Matt Anderson

• 10 hours, 49 minutes ago
  Matt Anderson's comment on:

  Wow this new layout is blowing my mind

  omgwtf! (the "f" is "formatting", so my mom would be proud of it)

• 1 day, 15 hours ago
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  Yogen Fruz at Preston-Royal Forest no longer open

  Yogen Fruz was Preston/Forest, true?

  Pinkberry's the new one at Preston/Royal, that evidently doesn't know their bubble's already burst.

• 1 month ago
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  Irving-based MADD cuts staff as donations fall 20%

  I'm amazed this neo-prohibitionist organization is still in business. Wish we could keep their propaganda off of campuses altogether.
  

  Though it sounds like a couple of the MADD Virgin Drinks might be good if mixed with Everclear.
  

• 2 months, 2 weeks ago
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  Some people don't want their kids to hear a live message from the president of our country, encouraging them to do well in school. "They don't want their children to be indoctrinated"..... wtf!!!! The idiocracy has begun!!

  What I find a little weird and creepy about it is the fact that nobody really knows what the content is to be -- the right figures it's a subversive "dear leader" thing, the left figures is a sunshine and rainbows stay-in-school thing.
  

  Either way, I think it's presumptuous or even arrogant to just put out a notice that the President's going to talk without telling you exactly what he's saying, and with the strong implication that every school should interrupt their regular schedule to pay attention. And students should work on their "How can I help Obama" suggested lesson plan. I'm not comfortable with the idea, and wouldn't be if it were Gov. Goodhair or the Pope.

  I don't think there'd be any stink at all if they have simply said that any interested school or parent can download a message to students from the President, for their own review, so they can decide whether it's appropriate. That's evidently what anyone can do after the live show.
  

  I think it was a huge political and PR miscalculation to just presume that everyone would be comfortable with 15 minutes of some sort of unknown "indoctrination" -- even if it's really all harmless "study hard" stuff, they'd have been much better off either releasing a transcript of the prepared remarks beforehand or simply releasing a pre-recorded message.

• 3 months, 2 weeks ago
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  Live music events in Dallas-Fort Worth August 6-9

  Saturday: Go drink, rock out, and help lawyers raise money for the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program ensuring equal access to justice at Law Jam.

• 4 months, 1 week ago
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  The StarText story

  Thanks for the link -- StarText ruled!

• 4 months, 1 week ago
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  New Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington is becoming tourist attraction

  Money is right -- grassy knoll doesn't run $15/person.

• 4 months, 2 weeks ago
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  $5.1 million settlement reached in fatal Easter Sunday truck crash

  Um, good observation, Mark. New here?

• 4 months, 4 weeks ago
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  25 Most Dangerous Neighborhoods list includes two in Dallas

  Ah, I think you're right, Alex. Looks like NS took the FBI data and attributed it to specific neighborhoods, then WP ranked the "worst" neighborhoods from that data.
  

  Let's call the whole thing off.

• 4 months, 4 weeks ago
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  25 Most Dangerous Neighborhoods list includes two in Dallas

  That WalletPop link says it was Neighborhood Scout that did the reports from FBI data.

  At any rate, I'm temped to summarize it by saying that "Pleasant Grove has the worst crime in the country", just to watch Rawlins flip out.

• 5 months, 1 week ago
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  Fort Worth chef Tim Love seems to have made good impression on Top Chef Masters Wednesday

  I'll be interested to see how the TC episode, at 9pm Weds, got frozen inside your DVR if you lost power half an hour earlier...

  Love was likeable, even his complete unfamiliarity with something called a "freezer".

• 5 months, 1 week ago
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  Pegasus News content partner interview: Dallas iMedia

  Here is a interesting blog post on iMedia as Dallas's "city channel".

• 5 months, 2 weeks ago
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  UPDATED: Collin County racist e-mail a version of political porn

  No committee can ever enact legislation. It takes both houses of Congress and a Presidential signature.

  Well, that's true. But since our dear legislators can't be bothered to actually read the legislation they're voting on, it's entirely possible for the drafters, legislative committees, or the conference committee to stick something in that will never actually be considered on the merits before being passed.

• 5 months, 2 weeks ago
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  UPDATED: Collin County racist e-mail a version of political porn

  Besides, if you're going to forward anything, it's just common courtesy to strip off all the extra junk and email addresses, leaving only the substantive content.

• 5 months, 3 weeks ago
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  Survey by Fort Worth-based American Airlines finds that WiFi is travelers' most desired tech feature

  It looks like the survey takers are probably mostly (or all) business travelers -- averaging more than a trip-and-a-half a month. Those folks don't have the luggage a leisure traveler has, and if they do, they're expensing it.

• 6 months, 2 weeks ago
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  Dallas Progress: This is why you should Vote No on Dallas propositions

  There has been a lot of confusion as what “Vote No” means and what “Vote Yes” means. It’s set up this way because the people against us are the ones that wrote these propositions. It’s meant to confuse people into voting YES because a lot of us support these projects and this city moving forward.

  Well, no. It's set up this way because any amendment to the city charter, regardless of what amendments are being made, requires a "yes" vote to approve. That's just the way the law works.
  

  I'm sure that both sides of the issue would prefer if the ballot could actually have "Build the city hotel" and "No city-owned hotel" options.

  That you would allege that that ballot requirements for a charter amendment are a plot by the "people against you" to confuse voters shows that you either don't understand the way this process has to work, or that you are trying to mislead people.

  Either way, that's where I stopped reading -- because that's where you lost credibility.

• 7 months ago
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  Sushi on McKinney in Dallas' Knox-Henderson district will close August 15

  That's very good news for me -- I liked the place, but it was my wife's all time favorite. When the wife's happy, everybody's happy!

• 7 months ago
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  Sushi on McKinney in Dallas' Knox-Henderson district will close August 15

  SideDish says reopening this week!

• 9 months ago
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  Dallas-based Mothers Against Drunk Driving hated 60 Minutes story on lowering drinking age

  Huh. You know, if drunk driving is so bad, they ought to make a law against it. That'll fix everything.

  When MADD was only against "drunk driving", I was with them. When they became neo-prohibitionists, not so much.

• 9 months, 1 week ago
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  DFW viewers flock to severe weather coverage

  From everyone I've talked to, they weren't "flocking" to the weather coverage, they were waiting for the weather reporters to shut the hell up and return to regular programming.

• 9 months, 1 week ago
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  Five Sixty at Dallas' Reunion Tower in full-on Wolfgang-Puck promo blitzkrieg

  They'd be doing a better job of marketing if they'd put up a website for the place -- it's still not on Puck's restaurant page. Wife and I are having dinner there on Friday, and would love to preview a menu, but no such luck.

• 9 months, 3 weeks ago
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  Dallas-based Pizza Patron introduces smaller pizza

  Wow, Rawlins -- where is your crime data coming from? It sure doesn't look that way on the City of Dallas crime maps, nor on other sites like neighborhood scout.

• 9 months, 3 weeks ago
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  Someday, you'll get your news on a computer

  I'll bet there were a lot of locals, like me, that were using StarText the year after that story.

• 10 months ago
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  300,000 aging Dallas traffic signs replaced for aging Dallas population

  Great. So when our elderly drivers break a hip after hitting some pothole in our lousy streets, they'll be able to tell 911 where they are.

• 11 months ago
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  Shooting death of North Dallas mother, two children leaves lots of questions unanswered

  News this morning says police aren't "ruling out" a murder-suicide by the mother, and implies that the police are now looking at whether the previous attacks were staged.

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