6.24.2026

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




The vote for Brexit in order to make Britain great again hasn't exactly turned out as planned. 


  • Does Wise County have an emergency health care problem? In the last week, I've seen two stories in the Messenger where medical helicopters from the metroplex were called in after motor vehicle accidents (only to be turned down due to "weather"), and then the injured were transported by ground to metroplex hospitals or Denton and not to the hospital in Decatur. 
  • These sentences yesterday out of a Fort Worth federal court seemed a little harsh. (This is the case where the judge declared a mistrial after he objected to one of the defense lawyer's t-shirt.)  

  • As I understand this story, after voir dire was complete and legal wrangling was over, the district clerk called the names of those "selected" to be on the jury. The judge then excused the big panel of jurors which didn't make the cut.  After that, it was discovered that the clerk only called 10 names, not 12, so they were two jurors short. 

  • Gift link for the first day of testimony.  

  • A new park in Frisco is taking strays from the New York Post.  (But just leaning into it -- a prison themed park -- might not be a bad idea. Kids will eat it up.)



  • Cancel your vacation reservations.

     





  • We're so doomed.  We've got extras from Urban Cowboy deciding to teach the Bible in schools.  


  • Crazy thing Trump said yesterday: 

  • There were a slew of Supreme Court opinions released yesterday, but one that really confused me was the one which allowed Exxon to sue Cuba for nationalizing its properties in 1960 shortly after Castro took over by revolution. That's been a while back.

  • The NFL had to put on an anti-gambling dog and pony show yesterday (as it takes in millions in gambling ads and gaming partnerships.)
  • The New York Post is having a stroke this morning . . .