And the wiener is: Let’s send a big horseshoe-shaped wreath of flowers to state Representative Debbie Riddle, winner of the demagogue sweepstakes to be the first Texas legislator to propose introducing a Texas version of Arizona’s recently enacted SB 1070, also known as the Roust the Brown People Act. Buzz…
Back in the DSSR: We hate to say it, but what if the Tea Party people are right? Sure, they may look like wacky gun-loving, government-hating, thin-lipped, bigoted, paranoid loons. Completely deranged, ignorant…wait, we’ve lost our point here. Oh, yeah. What if they’re correct? What if there is a subtle…
America needs consumers to get this country’s economy humming–not just today but in the future, when hordes of us will be old and counting on those government checks. So, if you’re a parent, do your part for Uncle Sam and haul your tykes to the Dallas Kids Expo, Saturday and…
Picky: This is the trouble with Dallas: nitpickers. Whenever the city begins to make some progress, out they come with the complaints. Take the city’s decision to go ahead with plans to build a whitewater kayaking facility on the Trinity River. “Hey, that sounds fun,” right-thinking people say, but then…
Salud!: Because Buzz figures anyone who reads us is drunk, this week we take another look at Progress Dallas’ effort to secure a vote to change the dry laws in the city. The group—led by retailers and restaurateurs—wants to allow beer and wine sales in grocery stores and eliminate rules…
A district attorney in Wisconsin has threatened to prosecute teachers who follow a new state law that bans abstinence-only sex education and requires sex-education classes to provide age-appropriate information. That’s not exactly surprising coming from a people who call themselves cheeseheads, but then, Texans have nothing to brag about when…
Whatever happened to good ol’ cheerful propaganda? You know, like in the ’30s when the world was in the shit, and theater gave us dancing gold diggers happily singing, “We’re in the money.” Sure, it was whistling past a graveyard, but that’s better than staring into the graveyard. We say…
All wet: Well, at least we know now who to blame. When the Trinity River finally tops its weakened levees and inundates large swaths of the city, all you drowning folk should raise your fists to the sky and loose an imprecation at the person who sealed your fate. “Curse…
Here we go again: So, this is what the inside of a handbasket looks like. Kind of cozy, actually. Too bad it’s hauling us all off to eternal hellfire and damnation. The good news is that at least we might be able to have cold, conveniently purchased beer while we…
Allen Gwinn over at www.dallas.org has posted a report from DISD’s Office of Professional Responsibility about its investigation of Maria C. Silva, former manager of the district’s Adult Basic Education Department. The typical journalese way to describe the report would be “scathing.” A more accurate description would probably be “holy-crap-I’m-glad-she’s-not-my-boss.”If…
Don’t let the doorknob…: Oh, such warm, moist sighs of sadness swept the city last week over the end of state Representative Terri Hodge’s political life. What a shame. What a tragedy. What a load of crap. Quick show of hands, readers. Before she pleaded guilty to federal tax fraud…
Here’s a quick Monday-morning discussion question for you Friends of Unfair Park: Have you stopped or cut back on taking the Dallas North Tollway in these lean times? My monthly bill recently hit $120, so it’s Stemmons Freeway — go, Speed Racer! — for me until some bills are paid…
There are no flying back-kicks. No multi-car pile-ups or explosions. No gee-whiz special effects. But for our money–and by the account of countless film critics–there’s no better suspense movie than The Third Man. Holly Martins (Joseph Cotton) is a naive American pulp Western writer who travels to the cesspool of…
Tolls for thee: Buzz is broke. All Buzz’s friends—both of them—are broke. The feds are broke. The state is broke. All God’s children are broke. So who’s going to pay for all the new roads a growing Dallas County needs? Well, you will, assuming you’re not too broke to drive…
After a couple of weeks playing phone tag, Unfair Park finally managed to connect with George M. Clayton, the District 12 State Board of Education candidate opposing incumbent Geraldine “Tincy” Miller in Tuesday’s GOP primary. Clayton has been something of a mystery man to the Republican Party folk and state…
Trend surfing: You might as well start practicing right now, so you can get used to it. Say these words: Governor Rick Perry, four more years. Why is Buzz predicting the return of Mr. Hot Hair to office? Well, he’s leading the polls in his primary race and, so far,…
Buzz kill: Oh, no, no, no. This can’t be correct. Could it really be that the young Earthers, the intelligent designers and assorted Christian right-wing whackjobs who have made the Texas State Board of Education such a reliable source of amusement could be facing…extinction? Speaking as someone who neither has…
Well, who knew? The eyes of Texas have been focused on the GOP primary race between Governor Rick Perry and challenger Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison as the ultimate throwdown between far right and somewhat-less-than far right Republicans. In the meantime, while we weren’t looking, “moderates” may slip in the backdoor…
Clearing the smoke: Every two weeks or so, we wander into our publisher’s office and flip through copies of our company’s sister papers in Denver and California, where medical marijuana is legal. “Wow, they must be raking in the ad dough,” we say, looking at the advertisements for medical pot…
Forget that today’s pirates live in soul-crushing poverty in places like Somalia and occasionally wind up getting shot by U.S. Navy snipers. Who needs grim reality when you can see How I Became a Pirate at Dallas Children’s Theater beginning Friday, January 22? The musical, based on the children’s pop-up…
All’s fair: Well now, that hardly seems fair. Those wily Dallas County Republicans are out soliciting campaign contributions, and they’re landing some really low blows to do it. They’re accusing county Democrats of behaving like, gasp!, Democrats—that is, being blindly loyal to their own party members whenever they’re not busy…
Is it safe to come out yet? Is this horrifying, recessionary, alien-anal-probe of a year finally—finally!—over? Whew! It is! We made it through the last year of a less-than-auspicious decade. Let’s all get some “I Survived ’09” T-shirts and have a party. Maybe while we’re all together, we can make…
