Whitt’s End: 11.5.10

[jump] *Deservedly so, the Rangers are milking their success. Manager Ron Washington will drop the puck at tonight’s Stars game and C.J. Wilson will drive the pace car before Sunday’s AAA Texas 500 out at Texas Motor Speedway. *Somehow Taylor Swift’s new album sold over a million in its first week…

D’ough! Putting a Price Tag on the 30th.

Democratic incumbent Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson raised $548,514 to run for re-election and won with 75.76 percent of the vote, which was not up to her standard snuff. In 2006, the 17-year veteran raised only $411,189 but won with 80.19 percent. Of course, that was before scholar-gyp. Johnson was surpassed…

BREAKING NEWS: They Caught the White Truck Killer

A while back I wrote about a motorcycle accident on 75 that killed two of my friends, Ernie and Elisa Santos. Today I come bearing bittersweet news: The driver of the white pickup, whose recklessness was the first domino that caused the accident, has been arrested and charged with two counts…

Sam Houston was a Mexican. Yeah, that’s right, a Mexican!

Dear Mexican: I was a history major at the University of Arizona in Tucson, which I believe was part of the Gadsden Purchase, the last piece of old Mexico the U.S. “acquired.” That got me thinking: What was the citizenship status of all Mexicans/gringos who lived in parts of Mexico…

Whitt’s End: 10.22.10

[jump] *Best all-time band with a number in its name? Nine Inch Nails. *Toldja. When I wish failure on someone it works. Since I’ve transfered my evil powers of doom ‘n gloom onto A-Rod, he’s gone 3 for 17 in the ALCS with as many strikeouts as hits (3). Plus,…

Whitt’s End: 10.15.10

Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *There’s probably some heart-over-head at work here, but I’m picking Rangers in 7. If Neftali Feliz doesn’t blow a save and if the Rangers can avoid letting the Yankees’ mystique force a…

Whitt’s End: 10.8.10

Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *A sentence I thought I’d never live long enough to type: The American League Championship Series — Texas Rangers v. New York Yankees — starts one week from today at Rangers Ballpark…

What in the First World is Wrong with Mexico?

Dear Mexican: Mexico is truly an amazing, beautiful country! Huge oil reserves, mineral deposits second to none, tourist potential unparalleled! God gave Mexico every possible advantage. And yet the Mexicans, in all their wisdom and intellect, have turned it into a backwater, undeveloped narco-ruled Third World cesspool of corruption and…