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Nice Sherman Family Offers Up New Big Tex Noggin. Because, you know, it’s just hanging around in the garage anyway after the State Fair threatened to sue them a while back.

Was MLK a D or an R? Claver Kamau-Imani has a billboard campaign that claims Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican, so everyone should vote Republican. He puts these billboards up in different cities, including two in Dallas. If this article makes it sound like nobody knows for sure, it’s probably because nobody knows for sure.

DISD on Top of a State List. It’s not a list of most awesome schools. It’s the comptroller’s list of schools with the highest outstanding debt.

Man Robs Oak Cliff Church. I’m pretty sure that while Christ died for sins, he will still consign you to the most desperate reaches of hell (where all music comes in CD form, but the CDs are all all EPs of Candlebox and Sophie B. Hawkins; you have this perpetual smell of Fletcher’s corny dogs but no actual corny dog stand; and Dale Hansen follows you around doing play-by-play on your life while Gloria Campos chortles in the distance. Oh, and it’s really hot, but like summer 2011 times five) if you rob a church while his followers are worshiping.

Azle Produces Amazing Girl, Heartwarming Story. It may be cold out there, but this story? Ooof. Warms your heart. Even mine, which has been long recognized as being cold and dead. We should all be 1/4th as upbeat as Alejandrina Guzman.

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