Photo Of Santorum Prayer This Morning During Church Meeting In McKinney

He's in the middle somewhere. Although there looks like one photographer, the rest seem to be doing the "laying on of hands."

Coverage.

Boyd Restaurant Calls Out Restaurants Which Jack Up Their Prices For Valentine's

"Anticipation . . . Is Making Me Wait"

I presume this is during the NY Giants parade yesterday.

 And, look! The Cowboys have something in common with New England.

Brady on Sunday

Romo a while back

This Is A New One

Hang on girl! I'm on my way!

Link.

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

• Well, it's more chaos for the Republicans. Whomever mentioned yesterday that it "Wouldn't be a good night for Romney" was dead on. Rick Santorum won all three states last night and becomes the GOP Flavor of the Week.
• And Santorum will be in North Texas today with one of the stops being at a Tea Party rally in Allen. Good or bad timing? 
• And WBAP's Mark Davis will give him the equivalent of a free three hour radio show commercial today before he MC's a Santorum event tonight. He should be on the payroll. Edit: He will actually be at two Santorum events today.
• Matt Drudge tweet last night: "Surprisingly LOW voter turnout in Republican races, lackluster cablenews ratings... Who/what to blame? Omen for Nov.? People 'sick of it' ?"
• Said something sweet about the Family Pup yesterday and last night, for the first time ever, she sleeps with the Oldest Girl In The House.
• Do the Dallas Stars still exist? (Joking. Kind of.)
• As much as Dallas needs mass transit, people getting murdered on and around trains is probably not good for PR. (Two dead yesterday, a guy killed in downtown Dallas last month, some guy shot to death in the War on Drugs near Reunion Tower last year, and some kid pushed into a train in South Dallas last year as well.)
• I've taken subways on two different trips: One to New York City and one in Washington D.C.  And using those trains was fantastic. 
• I guess we'll never hear anything else about the hairdresser found dead in her burned car in north Dallas last year. (Cops call it murder. Medical examiner magically says "nuh-uh.")
• I finally watched the "Honey Badger" video on youtube this week. Funny. Really funny.
• TCU has had five suicides in two years? How is that possible? 
• Mrs. LL wants me to point out that she is not assistant coaching but instead head coaching a girl's softball team this year.  
• But, hey, Mr. Assistant Coach --- who I thought was the head coach -- I've got my eyes on you. (Making the two-fingers-at-my-eyeballs gesture that Robert De Niro did to Ben Stiller in Meet The Parents.)
• Set the stage for a very interesting criminal appeal out of the Wise County Court at Law yesterday. I've never had so many prosecutor's tell me I was absolutely wrong and every defense lawyer tell me I'm absolutely right. (From the public record: It involved my client getting arrested for DWI seven days after being placed on DWI probation.  Not the best facts in the world.  The appeal, however, is just a technical procedural point.)
• Josh Hamilton was so strung out on drugs that he missed three seasons (2004-2006) in the major leagues. Yet I've never met anyone who thinks he should have spent a day in prison. Why is that?

Regarding Wise County News This Afternoon

Sometimes my real job collides with this silly hobby, and my real job always takes an ethical and professional priority. However, I might be in a position to release a  statement tomorrow on the news that everyone has been begging me to comment on.

Boom! (Part 2)

How Did This Decatur/Castleberry Fight Get Past Me?

I knew about the fight (it was all over the comments), I just didn't know about the video.

Hippie Court Rules In Favor Of Madonna Loving Gays

Only took 133 pages to say it.

This Ringmaster Is A Born Showman. Motorcycle Guy, Not So Much.

100% professional. Ain't nothing rattling him.  “Ladies and Gentleman…focus on me…I am your ringmaster."

[Brief language warning from crowd.]

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• I check a lot of people's accounts on Twitter and Facebook simply because I think they are crazy.
• In case you were going to Syria for vacation, you might want to cancel those plans. It would be safer to be a Mexican policeman right now. (Every country with half a brain has abandoned its embassies.) 
• Regarding the MIA obscene gesture during the Super Bowl halftime show, someone has taken a pic of the moment and pointed out the very odd double standards we have in the United States.
• I got an iPod Nano. Lots of stuff crammed into that little thing but I'm not sure being able to load photos is particularly important. (Oh, an update on the ASICS running shoes I switched to a few months back: After years of Nike, Adidas and New Balance, I'll never go back.)
• I know women's college basketball is boring to you, but what the Baylor women are doing borders on the bizarre. They are 24-0 and basically beat everyone by 30 points. 
• Heard on WBAP this morning: "Spanking is lazy parenting." Their listeners soundly disagreed. 
• One of the most horrible stories I've heard in a while: A wife goes missing. Custody battle ensues between her parents and the husband over two little boys. Husband burns down house with him and kids in it over the weekend. Oh, my.
• Eighty people applied for the Boyd AD and head football coaching job? 
• Somehow over the weekend an old Charlie's Angels show ended up on my TV.  I kept thinking one of the guest stars looked familiar and it finally hit me: A very young and brunette Kim Cattrall who later starred in Sex and The City. (You can see a good shot of her at the :37 mark here.)
• Maria Menounos lost a bet and had to wear a bikini on the air. Hey, now. 
• Our "no dirty dishes in the sink" policy has been flawlessly implemented 98% of the time this year. That just changes the whole atmosphere and attitude of the house. 
• Three state elections are today and I keep hearing, "This will not be a good day for Mitt Romney" since Rick Santorum has a chance to rise from the dead apparently. What a cluster. 
• The holdup on the drawing of Congressional maps in Texas (looks like they got close yesterday before the wheels fell off) has got to be driving newspapers and TV stations crazy. Since we don't have a primary date, no one is spending on political advertising. And they make a ton of money on political advertising.
• There's something peaceful about waking up and seeing the Family Pup has snuggled up beside me. 
• Rick Perry decided to come out of hiding and speak in Williamson County yesterday. After he was done, a George Washington impersonator fired off a joke:  "A Communist, a Muslim and an illegal alien went into a tavern. And the tavern keeper said, 'What will it be President Obama?'" Wow. Just wow.

"Ok, you can owe me."

The Messenger referred to the golfer as a former Decatur resident. The Star-Telegram has more on the story and a portion of the 911 call.

Edit: I'll give the Messenger credit. This story is picking up potentially nationwide steam tonight. I'm not sure how they learned of it in the first place, but Bud Kennedy sent it out to his followers this morning. Shortly thereafter the Star-Telegram ran with it.  Now the SB Nation blog world has picked up on it (giving only credit to the Star-Telegram) so it might really pick up steam.  It makes sense. The slow foursome on a golf course that almost results in death will get your attention.

Edit the following morning: It's in the USA Today with, once again, the Star-Telegram getting credit.  I bet the Messenger's paywall is preventing them from getting credit.

Edit: So let it be written. So let it be done.

Another Reason To Hate Professional Sports

Wow. That is Rob Gronkowski (left) after last night's Super Bowl.  And he plays for the losing New England Patriots.  They had an offensive lineman dancing shirtless as well.

I've said it for years: The fans care more about the results than the players.

So What Was Controversial About The Clint Eastwood Ad?

I understand getting mad at him for Million Dollar Baby, but how can this bug you?

"Forever and Ever, Amen."

If Randy Travis getting arrested for Public Intoxication outside of the First Baptist Church of Sanger doesn't become a country song, there's no justice in this world.

Who Has That Kind Of Money?

I guess someone who has $50,000 in his pocket now.

Edit: The story.

Oddest Guy At Super Bowl Last Night?

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• I haven't read many reviews, but I thought Madonna at halftime last night was fantastic.
• The video stage was great. Here's what it looked like from the stands.
• It was pretty quiet at my house until an impromptu party broke out. Who was that guy who brought his own grill over and was lighting up the sky with a flame in my backyard?
• The Patriots first play resulted in a safety (an odd call but a correct one.) Heard this morning that the Vegas odds of the first score being a safety were 75 to 1. Edit: Dallas is a 20-1 shot to win the Super Bowl next year.
• I wrote a few weeks back how I was finally at the point of believing that teams should allow the other team to score in some situations. We saw it last night. It didn't work out, but Bill Belichick would have gone down as the greatest football genius in the history of ever if it had. 
• I took my football to the nearest goalpost yesterday and discovered I can kick an extra point. Barely. 
• I noticed my TV screen flicker during the halftime show. It wasn't until this morning that I discovered NBC was trying to censor MIA.
• One of the gals over at the house last night, upon realizing that Cee Lo Green was at the Super Bowl and on The Voice immediately afterwards, asked, "How did he get there so fast?"  Her husband and I tried very hard to suppress our laughter because she is not "slow to anger." 
• It is amazing how the Right Wing tried to dismiss the lowering unemployment numbers last week. Let me say it again: The way the number is calculated is the way it is calculated.
• A nine year old in Rhome is in the death announcements in the Update this morning. What happened?
• Someone pointed out to me that being a member of AARP makes your spouse automatically qualified to join AARP. I haven't told Mrs. LL that yet. I hope she is "slow to anger."
• Ticket Fans: You should have heard shortly after 6:00 a.m. this morning when both their AM signal and FM signal went down. The only way the station was broadcasting was over the Internet and the Musers absolutely went off on an unnamed manager who "might destroy what we took 18 years to build."
• If you believe Josh Hamilton doesn't drink on a regular basis, you're nuts. It's only when he gets caught do we see the press conferences. 
• It's news Mitt Romney won Nevada over the weekend? Mormons. Nevada. Hello.
• I had to renew my driver's license at the Decatur DPS office on Friday. Those ladies are cheery but don't have a real sense of urgency about them. But, all in all, I think I'll take that. (But the Sargent behind them who looked up and said, "Oh, I know who he is" made me a little nervous.)