I'd really like my blog back. I'm not sure which one of the Google Gods I irritated, but having access to The Eleventy Billionth Blog would be very nice.

 I can buy a goat for sacrificing, if necessary. I've also heard from several others who use Blogger, and they also… Read full post »

I'm wholly unmotivated today, and was so productive this morning that I find myself slac, I mean, pacing myself this afternoon.

Which means you guys get a story.

This one begins late at night, in not Dallas. Everything outside of Dallas is country, you see, for miles. It's like Dallas ends, and/…

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I've been blogging for a while. In fact, the blog that I've been running for more than a year - The Eleventy Billionth Blog - is what caught the eye of the folks at Salon and led to me sharing here, too.

 And maybe the fact that I know the difference… Read full post »

So I saw this story today, and sometimes, when I read certain news stories, I like to make up dialogue in my head.

This particular part of the story:

The descendants of an African chief who was hanged and decapitated by a Dutch general 171 years ago reluctantly accepted the return… Read full post »

This may just be my opinion, but nothing says weak and ineffectual leader like surrounding yourself with sycophants.

Today, we read in the Dallas Morning News that Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert doled out committee assignments. Freshman councilmen and women received chairman and vice-chairman appointments.

V…

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So since joining Open Salon, I've gotten two messages. Two. And this is OK, really.

 But I gotta address the two who did message me, if my readers will indulge me just this one time to do so:

 Dear  ghulam sethi:

Thank you so much for telling me about yourself,… Read full post »

In the span of two days, there have been two reports in the Dallas Morning News of children being neglected and abused by their parents.

Both sets of children were stomach-turningly betrayed by their parents. One group of children were starved and locked in a tiny motel bathroom for hours at a… Read full post »

So the DA in Kauffman County allegedly got caught driving while intoxicated. Now the GOP wants him to resign.

But I give you two stories to compare. This one was posted at 11:32 a.m. This one was posted at 12:48 p.m.

Now, I'm not calling it just yet, but the last one…

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This morning, via The Dallas City Hall Blog, I was directed to Pete's Place, where Pete Oppel takes on the possibility of expanding a ban on using cell phones while driving.

For one, I'm not sure where the budget deficit the city is suffering and it's need to hire more police comes… Read full post »

Not quite 20 days have passed since the TABC and the Fort Worth police department conducted a joint raid on the Rainbow Lounge, a newly-opened gay bar, on June 28. The raid sent one man to the hospital with a life-threatening brain injury, and left a community divided over whether the… Read full post »

 (Note: I actually wrote this a year ago, but with the current debate about health care costs still raging, I thought it was a good time to dust it off.)

My name is Bethany Anderson. I'm your average American - making a little less than what Monster.com says I'm worth… Read full post »

James Waller has every reason to be angry. He spent almost 11 years in a Texas prison after being wrongfully convicted of raping a 12 year old boy more than two decades ago.

And yet, as he took his seat at a panel comprised of Dallas County DA Craig Watkins, SMU's Tony… Read full post »

You're going to hear a lot about the death of newspapers. You'll be reading a lot about companies like the Tribune Co. and McClatchy declaring bankruptcy or going into default.

And you're gonna wonder if maybe your college major should be in a more promising career field, like plumbing, Wal-Mart greet… Read full post »

Long ago, when I was much, much younger, I was essentially homeless for a few months. My entire family, in fact, was. If not for good friends and family who took a newly-divorced woman and her four young children in, we probably would've been, at least for a few weeks, living… Read full post »

In the wake of another round of devastating layoffs at the Dallas Morning News, one might be hard pressed to find any silver lining that hasn't already been sold for scrap to pay for A.H. Belo bonuses.

But maybe there could be, if there was a dream scenario where someone actually stopped… Read full post »

OK. Maybe I don't know why he can't. I mean, I'm assuming he had the same standardized tests I did, the ones that - in addition to determining if you can do basic math - score your ability to find the meaning of a passage by looking at its context.

And Lord… Read full post »

Today, Rod Dreher blogs that - as moving as little Paris Katherine Jackson's heartfelt speech about her father was - perhaps it would've been better to shield the child and her brothers from the spectacle that was Michael Jackson's memorial service.

As usual, Rod fails to look at the context to get… Read full post »

Fair warning, this'll probably be the first in a series. As a rule, I'm a fairly content individual, but there are a few things that actually do make me want to hit things, or hit myself with things.

This week? It's been the commenters on the DMN. Specifically, the slackjawed mouthbreathers who… Read full post »

So as many have started to point out, little Petey Sessions now has an opponent in the next election. His name is Grier Raggio, and his mother was just the subject - and rightfully so - of many tributes after her recent birthday.

Today Wickburner (let's face it, after he came back… Read full post »

So today, just a few scant days after Memorial Day, we get James Ragland's column about vet Frank Larison, who is in trouble with his HOA at Woodlands II on the Creek for having the temerity to exercise his constitutional rights.

Last night, I began… Read full post »

Yes, that's right. God. And I know we started this whole "Know Your Blogger" thing saying it would be Dallas bloggers, but God, he be everywhere, if I recall correctly.

Today, I talked to God via Twitter, and also enjoyed what will now be a daily destination for affirmations from God Almighty/…

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Knock it off. Seriously. Six calls to one phone is a bit excessive, even if we did owe money on a ticket or fine - which we don't.

And given that we called three times and e-mailed twice asking for you to quit calling, even if we did owe money - which…

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