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Tear Down the Parking Lots
On a fresh green late spring morning, I thought of young people working alongside their elders tending pinto beans and poblano peppers. I thought...
Downtown Hits Pay Dirt
The Fort Worth establishment had its prayers answered (assuming those folks can still pray without being struck by lightning).
On Saturday, voters elected two...
Oh Say, Can You Hear?
In 1983, I was sitting on the couch at my father's house watching the National Basketball Association All-Star game in Los Angeles. Don't remember...
How Did They Die? Technically.
Last week's article on the never-ending medical horror stories oozing from Cars-well Federal Medical Center lacked answers to critical questions that were put to...
Reality Bites
I have a 6-year-old son. A couple of weeks ago, he got spooked while we were watching The Day After Tomorrow. In fact, during...
Frog Flap
The Weekly's story about wheelchair-bound student Adam Main being booted out of TCU's on-campus housing ("Handicapping Adam," April 26, 2006)drew about 80 postings (at...
Lipstick on a Poison Pig
What a difference a day makes. Or does it? In light of Saturday's gas well tragedy in Forest Hill that killed one man and...
At Least in the Movie, the Chief Got Away
The city's dogged efforts to cram gas wells down everyone's throats reminds Static of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The movie's sympathetic characters...
What’s in Your Mini-Skirt?
I've never really understood the whole cheerleading thing. Like that controversy in Southlake recently when young girls and their parents went crazy because some...
Sad Static
Well, ain't it always the way: You toot your own horn too much and all you do is give yourself and other people a...
