Tom DeLay

Texas Gets a D-Plus In Fighting Corruption

Texas got a dismal D-plus for its efforts in fighting corruption in a broad nationwide study. At least they did better than New Jersey, you're saying? Gedda loada dis: New Jersey won the freakin' t'ing, with a B-plus. The Center for Public Integrity, Global Integrity and Public Radio International ... More >>

End Times: Dave Eggers's Shower Curtain Short Story and Other Sure Signs of the APX

The Mayan calendar is ticking steadily on toward expiration, but that is the least convincing sign of the apocalypse since Harold Camping predicted one in May. More persuasive: 5,000 dead blackbirds falling from the sky on January 1, 2011, the New York Observer trend piece on how young people aren ... More >>

Rachelle Renee Price LOVES Getting Her Jail Mugshot Taken

Brazoria County SO​You thought Tom DeLay was smiling in his police mugshot? He was an abject depressive compared to Rachelle Renee Price. Price was picked up in Pearland Sunday for trying to pass some forged checks at a grocery store, KPRC reports, and she was taken to the Brazoria County Jai ... 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 >>

Comment Of The Day: Ken Starr, A Cross To Bear For Baylor Fundraisers

​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 >>

Troy Aikman Doing Dancing With The Stars

Following Tom DeLay and Michael Irvin​Rejoice, Cowboy fans -- the last quarterback to lead you to a Super Bowl is going on Dancing with the Stars.Troy Aikman has confirmed to TMZ -- who ambushed him outside a restaurant to get the answer to this pressing questions -- that he will follow in the sli ... More >>

Fort Bend, You Could Have Had A "Patrick Swayze Elementary"

​Fort Bend is opening a new elementary, and they threw open the naming process. Three dozen suggestions came in.Some were old school: Abraham Lincoln Elementary. Honest Abe doesn't tend to get many things named after him these days outside of Illinois.Hillary Clinton Elementary? It would have ... More >>

Do's & Don'ts For The (Alleged, ALLEGED) "High-Priced" Hooker Getting A Mugshot

Houston cops recently arrested a group of what the media described as "high-priced call girls" at a private event at a Midtown club."This is a party that was organized on a Web site that caters to mainly prostitution," said Lt. C. Vasquez with HPD's vice division. Police said they managed to infilt ... More >>

Another Visit To Past Turkeys of the Year

​Do you remember The Alamo? Of course you don't. It was a terrible movie.But boy, did it get a lot of hype here in Texas. Papers did stories, Texas Monthly gave it a cover, and the American public gave it the finger.Which led to its inclusion as a 2004 Turkey of the Year, one in a string of years ... More >>

It's Turkey-Lurkey Time, As Burt Bacharach Would Say

​November brings with it Thanksgiving, which in turn brings with it the annual Houston Press accounting of the Turkeys of the Year here in Houston.Last year was easy, of course: any year that includes the e-mail antics of District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal is pretty much a no-brainer. When a year i ... More >>

Top 5 Restaurants in Sugar Land

The suburbs don't have to be all about McMansions, box stores, and soul-crushing conformity, do they? Open your mind and head to the land of Tara Lipinski, Tom DeLay and sugar. Photo courtesy of Japaneiro's​5. Sushi Bistro and Latin Grill, 2168 Texas Dr. Like many so-called fusion places, Jap ... More >>

The Week In TV: Seriously. You Need to Watch Community

I know you think the only event of note last week in TV Land was the sad departure of Tom DeLay from Dancing With the Stars. But Dazzle Me Dreamy's punk out was only the beginning. NBC canceled Southland, which is officially the first victim of uber-hack Jay Leno's primetime talk show. Granted, ... More >>

Stranger Musical Pairings Than Dancing With the Stars' Tom DeLay and Cheryl Burke

​Dancing With the Stars announced the pairings for its upcoming season Monday - like you care - and while some out there are no doubt crunching the odds of Debi Mazar and that Russian guy squaring off with Chuck Liddell and...that Russian chick in the finals, local interest is still focused on fo ... More >>

Five Post-Political Careers As Bad As Appearing On Dancing With The Stars

Most politicians, once their days in government service are over, go on to less public but nonetheless luractive careers in the private sector. They serve on corporate boards, become presidents of universities, or enjoy a quiet retirement. Sure, they can't all be Jimmy Carter, parlaying a lengthy p ... More >>

At Least This Financial-Scandal Houstonian Is More Eccentric Than Ken Lay

Photo by yomanimusBloomberg is reporting that the Houston-based Stanford Group Co. is under investigation by the Feds. In the aftermath of the Bernie Madoff scandal, both the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority want to know how Stanford can keep payin ... More >>

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Turkeys of the Year

The 2006 Collectors Edition

Getting Schooled

A legendary debate teacher has a lesson plan to knock off Congressman John Culberson

Bossa

Sangria

Letters to the Editor

Turkeys of the Year

Just stuff 'em

Close to the Vest

Some HPD officers aren't so hot about safety

Bohacked Off

A state rep takes umbrage

Over Oprah

Author Jonathan Franzen stops by to share some Corrections

Draining the Swamp

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

Time Out, Mack

Rewarding bad behavior by underachievers

Inspect Yourself

No one disagrees on the latest pro-development plan

Best Summer Respite

Best Republican

Signs of Ignorance

Just chop 'em where it says "Do Not Chop," boys

Letters

Mail Call

Letters

Turkeys of the Year

The worst flock-ups of 2003, starting with Big Tom himself

Best Activist

Bob Lee

Tales of Rail

Metro's incoming chairman loves to tell stories. Can Houstonians cotton to his next one?

Lay Down

Plus: No Apologies, El Paso's Best

Austin Shocker

Congressional redistricting: Dem disaster or Trojan horse?

Letters

Brutality Behind Bars, Tall Tales, Dirty Airy

Taking Aim

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

A True Spirit of Giving

Letters

Upping the Ante-Up

A planned HOV lane in west Houston ma instead become yet another toll road in our fair city

Alison Cook looks back at 1997: The Year That Bit

Letters

In The Rough

In its quest for a Municipal golf course, Lake jackson learned a valuable lesson: Never buy land without checking it out first. Unfortunately, the lesson came six years too late.

The Insider

Lenwood Johnson's Last Stand

APV is more than his home. It's his life. No wonder he can't let it go without one final struggle.

Letters