[VRWCmember]

The Startlegram was pretty quick to post a correction to the glaring error by the author (who apparently doesn't know much about handguns):

CORRECTIONS

Yep, we're baffled, too. We're not sure how a Texas paper erred on references to a gun, a cowboy hat and country music. It didn't make our day:

• Clint Eastwood carried a .44 Magnum in his Dirty Harry movie role. The weapon was incorrect Tuesday in an article about Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's attempt to change gun laws in Washington, D.C.

• Bob Dylan was wearing a felt cowboy hat onstage at the Willie Nelson Picnic on Monday. The type of hat was wrong Tuesday in the review. Our Texas sensibilities deluded us into believing that it must've been summer straw.

• Earlier at the picnic, Kinky Friedman made a guest appearance with Asleep at the Wheel. The band was misidentified in the article about the picnic. We should have known that a candidate for Texas governor would not appear on July Fourth with a band known as Cross Canadian Ragweed.

[pikachu]

Yep, we're baffled, too. We're not sure how a Texas paper erred on references to a gun, a cowboy hat and country music. It didn't make our day

The Startle Gram, the way we locals refer to the Star Telegram, is not really a Texas paper. Milly Ivans is their big name on staff if that give you any clue -- all hat, no cattle Texans. The only reason this rag exists is that the Dallas Managed New, er Dallas Morning News, is not smart enough to figure out the readership. Both have numbers sinking fast.

[Tax-chick]

I'm pleasantly surprised at Hutchison's stand. Nothing like fear to focus the mind.

[andyk]

Many District residents are incensed by what they perceive as outside interference.

Outside interference?! Would someone remind the good people of D.C. that it falls under the exclusive jurisdiction of the fedguv?

[Redbob]

"District Mayor Anthony Williams, testifying at a congressional hearing last week, called Hutchison's legislation a "slap in the face to me and to the people who live in my city."

Well, that's a start at least.

Now turn around and bend over Mayor Williams, so she can lick you @ss!