What is it that people here have against voting? I’m thinking about the item I saw here yesterday about the Dallas City Council clamping down on campaign signs. Right, we need to do everything we can to contain this voting thing. Fewer signs. Voter photo ID laws. Anything we can…
[jump] *For all the Mavs’ fascination and obsession with beating the Lakers, the teams haven’t met in the playoffs in 23 years. It was 1988 when the Mavs — led by Mark Aguirre, Rolando Blackman and Roy Tarpley — pushed the eventual champs to a Game 7 at The Forum. Bad…
[jump] 5. Dumbest moment of the night: Sheen, wearing a CBS — “Can’t Beat Sheen” — T-shirt, bragged that “I got fired because I told my boss to fuck off.” Inexplicably, the crowd cheered. Some stood and cheered. Yeah, ‘cuz nobody’s gonna pay me $2 million an episode for a TV…
Oh, now the city council has decided it needs to revisit its vote weakening the ethics rules on donations to city council members. Maybe they’ve decided to have themselves re-virginized. We pointed out here a thing that seems to have slipped past most media eyes: The council voted two weeks…
Dear Mexican: Why does every Mexican rap/hip-hop song always contain the lines “No paramos,” “Nunca paramos,” or some other logically equivalent statement (e.g. “Siempre avanzaremos,” “No acabaremos de seguir,” etc.)? Can’t you people be more original? I mean, come on! It’s not like you all speak a language that makes…
OK, pretend you have to bet money on this. Here’s the set-up. On one hand, you’ve got these huge natural gas drilling companies coming down the road with their gigantic rigs, tons of money and very expensive haircuts. Where are they headed? Oh, no! They’re headed to Dallas City Hall,…
Did anybody else have a serious gag reflex reading our former mayor’s what-a-good-boy-am-I essay on the op-ed page of The Dallas Morning News yesterday? Does Tom Leppert just assume people don’t remember a single thing about him? Or does he not remember a single thing about himself? His op-ed piece…
What is this crap about the importance of attracting more businesses to the city? They throw it out like a line from the Bible or something — especially mayoral candidates Mike Rawlings and Ron Natinsky. Got to “grow that tax base.” Only way we can grow that tax base is…
Welcome to Local Music ‘Mericans , where we meet some of the people behind the local music scene — those who aren’t necessarily members of local bands, but more the people who make the scene move. You may have seen Ken Evenson’s tall, husky frame towering over the front doors…
No, no, no — not that same old crap again about how we need to get more suburbs to join Dallas Area Rapid Transit, our regional rail system. The suburbs are what’s wrong with DART. Screw the suburbs. Dallas needs to quit DART and let the suburbs go build their…
Whether you’ve reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *And then, after Jesus had died on the cross and was buried in his tomb, some rabbits rummaged through a nearby picnic and ate a bunch of chocolate and candy. Powered by a sugar high, the…
The Dallas Morning News has just endorsed attorney Scott Griggs over incumbent District 3 council member Dave Neumann in the May election. If Neumann were a high school quarterback, this would be like his parents going across the field and cheering for the other team. Switching metaphors, for years Neumann…
Ah, wait a minute. Wait a minute. I call “rubber meets road” on the school district issue in the mayor’s race. Candidate Mike Rawlings has been getting himself some political mileage on the hustings by saying that, as mayor, he will help fix the city’s beleaguered public school system. I…
Dear Mexican: You seem like a smart guy and your input regarding an ethnic phenomenon I’ve observed would be of interest. I live in a tiny, gated neighborhood that I would describe as solidly middle- to upper-middle-class. On each side of me live Vietnamese small-business owners whose kids attend prestigious…
Isn’t it interesting? The one question that seems to bubble back to the top time and time again in the ongoing mayor’s race is the world-class city thing. Why? Maybe it’s just semantics. Maybe what we really mean, when we use that embarrassingly pretentious, transparently insecure term, is that we…
Welcome to Local Music ‘Mericans , where we meet some of the people behind the local music scene — those who aren’t necessarily members of local bands, but more the people who make the scene move. You know who needs a serious set of stones? The person who chooses to…
Forgive me, or just slap me, if this is way too tea-leaves for you, but I can’t help trying to read the dregs, you know, trying to see what’s behind the burqa, since this city is such a Talibaptist mystery some of the time. And lately I think I definitely…
OK, wait, wait, wait. Sorry. I don’t get it. I need a little catch-up here. The second Calatrava fake suspension “signature bridge” across the Trinity is going to be a bicycle bridge? A bicycle bridge? We’re going to spend more than $100 million in tax money to build a make-believe…
Whether you’ve reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *If the Mavericks lose in the first round to the Trail Blazers, Rick Carlisle should be fired. The window propped open by 33-year-old Dirk Nowitzki is closing, and 50-something wins without…
David Cay Johnston, author of the best-seller Free Lunch, has a great piece out this week called “9 Things the Rich Don’t Want You to Know About Taxes,” providing powerful evidence that middle and working class Americans are being played for suckers and dupes by the plutocrats in this country…
Dear Mexican: I grant you a magic wand. Now, tell me—how do we right the wrongs of Sam Houston and Manifest Destiny? Is it to correct his legacy and call out the crimes and recognize the victims? Or should the land be given back? What is it, my fellow American?…
Did you realize our city council was faced with a crisis of too much ethics? Yup. Apparently the council has been staggering under the weight of way too much ethics. So today they approved a proposal to chop those ethics back, specifically by making it much easier for developers and…
