Studying Fire While Rome Burns
"I woke up in a puddle of my vomit ... I might have stopped breathing ... I might have been slipping into a coma...
Thank God and Greyhound, is she gone yet?
Fourteen minutes and one second ... 14 minutes and two seconds ... 14 minutes and three seconds ... . Sarah Palin's 15 minutes of...
What Will It Take?
Sometimes, surely, opponents of Tasers must feel like they are in a nightmare, where they are screaming but no sound comes out. Especially in...
Hypocrisy in the Air
Static is underwhelmed with the news, reported last Friday on WFAA-TV/Channel 8, that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has discovered elevated levels of...
Dirty Dish
In the last few years, since gas compressor stations arrived in the Denton County town of DISH, Jim Caplinger, 61, has developed a nervous...
A Thousand Times No (Or at Least Twice)
The poor old Texas Constitution - it's got more holes in it than Rush Limbaugh's logic. But the idea of replacing it with an...
Teach the Parents Well
Sometimes parents just don't get it. They try so hard to protect little Jimmy and Janie from the disappointments of life that they lose...
Putting Money Where Their Wheels Are
Within days of Fort Worth Weekly's cover story on skateboarders ("Pool Sharks," Sept. 16, 2009), a reader e-mailed to say that she and several...
Lock-Step Leadership
By the time the dust cleared last week, Fort Worth city leaders had re-injected a modicum of humanity into a municipal budget that had...
Yes They Might
The Arlington powers that be probably hoped their burg would drop out of the negative national headlines for a while, after local schools superintendent...
