10.31.2025

Random Friday Morning Thoughts





Well, at least an attempt at humor.


  • This is incredible. After working a full day at the sheriff's office, and after "leaving his [night] job at Fisher Investments at 6 a.m., he then reportedly had a drive of more than an hour to the Scuba Ranch [to teach the class where the 12 year old would die]  . . . . Video of [the victim] getting in the water was taken at 8:33 a.m."  (Fox 4's Lori Brown's investigation of this case is a flashback as to how local news used to be.)


  • If you have YouTubeTV, you've got a problem as of a few hours ago.

  • WFAA posted this last yesterday, got roasted online, and still hasn't changed it. 

  • Seems wrong.
     

  • Here's the actual criminal complaint (PDF) for this "breaking news" this morning.  It sounds like just a sting operation against a 19 year old who had no independent ability to carry out any attack.

     
  • This is a demonstrable lie.  And it's another Orwell quote come true: "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

  • Another day, another Paxton investigation so he can get some free press.

  • Erika Kirk and Vice President JD Vance at Ole Miss on Wednesday night.

  • Trump gave out Halloween candy last night.  The twins from The Shining showed up.

  • The Business Second™.


  • Random Flashback to Baylor Homecoming Parade (circa 1970): Kids just running up to a real bear on a leash along the parade route.

  • Nerdy legal stuff: Yesterday the Court of Criminal Appeals held that a drug dog sticking his snout into an open window of a vehicle is an illegal search. (At least under the specific facts of that case.)  

  • Nerdy Attorney General new opinion stuff: "May a district or county court-at-law judge forbid a district attorney or assistant district attorney from carrying concealed firearms in courtrooms under Penal Code §46.15(a)(6) and (a)(7)?" The answer is no. 
  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 119 days.