Random Friday Morning Thoughts

A little nostalgia with Decatur and Bridgeport playing for the last (?) time. But note that the then KVIL run twitter account's tweet misspelled @BridgeportHS and also linked to @BHSIndiansRadio which is an account for a high school in West Virginia.  Ah, simpler times. 

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• Thirteen years old. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The school is abandoned, they used a ladder, didn't steal anything, and were "between 20 and 22 years old."  Wouldn't a simple "get out of here" by the cops sufficed?
  
  
  
• This poor gal has been on the witness stand for two days reading her text messages between her and the American Idol defendant who is on trial for killing his wife.   There were over 150,000 communications between the two.
  
  
  
• Chinese Presidential Trip Update.
• I don't know the story behind this photo, but it's real and it's specatular. 
  
  
  
• Full guest list of last night's State Dinner. Welcome to the Oligarchy, 
• While Trump met with the communist leader,  he also released a weird campaign-like ad for TV that says the U.S. will never be a communist country which, ironically, was paid for by the U.S. government using your tax dollars. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• She's a true romantic. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Business Second™.
  
  
  
• The Second Business Second™.  The words "startup" and "$6.4 billion" in the same headline doesn't compute in my brain.
  
  
  
• Story (gift link.) Rich young men at Rivercrest Country Club in the 1920s. 
  
  
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
• Have I ever mentioned how I absolutely hate the Savannah Bannnas?
  
• Trump will attend the Texas vs. Tennessee game tomorrow.  I had no idea this happens: 
  
  
  
  
• Very legal nerdy stuff: A federal judge's order about a deposition seems almost fake, but it is not.
• Not necessarily legal nerdy stuff: Judges on the Court of Criminal Appeals went absolutely crazy yesterday in posting photographs in their released opinions: We've got multiple screenshots of a freshly wrecked car, an injured toddler photo in a murder case out of Wichita Falls (page 75), and, I can't believe it, photos of a dead child (pages 4-11) in the highly publicized Melissa Lucio death penalty case. 
• Lauren Whitener Clock: 7 years and 84 days.