Jaws: Occasionally, Buzz has been known to indulge in a little lawyer bashing, going so far as to suggest that some lawyers are less than honest. No, wait. We’re lying. We frequently suggest that it’s common for lawyers to lie like a rug. But not this week. We have found…
When Lee Jackson interviewed for the job of Dallas schools superintendent two weeks ago, minority advocates picketed, angrily blasting the board’s consideration of the Dallas County commissioner and former state lawmaker. Jackson apparently lacked a certain je ne sais quoi. Something just wasn’t right about the Dallas County judge, something…
Here’s a digit for you: To Buzz, a man approaching 40, it was an ominous warning: “You’re about to be digitally converged,” said the Digital:Convergence software we had just installed on our office computer. Not yet, we hoped. Our dad warned us about the intrusive medical exams that men of…
First the good news: It’s becoming less likely that Oliver Stone, who shot parts of Any Given Sunday, Talk Radio, Born on the Fourth of July, and JFK in Dallas, will ever shoot another film here. (Buzz is not a fan.) The bad news? It’s becoming less likely that anyone…
Spell it out: So this is it then. After years of spiritual aimlessness and fistfuls of antidepressants, Buzz has finally found our lot, our destiny, our reason to exist. It’s to provide you all life’s little vulgar details that other Dallas media won’t. Sounds like a pretty good deal to…
Inquiring minds: So Wick Allison, publisher of D magazine, in defense of decency and virtue ordered 70,000 copies of his magazine destroyed before they reached readers because D inadvertently accepted a pair of “obscene” ads, The Dallas Morning News reported. Uh-huh. That’s nice, and we’re sure his mother, if she’s…
SEEDless: Conventional wisdom says that if something isn’t broken, don’t fix it. Sadly, conventional wisdom isn’t so conventional at Dallas Independent School District headquarters, and a good, working program will soon be broke. The new DISD budget likely will slash funding for Project SEED, an 18-year-old program that brings top…
Surprise, surprise: So former Dallas NAACP President Lee Alcorn developed a taste for his foot last week regarding the nomination of “Jew person” (Alcorn’s phrase) Joe Lieberman as the Democratic vice presidential candidate. Someone tell Buzz, What exactly was so surprising? Was it that Alcorn might harbor anti-Semitic feelings in…
Cold embrace How confusing it must be for old-school, pro-family, Christian-right Republicans now, watching the GOP lurch toward the center, toward inclusiveness, toward sodomy. Some longtime GOP faithful must be feeling like the devoted wife suddenly cast aside for a younger woman — or man, as the case may be.For…
Why wait? Dallas school board member Jose Plata, a two-term trustee and staunch supporter of now-booted Superintendent Waldemar Rojas, says he’s throwing in the towel. Slowly. Plata won’t seek re-election when his term expires next May, and he’s advising his fellow trustees to do the same. He says he can…
Very personal injury Dennis Rodman has settled a lawsuit filed in Dallas County by a woman who alleged he infected her with herpes. Stacie Shobe claimed in her 1998 case that she had unprotected sex with the former Dallas Maverick after he told her he did not have any sexually…
Buzz supposes it was progress of a sort.
What’s in a name So Gordon Keith, KTCK-AM radio jock and sometime contributor to this paper, agreed to change his name to Dallasmaverick for one year and have the team’s logo tattooed on his body in exchange for $125,000 from Mavs owner Mark Cuban–half the money going to Keith, the…
Isn’t it ironic Being one of the few Dallas Morning News subscribers under the age of 85 to read the paper religiously, Buzz thought we had a pretty good notion of who the daily’s friends were. We were wrong. When the city council recently designated the newspaper the city’s official…
Feel a draft? From the start, it wasn’t exactly a marriage made in heaven. Now it appears that Belo Corp. and the Dallas Mavericks are headed for an amicable, if lucrative, separation. Belo revealed this week that it has reached an “oral agreement” to sell its minority share of the…
Daddy got his gun So, how much time do you plan to spend picking out your dad’s Father’s Day present this week? Two minutes? Five? Let’s be honest: When it comes to filial affection, Dad gets the short end of the stick giftwise. Still, you have to get the old…
Elijah, please shut up The last time we heard from Elijah McGrew, the Oak Cliff activist and erstwhile city council candidate, he was making his third forlorn attempt to win the District 4 council seat. McGrew, a gadfly who gained recognition in the early ’90s by crusading against topless clubs…
Not yet begun to fight The 5th Court of Appeals ruled last week in Rick Finlan and company’s long-running legal battle with the Dallas school district, and things did not go well for Finlan et al. Or, as lawyer Lawrence Friedman, one of 11,000 or so appellees, appellants, cross-appellants, repellents,…
Bullish on Belo Now comes a time of year that Buzz truly hates. Once again someone has sent us the annual report for Belo Corp., our favorite monolithic media conglomerate, and our job is to make sense of it. Let us reiterate. If Buzz knew anything about business, we wouldn’t…
Schoonerville Trolley Buzz, hypocritical middle-class leftist that we are, wholeheartedly supports public transportation. That is to say, we feel guilty about not taking buses ourselves, and we definitely think you should ride them. (That would leave us more room to park our truck.) In fact, if you people would get…
Taking sides We suppose it might be wrong, ethically speaking, for a newspaper person to help raise money for one side in a heated political issue. But when the issue is raising money to help keep public swimming pools open for poor kids, who in their right minds could be…
All he wants to do is sue OK, let’s be up-front. Buzz is not what you would call a fan of The Eagles. In our cosmology, hell’s radio station plays only two songs: “Hotel California” and “Lyin’ Eyes.” Given a choice between hearing them perform a reunion concert or getting…
