Subject: Ronald Reagan

• Big Daddy

  June 12, 2007

• Fighting Inaccuracies When Referring to Norma Gabler

  July 30, 2007

• Retro Active: A Nuclear Era, But I Have No Fear

  September 25, 2007

• State School Board Member Cynthia Dunbar Still Bringing The Loony

  The Texas State Board of Education is a fairly obscure group of individuals, staying below the radar except for the occasional ruckus over whether evolution's a fraud or if math word problems should all include highlights from Ronald Reagan's career.That ended this fall, when an unhinged screed published by member Cynthia Dunbar (from Richmond!) became a blogosphere sensation.The essay -- no longer available at the Christian site she wrote it for -- essentially argued Barack Obama was conspiring

  December 4, 2008

• Mickey and Minnie, the Robber Barons

  December 16, 1993

• Round One to the Host

  December 30, 1993

• Candidate

  October 13, 1994

• Losing Focus?

  December 1, 1994

• The Wendy Card

  April 6, 1995

• Musicians Don't Have W. to Kick Around Anymore... So Now What?

  Now that Lil' Bush has shuffled off the Presidential coil - or will in a couple of hours, anyway - and heads off into some Dallas burg to write his memoirs and reflect on his two wild and strange terms as Commander in Chief, it seems that the writers of so many protest songs can call off their guns and put their grudges to bed. With an artist-friendly liberal president in Barack Obama, what will come of all the anger and poison that helped so many musicians write protest anthem after protest an

  January 20, 2009

• Lounge Act

  May 11, 1995

• The Houston Suburb Known As The Hill Country

  The LBJ Ranch, just minutes outside the 610 loopThings we learned today: The Hill Country is a suburb of Houston. At least to Canadians.The National Post, a Canadian newspaper, took note that Barack Obama was the first "urban" president in a long while.They had to stretch things a bit, saying that JFK "made his primary home at the six-acre Kennedy Compound in small-town Hyannis, Mass.," even though he's thought of pretty much as a Boston guy.They tried to make their point by noting where preside

  January 23, 2009

• The Insider

  June 6, 1996

• Hail the Cabbie

  June 13, 1996

• Tonight: Pat MacDonald and Melanie Jane at the Continental Club

  The only thing more disheartening than being a one-hit wonder is having your one hit's lyrical intentions misconstrued from here to eternity. Bruce Springsteen didn't write "Born in the USA" as patriotic anthem, but Ronald Reagan sure thought he did. Pat MacDonald, formerly of Austin's Timbuk 3, knows this reality all too well. His group's song "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades" was not as happy and optimistic as it sounded. It was actually an ironic look into the future of a you

  February 12, 2009

• Trading with the Enemy

  June 4, 1998

• The More Things Change

  October 29, 1998

• Texas Punk Music Is Gay

  April 9, 2009

• A Super-Patriotic July 4 Playlist

  Have You Forgotten?

  July 3, 2008

• Stranded by Oscar: Into the Wild, Radiant City, SNL in the '80s: Lost and Found, The Love Boat: Season One, Volume One

  March 6, 2008

• Face the Facts

  Nancy Burson has been morphing and manipulating images since the '70s. Can we now trust her photos?

  August 22, 2002

• Mail Call

  A Different Breed

  August 30, 2007

• Cold War Reheated

  July 19, 2007

• Chick Flick

  February 22, 2007

• BAKER STREET PUB & GRILL'S

  MONICA LEWINSKY

  December 7, 2006

• Shorthanded

  Foreign pickers aren't getting through the post-9/11 barricades to harvest U.S. crops

  December 7, 2006

• Assassination Tango

  Controversial docu-drama imagines a post-Bush scenario

  October 26, 2006

• Capsule Reviews

  A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

  April 27, 2006

• Capsule Reviews

  ARTBEAT

  February 23, 2006

• Go Ahead, Ask Him

  Mel Chin brings his art -- and his convictions -- to The Station

  February 16, 2006

• Overlooked in '05

  Ten great discs that were underserved by the media but are more than worthy

  December 8, 2005

• Senior Moment

  Jan Decleir shines as a senile hit man in The Memory of a Killer

  September 15, 2005

• On the Road Again

  Jim Jarmusch offers up another quest story for hipsters, and they'll be pleased

  August 4, 2005

• Buggin' for Bling

  Michael Stadther's Treasure's Trove is a real gem

  February 17, 2005

• Fahrenheit 2004

  Remembering the movies that heated up cinemas this year

  December 23, 2004

• Boogie for Bush!

  Dubya and Franz Ferdinand have made it okay for white guys to dance

  September 9, 2004

• Tears in Heaven

  Need a love story to cry over? Leaf through The Notebook.

  June 24, 2004

• Sign Language

  Traffic problems? One woman's novel guide to getting city action

  June 17, 2004

• Messing with Texas

  Rockers bash Bush, with varying results

  January 15, 2004

• Dream Team

  Two lonely souls connect -- if only for a moment -- in Laughing Wild

  December 18, 2003

• The Evolution Control Committee

  Plagiarythm Nation (Creations/Seeland)

  July 17, 2003

• Killing the Leaders

  March 27, 2003

• Junk-Food Journalism

  A new book detailing the "dark side of the all-American meal" could use a little more beef itself

  February 8, 2001

• Love in the Time of Chundering

  Hoping to be a modern-day Pillow Talk, Bossa Nova merely blows its cookies

  May 25, 2000

• Larry in Limbo

  Is little guy Larry Duncan being made to suffer for the big guys' sins?

  March 13, 1997

• For May Day: Five Best Dirty, Rotten, Stinking Commies In The Movies

  Once a pre-Christian celebration of the beginning of the summer, May 1 became associated with the labor movement and was eventually appropriated by the Soviet Union. The Cold War has been over for almost 20 years, so what better way to commemorate May Day than by poking fun at some famous movie Commies?5. Crack Red Army paratroops -- Red Dawn (1984) When the history of World War III is finally written, the Soviet Union's decision to invade Colorado will be listed as a military blunder on par w

  May 1, 2009

• For Ramadan: Five Movie Muslims

  Ramadan is a time of reflection and prayer for the world's Muslim population. It is meant to teach them patience and self-restraint, and to bring them closer to Allah. We at Hair Balls know little of patience, and have never been good at self-restraint, but we're nothing if not equal-opportunity in our irreverence. So in lieu of fasting and good deeds, here's a list of some of the more memorable Muslim villains from the movies.A Salaam 'Alaykum.Salim Abu Aziz (Art Malik) -- True Lies (1994) "

  August 21, 2009

• For Teddy: Our Favorite Dead Kennedys Songs

  ​That's right, we went there. Longtime Massachussetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy, better known as Teddy, passed away late Tuesday night at age 77. News media sites have already gone to Defcon 2 - "A Famous Person Not Named Michael Jackson Has Died" - so Rocks Off thought we'd take a different approach. Seeing as how the last of the Camelot brothers has finally shuffled off his mortal coil, we decided to take a look at some of the more infamous songs by the band who - if not for the assassinatio

  August 26, 2009

• The Awful Truth

  October 1, 2009

• Midweek Match-Up: Tom DeLay Vs. Sarah Palin In The Battle Of The Quitters

  What is up with the Republican Party today? It's become a party of quitters.First, Sarah Palin ups and leaves her job as Alaska governor for reasons only she can discern. Then Tom DeLay throws in the white towel on Dance With The Stars, even as the nation was begging for him to continue making a complete ass of himself.Did Ronald Reagan ever quit anything? (We mean, besides his effort to install a fiscally responsible government.) No.But between Palin and DeLay, who's the most egregious quitter?

  October 7, 2009