Late last week, the Transportation and Safety Administration announced on its blog that 2014 has been a record breaking year for dumbasses bringing unsecured weapons into airports. It’s quite an achievement, a worthy capper to DFW patrons’ long history of bringing dumbfounding items into the airport. So far 105 of…
Everything, as we all know, is about Obamacare. Your delivery pizza costs 14 cents more because of Obamacare. Your uncle’s Facebook wall is a disaster because of Obamacare. That traffic accident that slowed down your morning commute? Obamacare. Ted Cruz wants you to know that net neutrality is just as…
Vinita Hegwood, a Duncanville High School English teacher, has some strong opinions about white people, especially as it relates to what’s happened in Ferguson, Missouri. Friday night, she decided to share some of them. “Who the fuck made you dumb duck ass crackers think I give a squat fuck about…
Last week, we told you about an internet survey pushed out by Dallas state representative Rafael Anchia asking residents their opinion about the Trinity Toll Road. We speculated that Anchia’s sudden interest might signal forthcoming action in Austin, likely an attempt by supporters to fund the currently unfunded (and unneeded)…
London games, at least from the various couches I’ve watched them on, are always odd. English fans, to their credit, are always enthusiastic, but their cheers are usually half-a-beat off. The extra quarter-of-a-second they need to process what happens on the field, combined with the generally terrible Wembly Stadium pitch…
Insecam is a super-creepy Moscow-based website that is currently streaming footage from 73,000 unsecured IP cameras. The site says it’s doing it to promote security — it is able to access the cameras because their owners never changed their default password — but clearly has revenue-generating ads. There are feeds…
Density is good. Regionalism is bad. Dallas’ city government should focus on the city itself, not on getting in good with our suburban neighbors by forming partnerships that hurt the city itself. These are things Unfair Park has heard so often that it basically takes them to be true. For…
Amber Vinson, the second nurse from Thomas Eric Duncan’s treatment team to contract the Ebola virus, had her engagement ring incinerated along with many of her other belongings. In an interview with CNN’s Don Lemon, Vinson revealed her struggles to figure out how she got the disease despite following the…
At its peak, Bitcoin Savings and Trust — Trendon Shavers’ Bitcoin business that he purported to be an investment operation — controlled a full 7 percent of all publicly traded Bitcoin. Operating out of his McKinney home, Shavers, known as “pirateat40” in the Bitcoin community, managed as many as 764,000…
Just two days after winning his unopposed re-election bid, state Representative Rafael Anchia has released a survey to gauge Dallas residents’ opinion of the proposed Trinity toll road. The survey was quickly pushed out on social media by opponents of the toll road such as City Council member Scott Griggs,…
Preliminary numbers are out for Texas’ midterm election voter turnout from the Election Project, and they are abysmal. Just 28.5 percent of Texans eligible to vote did so, either in early voting or on Tuesday, the lowest percentage in the country. The last time Texas voted for its governor in…
As in any good tragedy, Craig Watkins’ tumble from his perch as Dallas County district attorney was preceded by hubris and stupidity. After badly underperforming compared with the rest of his party in his 2010 re-election win against Republican Danny Clancy, Watkins did everything possible to ensure another close race…
So, Dallas City Manager A.C. Gonzalez is making his twice-monthly report to the City Council Wednesday afternoon. This time, he’s going to be talking about something called the Dallas Center for Performance Excellence which, well, we’ve read the whole briefing and still have no idea what it is. Its purpose,…
If you aren’t sure of where you’re supposed to vote this morning, you’re now battling more than just the rain. As of 10:00 a.m., dallascountyvotes.org, the county’s guide to all things voting, isn’t working. We called the county to see what was going on. A worker told us the site…
In a couple of weeks, people in Dallas running a little short will have access to small loans that aren’t accompanied by usurious interest rates — provided their employer opts in to a new program from a nonprofit called Business and Community Lenders of Texas. The Community Loan Center of…
Your cry has been heard, discerning Dallas protector of the purity of the white race. November 8-9 you won’t have to choose between fondly remembering the Third Reich, dressing up in your finest white linens or playing with guns. That’s right, within a two-and-a-half hour drive, you can do all…
Digging through the this year’s community survey, which you can see in full below, is like looking at one of those magic eye posters. You have to look past it to see what is really going on. On its face, the results of the survey are positive. The survey’s “major…
One of the realities of the salary-cap era in the NFL is that flawed teams can still win Super Bowls. The 2011 Giants lost seven games. The 2012 Ravens lost six, as did the 2010 Packers and the 2007 Giants. If a team can do one thing really, really well,…
Dirk Nowitzki as Rev from Run D.M.C. .@swish41 & friends dressed up (and rapping) like Run DMC? Yes, please! http://t.co/FoTpM1f2Ta #Mavs #AllBall pic.twitter.com/aRlFD1SIli— NBA.com (@NBAcom) October 31, 2014 Dallas Police Chief David Brown as Wyatt Earp Wyatt Earp is ready for the Mayor’s Monster Mash! @DallasPD pic.twitter.com/2DDaH5QJlR— Chief David O…
As of Tuesday, Amber Vinson and Nina Pham, the two Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital nurses to get Ebola after treating Thomas Eric Duncan, are Ebola-free. It’s remarkable, inspiring news. Seeing the two speak at their post-release press conference was, in a way, like seeing someone back from the dead. Then…
About a week ago, on October 23, Uber announced that it was cutting prices for its UberX service in Dallas for the third time since the service made its Dallas debut in November 2013. Taking an UberX from my Oak Cliff apartment to the Observer offices costs about $7 now;…
For three years, a confessed attempted murderer roamed the streets of Dallas, going on a crime spree that ended when he killed a man in July 2007. Michael Wyatt had pleaded guilty to the attempted murder in 2004, but the Dallas District Attorney’s Office wanted him to testify against his…
