Shoe doesn’t fit: More than a decade has passed since Buzz visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., so we remember little about the exhibits there. One image remains firmly embedded, however: a large pile of worn shoes taken from death camp victims. That pile seemed especially poignant, it’s hominess…

Never have kids: It should probably be a warning for anyone wanting to enter the field of family and divorce law that the story told to prove King Solomon’s wisdom involved a family dispute. You gotta be super-wise to wade into those mares’ nests. Solomon had a tricky dispute over…

Albatross necklace: So what was the late political commentator Rufus Shaw talking about when, in the weeks before his suicide, he wrote a blog post bemoaning what he called “the purveyors of hate and personal destruction” in the community? Here’s one possible example: Halice Furtado was executive principal of Redirections…

Workin’ for a livin’: Buzz caught excerpts from a Hillary Clinton speech to Ohioans this week in which she was all charged up about helpin’ workin’ folk. She talked just like that because, you know, hourly factory workers are incapable of pronouncing a hard “G,” a fact she no doubt…

German engineering: Like many, Buzz is confused by the Democratic Party’s process for selecting a presidential candidate. You’d think it would be simple—voters vote, votes are counted, whoever gets the most, wins—but we’re talking Democrats here, so things are not that straightforward. We tried to read the original blueprint for…

Priorities, priorities: Man, Buzz needs a vacation. Here we are about to tell you that the Collin County District Attorney’s Office is preparing to start requiring all persons accepting felony plea bargains to provide DNA samples, and our lefty knee isn’t even twitching, let alone jerking. We must be tired…

Making book: As a young senator, John F. Kennedy wrote Profiles in Courage, about various courageous characters who had served in the Senate. Buzz hasn’t read it, but we understand it’s a “classic” in the political genre, meaning it’s one of those books everyone has heard of but no one…

Unnatural selection: As a general rule, Buzz tries to stay away from the evolution vs. creationism debate. We also try to avoid getting into heated talks with people on buses who are convinced aliens are beaming messages through their fillings, and for much the same reason. If you sincerely believe…

Wusses: We suppose we should be grateful. Since Mayor Tom Leppert and the new host of city council members came on board last summer, things have been so civil at City Hall. No weekly blow-ups at the council chambers. No Mayor Laura Miller vs. everyone else. With one notable exception—how…

Untouchable Hodge: Well, crap. Gray January is upon us. We’ve said goodbye to pro football in Dallas, and Hollywood’s writers are still striking, so a bleak horizon stretches ahead. What’s left to entertain us? Oh, you know the answer. Does Buzz really have to say it? Fine, we will: It’s…

Dog pile: Frisco’s Michael Morford could be the poster child for the “If Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade Society.” A 34-year-old employee of an investment bank, Morford says he went through a period of deep depression in 2006, which he endured with the help of a friend, coming out…

In da house: Excuse Buzz while we kick off the year with a little in-house news, because we know Dallasites are endlessly fascinated with every little thing media folk do—even though most media folk we know personally are, not to put too fine a point on it, boring. At least,…

A maverick female city council member challenges the powers that be at City Hall all by her lonesome. Voters trek to the polls to decide the fate of the Trinity River project: Will it be a park or an expressway? The feds are sniffing around alleged corruption among southern Dallas…