Sins of the World
An institution as large and as complex as the Catholic Church presents an enormous target for its critics, especially since its stands often go...
Taxpayer — Prime Cut
Gee, where to start? The Tarrant County College questions are piling up like food on a three-meat barbecue plate.
In the fine print of the...
Starting to Sound Like “Children of the Corn”
Everywhere Static turns these days is another message about the wonders of the Barnett Shale.
Tommy Lee Jones' serious face looks out from...
Failing Dignity 101
June is graduation season, and Static, as recipient of a fair share of invitations and writer of resulting checks, figures it gets to make...
A Lonesome Dove Probably Has a Bigger Brain
Left-wing Hollywood celebrities sure get annoying with all their talk about saving rain forests and Darfur and Katrina victims and protecting the planet from...
Send the Board Back to School
Education has long been one of the places where the radical right in this country tends to reveal its true colors.
Many of them...
Tandy is Dandy
Don Young is a never-say-die dude, which is why his name appears in this column so often. His protests against urban gas drilling were...
Credit, Due
All those kudos for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's recent six-part series on the county's only charity hospital, John Peter Smith, and its multiple failures...
Fox-TV — Trigger-Happy?
A judge might have to decide whether former Fox 4-TV news reporter Rebecca Aguilar is a martyr, fired for standing up for Hispanics in...
Dupe Tube
Sunday morning TV is full of infomercials selling pickups and preachers selling hellfire and damnation.
But this past Sunday, Static couldn't get away from...
