Politics
Cheney Book To Beat Around Bush
Jeff PrinceFor my money, the creepiest guy around, and I’m even including fictional people such as Freddy Kruger and Norman Bates, is former vice president Dick Cheney. This war-mongering and profiteering sleaze ball was selected to be ...
Kinky Again?
Jimmy FowlerQuite a few of us who enjoy Kinky Friedman’s brand of smart irreverence were disappointed in his 2006 run for the Texas governorship. It seemed he didn’t care enough to brush up on important issues, one-liners were all he h...
The Beer Heard ‘Round The World
Jeff PrincePresident Obama’s decision to share a beer with the cop and the professor seems to have turned about pretty well. Nobody apologized, but nobody punched out anyone either, and everyone involved seems satisfied and calmed down ...
In a Fat Snit
Jimmy FowlerIf ever there was an example of America’s screwed-up relationship with food and physical appearance (a pathology shared by the skinny as well as the fat), it’s in the current web debate over whether Obama’s nominee for su...
Racial Profiling in Massachusetts
Kristian LinWell, now, this is disturbing. Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested at his home by Cambridge police after a neighbor called reporting a break-in. (She had seen Gates and his limo driver trying to open the front ...
Just Say “D’oh!”
Jimmy FowlerSex will be the subject matter of the Monday July 27, 6:45pm Frisco meeting of The Texas Democratic Women of Collin County. It won’t be of the “hot n’ throbbing” variety, however – more like, “Texas students aren’...
One for the History Books
Gayle ReavesIf one were not from here, one might expect that an entity called the Texas State Board of Education would be a relatively quiet body, spending its time debating things like just how poorly public school teachers should be paid...
State Board of Indoctrination
Jimmy FowlerWatching Texas state politics sometimes feels like reading a Terry Southern novel – there are so many absurd situations, bizzaro twists, and exaggerated examples of unlikely human behavior, you feel inured to almost everythin...
Palin, Perry Two Peas In A Pod
Jeff PrinceGov. Rick Perry is yapping about Sarah Palin’s decision to campaign for his reelection. Makes sense donchaknow because political leaders in Alaska are just downhome folks with good moral fiber and strong Christian values donc...
Love and Marriage
Jimmy FowlerYou probably thought the “’family values’ politician catches his hand in the extramarital cookie jar” story was getting stale by now, didn’t you? There are new twists to be added, and South Carolina governor/tradition...