10.29.2025

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts





Oh, my. A couple of weeks ago I reprinted the story of the Dallas jogger killed by a former Aggie football player with a machete. I had completely forgotten this horrible news in the wake of its aftermath. 


  • I noticed a forfeiture suit filed yesterday in Wise County seeking to confiscate $75,000, but I don't see any arrests associated with it.  That normally means the money was found during a traffic stop but there was no basis to arrest the occupant.  (Cause no. CV25-10-887.)  Edit: There was an arrest. California man. DPS was the agency. Book in # 115065.
  • Buying elections. The American Way.

  • That peace accord is going swimmingly. 

  • Our government is still killing people in boats. 

  • U.S. Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino appeared in front of a federal judge yesterday in connection with the immigration "crackdown" in Chicago.  Cops wearing masks and helmets in a federal courthouse? Totally normal, right? 

  • Of course. 

  • South Korea just gave Trump a gold crown. They definitely know how to play him.
     

  • Government and Business in bed together:
    • #1 What do you call it when the government owns the means of production? (Gift link


    • #2 This is what you typically see. A company "investing" in Trump's new ballroom gets a major deal in return. 

      • Flashback from August: "Trump’s latest investment filing with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics showed that he owned between $615,000 and $1.3 million in Nvidia shares at the end of last year."
  • The Business Second™.  2,656 single-family homes? And that' development is not all that far from Rhome and certainly won't help highway 287 traffic. The housing market must be booming. 



    • Uh, counterpoint?

  • AI is coming for us all: