Death Be Not Prosaic
Texas executions will be starting back up again this month, after an eight-month dry spell while the U.S. Supreme Court considered whether lethal injection...
The Price of Cake
There's something a bit sad and desperate about this gas drilling business. With utility bills mounting, the economy shuddering, and college costs rising so...
A Prairie Solstice
A life in the anonymity of street shadows is preferred to the glaring public eye. Yet it's no problem, flourishing in our Sun's living...
Stop or We’ll Pay You
Every day, John McCain chastises Barack Obama for his original stance on the troop surge in Iraq. McCain says Obama said the surge wouldn't...
Told You So
It's not nice to say "I told you so," but ... in February I predicted that the United States would seek a one-to-one deal...
No Accounting for (No) Ethics
I recently had occasion to help a 78-year-old friend attempt to straighten out a problem with one of her credit cards. She lives on...
Surviving Their Raising
Could we make this the last generation of racists?
By E.R. BILLS
A few weeks back, a 7th-grader who hangs around the neighborhood told my kids...
Want a Cookie, Little Reader?
Ten years ago, I got four newspapers delivered to my house every day. These days, I don't get a single one, not even the...
Together They Win
When Fort Worth Weekly's Best of 2008 issue came out on Sept. 28, I was surprised to find that the Brentwood-Oak Hills Neighborhood Association,...
Global Swarming
Last week when I went online, Yahoo had listed, among the day's lead stories, one about a cookbook showing how to change your diet...
