Browsing all posts in August, 2011.

Judge Sez Go Ahead, Mess With Texas

The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) got slapped down for trying to trademark “Don’t Mess With Texas” — a phrase that has been in common usage for as long as the Lone Star Republic has existed. In this case, the TxDOT — who get the idiot of the month, trademark troll award — tried to […]

World’s Highest-Paid Authors (Damn! Missed The List Again!)

Forbes Magazine has listed the world’s highest paid authors. I can’t BELIEVE it, but I missed the list AGAIN! (What? What was that? … My wife just reminded me that our checking account balance is way closer to the decimal point than these folks’s.) First, Forbes gives us the bad news that most authors are […]

Perfect Killer: Not An Easy Read

  Many of the posts on Facebook’s Murrah-Callaway Class of 1967 have commented on the “sad” state of many things in Mississippi. Back in 2001-2004 I returned frequently and spent months —  mostly in the Delta where I was born and in Jackson — doing research for Perfect Killer. I was both encouraged by astonishing […]