Ah, the joys of replying to forwarded e-mail.You get an e-mail forwarded to you from someone, you think you're replying to the guy who forwarded it but instead you're replying to the original sender. So your e-mail that says something like "This is the single most idiotic pitch from a PR person ever" goes not to the staffer who forwarded it to you, but to the PR person doing the pitching.Awkward.Usually it's me doing these things, and I've done some pretty bad ones. At least this time I get to r
First they came for the driver's licenses. Then they came for the license plates.Now, the DPS's March to Mediocrity continues with...inspection stickers.Texas inspection stickers have been pretty low-key since they've been invented, but no more. Now they will feature a cowboy on a bucking bronco, because....because....that somehow has something to do with getting your car inspected. We assume."We wanted to present a new certificate design that was immediately identifiable as being Texan," sai
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released a statement yesterday indicating that problems of unintended acceleration in Toyotas might be caused by something more than faulty floor mats. The statement from the federal agency was a response to Toyota's claims, released on Tuesday, that "no defect exists in vehicles in which the driver's floor mat is compatible with the vehicle and properly secured." The NHTSA release said that Toyota "inaccurately stated NHTSA had reached a con
The Los Angeles Times published a lengthy story this weekend about unintended acceleration in Toyotas, something the Houston Press and Hair Balls have written about from time to time, starting with a cover story in April. The Times wrote the story in response to a highly publicized crash this summer in California that killed a highway patrol officer and three of his family members. Toyota blamed that crash on a faulty floor mat, prompting a massive recall by the company. Perhaps the mo
That noise you hear is Florida coach Urban Meyer laughing his ass off. In case you missed it, news broke this morning that three University of Tennessee Volunteer football players -- freshman defensive backs Janzen Jackson and Mike Edwards, as well as freshman running back Nu'Keese Richardson -- have been arrested for attempted armed robbery.According to a Knoxville City Police report, the incident goes like this -- the reported victims were sitting in their car minding their own business ou
