1.28.2026

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




They finally deflated the tires and drove out. 


  • Grace "Gracie" Brito, 16 years old.
  • Senior Caden Nowicki.


  • The identities of those dead in the law firm jet crash in Bangor,  Maine have been slowly trickling in.   We've now learned the identity of the pilot (lower left) and another passenger (lower right) who was employed as a chef "for a luxury travel company owned by the [named partner Arnold] family."   There are two more still to be identified, one crew member and one passenger. 

  • Photos of the three brothers who drowned in a pond in Bonham. "Cheyenne Hangaman said she and her children had been staying at a friend’s house across the street from the pond, and that she’d warned them to not go near it. But, she said, on Monday her youngest daughter ran to tell her that her brothers were in the water."

  • Srayed with some brown liquid from a syringe. Video


    • There is no bottom. 

  • The killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. 
    • The "woman in the pink jacket" who filmed it from the sidewalk was on CNN last night.  She said that no one with the federal government had contacted her since the incident. 

    • On gun rights. Video.

    • "[W] get one person a little bit wrong."  Video

  • She has 7.5 million followers.



  • When even the Germans think you are a world threat.

  • The Business Second™. News yesterday about Amazon, UPS and Twin Peaks.

     

  • Time flies.

  • Very legal nerdy stuff: The Texas Supreme Court will routinely deny an agreed motion to continue an oral argument setting.  It happened again on Friday.  (PDF of Motion, and Order by postcard.)