Alexis de Tocqueville

Blogs
October 20, 2014
We Did Good on Ebola. It's the Spin that Got Us.
Hoping it's not bad luck to say this so soon, knocking on wood, rubbing my figurative rabbit's foot (my wife won't let me carry a real one), but I think this city and maybe even the nation deserve praise for overwhelming equanimity in the face of the first American Ebola cases. What the response so ... More >>
Blogs
October 9, 2014
Ebola Story Is All About Who, What, Where and Whether To Tell Anybody
One great service Dallas could render to the rest of the country, should the dust ever settle on the local Ebola story, would be a thorough, no-holds-barred post mortem on information sharing. I am already hearing from people behind the scenes, speaking off the record, that there has been significan ... More >>
Culture
May 17, 2012
Politics and Pop Culture Take a Whoopin' in Shows Inspired by Green Day and Molly Ivins
Blogs
October 1, 2010
A Retreat From the Screech of Dissonant Days, or: My Rabbi Says To Knock Off the Blogging
Rabbi David SternRan into my rabbi last Sunday -- David Stern, head man at Temple Emanu-El of Dallas, very hip and very influential so I hear -- and asked him: "You mind sending me your Kol Nidre sermon? I'd like to post to Unfair Park." He grinned and said sure -- grinned, I'm sure, because it w ... More >>
News
September 28, 2000
The True Believer
Say what you want about Marvin Olasky, the oddball UT professor and controversial architect of Bush's "compassionate conservatism." He practices what he preaches.
Culture
March 6, 1997
Answer this door
DTC's Thunder is a sensual roof-raiser
News
March 9, 1995
Dumb and dumber
The Nation of Nitwits rolls along with the Republican Revolution
News
December 1, 1994
The Muckraker of Coppell
How a bankrupt former musical-instrument salesman became an award-winning journalist