An Experiment in Scotch

While we’re pick­ing on Dal­las, might as well point out another excel­lent Schutze col­umn at The Observer detail­ing what sounds like a nifty lit­tle scam busi­ness oppor­tu­nity of one Ed Oak­ley, can­di­date for mayor.  The whole Trin­ity project has become a boon­dog­gle, almost entirely because of the spe­cial inter­ests and power bro­kers that oper­ate behind …

The Dal­las police busted two poker games over the week­end, one at AmVets and one at the VFW. It’s good to see the police are on top of such dan­ger­ous orga­ni­za­tions as those made up of for­mer vet­er­ans. Poker games are such a men­ace to the Dal­las pub­lic that with­out the con­certed, focused efforts of …

Dal­las school trustee Ron Price wants the City Coun­cil to ban saggy pants inside the Dal­las city lim­its. Ron Price, who appar­ently wants to run for City Coun­cil, thinks it’s dis­re­spect­ful and dis­hon­or­able to women for men to wear their pants around their thighs. Bill Blay­des, already a mem­ber of the esteemed Dal­las City Coun­cil, …

The city coun­cil of Dal­las con­tin­ues to give money away to devel­op­ers as an incen­tive to develop choice pieces of land in the city. This is the most ridicu­lous strat­egy I’ve ever heard of. They did it for the Park Lane devel­op­ment going in north of my office and they’re doing it now with the …

I under­stand enforc­ing laws and all that but this is ridicu­lous. If your own cat bites you, you shouldn’t get six tick­ets. That ani­mal con­trol offi­cer sounds like he prob­a­bly flunked out of the police acad­emy and is tak­ing his inep­ti­tude out on who­ever he runs into.

As many of you know, it’s elec­tion time for lots of city coun­cils around the Metroplex. You should def­i­nitely get out and vote as it’s your Amer­i­can duty. Or some­thing like that. But scold­ing you for being a worth­less no-account isn’t what I’m inter­ested in today. No, I’m inter­ested in a cer­tain can­di­date for Gar­land …

The only sur­pris­ing thing about this is that it took so long. Arrest­ing peo­ple inside bars who “appear” to be drunk (no objec­tive tests were ever given) is insult­ing and silly. In one case, a man was arrested at a hotel bar, the very hotel he was stay­ing in. Clearly, the goal of this oper­a­tion …

I’m not sure this is the best way to encour­age kids to get involved in civic activities. While I’m not com­pletely sym­pa­thetic with what they were protest­ing, it seems a bit heavy handed to sus­pend stu­dents for exer­cis­ing their right to organize. Granted, the rules were fairly clear and they broke them. How­ever, in an …

The res­i­dents of a Lake High­lands sub­di­vi­sion have voted to install cam­eras to “look for sus­pi­cious peo­ple, vehi­cles lack­ing home­owner stick­ers, peo­ple walk­ing through alleys and obvi­ous crim­i­nal activ­ity” because of the high level of crim­i­nal activ­ity in their com­mu­nity. Who knew that walk­ing through an alley was such a dan­ger­ous activ­ity? As far as …