Why do Mexicans make the sign of mucho dinero with a gap between their thumb and index fingers, as if holding an imaginary wad of bills between both fingers? —El Zorro Chupagringos Dear Gabacho-Sucking Fox: Because if a pendejo like you can get the gesture, imagine us normal folks? Why…
Regardless of how far to the right – or left – you lean, do yourself a favor this morning before you drop off the kids at school – or make them stay home. Read President Obama’s speech to students scheduled for this morning. Every word of it. I did. If…
Tickets sold to Saturday night’s SMU opener at Ford Stadium: 34,749, a reported sellout. Actual attendance, however, wasn’t 34,749. But SMU actually beat Stephen F. Austin, so … Pony Up? In other college football news …..
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *93.3 FM – the station formerly known as The Zone, The Bone, Quality Rock and who knows what all else – has for the last day or so been “stunting.” That is,…
Look at the sequence of events: In early August, Carol Reed, a city council lobbyist and the top political consultant to Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, is mentioned in the ongoing Dallas City Hall corruption trial because she advised a client to keep giving private business contracts to a city council…
I am a 22-year-old Mexican-American woman, still living with my parents but going to college, working full-time and taking care of myself financially. I grew up in a very traditional Mexican household, youngest of four kids, and we were all born in the United States. I’m unmarried but with a steady boyfriend I have been…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Okay, let me snap off this Olive branch and extend it to the Christians this week. Peace? *Props to 103.3 FM ESPN Radio’s Randy Galloway for landing the first in-depth interview…
Almost a year ago to the day I wrote this column about the spiraling, once-promising career of SMU quarterback Justin Willis. I’m told that when Willis – who last season was moved to receiver by head coach June Jones – found out this week that he wasn’t considered a starter,…
Dear Mexican: A gabacho in the local daily suggested that some of our prisons be outsourced to Mexico to save us some money. What are your thoughts? Would wabs make for good guards looking after homies and white-trash inmates? Have a chew on that taco. —Mike the Mick from Missouri…
Aghast at the river of sleaze oozing out of the Earle Cabell Federal Building in the past two months, reformers on the Dallas City Council have called for a system of registration for local lobbyists. Great idea. Much of the testimony in the Dallas City Hall corruption trial in federal…
Five Dallas City Council members want the city to think about requiring people to register as lobbyists if they get paid to influence the council. The ongoing Dallas City Hall federal corruption trial has brought a series of revelations about so-called consultants — a broad term apparently meaning anybody who…
This morning at the Dallas City Hall federal corruption trial at the Earle Cabell, we are getting insight into the involvement of Ann Lott, former CEO of the Dallas Housing Authority, in this whole sorry mess. I’m not sure where we’re headed. But so far, an hour into it, let…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Found this Josh Hamilton interview from Rangers’ spring training. March 18, 2009 to be exact. In other words, about two months – give or take – after his full-throttle, alcohol-laden night with half-naked…
Today at the Dallas City Hall federal corruption trial at the Earle Cabell, defendant John Lewis, who has pleaded guilty and is testifying for the government, is being cross-examined by the defense. Lewis says he was part of a plot to buy votes from former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Don…
Right about now, I’m flippin’. This has got to be one of the last time-windows for co-defendants to flip in the 2-month-old Dallas City Hall corruption trial in federal court. If I were any one of them, with the possible exception of former city council member Don Hill, I think…
Dear Mexican: My family hasn’t been long in this country, came here because of lousy treatment by other Europeans, and didn’t live close enough to the southern U.S. border to have exposure to Mexico or Mexicans. So, anyone looking down on Mexicans can be mysterious to many of us who…
Big news. Doug Greene has just revealed the core strategy of the defense in the federal Dallas City Hall corruption trial.Entrapment.He has also just been administered a smart spanking from the judge for wasting her time.I missed this morning’s proceedings in federal district court. I kept up, though, via Jennifer…
As Unfair Park has dutifully informed you, The Trinity Trust this week debuted an advertising campaign for the Calatrava signature bridge “under construction” (or not) on the Trinity River, called “Suspense is Building.” Oh, yeah?The purpose is to convey the impression that all is well with the bridge project and…
Civic duty!…
Victor Vital, attorney for Sheila Farrington, began the morning’s proceedings in the federal Dallas City Hall corruption trial by asking affordable housing developer Bill Fisher several questions about whether he hoped the jury in this case would render a “just and merciful” verdict. Finally the judge told him to move…
Today’s testimony from Bill Fisher, the government’s wire-wearing witness in the City Hall corruption trial in federal court, brings us an even more explicit bribery-extortion scenario than we have seen before in this two-months-old trial.Fisher is alleging a series of events that followed a meeting with hair-care magnate Comer Cottrell…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Lots of you asking for a breakdown of the latest Arbitron PPM radio ratings for July. Not worth a separate item these days because – yawn – The Ticket’s dynasty just…
