Not to be cranky or anything, but it’s really irritating to read all this crap about congressional earmarks and realize nobody knows what the hell they’re talking about. Stories in both The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times today paint the whole debate on earmarks in typical who’s-on-first…
Welcome to Local Music’Mericans, where we’ll be meeting some people behind the local music scene who aren’t musicians, but more behind-the-scenes folk. Kim Keebler was raised in Deep Ellum as a young pup. Her first concert was there: The Dead Kennedys, back in the mid ’80s.She bought her first car…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *The Dallas Cowboys began the season at 9/1 odds to make the Super Bowl. At the halfway point of the season they are now 500/1. The over/under for wins for interim…
What’s the deal with all the Mexican song lyrics about lágrimas and llorando? We all know most Mexican men are más machos dudes and all that, so why all the songs about tears and crying? Even if a gabacho cries, he doesn’t try to advertise it and certainly does not…
[jump] *Deservedly so, the Rangers are milking their success. Manager Ron Washington will drop the puck at tonight’s Stars game and C.J. Wilson will drive the pace car before Sunday’s AAA Texas 500 out at Texas Motor Speedway. *Somehow Taylor Swift’s new album sold over a million in its first week…
Dear Mexican: I’m totally serious about my e-mail, so please forgive me if my question sounds ridiculous. I also mean no insult to anyone about my question or questions in this e-mail. There are a lot of antsy/jittery people along the United States’ southern border. Lots of those antsy people…
I want to catch you up on a story I told you about in September, concerning Josh and Jenn Terry, both 29 years old, who were rehabilitating an apartment building in North Oak Cliff. It’s sort of a Halloween story. Before starting their project, the Terrys checked in with the…
Democratic incumbent Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson raised $548,514 to run for re-election and won with 75.76 percent of the vote, which was not up to her standard snuff. In 2006, the 17-year veteran raised only $411,189 but won with 80.19 percent. Of course, that was before scholar-gyp. Johnson was surpassed…
A while back I wrote about a motorcycle accident on 75 that killed two of my friends, Ernie and Elisa Santos. Today I come bearing bittersweet news: The driver of the white pickup, whose recklessness was the first domino that caused the accident, has been arrested and charged with two counts…
So leave it to me. Here it is Sunday night. I’m sitting on the porch handing out Halloween candy and trying to be nice. But I am gnashing my teeth. On Saturday The Dallas Morning News published a story about Halloween in my neighborhood. Much mention was also made of…
Dear Mexican: I was a history major at the University of Arizona in Tucson, which I believe was part of the Gadsden Purchase, the last piece of old Mexico the U.S. “acquired.” That got me thinking: What was the citizenship status of all Mexicans/gringos who lived in parts of Mexico…
In an interview today with Bill Zeeble of KERA-FM (90.1), Republican congressional candidate Stephen Broden trots out his belief that Roe v. Wade — the Supreme Court decision affirming a woman’s right to abortion – was “passed” as part of a racist elitist plot of genocide against black people. Broden,…
Small wonder the Stephen Broden camp is gnashing its teeth over the Brad Watson violent-overthrow interview. Just before Channel 8 ran the interview in which congressional candidate Broden said violent uprising is “on the table,” Broden’s campaign says it had received polling data showing Republican Broden within six points of…
The Dallas Morning News today withdrew its endorsement of Stephen Broden in the Texas 30th District congressional race, after Eddie Bernice Johnson’s Republican challenger told WFAA-Channel 8 reporter Brad Watson that violent revolution is one of his “options” for changing the regime in Washington. “The Editorial Board has too many…
[jump] *Best all-time band with a number in its name? Nine Inch Nails. *Toldja. When I wish failure on someone it works. Since I’ve transfered my evil powers of doom ‘n gloom onto A-Rod, he’s gone 3 for 17 in the ALCS with as many strikeouts as hits (3). Plus,…
So I’m at City Hall watching the city council last week, and out of the blue—I don’t know where it comes from, just craziness—I have this thought. I know why Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert and City Councilman Dave Neumann don’t get it. Seriously. It was a lightning bolt. Neither one…
Dear Mexican: I’m not the type to let things slide when I see something that strikes me as ignorant, no matter who it is. When my friend’s mom posted jokes on Facebook about Mexicans, and her friends popped up with comments I felt were racist, I just had to step…
Ron Jackson/Texas FreewayThe Neches River BridgeIn April 2009, I wrote about the court battle between the city of Dallas and people in East Texas over a proposed dam and reservoir on the Neches River. The East Texas people won that one, successfully persuading a judge to kill the planned reservoir…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *There’s probably some heart-over-head at work here, but I’m picking Rangers in 7. If Neftali Feliz doesn’t blow a save and if the Rangers can avoid letting the Yankees’ mystique force a…
Dear Mexican: What is it with the Mexican hang-up on body parts? When General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was struck by a cannonball at the knee in one of his 8,000 wars, his right leg was removed from the knee down. When he returned to Mexico City, he ordered…
Private property still legal in Dallas! Or should I say, legal again. The Dallas City Council just voted unanimously to approve a plan to keep several businesses on Rock Island Street, right behind the Trinity River levee down by the Corinth Street bridge. Council members Steve Salazar, Pauline Medrano and…
