7.30.2025

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




Lots of details and photos here.


  • Everyone freaked out last night after a major, major earthquake off the coast of Russia.  When one of these things happens off the West Coast, and it will, it will be catastrophic. 

     

  • Story.

  • Thanks to a 50-49 Senate vote last night, a Trump sycophant, who is completely unfit and and ethical trainwreck, now has a lifetime appointment on a federal appellate court.  


  • Trump is uncharacteristically making PR snafus -- and damning admissions -- left and right. He thinks he can talk himself out of anything, but that no longer seems to be true.  Audio.

    • And if you don't recall Virginia Giuffre, she was one of Epstein's outspoken victims who committed suicide earlier this year.  She "was 16 when she was recruited to Mr. Epstein’s sex ring while working as a spa attendant at Mar-a-Lago in 2000, and said that she was groomed and abused by Mr. Epstein and his associates [including Prince Andrew] until she broke contact with him in 2002." 

  • Good grief, I finally agree with Marjorie on something. 

  • The topless DA in far West Texas is a pistol.


  • I try to avoid posting mugshots, but this one out of Corpus Christi from last week is, uh, something. 

  • Did anyone have Katy Perry and the former Canadian Prime Minister on their Bingo card?

  • The Business Second™. 

  • The Business Second - Flashback™: A short YouTube video clip from WFAA in 1976 ponders why Coppell can't attract development on its vast open land.  The lone bit of construction, the reporter says, was in one area where homes from $50,000 to $100,000 were being constructed. One was pictured. 

  • The hunt for the killer of the couple in the Arkansas state park continues.  But they still haven't even ID'd him.