It ain’t science As a person raised in–and a member of–a fundamentalist church, and a staunch believer in evolution, I thoroughly enjoyed Kaylois Henry’s expose of “creation scientist” “Dr.” Carl Baugh [“Footprints of Fantasy,” December 12]. What is ignored or denied by proponents of “creation science” is that the doctrine…
It’ll be a very good year… Thanks to a “Jewish metaphysical healer” who claims to have earned his spurs at Dallas’ Baylor University Medical Center, ailing crooner Frank Sinatra has a fighting chance of not only completely recovering his misogynistic, photographer-punching health, but remaining Chairman of the Board into the…
Reporting from the wild side It was an evening that would have given femi-Nazi-baiting Rush Limbaugh weeks of material. Dallas’ Association for Women Journalists gathered recently to hear Grace Halsell speak. Halsell, who says she’s a journalist, author, and one-time speech writer for Lyndon Johnson, apparently mesmerized the gathering with…
Peerly Butbul was in no mood to suffer any more than she already had. The pregnant, 30-year-old mother of two, lumbering 10 days past her due date, had finally entered Columbia Hospital at Medical City Dallas last week for a scheduled induced delivery. She was in labor for an exhausting…
Little faith I read with interest the article “Losing Faith” [December 5], but there must be an error in it. Regarding Bill Keever’s alleged actions at the DISD board hearing on August 22, surely nobody with an ounce of brains in his skull would have locked the doors of a…
On a chilly morning in early November, on his 133rd day under federal indictment, Paul Fielding was waiting impatiently at Dallas Love Field’s Gate 12. It was 9 a.m., and he was dressed in a pair of tan corduroy pants, a perfectly pressed flannel shirt, and a pair of brown…
The early-morning sun is just beginning to warm the dirt-and-gravel lot on Beeman Avenue. The only apparent movement at the ramshackle headquarters of Elite Towing, Inc. is the wandering of a flea-bitten black Labrador, whose painstaking steps are punctuated by the steady, annoying ding of a nearby railroad bell. Leon…
We’ve been hurtling down the highway toward Houston for two hours now, and it’s time for a potty break.MMOur driver turns her plush, 50-seat bus into the Conoco Travel Plaza somewhere south of Dallas, and a bevy of nationally known celebrities pours out. Most of them are young women, dressed…
It seems that two Arlington high school girls have spooked the men with whistles who have officiated at area high school wrestling matches for the past 25 years. The north central chapter of the Texas Wrestling Officials Association officially voted to disband last week rather than face the prospect of…
Torts for tots If you’ve heard any of Windle Turley’s recent radio ads, you know there’s more than one jolly geezer in a bad suit loose this holiday season. Famous plaintiff’s attorney Windle and his litigator elves are using the airwaves to offer advice to anxious moms and dads about…
Tartar sauce with that? In his article about a local flame war on the Internet [“Cyberbunk,” November 21], Thomas Korosec opined that some newsgroups should be called “kook groups.” “People use them to discuss JFK assassination theories, sex acts with fish, or how the black helicopters are about to enslave…
Long after prime-time television hours, speaking by phone from a Marriott hotel room in a suburb of Chicago, Doug Hamilton is sounding anything but happy. His wife and three school-age children are back at the family’s home in Rockwall, just east of Dallas. But Hamilton had to accept the only…
They come here for evidence, pilgrims searching for proof. The soul-searching ends at Dr. Carl Baugh’s tiny Creation Evidences Museum, housed in a doublewide trailer alongside the highway near Glen Rose. The truth is laid out plainly here in a single murky room. To the right is a diorama featuring…
Dallas Observer staff writer Kaylois Henry received two Griot Awards, given by the Dallas/Fort Worth Association of Black Communicators to honor “journalism which promotes greater understanding of the lives, conditions, and cultures of African and African-American people.” Henry captured top honors in two of the three Griot Award categories for…
Mother of all Websites (really!) As anyone this side of a rosary knows, getting in touch with Yahweh can be iffy at best. But the never-vengeful Virgin Mary is always there to listen–no matter how little juice you’ve got on this plane of existence. Our favorite incarnation of the Madonna…
Las Colinas company which operates a rendering plant in southern Minnesota is under federal investigation for allegedly violating a number of environmental laws–including allowing employees to dump animal carcasses, blood, industrial solvents, and acids into drains that lead directly to a Minnesota river. Although the U.S. attorney for Minnesota and…
Dry day at Texas Stadium The article on Promise Keepers written by Jimmy Fowler [“60,000 naked men,” November 14] gave a very clear sense of what Promise Keepers is all about. I have been a volunteer at all four conferences held in the North Texas area and have never really…
Robert Riggs and John Miller were in New York to bask. Riggs, a 16-year veteran reporter for WFAA-Channel 8, was about to be invested as a top gun. At a ritzy luncheon, he would accept the George Foster Peabody Award for Investigative Reporting. For broadcast journalists, there is little to…
It’s political theater imported from another time and place. In the packed pews of Kirkwood Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in South Dallas on a recent night, two groups of actors–one speaking English, the other Spanish–reinterpreted a biblical story of Moses seeking God’s counsel. In this version, Moses, played by…
Bandit, our winsome, butterscotch-colored golden retriever, is like a lot of men I know: not very complicated and utterly focused on meeting his basic needs. In Bandit’s case, this means eating as often as he can and getting his tummy rubbed even more frequently. (This, too, could apply to several…
Whatever happened to “We May Never Pass This Way Again?” Buzz has been monitoring a disturbing trend of totalitarianism emerging in Dallas area high school mottos. Highland Park High School’s football squad’s motto, for instance, is “Nothing Short of Perfection.” Which makes a lot of sense when you recall that…
Cyberhubris Congratulations on an excellent presentation of all sides of the issue about the cyberstalker incident [“Cyberbunk,” November 21]. I believe you correctly portrayed that all principals are both “guilty” and “innocent” in the affair. No clear black and white for anyone. A few comments about the portrayal of Robert…
