Dear Mexican: One of our Arizona politicians once said on the PBS show Horizonte that the “crime” of being undocumented in this country is equivalent legally to that of a parking ticket. Do you know where I can verify this statement? So often in the argument over immigration the bottom…
If Obama can be president, is it OK for white people to be assholes again? And, of course, I don’t mean it exactly the way it sounds. I’m worried about the Dallas school system. What I really mean is that it may be time for upwardly mobile middle-class and working-class…
Cafe Press People are high on anxiety about this election already. And it’s not the election. It’s the deselection. That’s what’s got everybody crazy. I got a call this morning from a gentlemen who’d just early-voted at Harry Stone Montessori. He said his voting machine tried to con him into…
Photos by Patrick Michels In my Mavs’ fantasy, this is followed by a loving embrace and an 82-0 regular season. Hmm, what oh what could distract us from our Cowboys’ misery today? Two words: Mavericks! Dancers! The squad hyped its shiny, skinderful new calendar with a shindig at Ghostbar after…
Count on me being out at the State Fair tomorrow. If you have any rotten fruit laying around, come visit me during my 5-7 p.m. appearance on Live 105.3’s Dan O’Malley Show. Count on Tony Romo being in the Cowboys’ lineup Sunday in St. Louis. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones says…
Flickr photo: i am indisposed My takeaway from the final presidential debate last night was a deep sense of concern, even anxiety, over what John McCain is doing to the public perception of old white guys. People already treat us as if we’re all goofy. They use euphemisms like “irascible,”…
The Dallas Morning News’ DISD Blog has the severance agreement governing the departure of former Dallas Independent School Distirct chief operating officer Eric Anderson. The surprise for me was that Anderson accepted so little, a mere 15 grand, for taking such a terrible licking. Anderson agreed not to speak ill…
The Dallas school system is in the ditch financially. No question. But stepping up to save the day, we have a volunteer group of Dallas business executives—guys like John Scovell, John Ware, Pedro Aguirre and Joe Alcantar—who are going to come down to school headquarters and help watch over the…
Dear Mexican: A group of very young soldiers in the Mexican Army were being chased through the castle by U.S. Marines. At the end of the chase, the Mexicans realized they were trapped on a balcony and, instead of dying on bayonets, they wrapped themselves in Mexican flags and leapt…
The Cowboys have played five games. Sportatorium has made five losing bets. Oh and friggin’ five! Who, oh who, could feel my pain? Is there anyone? Anyone out there who can empathize with my futility? Wait … George Costanza, is that you? “It’s not working, Jerry. How did it all…
Dallas Independent School District board trustee Ron Price Kent Fischer has a very important story in today’s Dallas Morning News — shoulda been on Page One — revealing that the center has been blown out of the Dallas Independent School District’s whole strategy for recovering from its financial crisis. The…
Dear Readers: I don’t like to rerun columns ’cause it makes me look like a lazy Mexican, but I realize that as my column invades foreign terrain (Chattanooga! Columbia, South Carolina! Steamboat Springs, Colorado!) new readers might not understand some of my commandments. Following, then, are the two most frequently…
A very lovely artist’s rendering of the Woodall Rodgers Freeway Deck Park When those financial geniuses on the Dallas City Council committed us to building a $67.7 million “deck park” over the Woodall Rodgers Freeway, they promised us the city’s share would never be more than $20 million. The rest…
I’m thinking about inviting over Michael Buffer and Dr. Ferdie Pacheco to help me score tonight’s Presidential Debate blow-by-blow fight style. But, from where I sit, not even erroneous scoring from the “Let’s Get Ready to Ruuuuummbllllllllllle!” guy and boxing’s most famous corner man can boost John McCain over Barack…
Jack Lowe, DISD school board president For eight months, while the Dallas Independent School District was fiddling its way into financial conflagration, we heard radio silence from the business community. But now the Dallas Citizens Council and chambers of commerce are suddenly flapping around like somebody fired a shotgun underneath…
Hey buddy, can you spare a dime? Okay, how about a $700 billion bailout? At this rate – 0-4 on Cowboys’ games this season – I’m going to need it. Wait, I know. I’ll bank on the only thing bigger than our country’s financial crisis: Terrell Owens’ ego…
Dear Mexican: I’m half-Catalan, and the women on my mom’s side of my family have spent most of our lives being hated by Mexicans. I’ve never understood it. My mom and aunts warned me as soon as I hit junior high that I was going to have a target on…
The Redskins hate the Cowboys about as much as I hate losing to The Man. Which puts us both in a real pissy mood this week. I have more bad news for Washington: The Redskins are going to lose Sunday. Furthermore, its town is a hotbed of Cowboys’ fandom. So…
I was a wide-eyed beat writer at Valley Ranch in the early ‘90s when a street magician came a calling, wanting to film some stuff with Dallas Cowboys’ players for an upcoming TV special. And ever since I’ve had a love/hate curiosity in David Blaine. (Come for Emmitt Smith’s MC…
Dear Mexican: What is an anchor baby? I am a 45-year-old male born in the United States of America. My mother was born in ex-Yugoslavia (now Serbia), and my father was also born in ex-Yugoslavia (now Croatia). My father arrived to this country via a green card about four years…
Two weeks ago I was on vacation, sitting in an airport diddling around with my “smart” phone (yeah, right), when I came across an online story about the Dallas Independent School District: DISD had suddenly “discovered” that its annual operating budget this year will be $64 million in the red…
My free tickets aren’t this big. And they won’t be delivered by this chick. Other than that, this photo provides a perfect synopsis of your good fortune. Two words: Free. Tickets. I have four tickets and a parking pass to the final Rangers’ home game of the season. Wednesday afternoon…
