Victory smells: It is wrong to kick a man when he’s down or rub salt in another’s wounds. Very un-Christian. But what the heck? It’s fun, and Buzz has never been baptized. So we can’t help but resurrect (heh) this quote from Ross Perot Jr., given to USA Today back…
Just do it: This can’t be right. A highly unscientific “Trojan Pleasure Survey” undertaken by the condom maker finds that Houstonians are a bunny-like people and have sex on average 101 times a year, making it the No. 1 do-it town in America, far surpassing D-FW’s paltry average of 73…
Geographically clueless: This week, we give a Buzz salute to Cornell University associate music professor David Yearsley. (A Buzz salute looks like what is commonly called the double bird, only it’s done with a smile and heartfelt respect.) Why do we respect Yearsley? Because last week he posted an essay…
Going batty: Buzz has always been kind of fond of Avi Adelman—a position not common among many of our readers, who would prefer to do their drinking on Lower Greenville Avenue without being hassled by Adelman. It’s not that Buzz agrees with Adelman’s efforts to drive the bars from his…
Stand and deliver: On behalf of Dallas, Buzz would like to make the following statement: Listen, world, we’re sorry about that whole Kennedy assassination thing. Real sorry. Now, can we just move on? Apparently not. A new Web site—a sort of photo sharing, socializing spot called www.stoodthere.com, based in the…
Magnetic Retraction By Jim Schutze, May 14 Messing with Success The magnets are not only “islands” of excellence, cut off from the larger world around them. They provide a crucial role in allowing a sense of possibility and aspiration to permeate the entire district—to kill them is to kill that…
Save Ferris: Elsewhere in this week’s paper, Jim Schutze is mounting a spirited defense of DISD’s magnet schools for talented and gifted students. The district’s magnets and its learning centers for disadvantaged students were threatened with staff cuts thanks to a federal funding formula that requires each DISD campus to…
Well, how about that? All these years you were making art and didn’t even know it. That Chianti bottle you turned into a candle holder? Art. Those milk crates you converted into bookshelves to display your candle holder? Heck, call that art too. OK, really, really primitive art…tacky even. You’re…
Hey, have you heard this? You can help the planet by recycling, saving energy, composting, going organic, etc. It’s true! We read that somewhere. OK…we actually have read it pretty much freakin’ EVERYWHERE, all the freakin’ TIME! Gotta do our part to save the planet! Do it! Do it now,…
We know what you’re thinking, right-wing worrywarts, but it’s cool. Frog and Toad are just really good friends. Your marriage is safe, and no one is “indoctrinating” your children. Well, maybe Casa Manana Children’s Playhouse is trying to teach them a thing or two about the joys of best-friendship with…
“Blown Away,” by Tom Korosec, April 16 Cats and Dogs Living Together So, Dallas is not ready for a flood or a tornado. Next week, a cover story on how we are not ready for an earthquake, and the week after the cover story will be that we are unprepared…
Lost in translation: Wow. That was some piece of reportage The Dallas Morning News produced this Sunday about Richard Allen’s inland port project in southern Dallas County. Reporters Kevin Krause and Gromer Jeffers Jr. spent two months reviewing allegations that a coterie of southern Dallas pols and businessmen tried to…
Free Jenny Thank goodness Margaret Morin hasn’t given up on Jenny—without hope, there often is nothing. If Jenny knows, she appreciates it. Morin has a wonderful vision for Jenny, and she won’t give up. We need more people like Morin who fight for what is right, even when the system…
Remember Jenny?: Give Margaret Morin credit for perseverance. For nearly a year, the leader of Concerned Citizens for Jenny has lobbied, cajoled and pleaded with city leaders to send Jenny—until last week the Dallas Zoo’s only elephant—to a sanctuary in Tennessee. In that time, she says, she’s learned just how…
The stammered, oh-so-polite, made-up telephone conversations. The wry, deadpan, gently satirical delivery. Comedian Bob Newhart is the guy you wanted to be your uncle, the funny one who cracks up the dinner table at Thanksgiving. At 79, Newhart has become the sort of entertainer pretentious people call “a national treasure.”…
Somehow, I missed all the Thomas the Tank Engine stories as I grew up. Though the Reverend W. Awdry’s tales of the plucky li’l anthropomorphic locomotive have been around for six decades, I never heard of him. That’s probably because I spent most of my boyhood playing around on real…
Truth hurts: A political gaffe, it’s been said, is what happens when a politician accidentally says something honest. So, we figure former Dallas City Council member Craig Holcomb must have been wishing for a do-over for his comment in last Sunday’s page-one Trinity River story in The Dallas Morning News…
Democracy inaction: On May 9, thanks to folks who signed a pair of petitions, Dallas voters will decide whether the city should build a convention center hotel and whether to enact strict limits on public subsidies to private developers of hotels, condos and shopping centers. Odds are most of you…
Crazy talk: As much as Buzz would prefer to ignore anything Dallas Morning News columnist Steve Blow says, it behooves us to respond to his Sunday column in which he basically calls the Dallas Observer’s own Jim Schutze a conspiracy-minded, tinfoil-hat-wearing nut job. It behooves us because when we told…
Sex=death: The good news, for all you Texas parents out there, is that the state’s public schools are not teaching your kids that babies are delivered by water fowl or that “touching yourself down there” leads to blindness. At least as far as we know they aren’t. Though, to judge…
Abstinence-only sex education doesn’t work. You know it. Bristol Palin knows it. Shoot, anyone who has ever been or met a teenager knows that telling them to “just say no” is the best and possibly only way to get them to says yes, yes, YES!Still, it’s nice that the folks…
Remember “Killer” Keller?: State Representative Lon Burnam knows how to hold a grudge. The Fort Worth Democrat this week filed a resolution in the House calling for the appointment of a commission to investigate whether the House should impeach Sharon Keller, the presiding judge on the Texas Court of Criminal…
