Before I start — video of the Saturday buyback will be up sometime today. Sorry for the delay.
Now let’s get to it.
Tim Rogers already dealt handily with the ridiculous column James Ragland wrote Saturday arguing that Six Flags shouldn’t serve beer. Great stuff. Interesting side note: Ragland relied in his column on Carl Fors, founder and president of Texas Sober, an organization of neo-prohibitionists out of Fort Worth. Texas Sober makes a pretty penny off their obsession over other people enjoying the occasional beer. They also own a company that sells police dummies at $235 a pop and other junk. Ragland calls Six Flags to task for wanting to sell beer, because in his words, “this is all about making an extra buck or two.” For Texas Sober, it’s about making a buck or $235, it seems.
- State Rep. Rafael Anchia, D-Dallas, wants to tax your plastic grocery bags at 7 cents a pop. Good lord. Does it ever stop?
My buddy Michael Davis has a slide show of the gun buy-back up on his blog. Check it out. And yes, Michael and I are friends. Even when we don’t see eye-to-eye, I respect the hell out of him. Here’s one of the shots from his slide show. Handsome dudes, I think. (PS – Update your RSS subscription to Dallas Progress here.)
- And finally, here’s Dallas City Council candidate John Jay Myers with his part in the fight against the $550 million taxpayer owned convention center hotel.
The minds of the politicos. We can’t get a (refundable) can/bottle deposit to help offset trash? Instead add a tax? Why not make the 7 cents refundable if the bags are turned in for recycling like cans and bottles in other states?
I can get a better doll out of Japan at half that price.
Is it bad if I thought the policewoman model was pretty hot and, well, I probably shouldn’t finish that thought.
Is it my imagination or are the writers for the DMN begin to sound more and more like nannies.