Dear Baby Journalist: Grandpa Journalist sees that you are very perplexed about “L’Affaire Tim Rogers” and that you are struggling to comprehend it in the context of a concept you were taught to believe in at journalism school, called “journalistic ethics.” Grandpa Journalist had made up his mind he would…

The plot thickens. I told you here a couple days ago that Jeff Siegel at the Advocate had been pushing me to run for mayor. Now he has a very smart item up on the Advocate blog Backtalk in which he hopes Angela Hunt will not run for mayor, because…

Hey, generally speaking, the response to my offer of yesterday to run for mayor was quite disappointing. I got 20 comments, almost none of which were positive about the possibility of my being the next mayor. In fact most of the commenters talked about where the worst potholes are around…

Jeff Siegel at the Advocate has nominated me for mayor, and, after long consideration and discussion with my family, I have accepted. I shall run, unlike our current mayor. If elected, I shall serve. If offered a salary, I shall accept. I have decided to keep my platform simple. My…

I guess everybody thinks the Dwaine and Barbara Caraway marital discord story is over, now that Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway has confessed he called the cops to his house because he was having a fight with his wife. Well, it’s not over for this cowboy. I need answers…

Oh, now it starts. Faced with a state budget deficit somewhere between $15 billion and $27 billion, Governor Rick Perry says the most important thing for the Legislature to do now is ban “sanctuary cities.” Those are cities where the cops don’t ask people about their immigration status, because if…

Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins is supposed to be a star—a big star. Four years ago after he was elected Dallas County’s first black prosecutor, Watkins leaped into the national limelight for his role in DNA-evidence exonerations of wrongly convicted prisoners. So what’s the matter with him? Maybe the…

Two things. First, I would like for people to quit bitching about my photo. One guy wrote in that he found it “disturbing.” Well, WTF, Einstein. It’s not meant to be a sympathy card. Second: Another guy wrote in with a really good idea yesterday. I had written about how…

Gromer Jeffers is saying this afternoon it’s “all but certain” Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert won’t run for reelection in May, although he doesn’t quite say how he’s so certain. I certainly have been picking up a lot of ground clutter in the last week, mainly about various hopefuls knee-walking with…

Let’s not even get into the underlying issue of whether Robert Groden should be able to sell his books and magazines about the Kennedy assassination on Dealey Plaza downtown. Just for grins, let’s put that to one side. What gets me is the extreme Vladimir Putin-style in-your-face we’re-not-even-embarrassed-by-it thug-ocratic stupidity…

You know what the pigeon drop is, right? Some scam artist convinces an old lady she can get $10,000 for free by withdrawing a mere $1,000 from her bank account. All she has to do is allow the scam artist to hold her thousand dollars for half an hour. I…

The Dallas Morning News had another story in the paper yesterday reminding everybody how excited we need to be about Super Bowl XLV in Arlington a month from now. The more of this Super Bowl stuff I see, the less excited and the more pissed off I get. The story…

I don’t like end-of-the-year round-up stories reminding me of all the stuff I’ve already forgotten over the year, because most of it was stuff I forgot for a reason. One of the national New Year’s lists reminded me that on August 28 the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police department arrested Paris…

People all over the world are worried about whether Julian Assange of WikiLeaks is a legitimate journalist or the Information Unabomber. If they really want something to worry about, they should come to Dallas and talk to Russell Fish. Fish, an Information Age Attila of open records, would be the…

More illegals! More illegals over here, please! Ah, you’ll have to excuse me. I have been away from my column for weeks with my nose in numbers for an immigration story that appears in this week’s paper version of Unfair Park. I may be a little stat-blind. The Census released…

All I want for Christmas is to be Christmasy. You’ve already heard about Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas. He’s the preacher publishing an online shame-list of businesses and organizations that aren’t Christmasy enough for him. I’m scared I’ll wind up on it. I really don’t want…

The Texas Observer has published a story about the Railroad Commission of Texas that I want to call appalling, but I think the Railroad Commission has lost the ability to appall. The story exposes a pattern of dereliction and sleaze on the part of this obscure but powerful body, costing…

Seven council members have signed a memo to Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm telling her to figure out some way not to bar the public from parking in the garage underneath Dallas City Hall (well, the fountain, actually). Unfair Park was told that more members would have signed it, but…

Regarding the story Wilonsky broke here yesterday — about Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Church, publishing a list of businesses or other entities that fail to celebrate Christmas in an acceptably enthusiastic way. I’m worried about old white people. Seriously. I’m one myself. I go fishing with old white…

At the end of last week Wilonsky posted a City Hall memo announcing that “the general public will no longer be allowed to park in the City Hall garage.” I thought about it a lot over the weekend. It’s just so incredibly and infuriatingly typical. The justification for barring the…