Promised land: Buzz spent the past couple of days sorting through data comparing the Lone Star State’s economy with other states’, a task also being undertaken by about 900,000 media types — damn libtards, all — trying to find evidence that presidential candidate Rick Perry’s bragging about our state’s economic…
Miracle whip: Buzz is heartsick we can’t drive to Houston this weekend to attend The Response, Governor Rick Perry’s big prayer meetin’. That means we’ll miss witnessing firsthand any miracles wrought by the convocation of several thousand mostly white, Republican, viciously homophobic “prayer warriors.” The timing of the event also…
Comes the dawn: That’s it? After a good 14 years of Trinity toll road rah-rahing and questioning the integrity of anyone who suggested that putting a road between the Trinity River levees was a bad idea, D Magazine has apparently (and quietly) changed its mind. “Let’s Ditch the Trinity River…
Designing woman: July has been a grim month for Texas education. First there was the report that students taking early versions of the state’s new end-of-course exams failed miserably. The worst performance was 42 percent in physics, but at least students know where their cell phones come from — China,…
Touche: You’re good, Angela Hunt. Very good. We thought we had you last week, after you tweeted photos of ordinary-looking folks hanging out in Main Street Gardens park with their luggage. Lots of luggage. “I’m tired of bums in Main St. Garden,” you railed. “Counted 12-many sleepng. Where is DPD?…
Enough’s enough: Buzz has written before about our mother’s attitudes about child-rearing and pool halls: “If I ever catch you in that pool hall,” she’d tell us, referring to our hometown’s only billiards parlor, “I’ll slap the living shit out of you.” Mother Buzz, a 4-foot-11 middleweight with a palm…
Let the games begin: “Should I dance, or should I sing?” Dallas County Commissioner Maurine Dickey asked Monday, after learning what we all did: that FBI agents were searching the office, home and cars of her fellow commissioner and nemesis, John Wiley Price, along with those of two of his…
Who knew? Sometime during the 8th century, between bouts of famine, scurvy and smallpox, dynastic conflict and bloody religious war, the Franks invented “jazz hands.” And when they weren’t hacking away with broadswords, or hacking up a lung, they took time to create bouncy, light pop. It’s amazing what one…
Speak up, son: So, Wick Allison, publisher of D Magazine, long ago dropped his support for the city’s controversial plan to build a toll road between the Trinity River levees. Who knew? We sure didn’t. Last we’d heard, D was still a member of the toll road’s cheerleading squad led…
Dear God: OK, Buzz is a little late with cracking wise about “The Response,” Governor Rick Perry’s national day of prayer and monster truck rally to take place next month in Houston. What? No monster trucks? Why, then, would anyone in his right mind travel to Houston in August for…
Aw, nuts: Exactly what information is mayoral candidate Mike Rawlings waiting to hear before he passes judgment on whether Dallas should continue its futile effort to build a toll road between the Trinity River levees near downtown? Give us a hint, Mike, about what it’s gonna take, ’cause between this…
Fishin’ in the Trinity: OK, now we’re really curious. We’re talking to you, Dallas City Hall, about those Trinity River project emails and memos you’re fighting to keep us from seeing. What, has someone been unduly candid in his or her assessment of the city’s plans to put a toll…
OK, now we’re really curious. We’re talking to you, Dallas City Hall, about those Trinity River project emails and memos you’re fighting to keep us from seeing. What, has someone been unduly candid in his or her assessment of the city’s plans to put a toll road between the levees?…
Hello, loser: So Republicans in control of the Texas House this week managed to shove through a bunch of bills without debate. This caused a lot of Sturm und Drang—that’s German for “really bitchy Tweets”—in the Legislature, chiefly among Democrats who believe the GOP’s House supermajority is behaving in a…
Do chickens really plot elaborate escapes from chicken farms, a la Chicken Run? What was on the other side of that road that inspired a clucker to risk death in a cloud of feathers? Why do so many things “taste just like chicken?” Sadly, answers to these questions won’t be…
Is that it? Another Mother’s Day, and you’re again taking your aging mom to lunch at Luby’s and handing her yet another bouquet of soon-to-be dead flowers? How nice. After all, she only carried you for nine months and passed your bulbous noggin through her birth canal. Luckily, if yours…
Paper chase: So, Raymond Paredes, Texas’ higher education commissioner, says Governor Rick Perry’s call for a $10,000 bachelor’s degree is “entirely feasible” and wants to see some proposals by 2013. Education experts scoff. Can’t be done, they say, unless you’re talking diploma mills. “I know Texas’ [Higher Education] Coordinating Board…
Oh God, yes: It’s been a double spit-take week here at Buzz HQ, thanks to The Dallas Morning News opinion pages —and frankly, we wish the paper would knock it off. Spraying mouthfuls of our “afternoonish” bourbon is a waste of perfectly good liquor. Speaking of wasted fluids, what first…
A bridge too far: Oh, now we get it. Silly Buzz. A couple of weeks ago we wrote about the city council’s plan to spend $10.7 million—$3.5 million of it in your money—to get Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava to design a cheaper fancy suspension bridge on Interstate 30 over the…
Cognitive dissonance: Remember when times were flush and Dallas’ city leaders had goals other than keeping the lights on at City Hall? It wasn’t that long ago when all the talk was “world class city” and we were assured that Dallas was a few fancy suspension bridges, a toll road…
Joe Tone, a Village Voice Media veteran and former editor of the Pitch Weekly in Kansas City, was named editor of the Observer today. His first day on the job is Monday. Tone brings a broad mix of reporting, editing and web experience to the post. He previously worked as…
Fewer than two million World War II veterans are still alive in the United States, and their number shrinks by about 900 a day. Soon, a living link to the past will pass. Even rarer are samples of some of the equipment these warriors used in battle. The Collings Foundation…
