National Rifle Association

Ted Nugent Reloads, and Lots of Gun Songs

Don't Laugh At a Legend Roky Erickson emerges from the cacophony with his first new album in a decade

God, Guns & Kombucha

Is Steve Stockman a committed crackpot, or just a hapless goofball?

Letters

Is Steve Stockman a committed crackpot, or just a hapless goofball?

Press Picks

Is Steve Stockman a committed crackpot, or just a hapless goofball?

Poster Points

Is Steve Stockman a committed crackpot, or just a hapless goofball?

Gun-Control Advocates Revel In Their Texas Triumph

Photo by don schulteThe folks at the gun-control organization The Brady Center are crowing over their victory in Texas. All you gun-loving yahoos couldn't pass a bill allowing concealed weapons on college campuses, the center all but said, and nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah."Common sense is alive and well in T ... More >>

Border Bound

Is Elton Bomer the bully who's needed to help colonias -- or just another political grandstander?

Full of Manure

You say you want a totally organic world?

The Harley Party

Texas Motorcycle Rights Association

Beating the Bush

Take one tax rebate, a Houston man advises, and apply liberally

Locked & Unloaded

The NRA, the ACLU and HPD

Letters to the Editor

The NRA, the ACLU and HPD

It's a Bird! It's a Plane!

Despite major opposition, construction commences on what could become North America's most dangerous airport

Letters

Despite major opposition, construction commences on what could become North America's most dangerous airport

Low-Cost Housing

A home for a buck, with one catch

Letters

A home for a buck, with one catch

Letters

A home for a buck, with one catch

An iFest Fan (and Former Music Programmer) Responds

An open letter to Racket from Rick Mitchell, with Racket's reply

Curry Favor

Cozy up to India at the International Festival

High-Caliber Kids

The NRA convention takes aim at the next generation of members

No More Spears

Beyond the Gates chronicles the rebirth of a brutal Ecuadoran tribe

Letters

Beyond the Gates chronicles the rebirth of a brutal Ecuadoran tribe

Draining the Swamp

A scorched-earth management philosophy is sucking the life out of our region's wetlands

In the Pink

These gun club members take aim at unlikely stereotypes: other gays and lesbians

Yin and Yang

The killing of Dimebag Darrell rains on Michael Haaga's Continental Club Plus and Minus Show parade

Reefer Madness

The government says Clayton Jones shouldn't smoke marijuana. He says it's the only thing that keeps him from blowing his brains out.

Trading Groceries for Guns

Matt Brownlie talks about his band's new name and a very strange year

Letters

Matt Brownlie talks about his band's new name and a very strange year

Blood Money

Why John Cusack wouldn't do anything till he made this Hitler movie

Memory Lane

Inman Gallery takes a group of artists to a past of their own making

Aping an Icon

Tim Burton monkeys around with the original Planet of the Apes, but is it evolution?

Southern Living

Hills Snyder and Chris Sauter build the dream home for some warped parallel universe

Annie, Get Your Makeover

Broadway gets politically correct

Taking Aim

Teenagers and anti-handgun advocates are helping Jaime Barrica keep a promise to his dead son

Inside the Soap Box

Michael Moore gets out of his La-Z-Boy to find The Awful Truth

The Insider

The Talented Mr. Stockman. A defeated politician resurrects himself in Seventh District heaven with a stash of campaign cash

Coming to No Good End

Undertaker Jay Herman shot his lover, Edwina Prosen, to death in 1991. That's the only thing he and her family have agreed on since.

Alison Cook looks back at 1996: Year of the Rat

Undertaker Jay Herman shot his lover, Edwina Prosen, to death in 1991. That's the only thing he and her family have agreed on since.

Letters

Undertaker Jay Herman shot his lover, Edwina Prosen, to death in 1991. That's the only thing he and her family have agreed on since.

Turducken Lovin'

​America has harbored an infatuation with the Turducken since John Madden mentioned it in a Thanksgiving Day broadcast several years back. The mere idea of a turkey stuffed with a duck stuffed with a chicken brings carnivores to their knees, thanking God, Charlton Heston, and their lucky stars ... More >>

Dave Mustaine, Johnny Ramone, ZZ Top And A Few Other Right-Wing Rockers

​ Most people wouldn't associate right-wing conservative politics with dirty rock and rollers, but you would be surprised. Not all rock cats are card-carrying communists and lily-livered liberals trying to save the sacred animal of the week and converting their buses to biodiesel. In fact, many ol ... More >>

Down on the Farm

The Humane Society and big agriculture slug it out over animal rights.

Houston In A Murder Slump

We don't want to jinx anything....​What's happened to murder in Houston?Typically, only a couple of days go by without someone offing someone else. But it's been nine days since the last murder, and even that was a dead body found. Who knows when the murder actually happened? (Investigators, we ho ... More >>

Top Five Christmas Movies From Alternate Realities

Photo illustrations by John Seaborn GrayChristmas in an alternate dimension has the potential to be significantly more badass.​If, as so many quantum physicists and dubious science-fiction shows suggest, there are infinite alternate dimensions, then of course that means there are infinite poss ... More >>

Comment of the Day: I Am (Probably Not) the NRA

​We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>

This Week in Deliciousness

One tiny, lonely crab cake. I call him "Sebastian."​Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where we're still nursing bottle rocket burns and kebab skewer wounds from the 4th of July celebration on Monday. Did anyone else get really, really drunk and wind up donating half of y ... More >>

10 Rock Stars the GOP Should Nominate for President

Now, we're talking!​As the 2012 presidential race begins to heat up in earnest, Rocks Off can't help but feel that the front-runners for the Republican nomination are lacking a certain je ne sais quoi. Call it star power. Call it sex appeal. Whatever it is, these guys ain't got it. If the G ... More >>