Fatigue to the 50th Power: JFK Day Will All Be Over Soon, Right? RIGHT?

Every week, managing editor Patrick Williams disappears into his office and reemerges a cranky, anti-depressant-gobbling, third-person-referring superhero we like to call Buzz. At last, Buzz has begun to share some of the emotion driving the city’s 50th anniversary celebration of the Kennedy assassination. (Official motto: “Yep, still dead.”) Sadness. Anger…

Texas AG Candidate Barry Smitherman Can Shoot All the Guns

One of the prerequisites for holding statewide office in Texas nowadays is the gun-toting photo op. Governor Rick Perry’s done plenty. So has Attorney General Greg Abbott and Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson. Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst is the rare exception — just more proof that he can’t be trusted. Attorney…

You Can Now Go Fake Skydiving in Frisco

First off, let’s make one thing clear. Contrary to what the company claims on its website, or what the above headline might suggest, iFly does not offer “indoor skydiving.” There’s no sky. No diving. Just a vertical wind tunnel and baggy jumpsuits. That said, iFly Dallas, the company’s brand-new facility…

TSA Worker at DFW Airport Pleads Guilty to Stealing Passenger’s Cash

It’s not like anyone needs another reason to hate the Transportation Security Administration, whose groping and overly revealing body scans have made air travel only slightly less unpleasant than riding Greyhound. Yet the agents at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport seem keen on providing more of them. Last month, it was…