Goodhair Moves On
Over the 26 years he was Texas agriculture commissioner, John C. White developed a saying: At a political funeral, it’s better to be a...
Losing Our Voices
A media monopoly is about to gobble one of the last voices of press freedom in the United States - but is that really...
Passion Play
When student directors at Tarleton State University decided to stage a production of the play Corpus Christi, depicting a gay Jesus-like character named Joshua,...
Hole in the Middle
A few years ago, noted Texas author Larry McMurtry wrote a rather odd travel book called Roads, in which he described Arlington as "not...
Grass Capitalist
Toward the end of the presidential campaign, I started hearing the Republican rank and file express worries that the election of Barack Obama as...
Boughs of Poly
My aunt and uncle had an artificial Christmas tree back in the 1960s, and I always liked going over to their house to check...
Save Our Wealth
Honey bees are disappearing. Nobody knows why. Perhaps another casualty of pollution and global warming.
You would think the recent announcement by the world's leading...
Let’s Call the Whole Thing “Augh”
On a trip to Ireland some years ago, my brother and I checked into a hotel in Galway. The clerk asked for our reservation,...
Learning to Love Big Gas
In his Aug. 26 Fort Worth Weekly report, "The Big Takeover," Peter Gorman wrote about all the bad publicity that natural gas extractors have...
Illiberal Education?
When I started college about 30 years ago, I moved into a dormitory at a university in Chicago. I didn't get to choose either...
