Hello, McFly...

Something stood out while reading the Fort Worth Weekly this week. 

Why would the FBI be looking at people like this college student in Denton, instead of looking at things like this?  

Really??

You can't make this stuff up

We're not sure which of the Fort Worth Weekly Static stories we like better.  The Revolving Door Star-Telegram courthouse reporter, now working for the courthouse....or having your drillers spayed and neutered.  Read them both.  YOU don't want to miss them.

The application’s minimum requirements seemed custom-written for McDonald. The job required a bachelor’s degree in journalism, four years of reporting experience relating to criminal trials and the criminal justice system in a major metropolitan area, and an additional six years’ reporting experience with a daily newspaper or broadcast media.

In our last issue, Weekly scribe Peter Gorman wrote about another truck-sized loophole that the drillers have been using to avoid paying property owners for their minerals — Rule 37 allows a driller to take minerals from under property that is unleased as long as the Texas Railroad Commission lies down like a throw rug again and approves it. If a property owner has the temerity to show up to contest the action, just cancel the hearing! And reset it later after providing notice only in the tiniest-circulation newspaper the company can find.