Friday Roundup: “Rent” Oh My, Unequal Justice, NO More Cowbell
- Some Rowlett parents think that if the high school cancels its production of “Rent,” students will be shielded from ever having to hear about topics like drug abuse and homosexuality. Good luck with that. By the way, take a guess how many of the protesters have even seen the play.
- Scott Henson at Grits for Breakfast asks why there have been no charges filed against the crazy woman whose phony child abuse report triggered the state’s raid of the Yearning for Zion property and the separation of more than a hundred children from their parents.
- This is my worst nightmare.
- Correction. This is:
In Print: My Thanksgiving Column
I didn’t even realize it, but my column wherein I try to explain Thanksgiving to my 5-year-old ran in Sunday’s Dallas Morning News.
Let me know what you think, dear readers.
Friday Roundup: ID Theft, Cynthia Dunbar & Other Shockers
- This story has it all: strip club rendezvous, inside operatives, and high drama. Oh, and some crooks and a Navy chief petty officer rat who tried to steal the identities of service men and women.
- The photo doesn’t exactly scream “not crazy.“
- From Tarrant County, a Friday? (And, eewww.)
- Finally, something I never thought I’d see (link on White House website, just in case you think it’s fake):
Thursday Roundup: Confidence Games, Market Forecasts & More
- You shouldn’t blame the victim for the crime, the conventional wisdom says, but come on — if you fall for this guy, well, who’s to blame but you?
- Property values heading into a murky 2009 in The DFW?
- If the world were just and good and proper, this wouldn’t be a fake story and that’s how we’d have to discard our whiskey bottles.
- Say, all of you in the media who supported the $750 billion bailout? Got anything to say for yourselves?
Wednesday Roundup: Sex Offender Restrictions, Gay Frats, DISD & More
- So pretty much everyone in criminal justice agrees that the blanket Condition X parole restrictions for low-level offenders neither enhances public safety nor is cost-effective. And they agree it’s unfair, to boot. So naturally reform has little chance of passing the Lege.
- The University of Texas is getting its first gay frat not counting the Sigma Nu house. Prompting one reader to note: “God is no longer going to protect this country.” Which you’d expect. If this were Afghanistan under the Taliban.
- I have a theory where DISD’s missing $84 million went. This guy wrote a computer program that took all those fractions of a cent, and instead of rounding it off, it sent the fractions to his personal account. Damn it feels good to be a gangsta.
- Does the Christmas culture war allow for conscientious objectors? You know, because I just want the presents.
Wednesday Roundup: Electile Hangover, Towing the Line & America’s First Black President
- We’ve gone from “whites only” and “coloreds” by law just 45 years ago to a black man in the White House. So that’s pretty awesome no matter how you cut it. And Barack Obama ran on tax cuts, an end to racial polarization, fiscal responsibility, opposition to the PATRIOT ACT, support for the Heller decision, and a reluctance to engage in foreign interventionism. Which is something to chew on.
- Via the Agitator, medical marijuana wins in Michigan, marijuana is decriminalized in Massachusetts, and the campaigns are over (for what? at least two weeks, right?)
- Bonus: The fun of the Pelosi/Reid/Obama axis train wreck is just beginning and open Keynesianism will be on display in its full, ugly, failing glory. (As opposed to Bush’s Keynesianism with free-market lip service.) Get a hat, though. And the coming internecine blood feuds on the left between the Dem centrists and the DailyKos-MoveOn types are going to be must-see TV.
- Extra Bonus: The death of the big government wing of the Republican party and “national greatness” neoconservativism.
- Extra Extra Bonus: Watching the right-wingnuts freak out and melt down.
- That towing company that towed all those cars near the State Fair during Texas-OU weekend? Yeah, they just got pwned.
- David Palmer will always be the first black American president in my book (and we were in good hands), but before him was President Richard Pryor:
Tuesday Roundup: Electile Dysfunction, Jurassic Park, Pit Bulls & More
- Want to know why today’s contest is between just Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-AARP? My buddy Radley tells the story of how the system is gamed, and the only way to win is not to play.
- ProTip: This is not the best city in which to practice home invasion.
- “Whether we apply it toward bringing back dinosaurs or taking care of real needs on this planet is another question.“ Or? Or, sir?!! The two are inextricably linked. It’s science.
- Try not to be surprised that this is the guy who owns the pit bull that attacked that lawyer in South Dallas yesterday.
Monday Roundup: Boobies, Hinojosa’s Easy Problems, Girls With Guns, Lawyer v. Pitbull & More
- I oppose both McCain’s and Obama’s plans to meddle in the health care industry. But there’s no reason this treatment shouldn’t be supplied to every American woman who wants it.
- You go, Ginger Allen. I certainly know the setbacks I’ve faced in my life have been because I’m just too damn good looking. My Adonis physique makes it a double whammy. (Ginger is quickly becoming must-see TV news in my book. Her gritty journalism and tenacious reporting are bringing us stories that make a real difference.)
- Not to pile on, Dr. Hinojosa, but when you say, “If I had to choose between solving academic or financial problems, I would choose the latter, because financial problems are easy to solve, academic achievement is not,” then how did we get to this $84 million financial problem? I’m sorry, but this doesn’t fill me with confidence in you being the man to execute the rather worthy Dallas Achieves initiative.
- More women are hunting, especially in Texas. Giggity.
- A pit bull did not give Ken Molberg due professional courtesy. (I kid, I kid. I’ve met Ken, he’s a great guy, and I wish him a speedy recovery.)
- Dig deep if you can. Don’t forget the animal charities. They’re the ones who can’t take care of themselves. [/soapbox]
- “No political motives.” Riiiiight.
- And lastly, Betty Culbreath, a longtime Southern sector leader, weighs in on my previous post about why the idea for a multi-jurisdictional government master plan for the Inland Port is a Bad IdeaTM.
The Allen Group came to Texas with their idea. Every time someone came with an idea for the Area it got knocked down by Dallas Politics, remember the Texas Speedway, now in Fort Worth, the cargo Airport now called Alliance and on and on we go.
The new Master Plan was about control of the development, the water. It’s all about the power over the Allen Group. If you have a new plan in control of the water and other essentials needed for development, the Allen Group will be at their mercy.
While You Laughed, I’ve Been Preparing. The Zombies Are Here.
(Older pic; iPhone notably absent)
People laughed. They sneered. They nodded smugly and dismissively. (But nodded approvingly at my breath.)
And yet for years I’ve carried this <— as my standard load out every time I leave the house. Why?
Because I knew IT would happen. And IT’S happening now.
Zombies. The dead have risen in Dallas County. Good luck, suckers.
Who’s crazy now?
Flu Shots: Killing You Softly
Every year, the media, government, and health industrial complex come together to encourage everyone to get a flu shot. They give them out for free.
And you people fall for it. Look, use your head. When the media, government, and industry all come together to tell you to do something, that should set off your radar.
They never have the right shot for the current strain, so it’s pointless.
What are they really doing? They’re tagging you with RFID microchips and simultaneously taking genetic samples for the DNA database. The bonus is killing off the young and the weak, or at least making them sick enough to have to go to the doctor, ensuring a merry Christmas for the health care field.
So there you have it. In My Humble Opinion.