11.27.2023

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




Over the last 10 years, online shopping has killed the wild scenes we use to see on Friday morning. 


  • The hostage release by Hamas continued over the weekend, but today is the last day of the cease fire unless it is extended. But, look out, things might really take a turn for the worse -- look who just arrived: 

  • We've got an inmate escape out of Fannin County (98 miles from Decatur). 

  • No one should cheer this.


  • Let me tell you, this guy was responsible for a lot of weird stuff on Saturday morning TV when I was a kid.

  • Seems like a big deal. "Two ballistic missiles were fired from Houthi rebel-controlled Yemen toward a US warship in the Gulf of Aden, after the US Navy responded to a distress call from a commercial tanker that had been seized by armed individuals, the US military said Sunday." 


  • Once again, we go through this "busiest travel day of the year" fake dance every year.

  • Legal musing: For the life of me I don't understand why prosecutors keep flirting with indicting Alec Baldwin for the accidental shooting on the set of Rust a couple of years ago. But if this paragraph is true, they should be suspended if not disbarred. They convened another grand jury on the case on Thursday.

  • Ending with sports: 
    • The Aggies have a new coach after a chaotic Saturday when an alumni revolt killed the hiring of Mark Stoops of Kentucky. Mike Elko of Duke arrived at College Station late last night. 


    • The Evil Empire has a Big 12 Championship basically gifted to them after Oklahoma State earned the right to face them after a limping, yet winning, effort against BYU. Texas has opened as an 11.5 favorite for Saturday's game. If they lose this, it would rival the loss to Colorado in the 2001 championship game. 

    • Hot color commentator opinion: I think Tony Romo is 100% better at his job, and certainly far more entertaining, than Troy Aikman.