidential debate I care about, accents and manners. So I have questions. The New York Times has a piece on its local page today about how New Yorky and Jewish the last debate was, because most of the people who spoke from the audience had ... More >>

Fear, Loathing and Tons of Strippers: What Happens When the GOP Comes to Town

If Sarah Palin Hasn't Called You About Ted Cruz Yet, Try Not To Take It Personally

Ever since Ted Cruz announced that Sarah Palin is endorsing him in his bid for Senate, we've been clustered around the office phone (we only have one), waiting patiently to hear a robo-call from ex-Alaska Governor Palin. It never came. That's because, as it turns out, Palin's calls may have been acc ... More >>

New Film Miss Representation Explains Why The Women's Movement Has Stagnated. See a Free Screening.

You've probably seen the photo (above) pinging around the Internet recently of the panel of old men making some pretty important decisions about women's health in the ongoing fracas about contraception. Here are five men sitting at the power table, while the women watch, waiting for a decision that ... More >>

Wiley Look at U.S. Culture

Our Anaconda Don't Want None Unless It's Plush Art, Hun

Oh. My. God. Becky, look at this art. It's just so big and so small. It's just, like, opposites, like, a study in "differences in scale and color." < /valleygirl > A vocab word you may have missed on the GRE, "Dimorphism" is a biology term referring to dual variations within a species. There are ... More >>

After Six Months in Iowa, a Sarah Palin Mega-Volunteer Comes Back to North Texas

​After months of suspense, and after the other Republican hopefuls hired staff, began campaigning and participated in seven debates, Sarah Palin finally announced last week she wouldn't be running for president after all. Upon hearing the news, Michelle McCormick and a few of her friends did what ... More >>

After Shweddy Balls Ice Cream, 10 Other SNL Sketches That Need to Be Food

​Ben & Jerry's announced its production of "Schweddy Balls" flavored ice cream today,  "vanilla ice cream with a hint of rum" and flecked with big ol' fudge balls. Sounds pretty tasty, actually. More importantly, it got us thinking, which we try to do sparingly: What other Saturday Night ... More >>

Food Taxes Alone Won't Keep Us From Becoming Fat Asses

Would you eat less if this burger was taxed?​Between double brunches I thumbed through the Sunday papers, hunting for relevant food news so you don't have to. Most papers are slathered with stories about the heat, but there were a few food gems ... The Morning News re-printed a Chicago Tribun ... More >>

We Went to Grapevine Last Night For a Sneak Peek at Sarah Palin Doc. A Tea Party Broke Out.

​If you drove to Grapevine last night, entered the mall on the corner of Grapevine Mills Boulevard and Stars and Stripes Way, hurried past the Legoland, the Foot Locker and, outside the aquarium, two children strapped into some kind of bungee-jumping ride, pogoing slowly over and over again from f ... More >>

Dallas Among Stops For Sarah Palin Doc, While Hal Samples's Doc-in-Progress Gets Nice Plug

Coming to an AMC near you next month​This morning we find two items of local interest contained within the virtual pages of IndieWire. First: Long-ago Observer-er Dana Harris sends word that the extremely authorized Sarah Palin propaganda filmdocumentary The Undefeated has found a collaboratorexhi ... More >>

Fox-y News' Own Numbers Show the Talibaptists Haven't Won Yet

​Today the Dallas school board meets to hear the possible "good news" from the superintendent -- that the district may only have to fire a quarter of its teachers instead of a third, depending on how badly the Rick Perry Banana Republicans and the TeeTee Party in Austin underfund public school ... More >>

It's a diary of a mad year as Buzz recalls a P.O.'d 2010.

Turnips, Happy Meals and Tainted Eggs: The Year's 10 Biggest National Food Stories

​Food lovers must talk with their mouths full, since there was plenty of discussion of many, many food-related topics in 2010. But a few national stories struck us as most important. Let us know what you think. 1. The food safety bill The massive food safety bill had been left for dead when the ... More >>

Hash Over: There's Such a Thing
As a Free Lunch

It's back to the daily grind, but we have something to brighten your spirits and fill your stomach -- for free. The good folks at Jack in the Box know how much you love free food, and they've got a giveaway Tuesday you won't want to miss. After 2 p.m., head to Jack in the Box to receive two free t ... More >>

Palin, Perry, Leppert, Abbott & Broden Talk Abortion at the Majestic. Need We Say More?

Photos by Sam MertenSarah Palin last night at the Majestic Theatre in downtown Dallas​Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin told a crowd of pro-life advocates gathered at the Majestic Theatre last night that the largest advance in the abortion industry has been the passage ... More >>

Sarah Palin's Show at the Majestic Next Week Is Turning Into Quite the Texas GOP Jam Session

​A few weeks back we noted that Sarah Palin will be performing her one-woman show at the now-city-of-Dallas-run Majestic Theatre on November 10 on behalf of Austin-based Heroic Media, self-described as using "mass media advertising to help women facing unexpected pregnancies with hopeful alternati ... More >>

Friday Night, These Folks Wanted to Teach Sarah Palin a Thing Or Two About Adoption

Patrick MichelsLinda and Tommy Burns were among Palin's welcoming committee Friday night, which was nothing compared to the crowd she drew in 2008.If you happened to be driving past the Fairmont Hotel before the big Sarah Palin fundraiser Friday night, and wondered why six people were out with signs ... More >>

News & Notes: Don't Waste Water, But Do Build a Better Block. And, More Than You Needed 2 Know 'Bout Palin4Life.

A few odds and sods on this Census Day:The fine folks at Bike Friendly Oak Cliff have posted a video follow-up to our post about plans to build The Better Block at the intersection of N. Tyler and W. 7th Streets on April 10 and 11. That's it up top, and it's rather self-explanatory ...So too is the ... More >>

Welcome to the Day After March 31

​*Ron Washington's first and only experience with cocaine came at age 57? Of course I believe him. Why wouldn't I? *Okay, I admit it. I secretly, desperately wish I wrote for the Dallas Morning News and talked for 1310 AM The Ticket and admit that my jealously bleeds through into my sub- ... More >>

Portugal. The Man Goes Pop

Whitt's End: 2.19.10

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *I'm setting the over/under on Tiger Woods saying the word "sorry" in this morning's sanitized statement at 4.5, and I'm taking the under. I'll also be shocked if he cries. At some point he will, b ... More >>

Whitt's End: 1.15.10

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Haven't gotten a chance to ask him about it yet, but did I miss something or is Babe Laufenberg leaving CBS 11? Maybe he was buying CBS 11. Did I get that wrong? UPDATE: Says Laufenberg in a text ... More >>

Palin Does Plano

Danny FulgencioSome of Sarah Palin's adoring readers wanted to talk politics at the signing table. One woman just wanted to say, "I really like your kimono."​If you're looking for copies of Sarah Palin's Going Rogue: An American Life, you'll be out of luck tonight at Legacy Books in Plano -- they' ... More >>

Today In Music News: Eminem Brings The Substance, Prince Ups The iPod and Lil Wayne Talks His Game

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 15, 2009... Eminem is back, and he felt like hip-hop was going downhill during his absence like music was "lacking substance." Yeah, substance like jokes about Lindsey Lohan, Sarah Palin and Jessica Simpson. That's substance. If you hav ... More >>

Richie Whitt: Unplugged, Unmasked and Universally Apologetic

This is by far the most difficult post I've ever written. But it's time. I can continue this charade no longer. Over the past 11 months on this blog I've spewed forth a plethora of radical opinions, most of which this morning I'd like to officially denounce. I admit, most of them didn ... More >>

Bush and Booze. Not What You Think?

First, on this Inauguration Day afternoon, a mention of drink specials in honor not only of our new president, but the former one who will make Dallas his home, oh, any day now. A few days back, Simon McDonald at The Libertine Bar forwarded us a handful of welcome-home signs, one of which appears at ... More >>

Worst Lyrics of 2008

And now it's time for the "I love you like a fat kid loves cake" memorial Worst Lyrics of 2008, March Madness-style tournament, this year a terrifying mélange of appalling oral-sex requests, bargain-bin philosophies, grammatical atrocities, and cringe-inducing pillow talk. To elevate the drama, I p ... More >>

Trysts in Toledo: Theatre Three's 17th-Century Nunsense Doesn't Wear Well

Written by a nun, Theatre Three's Trysts in Toledo dusts off an old, unconventional comedy

Top 10 Metal Albums of 2008

In a year worthy of your rage, metal delivered in spades. What with the economy circling the drain and Sarah Palin coming down from the tundra and then refusing to go back, 2008's been the kind of year that really makes you want to smash your head into walls or punch random strangers in the face. ... More >>

With Dallas Republicans in Pain, One Local Leader Believes He Has the Cure

How County Chair Jonathan Neerman Plans to Ease the Dallas GOP's Woes

Gender On A Bun

Let your eyes bite into a Manwich

Burning Question: Which Ingredients Do Chefs Hate To Work With?

How would you like to slice into these everyday? Lobsters are easy. We mean that in a culinary sense. Bind up the pincers, drop them in water and commence to melting some butter. Likewise steak: a dash of salt, another of pepper and a crackling grill—that’s all there is to it, pretty much. I ... More >>

Knee-Jerk Gun Buying, Pig Organs and a Bogus Gold Glove

So Africa is a Continent, Not a Country. Whoops.

Constant Langing

K.D. visits the Fort

Wednesday Morning Wake and Bake

She Can See a Mesquite Hyundai Dealership From Her House!

Haunts Ahead

The Dallas Scaregrounds spooks and awes

Three Dots and a Cloud of Dust …

Note to Belo: B.C. and The Wizard of Id Should Hold a Town Hall Debate

The Dallas PD's New T3: Not As Intimidating As It Sounds

In Downtown This Morning, Protests For and Against Palin are Planned

Karl Malone and Sarah Palin Have Nothing in Common, Except This Item

The Moose is Loose: What Does Cal Jillson Think of the Veep Debate?

What Do Jessica Simpson and Sarah Palin Have in Common? Ask a UTD Prof!

Peggy Noonan Calls "Bullshit" on McCain for Not Going With Kay Bailey

Political Football

McCain Chooses Sarah Paulson For VP. No, Michael Palin. No, Wait ...