Dallas Desire Media Day, Tryouts Part II, Whatever.

Check out more photos in our slideshow from the mini-camp. It’s rare I don’t have time to check out the hotties, especially the athletic ones. But with the NFL Draft and Mavericks-Spurs this weekend, I dispatched the lovely and talented Kelly to do what she does oh so good: Lingerie…

Whitt’s End: 4.24.09

Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Barring a trade, the Cowboys won’t make their first pick (51st overall) in tomorrow’s NFL Draft until around 9:30 p.m., a good six hours after the thing kicks off. But it’s…

Moye Rules: Earth is Flat!

At 2:30 p.m. today 14th Civil District Judge Eric Moye put the Planet Earth back where it belongs, much to the relief of people clinging to its surface in one East Dallas neighborhood. In the infamous “dirt skirts” case, a zoning dispute over building heights, Moye ruled that city of…

Frisco’s Erin Brockovich Takes on the Kids Golf Industry

Maybe Hopefully you remember Chandler Jackson. Quick refresher: Gifted 12-year-old Frisco boy tragically killed in a 2005 freak accident by a broken golf club in tiny-town Kentucky. After almost four years of misery and mystery, Chandler’s parents – Rick and Charmane – may this week get some closure. At the very least,…

Whitt’s End: 4.17.09

Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *If I were I am a betting man, and I am plunking down $1 that 105.3 The Fan and the Dallas Cowboys officially announce their flagship radio station partnership next week. Trust…

Hey, Mexicans, Don’t Drink the Water!

Dear Mexican: In an earlier column, you mentioned that conservatives can’t have an argument against illegal immigration without it degenerating into a diatribe against culture. Here’s an argument that has nothing to do with culture: In California, we now have a severe water shortage. I work for a municipal water…

Whitt’s End: 4.10.09

Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *What’s more obtuse: That Iowa is now a more progressively liberal state than California, or that the Texas Rangers woke up this morning as the only undefeated team in the American…

Report on Trinity Levees Shows A Failure of Dallas’ Leadership

The crisis over the Dallas levee system represents a total failure of the traditional leadership class in this city. We can and will argue for years about why this happened, but the important thing now is that it did. The mayor lied. City council members, with the exception of Angela…

Whitt’s End: 4.3.09

Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Seems Highland Park-ex and potential No. 1 overall NFL Draft pick Matthew Stafford isn’t comfortable talking with teams – specifically a psychologist for the San Francisco 49ers – about his parents’…

Enter Sand, Man

Astute Friend of Unfair Park “Wylie H.” drilled into the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ report on the Trinity River levees yesterday evening and found the real horror story that goes almost unmentioned in this morning’s Dallas Morning News account of the report: the story of the day we almost…

Why do Mexican’s love bad-boy cops so much?

Dear Mexican: Why are Mexicans so proud of the brutality of their police force? They seem to glamorize it in all their music and telenovelas. —Batons Are Bats, Or Super Oracles Dear BABOSO: I’ll let you know when Dirty Harry, Detective Sipowicz, Chief Wiggum and the producers of COPS get…

John Wiley Price, Still Fit at 59!

Month or so ago, Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price called me up and reamed me out for suggesting he may be carrying water for Ross Perot Jr. and the Perot-dominated Alliance freight airport in Fort Worth. The commissioner told me he barely knows Mr. Perot and said he couldn’t…

Re: FYI, Read This ASAP. OMG!

The following is a prime example of my curse here on Earth. A fleeting thought sprouts into a mild observation, only to bloom into a thesis that eventually flourishes into a blog item with sports branches. My apologies … Got a text the other day, the salutation of which was LOL. It struck…

Whitt’s End: 3.27.09

Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Dallas Police Chief David Kunkel can apologize all he wants for the indefensible actions of Robert Powell, but unless the officer is fired it will be a complete and utter injustice…