The soldiers move through the wheat field, scanning the windswept plain for signs of trouble. There are six of them, dressed in fatigues and body armor, wearing the sunglasses and bushy beards popular among the Special Forces. The only thing they can hear is the rustling of wheat stalks. They…
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…
Perhaps you read Schutze’s column “Democratic County Judge Jim Foster May be the Latest Target in the Inland Port Battle” in last week’s paper version of Unfair Park. An excerpt, for those who did not:Foster took a tough stance against [state Sen. Royce] West and [Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley]…
I know, I’m asking for it. But Dallas Independent School District spokesman Jon Dahlander just sent over a few photos of George and Laura Bush making “a surprise visit this morning to their neighborhood school, Dallas ISD’s John J. Pershing Elementary,” where he hung out for more than an hour…
Okay, let’s stop the belittling and the praising and the story-telling and get down to it. With his reign turning 20 today, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is coming under intense scrutiny. As in, will his legacy be positive or negative? There are, of course, pros and cons … Positives…
Kenneth Hughes said Good Morning, America this morning, because, well, that’s what happens to guys from Garland whose wife and daughter hire a hitman to off dear ol’ Dad. Says Hughes, sure, he could believe his 31-year-old daughter would want to kill him. But his 56-year-old wife? “No way.” Why…
That’s the council member’s assessment, at least, in the wake of yesterday’s news that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has rated “unacceptable” 34 of 170 areas in the Trinity River levees. An excerpt from the piece she just posted to her Web site:The fact is, this toll road project…
Late last night, ’round 11:45, I was finishing some work and decided to check out Quake Live, id’s browser version of its 13-year-old first-person shoot-’em-up franchise. Local company aside, I used to dig Quake back in June of ’96. Took but a second to register, but, as you can see,…
A friend of Unfair Park looking to own a summer home (for no more than a few thou, cheapskate) sends word that she’s camping out this weekend at the Hyatt Regency. That’s because a few hundred foreclosed properties are being auctioned off starting Saturday, and our Friend’s itching to snag…
On this bittersweet crappy day of mourning – the 20th anniversary of Tom Landry’s firing – thought I’d rummage through my junk and find some old Cowboys’ stuff. Stuff from a happier time. Stuff weaved around Super Bowl trophies. Stuff involving Hall of Fame heroes. Stuff from an era when…
The INRIX National Traffic Scorecard 2008 Annual Report is out today, and Dallas-Fort Worth is up one spot from last year’s list: We’re now No. 4 on the most-congested list, behind only Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. (Though do keep this in mind, as the media release reminds: “Coincidentally,…
It was the last question of the night: “What do you think of the mayor’s concept for taking over the Dallas Independent School District?” The audience, consisting of only a few folks scattered throughout the W.T. White High School auditorium last night, let out a collective giggle. DISD Superintendent Michael…
That’s Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway’s plan, anyway: Folks who bring an “operational, unloaded firearm” (oh, and an ID) to Reunion Arena on Saturday between 9 a.m. and noon will receive in exchange a $50 grocery card — from Kroger, sounds like, courtesy such sponsors as 97.9 THE BEAT…
I was at Valley Ranch, a 24-year-old piss-ant reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Only a couple years removed from punching holes in my college apartment walls when the Dallas Cowboys lost, I was totally unprepared and overwhelmed by the press conference I was attending. It was 20 years ago today…
Mayor Tom Leppert reluctantly addressed local media this afternoon regarding City Manager Mary Suhm’s earlier announcement that the Trinity River levees will be rated “unacceptable” in 34 of 170 areas by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in advance of a March 31 deadline. He stressed that safety remains the…
What we don’t want, insists state Rep. Sid Miller, is “some Bubba flyin’ around, sayin’, ‘Pass me the beer and the ammo!'” The District 59 rep’s talking about his most recent proposal, H.B. No. 836, which calls for extending aerial hunting of feral hogs — which currently is done only…
Wade Phillips should wear a skirt on the sideline next season. For never in the history of the Dallas Cowboys has a head coach been so castrated of authority, power and respect. This, my friends, is the result of Jerry Jones’ preposterous gag order. For what it’s worth, Wade probably doesn’t…
Barack Obama nominated Ron Kirk as U.S. trade representative a week before Christmas. A month after that, Obama was sworn in as president. A month after that, the former Dallas mayor’s still waiting for his hearing before the Senate Committee on Finance, which still doesn’t have Kirk pencilled in on…
Mesquite-based id Software’s but moments away from unleashing its browser-based Quake Live, and in advance of that momentous open-beta occasion, John Carmack talks to MTV Multiplayer today about everything happening at id these days (everything except Quake Live, which’ll be covered in tomorrow’s chat with the bossman). Chief among the…
To be a true sports rivalry – more than just a plethora of games between teams in close proximity (see Chicago Cubs vs. St. Louis Cardinals) – the meetings between opponents must: *Take place at an advanced level, with championships on the line. *Feature sustained excellence by both teams over a period…
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…
For those who missed the small announcement on their Web site, the good folks behind Art Conspiracy sent a reminder last night that they turned over a $20,000 check to 10-year-old nonprofit Preservation LINK, which uses “arts, culture and technology” as teaching tools for 9- to 16-year-olds attending schools in…
