Last night, as the Texas Rangers were in the middle of yet another exercise in inventing ways to lose ballgames— give them this, they are creative! — I was distracted by a comment from the local beat writer. Bless his heart, Evan Grant tries. I generally like the guy, though…

I’ve only been playing Immaculate Grid for a few weeks now, so this may not have been a first for everyone, but it was for me today. Silver Sluggers? Really? I remember a lot of MVPs and Rookies of the Year and Cy Youngs, plenty of All Stars, even some…

Since the Texas Rangers announced that the cavalry was not coming — ace Jacob deGrom would be out for all of this year and most of next with an elbow injury after just 6 pretty good starts — the wheels have fallen off. …

*** Update at the bottom on how I got to a Rarity Score of 5 on July 9, when the Immaculate Grid gods blessed me with a Rangers/Expos/Royals/Padres day. If you’re anything like me, you’ve been spending your mornings of late geeking out over Immaculate Grid, which is basically Wordle…

As a distraction from the Rangers’ current iteration of their inevitable gut-wrenching collapse — after several years of dull irrelevance, it’s like welcoming back a comfortable old friend you actually don’t like much — and look at some history being made this season by the club. After more than 50…

Each semester, I require students in my media law & ethics course at TCU to file public records requests under state freedom of information laws. …

Tuesday was my first election since 2008 without Twitter on the brain. It was, all in all, a pleasant experience. Mind you, I can’t pretend to be pleased with the results. I live in Texas, after all, so there wasn’t a single candidate I voted for who won, either locally…

This column, which I wrote with Dr. Amy Kristin Sanders from the University of Texas, originally ran in the Houston Chronicle on April 12, 2021. Now that the Texas Legislature will likely take up the bill for a vote this week, I’m posting it here on Medium. Before the 2023…

When photographers sue after Creative Commons Licenses go awry. — The scam works a little like this: A photographer posts their work online under an outdated Creative Commons license, such as version 2.0, that does not give licensees the right to fix license problems within 30 days of notice, as do the current CC 4.0 licenses. The photographers lurk until…