9.23.2025

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




The Pope in the Oval Office along with Bo, the President's dog (who was born in Boyd, Texas.)


  • I don't know if this will be a permanent sight as part of the Wise County courthouse renovation, but the lighting of the inside of the bell tower is really cool.  I've never seen that done. 

  • Death sentences are becoming less frequent, but there was one in Tarrant County yesterday. "The four-hour deliberation period included a takeout Jimmy John’s lunch and a smoke break." (Star-Telegram gift link.)



  • A body was found at 820 and 377 in the creek that runs through Iron Horse Golf Course. That's all we know.


  • This is really a weird case that happened back in July, and I still don't have a grasp of what is going on. Six defendants appeared in federal court yesterday. "There are at least 16 people who have been charged in the case."

  • Speaking of a verdict to be forthcoming . . . 

  • Random rapture warning for today:


  • Dateline Ponder, Texas. He was arrested for going around the barricades.

  • Trump's press conference yesterday telling pregnant women not to take Tylenol might have been his craziest one so far in his second term.  Here are the greatest quotes . . .


    • "Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen." Video.
    • "Asceda -- well, let's see how we say that. Ascenem -- enophin. Acetaminophen. Is that okay?" Video.
    • “Hepatitis B is sexually transmitted. There's no reason to give a baby that's almost just born hepatitis B.” Video.
    • "Hepatitis B again, that's sexually transmitted, and I think you should wait until 12 [years of age]. You know, I'm making these statements from me. I'm not making them from these doctors ... I talk about a lot of common sense." Video
    • "There's a rumor, and I don't know if it's so or not, that Cuba, they don't have Tylenol because they don't have the money for Tylenol, and they have virtually no autism." Video
  • Disney, which had cratered to government pressure last week, has decided to put Jimmy Kimmel back on the air beginning tonight. But Sinclair, which owns 30 of the underlying ABC affiliates nationwide, won't agree to do so.  No word yet from Nexstar which owns 32 affiliates and actually started the whole boycott. 


  • The Business Second™.

    OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, the company’s president, alongside
    Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang yesterday on CNBC. 

  • Developing: The Secret Service just announced that "it had dismantled a massive network of electronic devices in the New York City area that investigators believe was used to threaten U.S. officials and was capable of cyberattacks that could knock out large sections of cellular communications. Investigators found the devices in vacant apartments" and other locations. They claim to have discovered 300 servers and 100,000 SIM cards housed in at least five sites in the New York tristate area.