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Good Satire or Bad Taste?: The Morning News and a Pulitzer Winner Battle Over a JFK Joke

We were pretty sure that Pulitzer Prize-winner Thomas Ricks' recent suggestion in the Washington Post that America exile Texas in pursuit of a more perfect union was a joke. Blaming the state for the JFK assassination (without Texas, "John F. Kennedy might still be alive") and the wars in Iraq and A ... More >>

The Washington Post Suggests that America Boot Texas From the Union

Obama's reelection last year prompted a lot of talk over whether Texas should once again secede from the Union. Except for a few die-hard secessionists, though, few considered it a serious proposal, more like an opportunity to make Texas jokes. So the debate just kind of fizzled out. But the Washin ... More >>

Farmers Market Report: Texas Worm Ranch's Swiss Chard

I hope you didn't miss the farmers markets this weekend. While this year's season is still in its infancy, plenty of beautiful vegetables are sprouting at nearby farms. Greens are king right now, and this Swiss chard is a great example of garden fresh produce that beats anything you can find at the ... More >>

Republicans Have an Image Problem Because They Insist on Acting Like Republicans

The op-ed page of our only local daily newspaper is full of talk today about the national Republican Party's big overnight discovery and wake-up call: in a document called the "Growth and Opportunity Report" published by the Republican National Committee, Republicans are being informed that they are ... More >>

The Real Reason Makers Mark Wanted to Dilute Their Whiskey

The Maker's Mark story keeps unfolding like onion layers. The Washington Post published an article Monday that delves a little deeper into the cooperate decision to lower the proof of their popular bourbon. See also: - Makers Mark Raids the Family Liquor Cabinet - Maker's Mark Has Changed its Mind ... More >>

Former Komen CEO Nancy Brinker Turns to a New Cause: Gay Rights

If one person can be said to be responsible for the inexplicable requirement that professional football players don pink gloves and shoes, it's Nancy Brinker. Through the Dallas-based Susan G. Komen Foundation, she's managed, not quite single-handedly but almost, to turn the fight against breast can ... More >>

After Harriet Deison's Death, Questions about Grief and Depression, Suicide and Privacy

We are old obit writers at our house who scour the obituary pages by habit every morning, and, yes, we did notice the long obituary in The Dallas Morning News last week for Harriet Schoelllkopf Deison, 65, wife of the pastor of Highland Park Presbyterian Church. I think we both snapped to it because ... More >>

Texas House Rep Allen Fletcher Files Bill To Tackle Non-Existent Problem of Sex-Selective Abortion

With the shiny new session of the Texas Legislature a mere six days away, your lawmakers are gearing up to debate some important issues, like handsy TSA agents and whether we should drug-test people who have the audacity to file for emergency welfare relief. But, as ever, some legislators are most ... More >>

The Washington Post Has a Grudging Respect for Jerry Jones, Even if His Ego is Bigger than Cowboys Stadium

At the very beginning of her column today on Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones, Washington Post sports columnist Sally Jenkins sets the scene, and she sets it well. The Dallas Cowboys' home locker room after a game is suffused by a bright halo of light from a wall of TV cameras encircling the central figu ... More >>

UNT's Education Dean is the Foremost Expert on Why Girls Throw Like Such Girls

Saying someone throws like a girl is not generally acceptable, at least in the age of Title IX and political correctness. Such pronouncements reek of paternalism; certainly we're sophisticated enough to know that gender differences that seem to be innate are really learned, the product of a lifetime ... More >>

CNN Walks Halls of School of Science and Engineering, the Best Public High in the U.S.

In May, you no doubt recall, longtime Washington Post education columnist Jay Mathews put the Dallas Independent School District's School of Science and Engineering at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Magnet Center at the very top of his list of the best public high schools in the country. In the video you ... More >>

No Matter How You Add It Up, Dallas ISD's Magnets Still Top Best High Schools Lists

Again, the Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Magnet Center houses some of the best individual high schools in the U.S.​Exactly one month ago we got a look at longtime Washington Post education columnist Jay Mathews' list of the best public high schools in the country -- the same list that used to run in Ne ... More >>

Scott Reitz, DC Food Writer, Ditches Real Job to Become Dallas Observer Food Critic

Attention Dallas-area chefs: A Google image search for "Scott Reitz" brings up this photo. So if you see a guy sitting at your bar with an assault rifle, bring him an extra app or something.​We don't usually announce new hires. We assume you don't really care who fills up the cubicles around h ... More >>

From 1971, Supreme Court Justice Douglas's Thoughts on DPD's Raid of Burns's Dallas Notes

​That copy of Dallas Notes you see above was loaned to me yesterday by one Mike Rhyner, who, as it turns out, was a contributor to the late Stoney Burns's Buddy magazine way back when. Its pages are brittle; it falls apart when you just look at it. Contained within, on Page 3, is a story headlined ... More >>

Everything That's Wrong With Texas Alcohol Laws In One Photo

Jesse Hughey"In Texas, malt liquor." Come on, TABC -- that's just embarrassing.​OK, so the headline's a slight exaggeration -- it would take an album of photos to fully capture all the outdated laws and unfair advantages the giant (and foreign-owned, by the way) corporations of the beer world h ... More >>

Super Bowl prostitution: 100,000 hookers didn't show, but America's latest political scam did.

Bake Sale Bandits

Local Movement Fights for Cottage Food Bill.

Drowning Pool React To Their Song "Bodies" Being Linked To The Arizona Shooting Tragedy

​The mainstream media has a long history of placing the blame on music when it comes to finding motives behind maniacal acts of violence. So why should this past weekend's massacre in Tuscon, Arizona, be any different?It isn't, turns out: On Monday, the Washington Post ran a piece raising question ... More >>

Where Does Dallas Stand on the Human Development Index? Let's Go to the Report!

American Human Development Project of the Social Science Research CouncilClick to embiggen​Just spent the better part of the morning browsing the The Measure of America 2010-2011: Mapping Risks and Resilience, a report released this morning by the Brooklyn-based nonprofit Social Science Research C ... More >>

DISD Trustee Carla Ranger Directs Our Attention to a New Study Critical of Teach for America

Teach for America founder Wendy Kopp​In May 2009, Highland Park High School grad Wendy Kopp's Teach for America -- which gives recent college grads a five-week crash course in teaching before dropping them in low-income urban and rural schools -- sent close to 100 rookies to Dallas. DISD Superinte ... More >>

"The Green Giant," Norman Borlaug

​Newspapers 'round the country are filled this morning with obituaries, such as this one from The Washington Post, mourning Norman Borlaug, who died Saturday at the age of 95 at his Dallas home. All the obituaries more or less read the same: father of the "Green Revolution," Nobel laureate, the ma ... More >>

Teacher-Turned-Author Questions How Dallas Landed Two Schools at Top of Newsweek List

Newsweek has yet again released its list of the top 1,500 public high schools in the U.S. -- and Dallas, with six on the list, has dropped one from the '08 scorecard: poor ol' Hillcrest High School, which last year came in at No. 547, dang. The School for the Talented and Gifted at Yvonne A. Ewell T ... More >>

Coming Feb. 1: The Dallas/Fort Worth Morning Star-Telegram

Known it for a while, but yesterday the head honchos at our two local dailies made it official: Beginning next month the newspaper sports war competition is over. The former rivals are now shaking hands, sharing headlines. It's happening all over the place, with even super powers like the Washingto ... More >>

Lost in Dealey Plaza, "The Bermuda Triangle of Pop Culture!"

Sink or Swim: T. Boone Pickens On Why He's Off the Swift Boat

When Of Rome

Maraniss discusses a special Olympics

Eighteen Years Ago, He Got 314 People to Perform His Music in the Meyerson

The Death of Desire

Alphonso Jackson Pays Homage to Alphonso Jackson

Colin Crazy

DeYoung talks Powell in Dallas

Now, Now, Voyager?

Darlington Doesn't Like Our Sex Jokes

DMA Curator Gets Big Gig in DC

Mr. Crunchy Con Speaks|You Cheap Bastards

SMU Can't Cheer Up or Pony Up

SI.com Picks a Fight, Sort Of, With Mark Cuban Over His New MMA Show

In Dallas, a Muslim Writer is Asked a Difficult Question

George Bush Really Focused on Things That Matter -- Like, Oh, Michael Young, Maybe?

¡Ask a Mexican!

Newspapers are Worthless. Wait, That's News?

A Broken FEMA (Yes, Again)

Local Lit Fit

Thanks for Everything. And for Nothing.

One Down...

Havin' a Ball with the Mavs & Heat

Good Muck

You gotta know when to hold ’em

Moth-Eaten

In this tricked-up ghost story, the truth is way out there

Sinking Fast

The $2 billion Trinity River Plan looks like the Russian sub of local politics

Transcendental dining

Delight is in the details at Saigon Bistro

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