8.26.2026

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




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


  • 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. 
  • 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.