Damn! Who the hell is in my pocket? This morning’s New York Times tells me Senate hearings will convene Thursday on the issue of cell phone privacy. I convened yesterday. My wife was complaining about banner ads appearing on the display of her flip-phone. The thing is: She has to…
A wonderful Thanksgiving behind me, having managed to enjoy generous hospitality in Wichita Falls while keeping my mouth shut about Obama. But now it’s the morning after, and Monsieur Gilles de la Tourette beckons. I blame a thought-provoking piece on today’s Dallas Morning News op-ed page by the Reverend Gerald…
Look, you did not hear this here, OK? I don’t want to have any of this attributed to me. Anyway, it’s possible I overdid my Benadryl and maybe this is just one of those brain swerves like when I thought we were going to get bike paths. But I can’t…
Damn. Now I have to send Roland Dickey’s barbecue book back to him. I got it a few days back. It was a gift. I looked it up online, and it’s worth about 45 bucks with shipping. I want to say something positive about his wife today, so if I…
This afternoon I attended a media event in the Old Red Courthouse Museum to announce plans for the 50th. Don’t ask 50th what. “The name is simply the 50th,” Mayor Mike Rawlings said firmly at the beginning of the thing. See also: – Dealey Plaza Redo: Beware the Goon Squads…
Spent the first part of morning searching around on-line for anything to remind me why Rod Dreher and I used to fight. No luck, really. When he was here working on The Dallas Morning News editorial board, he lived on my old street in East Dallas, and I think we…
So a couple weeks ago Angela Hunt calls me up and tells me I have to go down to the new deck park. Then maybe two days later my wife starts telling me I have to go down to the new deck park. So Sunday I was about to embark…
Every once in a while life provides us with a major reality check, which can be good or bad, depending on our relationship with reality. The news yesterday that the massive reconstruction of Dallas’ downtown freeways is about to get under way at long last contained one very big reality…
The story in today’s Dallas Morning News about Dallas Cowboys football player Dez Bryant getting off on mom-beating charges contains this line about Bryant’s lawyer, state Senator Royce West: “West said the incident was a dispute, not an assault.” The woman called DeSoto cops and said her son had tried…
Last week I attended a Dallas City Council briefing in which I heard a top staff member tell council members the city needs to spend $12 million in tax money on a “horse park” because it “fills the public purpose that voters have twice said they want.” I’m a voter…
Hey, All-Caps Guy. We need to have a talk. Really. I sometimes poke you with a sharp stick. You poke back. That’s what I want. But sometimes when you poke, I wince. Not for me. For you. You know, I hope, that every single thing you say online lives forever…
The area we call the Park Cities, twin affluent enclave municipalities surrounded by Dallas proper, is riven by a rape case in which the son of a prominent family stands accused. One reason that case is tough to talk about is that nobody knows what happened. The accused, a high…
Conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg has a new column out saying the presidential election was about our desire as a nation to become more European and by sad inference less American. Do you remember voting on that? I’m trying to think what the ballot language might have been. Proposition One (ink…
OK, I guess we’re all going to pile on departing Dallas school executive Shirley Ison-Newsome, a person accused of serial scandals and of making off with a bunch of loot in the form of a “golden parachute.” Look, Unfair Park Czar Eric Nicholson was quite right to observe a week…
Yesterday I wrote about Curtis Lockey and Craig MacKenzie, who were on my mind Tuesday night as I watched the final electoral votes for Obama click into place. Lockey and MacKenzie are real estate developers suing Dallas in federal court over what they claim is massive misuse of federal de-segregation…
Last night, when those final electoral votes rang up on my CNN app, I suddenly thought of Curtis Lockey and Craig Mackenzie, two guys who have been missing from the news for a while. I told you about Lockey and MacKenzie two years ago. They are developers who brought a…
Op-ed piece by Princeton professor Kevin M. Kruse in this morning’s New York Times argues the real loser in this election cycle was the truth. Kruse marshals instances on both sides of the line but comes down clearly in the camp that sees Mitt Romney as the biggest fattest pants-on-fire…
Funny how you can drive by a thing a dozen times and never really see it. An early morning errand today took me through the north end of downtown on the Woodall Rodgers Freeway. I looked up from traffic and was stunned by the sheer beauty of the new Museum…
For several weeks I have been wondering if anybody else was hearing the same drumbeat of deep bitter dissatisfaction from Dallas public school teachers that I’ve been getting. So now it turns out somebody else has been hearing the same thing. But guess who! Tod Robberson! Oh, no! Not Tod…
Stunned and disappointed to learn this morning that Dallas felony court Judge John C. Creuzot will leave to go into private practice after two decades on the bench. In terms of the law and courts — hell, in terms of government itself — Creuzot is a great example of what…
Wyatt Earp shot from the hip. He was a hero. So do I shoot from the hip sometimes? Bring me the target. Last week on our news blog I took a couple hip shots in the neighborhood of Lance Armstrong. I said I hated him. I’ll still call that shot…
So here we are at the door to election day. In the nation it all comes down to Ohio. In Ohio it all comes down to the auto industry. And Mitt Romney is betting his marbles on TV ads that say he’s the one who wanted to save the industry…
