
So it is now 20 years of Liberally Lean, I used Enterprise on this year's vacation, too, and still love it, and the guy behind Silk Road is now out of prison via a Trump pardon.
- Trump heads to Texas today. I'm guessing he won't say anything as dumb as Gov. Abbott's football analogy the other day.
- Meanwhile, Texas will prevent catastrophes like Camp Mystic in the future by . . . . creating a couple of committees.
- Weekend read: I'm seeing lots of people rant, in a good way, about this article in Texas Monthly which is a first-hand account of the flooding.
- The EPA released a website to debunk the silly claims that the weather is geo-engineered, but its chairman announced it in a post in such a manner that it sounded like he's a conspiracy theorist.
- This is not true.
- DFW local news coverage is in bad shape. Case in point, a woman is found dead earlier this week in a high-tone apartment complex in Plano, and then yesterday her alleged killer was gunned down in a police shootout in Euless. Want to know more? Me, too. But that's all the information that is out there.
- What took her so long?
- From the official White House account. We are the dumbest country.
- They need to bring back The Wire.
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth found the time to shoot this very bizarre self-promotion video.
- OpenAI's ChatGPT is already a better search engine than Google, but Google's Chrome is still a really good browser. This will be interesting to watch.
- Texas Tech has been making the news as one of its alumni, Cody Campbell, is throwing money around to buy players. Campbell made his money in oil with a partner named John Sellers. They first hit my radar in 2021 when Sellers rented out the Fort Worth Zoo for his fortieth birthday and hired Pearl Jam as the entertainment. So what's their origin story? I wrote . . .
- Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 6 days.