Whitt’s End: 6.10.11

Whether you’ve reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *In 31 years of basketball, the Dallas Mavericks have won a combined (regular season and playoffs) 1,349 games. One more in Miami either Sunday or Tuesday and they are NBA Champions…

Suddenly, the Morning News Cares About Minority Neighborhoods

Let’s talk about sincerity. It’s awfully easy to take a certain position on an issue and be sincere about it when that position happens to coincide with the interests of your boss. We speak here of The Dallas Morning News editorial page and its campaign against scrap yards near mainly…

Baby Buggy Buggers: And You Thought Hummers Were Obnoxious

Went to NorthPark Center in fancy North Dallas a few afternoons ago. Don’t go often. Already have all the monogrammed Kleenex I need. But let me ask you something. What is it with the triple baby carts? You know I’m not making this up. You’ve seen it. There are people…

Whitt’s End: 6.3.11

[jump] *Last night has to be psychologically devastating to Miami. Remember after the Mavs lost Game 3 in ’06 very similarly — they were up 13 with six minutes left — they never showed up in Game 4, eventually losing by 24 in a no-contest blowout. *Poor Dallas Stars. No…

The 28 Best Whistling Songs of All-Time

Peter Bjorn & John had already released a pair of marginally-successful albums and were even beginning to gain a small amount of notoriety as being one of Sweden’s most promising young pop bands by the time 2006 rolled around. But it was their third album, Writer’s Block, that really put…

A Seven-Point Plan for Screwing Up Higher Ed

My poor son is the child of two writers. When he was still preadolescent, his mother wrote something about him for a newspaper or magazine article, I forget which. His teacher saw it and showed it to the class. He came home and said to us in a very grave…

Happy Memorial Day — 2011

Osama Bin Laden is dead. But the fight — and the hefty price — to fend off terrorists around the globe lives on. Just yesterday, for example, eight more American soldiers were confirmed dead in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. Sad, but let’s face it, we’ve become numb to the numbers…