Random Friday Morning Thoughts

So you may have forgotten what great sin Tom Brady was found to have committed: He was suspended for four games because he "was at least generally aware of the inappropriate activities of [the ball boys] involving the release of air from Patriots game balls.” 

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• I'm seeing seven people arrested in Wise County overnight for solicitation of prostitution. 
• A legislative hearing was held in Kerrville yesterday about the flooding early last month, and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick showed up to bad mouth the local County Judge. (Side note: I would like to be able to look at that map on the wall.)
  
  
  
• A horrible crash near Austin last Friday, which we are just now hearing about, claimed the lives of five women from Dallas.  "DPS says a Ram truck pulling a livestock trailer crossed into oncoming traffic and hit a Chevy Malibu and a Mercedes SUV traveling behind it. All five victims were in the Mercedes SUV as it flipped and caught fire."
  
  
  
• The lady in the middle of the photo below, Brianna Valadez, was one of the victims, and the other four may be the other four victims. Fox 4 News implied that, but never expressly said it. (They only said the photo was taken from an online slideshow posted by Valadez's employer.)
  
  
  
  
• The Arkansas alleged killer of the couple hiking with their children looks a little different now compared to when he was a teacher in Flower Mound. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• All cat lives matter.
  
  
  
• And another complete highway shutdown this morning. Told ya.  
  
  
  
• It's Orwellian. It's officially here. "The change came about as part of a content review that the Smithsonian agreed to undertake following pressure from the White House to remove an art museum director."
  
  
  
• Trump's destruction of the Rose Garden is almost complete.
  
  
  
• And now he's going to remodel the South Wing of the White House.
  
  
  
• Epstein update: 
  
  
  
• Is it possible that every network and social media outlet is talking about a Sydney Sweeney "controversy" because it's a reason to show Sydney Sweeney?
  
  
  
• How is this a news story? It has to be a paid ad tricked up as news. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Man, that topless Texas D.A. is still going strong:
  
  
  
• Random box score from last night.
  
  
  
• Not a whole lot of legal significance, but yesterday evening a court of appeals out of Houston affirmed a Wise County criminal conviction and 55 year sentence. 
• Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 27 days.