3.31.2026

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts



Still have them. 

  • Dateline Comal County.


  • The hope of pleading guilty and asking for mercy from the jury did not work out. 

  • New this morning . . . . 

  • An update from Friday: "Under the pretense that he was going to give them money, John Mbuyi 'lured the victims to the location ... where he carried out an ambush he had carefully planned in advance,' police said." 

  • That was quite the Houdini move she pulled off. Video.


  • The War
    • This won't help gas prices. 


    • Well, if this is the way it ends, it turned out to be a cluster

    • And this morning, that story seems to be correct. 

    • Uh . . . . 

  • I was kind of curious why this happened, too. But there is a 100% chance no one will be disciplined.  


  • Trump unveiled his plans for his presidential library.

     

  • Now we know why Wise County Rep. Andy Hopper supports over-the-top Bo French: The West Texas Oilman PAC is behind both of them.

  • TV belated review: I held off watching Amazon's Jury Duty because I thought I'd hate. I was 100% wrong. Funny, funny stuff. 

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3.30.2026

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




Released this week, 2016.

  • A domestic incident involving a shooting at a school parking lot on Friday afternoon left a man, woman, and child dead. 


  • A wreck last night near Alliance Airport killed one woman. Two children in the car were injured. 

  • One 11 year old shot another 11 year old in the leg last night.  

  • Tiger Woods was arrested Friday afternoon after a wreck on Jupiter Island in Florida. I'm not sure how they can prove DUI since they didn't go to the trouble of getting a search warrant for his blood.  But Florida does have a separate offense for the mere refusal to provide a sample of urine after a DUI arrest if that arrest was based on probable cause. 


  • A faithful reader wrote me and said that the billion dollar verdict out of Dallas last week in the case of a physically abused child had a Decatur connection: The child's grandfather graduated from Decatur High in 1993.
  • Dateline South Carolina. A school resource officer whacked a baseball player in the head with a stun gun.  Video.

  • I guess we didn't have a Cuban Missile Crisis after all. 

  • Oops.

  • The war:
    • Not great.

    • A U.S. AWACS plane was demolished by an Iranian ballistic missile and/or drone attack at the same air base.

    • The Houthis have now entered the conversation. 

    • There's no way Trump sends in the troops, right? Right?

    • The FBI director's email got hacked by the Iranians.


    • Good grief, I'm agreeing with Ann Coulter now.

  • This would have been a headline in The Onion a few years back. No longer. And Trump was dancing on the balcony during it.

  • The quote was strange enough even before I read the chyron. Video.

  • The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Birthright Citizenship this week.  In the meantime, Pam Bondi appeared on the talk shows to clear it all up: Video. 

  • The Business Second™. "Dallas-based Patel Family Office is part of a $1 billion deal to develop 50 hotels in Saudi Arabia by 2029, the firm said Thursday."

  • We found a candidate for the worst judge in the world based upon how this one treated an IT guy in Houston.  Video.

  • Liberally Lean March Madness Pick 'Em Standings.



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3.27.2026

It's Friday -- Let's Get Out of Here

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




Rhome was giving us almost weekly entertainment back then. 

  • A high-profile trial in Tarrant County just turned into a trial before a jury only about what the punishment will be. Her blood alcohol concentration was 0.12, and she was on probation for aggravated assault at the time of the crash. The range of punishment will be 5 years to 99 years/life with the tough job of defending her going to Stephen Gordon and Cami Gildner. Gift article. 


  • Story. I don't know if they can collect because the defendant might be really rich, but all of his money is in a trust fund. And it doesn't help that he is in prison. 


    • But the plaintiff's lawyer was the flamboyant Tony Buzbee who took a shot at the defense firm after the verdict.

  • With newspapers and TV stations struggling, it is almost impossible these days to get details of any particular story. Case in point: Below is what appears today on the front page of the Wichita Falls paper.  The shooting happened last weekend, and they story only quotes a bare bones DPS report which was released last Sunday. 

  • This happens way too often in Hawaii.


  • The far right wing CPAC is in Grapevine at the Gaylord Texan this weekend, so you have been warned. 
    • This was funny. Video.

    • They might not be as welcomed as they think they will be. Video.  

  • Trump changes his mind yet again on bombing the "power plants" of Iran and claims that Iran has requested it. Iran denies it made any such request. 


  • There was a 90 minute open cabinet meeting yesterday. 
    • For some reason, Trump talked about pens for over four minutes. (Side note: We've got a war going on, right?)


    • Someone needs to tell him that the U.S. bombed a school and killed over 160 girls. 

    • The chances of this being true are nil. 

  • Finally, TSA will get paid although Trump has no authority to do this: 
    • Then the Senate surprised everyone last night out of the blue.  And the House has already gone into session this morning to consider it, too.  

  • It's becoming awfully North Korea like around here. "President Trump’s signature will appear on U.S. dollars later this year, the Treasury Department said on Thursday. .  . . As a result, Mr. Trump is set to become the first sitting U.S. president to have his signature on the greenback. "

  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 267 days.
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