Monday Roundup: DISD in a Nutshell, Bush’s Point Man on Corporate Welfare
- Poor management? Check. Sloppy book-keeping? Check. Poor leadership at most every level? Big check. Kent Fischer pretty much covers everything you wanted to know about what created the financial crisis Dallas ISD is facing. Another problem? Good intentions, poor follow-through.
- If you’ve been responsible with your home-buying decisions and conscientious about paying your mortgage, apparently you’re a sucker. And you’re going to bailing out people have been neither. Happy bailout.
- Here’s your go-to guy for corporate welfare.
Tuesday Roundup: Dallas Goes A Begging & More
- There’s something inherently disgraceful about Dallas officials lining up to stick their snout in the federal trough. And if Dallasites aren’t willing to pay more for the Trinity River project, why should taxpayers in Maine, Georgia, and Nevada? How is this their responsibility?
- Most biology teachers in Texas don’t see any controversy in teaching evolution mainly because they actually understand evolution. The rest use The Flintstones as a teaching aid.
- Buy on rumor, bury on news.
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?