What am I doing here with a notebook, waiting for DART trains and being abused by people? I’ve been out here trainspotting for the last few days, and it’s not much fun. They made a movie about trainspotting, I know, but I think all the people in that movie were…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Ho hum, The Ticket’s dynasty rolls on as one of the most dominant entities in sports. In September’s Arbitron PPM ratings – I hear, by the way, that only 1,400 meters…
See that? Over there. To your right? That’s not the money you could be saving with GEICO. It’s the money you lost last year betting with Richie Whitt. But, alas, in the spirit of persistence, stubborness and doubling down, we’re back at it again in 2009. I owe it to…
Lots of speculation going on around town about whether the next shoe to fall in Dallas’s ongoing City Hall corruption woes may be a Gucci to the head of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price. Today, matter of fact, Kevin Krause has posted a tidbit on The News’s City hall…
At a mid-afternoon press conference dealing with the blizzard of guilty verdicts earlier today for five defendants in the Dallas City Hall corruption case, U.S. Attorney Jim Jacks of the Northern District of Texas seemed to wag a cautionary finger in the direction of Dallas voters: “At the end of…
So, it turns out Patrick “Buzz” Williams was right. No matter how you do the accounting, how you structure the contracts, how you interpret arcane campaign finance laws and city ethics policies, getting caught on camera accepting 10 grand in cash out back of a church is still like getting…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Former Carter High School star Michael Crabtree may not be a bad guy, but he’s following some horrible advice. Friend of a friend of Crabtree tells me that he and the 49ers…
Dear Mexican: As a Mexican-American, I’ve lived in St. Louis for about 17 years and have seen a substantial influx of my brethren. Nevertheless, I’m for border security—against the no-good, godless Canadians. I hate Canadians! Funny accents and cold weather—ha! Why is America not closing the Canadian border? Those bunch…
See that? Over there. To your right? That’s not the money you could be saving with GEICO. It’s the money you lost last year betting with Richie Whitt. But, alas, in the spirit of persistence, stubborness and doubling down, we’re back at it again in 2009. I owe it to…
This year’s Best of Dallas sports section kicks off with a story on the Dallas Desire, our local squad in the new Lingerie Football League. Its first season began a few weeks ago, and the Desire played their first home game at QuikTrip park last Friday night (yes, we’ve got…
Stays in Comes all the way back to Dallas. I didn’t wake up with a tooth missing or a tiger in my hotel bathroom. But only one – that’s right, one – of the following did not happen during my 4-day excursion to Las Vegas. Venture a guess?…
Dear Mexican: In Garfield strips in the funny pages that appeared earlier this year, Garfield is wearing a sombrero and taking siestas. While cute and all, isn’t that the sort of thing that we have been striving to stop? What was Jim Davis thinking? Maybe he needs a refresher course…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Just because I’m off to Vega$, I won’t deprive you guys of the only two things you really appreciate on this blog …..
Dallas pot-stirrer, education activist and computer inventor Russell Fish — the subject of a Dallas Observer cover story a couple years ago — is making trouble Down Under. One of Fish’s many diverse and unpredictable hats is as an activist on sexual predation issues, apparently on a world-wide basis. Fish…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope of merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Heard The Ticket was making a patented “major announcement” today. First reaction: It’s moving Dallas Stars night games to a better signal, likely Cumulus brethren 93.3 FM or even 570 AM. But…
This morning, I think I saw the first little indicator of how the city plans to deal with these lean times. I’m coming back up my street from walking my dog, and I see a little natural-gas-powered city car with a Public Works logo on the side stopped with the…
See that? Over there. To your right? That’s not the money you could be saving with GEICO. It’s the money you lost last year betting with Richie Whitt. But, alas, in the spirit of persistence, stubborness and doubling down, we’re back at it again in 2009. I owe it to…
We gabachos get differing reports regarding the Reconquista. Some say it’s a genuine movement, well under way. Others claim it’ll never happen, but that it’s useful as a slogan that both antagonizes white America and energizes young Mexicans. Let’s say for now that it’s a genuine movement destined for success…
Rudy Bush has a story in this morning’s Dallas Morning News attempting, thank goodness, to do the reporting that Bruce Tomaso did not do yesterday in his blog item about flooding and the proposed Trinity River toll road. Bush has accepted our suggestion on Unfair Park yesterday that The News…
I had other work to do this morning, but Robert was right: I couldn’t stay away from Old Man River. A bit after noon I ventured down to the site of the Calatrava suspension bridge construction site to see how the high water of the last 48 hours is affecting…
Yesterday, in a pitch of live-blogging fever at the Dallas City hall corruption trial, I penned a little missive — as a sort of aside, really — about a certain sick symbiosis in Dallas politics between rich white arts mavens and sell-out minority politicians. Between my wife and Sandra Crenshaw,…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *As for August’s PPM radio ratings – surprise! – 1310 AM The Ticket continues to dominate. Among men 25-54, The Ticket remains No. 1 in the market leading every hour from 6 a.m…
