- Hey, what’s a great way to increase the number of unregistered vehicles, likely without insurance, on the roads? The Dallas County Commission has a plan. (Ready to move to Collin County yet? No? Read on.)
- The Dallas City Council is looking at giving developers — developers — the power to levy taxes. Imagine a homeowners association, with the power of government, and without the niceties of letting you decide whether to actually join the HOA so long as 13 of your 20 neighbors like the idea. What could possibly go wrong?
- Oh, and the Austin Police want your DNA, even if you’re just arrested and not even convicted of some misdemeanor. Well, we can’t have Dallas fall behind in its bid to be a world-class city, so put that on your calendar as coming to Dallas soon enough.
- Well, at least the race for the Texas governor’s office could get interesting. Go Kinky.
Dallas Morning News columnist Tod Robberson is still banging on the Michael Phelps/pot drum. Honest to Betsy, it reads like a piece from The Onion. Dallas-based editor for Reason magazine Jacob Sullum rounds up the latest on Phelps, the arrest of his friends, and the farcical way opinionists like Robberson are pushing Reefer Madness 2: Electric Boogaloo.
- Meanwhile, the DMN board got it exactly right: end immunity for prosecutors and police who willfully, wrongfully convict.
http://www.thebigmoney.com/blogs/daily-bread/2009/02/09/kellogg-flubs-booting-phelps
You’re up early this week.
Any prosecutor or cop who can be shown to have knowingly and wrongfully prosecuted someone is in dire need of a Jasper Joyride.
Speaking of Electric Boogaloos, I saw both “Breakin’” and “Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo” in the theatres when they were out in the mid-80s, during my middle school prime. I was no break dancer, but I had a good friend at the time who was into that sort of thing. With proper self-applied musical and cultural therapy, I have made a full recovery.
I am much more concerned about pointless sequel movies that are dated even before they are released than pot-smoking Olympic athletes. As a husband and father of movie addicts, this issue affects me personally. Almost any movie that has a number and colon in the title is guilty of sucking until proven otherwise. I’m thinking of starting a M.A.D.D. type of support group: Fathers Against Godawful Sequels, but the resulting acronym isn’t too appealing. I’m still working on it. I promise the support group name won’t have a number or colon, though.