Jim now says he was “ill” during Tracy Rowlett’s visit two weeks ago. So that explains it… So Tracy Rowlett did in fact use our interview on his weekly “Perspectives” mini-show last night. I liked the piece very much, mostly because it gave me an opportunity to call Mayor Tom…
Angela Hunt has been doing some research. Mayor Tom keeps saying the cost of the Trinity River toll road has more than tripled because of inflation. So Hunt put together a table showing what effect the Department of Labor’s inflation index would have had on the cost of the road…
Wait a minute. Think about this. The main argument for keeping the toll road inside the park downtown is that it can’t go anywhere else because of the cost. I just looked at files in the offices of the people who would build the road. It’s flat-out untrue. This is…
Dear Mexican: How do I go to the Mexican grocery store and bakery to buy supplies for our Día de los Muertos party without looking like I’m doing the kitschy-goofy thing I’m doing? I walk up to the register and smile ingratiatingly, saying “Gracias” as usual—but a basketful of sugar…
I think maybe what I should do at this point is go down by the Trinity River with a baseball bat, hit myself in the head and just fall in. How can we be 10 years into the debate on putting a toll road inside the river park downtown? How…
Dallas Morning News editorialisteur Rod Dreher wrote yesterday on the Dallas Morning Views blog: If I analyzed Jim Schutze’s columns about the Trinity project with the same exacting intellectual rigor with which he took apart my piece about the Holy Land trial, it would read as follows: Jim Schutze is…
Rod Dreher, always one to point out Hamas-lovers at every turn. This is what I do on Sunday mornings: With one hand I grab my Dallas Morning News Points section, so I can read the latest drivel from right-wing editorialisto Rod Dreher, as though I were clutching up a big…
In July, SMU debuted its new ad campaign — that danged “Pony Up!” nonsense cooked up by the Richards Group for a what-the-fuh $750,000. (Over at SMU’s official Mustang Musings site, run by the university’s athletics department, folks either loved the campaign or hated it upon its debut. Loved it,…
Tracy Rowlett and Jim Schutze — man, it’s like an episode of Iconoclasts, only without the piano. Wow. Legendary Dallas newsman-anchor Tracy Rowlett just left Unfair Park HQ after spending an hour here with a camera crew. Also with him was John Sparks, KTVT-Channel 11’s executive producer for investigations and…
Please, Mommy, when I grow up, don’t let me turn into Bruce Tomaso. Wow. In today’s Dallas Morning News, Tomaso offers us yet another chapter in his serialized book about the Trinity River toll road referendum: Big Fat Lies I Would Like Very Much for You to Accept as Total…
Months of debate. Endless hours of colorful accusation, innuendo, inference and implication. More hydrological data than a soul can handle. And what does it all come down to? Yes, we have no bananas. In next month’s Trinity River toll road referendum, do you vote yes for no toll road? Or…
Dear Mexican: Why do so many of my peers assume I must have low self-esteem just because I’m dating a Mexican guy? I finally found someone with my same values and who treats me way better than any gringo I ever dated. The same women who complain about “sleazy” Mexican…
One thing that’s so wrong with blogging is that you have to do it so fast. I am literally grabbing a cup of coffee between appointments today, but I can’t let George Rodrigue’s new post on The Dallas Morning News’ Web site go unanswered until tomorrow. Many things to get…
Moments ago on The Dallas Morning News’ Web page, the paper’s managing editor, George Rodrigue, posted a long criticism of my work in which he accuses me repeatedly of being a polemicist. According to my copy of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, that would make me a writer of controversial,…
Dear Mexican: What is it with the Mexican hang-up on body parts? When General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was struck by a cannon ball at the knee in one of his 8,000 wars, his right leg was removed from the knee down. When he returned to Mexico City, he…
I swore to myself Tuesday I wasn’t going to get into any more intimate blog-a-logs with Steve Blow at The Dallas Morning News. I’ve had enough; you probably have too. But I guess I can’t ignore this. Again. I have the cover story in this week’s paper version of Unfair…
I wrote an item for Unfair Park yesterday in which I pointed out that The Dallas Morning News had done a poor job of informing its readers about post-Katrina critiques of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. I cited the work of Professor Robert Bea, mentioned in 365 newspaper accounts…
Dave Neumann apparently thinks a debate involves just one person. So many jokes to make here, so little space. Last month rookie city council member Dave Neumann invited Mayor Tom Leppert and council member Angela Hunt to debate the Trinity River toll road before a couple of his neighborhood groups…
When will it end? Yesterday The Dallas Morning News belched out two more platefuls of tripe in its endless buffet of Trinity River toll road propaganda. The first was a story about ownership of the land along the Trinity, the headline of which should have been “Not Us.” You had…
The Vote No! Save the Trinity campaign sent a mailer to my house — so I assume it went everywhere else, including your house — with a picture of Tom Leppert on the front and a headline that read, “Don’t let Angela Hunt send a billion dollars down the river.”…
The absolute deal-breaker on the Trinity River toll road should be the news that the city now plans to allow truck traffic on it, in spite of seven years of promises to the contrary. And let us not forget that the pro-toll road side in the upcoming referendum is being…
Dear Mexican: We were in a restaurant the other day eating some refried beans and green chili when I overheard some gringos in the next booth making fun of Mexicans. One thing they said that really made me mad was, “Why do Mexicans REFRY their beans? Stupid Mexicans! Don’t they…
