Was the Call That Sparked the Eldorado Raid a Hoax?

It would be no surprise if you have yet to read this, since for some reason The Dallas Morning News is ignoring it, but it now appears the phone call that sparked the raid on the polygamist compound in Eldorado may have been a hoax. As ABC News reported yesterday…

Strong Arm of the Law

Why is Greg Abbott smiling? Something to do with watching an old lady bathe, mebbe? If you’re old, a minority and a Democrat who loves your country enough to vote regularly, you should draw the blinds when you take a bath, ’cause Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and his boys…

Pizza Hut Cans Deliveryman Who Brought a Gun to a Hold-Up

Few weeks ago we told you about the Pizza Hut deliveryman in Iowa who was suspended for shooting at a man who faked an order, all so he could play stick-’em-up with the poor schmuck who drew the short straw. Well, today comes word that 38-year-old James William Spiers III…

Heritage Auction Gallery Sparks Another Battle at Little Bighorn

Meanwhile, General George Custer couldn’t give a damn about a lawsuit, as he remains deceased. A Friend of Unfair Park sends along word that, yet again, Unfair Park cross-the-street neighbor Heritage Auction Gallery has found itself on the wrong end of whoops. Two months after it was revealed that the…

Dallas Mavericks: Transformers in Disguise!

Because I loves some Free Darko, here’s the mightily monikered Bethlehem Shoals’ sneak peek at the Dallas Maverick-New Orleans Hornet showdown, set to commence tomorrow ’round 6 p.m. on the Worldwide Leader. The whole piece, of course, must be taken in context, but a few teasers till you crash the…

David Finfrock and Mother Nature Ruined My Must-See TV

Fine — sheets of rain, bolts of lightning, hail the size of newborns. Of course the local TV affiliates had to ax their respective networks’ prime-time programming — because there’s nothing more captivating than the site of bat-shit meteorologists tracking the slow crawl of the apocalypse. Only, see, no 30…

Who’s House? Darren’s House.

View Larger Map I was driving, quick as I could, through a big-money neighborhood a few weeks back when I spotted, at the curve where Northaven Road turns into E. Ricks Circle, a mother of a manse. The missus said, only half joking, that she thought it was a convention…

Volleyball in a Parking Lot or Bowling in a Bar? Pick ‘Em.

AVP.com No, this is not the photo that was supposed to run with today’s Bible Girl column. It’s Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh, competing this weekend in Arlington’s volleyball throwdown. For those who despise mainstream sports and aren’t the least bit titillated by playoff drama, this is for you. Both…

The Half Truth and Nothing Like the Truth, So Help Me Tom

Dr. Heywood Sanders In this week’s paper version of Unfair Park, we dig deep into the convention center hotel controversy at City Hall. Mayor Tom Leppert’s dream of building a hotel using public money will come closer to reality when the city council votes next week whether to approve financing…

Baptist Seminary President Says Women Shouldn’t Teach Men

A conservative pastor known for championing dissident views in the Southern Baptist Convention has posted an interesting, well-argued and chilling sequel to Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s controversial decision to deny tenure to a female Hebrew professor, apparently because of seminary President Dr. Paige Patterson’s view that women should not be…

Dallas Stars Finally Align

Something funny happened on the way to penning another Dallas Stars’ April obit. The team that annually dies in the first round of the playoffs not only has life, it suddenly looks like the strongest outfit in the whole damn National Hockey League. On the heels of a month so…

Shoe Doesn’t Fit

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…

Teaching Teens How to Parent and Stop Having Children

It’s a Thursday morning at A. Maceo Smith High School, and the girls in parenting class are struggling to stay awake. There are six of them, freshmen and sophomores mostly, and not one had a full night’s sleep. They are young mothers with babies, or they are in the final,…