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8.09.2006
Speaking Of Alcohol
The Ticket's funnyman Gordon Keith normally is a comic genius.
Then, sometimes, he is just a genius. For those that have ever had an alcoholic in the family, you should print this out and give it to them. There are a couple of lines in there that need to be read again and again.
Two Stories On This Morning's Today Show
Nothing starts your day like a liquor bottle over a clerk's head (it's brutal) and a thrown chair (not brutal). But please wait until the end to see Ann Curry make the very insightful comment of "people need to calm down relax."
8.08.2006
Fair and Balanced
Brief summary: Ned Lamont and Joe Lieberman are involved in a primary election today for Lieberman's senate seat in Connecticut. Lieberman is for the war in Iraq. Lamont is against it. The smart people of Connecticut will throw Lieberman out of office for supporting the war and elect Lamont.
This scares the heck out of the Republicans because some believe that a Lamont win will signal that many other pro-war incumbents will be thrown out of office in the mid-term elections this fall.
Today Fox News threw up this graphic. (Click to enlarge.). Not very fair. Not very balanced.
"Hey, sweetie, ya wanna be my co-counsel?"
Story.
My favorite paragraph: [The lawyer] also identified a woman who accompanied him to court as his ex-girlfriend, and called her Christine. Questioned by the judge, the woman identified herself as Josephine and said she just met [the lawyer] about 20 minutes earlier at a nearby bar and grill.
I'll Choose [typo fixed] A Beach Somewhere
The overly uptight Jacquielynn Floyd of the Dallas Morning News has a column today about how the "Beer Bongers" (I don't think Floyd is over 65, she just writes that way) have taken over the the float-down-the-river culture of New Braunfels.
I haven't been down that river in 20 years, and I doubt if I'll ever do it again.
But I wonder if it has become a bad scene down there.
Media News
The rumor on the web is that the Dallas Morning News, which has admitted that layoffs or "buyouts" are in the works, is going to let 120 people go on Thursday and 30 of those will be from the sports department.
Of course, this comes from the same paper that thinks it is a good idea to include a CD-ROM in its Sunday paper full of “movie previews, music samples, video games, comics, celebrity interviews and advertisements.”
I'll Ask Alan Greenspan . . .
Taxes down?:
From today's Update: Decatur school district property owners could feel significant relief from taxes next year after the school board voted 5-0 last night for a proposed tax rate of $1.5503 per $100 valuation. That’s a drop of nearly 19 cents over the current rate and it is projected that would save the owner of a $165,000 home more than $600.
But taxes up?:
From the July 25th Update: BOOM CONTINUES – Wise County’s tax values are up almost 22 percent according to final figures released Monday by Wise County Appraisal District Chief Appraiser Mickey Hand. Total county values stood at 5.4 billion, up almost $1 billion from 2005. Aside from the county, Decatur ISD has the highest tax values at $1.6 billion, up 26.5 percent from last year.
I'm a little math challenged, but I would think the increase in appraisals would wipe out any tax rate drop.
8.07.2006
Sometimes I Worry A Great Deal About Fate
From the story published tonight in the DMN:
Two Texas A&M University-Commerce sorority sisters were killed and one was injured over the weekend when their SUV was hit by a trailer that came loose from a truck and crossed the Interstate 30 median just east of Royse City.
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