5.19.2025

Random Monday Morning Thoughts





No one was ever convicted. No one. 


  • After Wise County representative Andy Hopper suffered the humiliating defeat of his Wise County Water District bill, he remained silent over the weekend about how it happened. Well, he did take time to call Ken Paxton a "patriot."

  • Former President Biden has been diagnosed with cancer.
    • Junior immediately sent his best wishes. 

  • A Mexican ship crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday night. Obviously, it was fleeing the unfriendly waters of the Gulf of America. Multiple videos.

  • A 25 year old died with his car bomb that rocked a fertility clinic in Southern California. On a 30 minute audio he left behind, he said he was doing the bombing because he never "consented" to "exist."


  • The Nottoway Plantation in White Castle, Louisiana, described as "the largest antebellum mansion in the South", burned on Friday. 

  • In a scene right out of Shawshank, ten inmates escaped from a jail in New Orleans on Friday. Three have since been captured. 


  • The Supreme Court has yet to rule whether Trump can use the AEA to snatch suspected gang members off the street, but it did say on Friday that he needed to give them more than 48 hours to challenge the government's claim that they are, in fact, Tren de Aragua gang members.

    • Trump gave an Idiocracy-like explanation of the ruling. It's just a matter of time before he ignores the court. It's over. 

  • Let's see what those nations "who want peace" are up to over the weekend:
  • The Business Two Seconds™.
    • After Walmart said it would raise prices because of Trump's tariffs, Trump told the company just to "eat" them instead. (Which is odd because Trump has always told us that the "other country" would be paying the tariffs and not Americans or American companies.)

    • The credit rating of the United States was downgraded late Friday.

  • Trump quotes which I had to pick between: (1) Calling Taylor Swift no longer "hot", (2) Calling Bruce Springsteen a "dried up prune", (3) Wanting both of them plus Bono and Oprah "investigated", (4) Posting a weird AI video of him as a rock star, (5) Explaining the N-word, or (6) Yelling at ABC for exposing his $400 million illegal gift from Qatar.


  • The Wall Street Journal wanted to focus on air traffic safety. but this glamor shot they used for its artice is a funny choice to me. 

  • A civil appellate opinion last Thursday gave the inside scoop on this unfinished Decatur mansion in a lawsuit brought by the owners against Zillow.

  • Sports:
    • Hockey news.

    • The Aggies became the first ever #1 softball seed to not reach the super-regionals. 
  • A 40 year old man was found dead in a water hazard at the the Fossil Creek golf course in Fort Worth on Saturday morning.