Rush Limbaugh

Planned Parenthood's Sandra Fluke Event Forced Out of Midtown Bar Proof

Planned Parenthood's quarterly "Cocktails For A Cause" get-together last Tuesday had some extra star power -- Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University law student famously called a slut by Rush Limbaugh for daring to speak her mind. What the event didn't have was a venue, after the bar that had agree ... More >>

Texas Attorney General Thinks Nuclear Annihilation of Austin Still Preferable to State Turning Blue

There aren't terribly many things that can actually threaten Texas. Mexico hasn't put up much of a fight in nearly two centuries. We've sufficiently assimilated into the non-slave states from which we once broke. Global warming and environmental degradation may present some cause for concern, but, a ... More >>

Houston Sets Off National Dialogue on Islamic Innocence

The imam smiled. He'd been waiting for this question, it seemed. It was a soft Saturday afternoon, and this imam, Azhar Haneef, the national vice president of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA, had just finished an hour-long tour of videos displaying the prophet Muhammad's pacifism at the Baitus Samee ... More >>

Republicans, Cubans and Idiots

Let's Get Ahead Of Ourselves: Romney Wins, Dies, And Paul Ryan Takes Over? Introducing Paul Ryan's America

For a moment, let's talk fantasy. Let's say Mitt Romney somehow overcomes all of his apparent weakness -- Bain Capital rapaciousness, tax-record speculation, rich-guy aloofness -- and somehow ekes past President Obama in November in one of the narrowest victories in recent American politics. Democra ... More >>

How to Speak Republican

Leaked document reveals the secrets of the GOP's coded language.

Ranking Houston's Sports Radio Personalities

The Houston sports talk landscape is complicated and fascinating. We are blessed with four full-time sports stations, several other sports-themed shows scattered along the dial and one national sports network headquartered right here in the Bayou City. When I ranked the best sports talk shows in Hou ... More >>

James Vernon McVay: Obama Assassination Plot Foiled After One Murder in Planned Spree

South Dakota State PrisonJames Vernon McVay: Proud Houstonian​James Vernon McVay wanted to kill President Obama. After his arrest in Wisconsin earlier this month, he told police that he believed the best way to do that was to stalk the commander-in-chief while he was playing golf and pick him ... More >>

KTRH All But Says Goodbye to News, Welcomes More Right-Wing Blather

The Houston Chronicle's David Barron just reported that longtime KTRH news anchors J.P. Pritchard and Lana Hughes are leaving the station in favor of new hosts Mike Patrick and Lois Melkonian. In case you need an introduction to Mike Patrick, check out the above video where he personifies the term ... More >>

Five Very Bad Father's Day Gifts

Father's Day: What are you gonna do? You are forced by the powers that be to get something, unless your Dad has passed on to his reward. And if you're a Dad yourself, then you have to resign yourself to books from that one author someone saw on your shelf (never mind that you hated that book), tool ... More >>

The 10 Worst Things Texas Has Given To The Modern World

It's not nature's way, it's Houston's​If we were to list all the great, terrific things Texas, Our Texas has given to civilization, we would be here all day. (Two words: Jessica Simpson.) Unfortunately, Texas has also gifted America and the world with some things the world and America would n ... More >>

The Year In Aeros Hockey: 25 Random Thoughts Centered Around Ice Girls

Dear Aeros, can we get some Ice Girls already?​The Houston Aeros had a disappointing 2009-10 season, and closing in on the midway point of the 2010-11 season, playoff chances are up in the air. Then again, this being Houston, just having a chance at the playoffs should be seen as successful, espe ... More >>

Runner-Up Turkey Of The Year: Rick Perry

Rick Perry: One race he couldn't win​It's just one day from the 2010 Turkeys of the Year issue, where we honor what is best in Turkeydom for the past year. This will be our eighth edition of the awards, and as always competition is stiff. Building up to the grand announcement of the winners, w ... More >>

Dear Renu Khator: Use KTRU To Spread UH Sports

KTRU could be a UH sports resource​Dear Dr. Khator:Now that some time has passed, I thought I would offer up my congratulations on the University of Houston's purchase of KTRU from Rice. I know that you have probably been hearing from some angry people, but seeing as how the station didn't even ge ... More >>

Glenn Beck, Lowering The Standards For What Makes An "Honorary Texan"

You know what you were needing right now?Video of a screaming Rick Perry making the sanity-challenged rube-riler Glenn Beck an "honorary Texan" in front of a yahooing crowd of East Texans.What, you didn't need that?

He Said She Said: "Dear Penis" And Other Country Comedy Classics

​ Aside from all the epic cheating, drinking and fighting songs country music has given us, one of the best things it does is make us laugh. Apart from all the crying and cussing, there is a whole deal of laughing going on. This year at RodeoHouston, there aren't many performers on the humorous si ... More >>

Inquiring Minds: Henry Rollins Has A Lot To Say. Surprised?

​Since his debut in 1981 as Black Flag's fourth, last and best lead singer, Henry Rollins has been the emissary of intelligent hardcore punk rock and its accompanying ideals. Through his five-year history with the band, from the LPs Damaged to In My Head, he brought an animalistic, poetic spirit t ... More >>

More On The Billionaire And The Bentley: The Coroner's Report Is In, The Lawyer Is A Star, And Why Hasn't Goodman Been Charged?

Photo by bing The Goodman cabin in Florida​Some further developments in the case of John Goodman, the billionaire Houston / Palm Beach polo patron who was involved in a fatal Bentley accident last week... The coroner's report is in on Scott Wilson, the victim in the crash. His death was ru ... More >>

Be Proud, Texas: Your Public School System Is So Great It Can Turn Down $700 Million

​Governor Rick Perry, in a valiant bid to be talked about approvingly on Fox News and Rush Limbaugh's show, came to Houston today to announce he will be rejecting $700 million in federal stimulus funds for education.Because, you know, Texas has the whole education thing covered."Texas is on the ri ... More >>

Houston Music Fight Club: Michael Berry vs. Outlaw Dave, Don Walsh vs. Dirty Jeff Smith, Notsuoh vs. Mango's

​Another week and yet another clash of the sorta-titans, wherein we pit some of Houston's best and brightest music luminaries against each other in brutal mortal combat. This week we will briefly take a step away from the burgeoning Bayou City indie scene to spotlight two of the town's radio perso ... More >>

Lonesome Onry and Mean: War, Still "Hard to Believe"

Photos by John Moulder I'm always looking for good lyrics that make sense of the current military situation. I recently got Slaid Cleaves' fine new album, Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away, which contains this wonderful verse in the song "Hard to Believe": "Here comes another blown up kid from ... More >>

25 Super Bowl Memes You'll Be Sick Of

It's Super Bowl week. The game is on Sunday, but by the time kickoff rolls around we're going to be so sick of the hype that nobody is going to care about the game. The memes have started coalescing, so here's a little primer for every storyline that you will be sick of come Thursday evening once ... More >>

25 Super Bowl Memes You'll Be Sick Of

It's Super Bowl week. The game is on Sunday, but by the time kickoff rolls around we're going to be so sick of the hype that nobody is going to care about the game. The memes have started coalescing, so here's a little primer for every storyline that you will be sick of come Thursday evening once ... More >>

Analyzing Bocephus's "McCain-Palin Tradition"

Elephant Walk

Paul McCartney Stuns Oklahoma City

Sunny Side Up

An egg-seller's defense gets strange

Letters to the Editor

Letters

Against the Odds

No betting shows on one sports-talk station

Renaissance Man

A cop learns the pain of piercing

Webb Wilder, with Opie Hendrix and the Texas Tall Boys

Friday, March 18, at Dan Electro's, 1031 East 24th, 713-862-8707.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Rockin' in the Free World

Soundtracks for your Election Night shindigs

Party Animals

Politically oriented matchmaking sites are surging toward the election

Well-Dressed Rebels

Revolt of the operagoing socialites

Waves of Fascination

Shortwave radio: Where the lunatic fringe lives, breathes and flourishes

Damming the Streams

The major labels want the Internet to be as arid as the airwaves

Racket

The Nuge keeps on offending all sorts of people

Theatrical Truffles

Strom Thurmond as a gay man's date to the prom? New York City without Queens? Yeah, When Pigs Fly.

Student Bodies

Rob Nash flits between characters, and time frames, in his hilarious high school comedies

Digital Bloating

Without question, enhanced CDs offer more but of what?

Play With Your Food

Houston's dinner theater leaves a bad taste in our critic's mouth

Letters

Hot and Bothersome

Though hooey on harassment, Disclosure knows how to entertain

Press Picks

Tea at the di Portanovas'

What excess comes with riches? A tea party reveals all -- almost

Talk Radio Takes Aim at the Bad Guys

Dan's the man behind a new anti-crime group

Screwball Comedy

A Comedy of Errors for the television age

Round One to the Host