Random Friday Morning Thought

And it all began. 

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• A big murder conviction in Wise County was affirmed (PDF) late yesterday by the Fort Worth Court of Appeals.  One of the points of appeal was a juror passing out during some of the testimony.
  
  
  
  
• A faithful reader sent me this photo of the huge solar farm in Palo Pinto County I mentioned yesterday. You have to look closely, but tract after tract of land in this pic is being used for it. 
  
  
  
• Shocking headline. 
  
  
  
• In other news, the Tarrant County DA's office was having a little trouble in misdemeanor court this week.  One not guilty and two directed verdicts against them. And there are still two verdicts yet to come. 
  
  
  
• There are large parts of the Alliance area which didn't have electricity for over 24 hours after a minor storm blew threw on Wednesday evening. 
• Cruelty is the point:
• On Tuesday:
  
  
  
• Yesterday:
  
  
  
• I don't think they will convict her, but there sure are a lot of lesser charges they have as an alternative option to murder. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The man is laser focused on the main issues that matter to us. "We're going to call it Lake America, and all it takes is a good pen and some intelligence," he said yesterday.
  
  
  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  
• He's going to make the 25th anniversary of 9/11 all about him. 
  
  
• The Business Second™.  Nvidia, the chip maker, just keeps getting buried in cash and in sales.  
  
• This game was actually streamed last night. Southlake was dead in the water, and there was no way they were going to come back. I thought.   The game was played in a very hot looking and virtually empty Cotton Bowl. 
  
• Here's a link the barratry verdict story in the Morning News (below).
• Lauren Whitener Clock: 7 years and 54 days.

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

I'm not sure the Messenger has gone after some that hard since then. 

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• Palo Pinto County has a solar farm? 
  

  

  
  
• This is really, really weird decision by TCU. Gift article. 
  
  
  
• 2028? Does the government need a little more time to prepare after having 23 years to do so? 
  
  
  
  
• Assuming the "new rules" are implemented, it will take about 30 minutes for kids to figure out a way around it. 
  
  
  
  
• Dan Patrick finally left Austin and campaigned in Vernon and Wichita Falls yesterday.  I'm sure he really "loves campaigning."  Doesn't that look fun? 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I'm saying the obvious when I tell you the videos of the wall of water coming down that river are unbelievable.  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• I first learned in Ken Burns' Vietnam documentary that the story behind this photo is not as feel good as you might think. Now the photographer has left us. 
  
  
  
  
• Trump thinks it is a good idea to simply declare "Mission Accomplished" in Iran. Does he not know that Bush is still not ridiculed for doing this?  
  
  
  
• It took him less than 24 hours to bring it back to him, but you knew it was coming. 
  
  
  
• Is that scores of other games or just other junk? 
  
  
  
• Legal stuff: There's an uncomfortable clash of AI generated images in your own home and criminal laws and the First Amendment coming.  What if you think of something illegal? What if you draw that image on a piece of paper. What if you use your computer to draw it with AI? One federal court dealt with it this week: 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Messenger - Above the Fold

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

Fun fact: Boston's debut album was released 50 years ago yesterday. 

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• They still don't have a handle on this thing, and I think people in Bryson are getting a little nervous.
  

  

  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• I'm not sure I expected the news channels to go 24/7 Dolly Parton coverage after she died yesterday, but they did. 
• Coincidence: Then next hurricane this season will be named . . . 
  
  
  
• Ronald Reagan's diary entry for 2/14/82: 
  
  
  
• This happened over the weekend, but we now know the suspect, who is dead, was a 44 year old family member whose parents had recently kicked him out of the house. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
  
• Overnight international news that won't make your day any better. 
  
• They're coming. And they are the largest police force in the United States. 
  
  
  
• "Make American Healthy Again"
  
  
  
• Pete Hegseth might be the most incompetent person in the Trump Administration after Trump himself. 
  
  
  
• And Another out of Colorado yesterday morning:
  
  
   
  
  
  
• Folks in Waco are switching to Tyler Technologies which pretty much has a monopoly on Texas county government databases. That doesn't mean the software system is good. 
  
  
  
• Breaking Business News: Meta just settled in the middle of a trial brought by 29 states on the addictive nature of social media and the harm it can causes.  The amount of the settlement is $16.7 billion which doesn't seem like that much to Facebook's parent company.