Maybe A First For Me

I pride myself on not being easily offended, but the current AT&T/Yahoo commercial bothers me. The word "offended" is probably too strong. Perhaps "uncomfortable" is more appropriate. The set-up: A couple in bed receives a middle of the night phone call. The husband answers as his wife looks over his shoulder. The guy expresses incredible concern, and says something along the lines of "are you sure?" and "is it him?" The punch line: He then he gets up to confirm that an NFL player on his fantasy football team is injured. I uploaded the commercial at youtube here. [Link will come online momentarily.] Yeah, it serves it purpose by getting people (or me, at least) to talk about it.

Cockroach v. Weatherman

I've finally found a guy I'm sure I could beat up.

Momma Says Knock You Out

You've probably seen the video of the reporter getting a can of whoop arse being put on him. Youtube.com has it now. Becky Oliver, beware.

Hand Delivered To Me Today By A Decatur Police Officer (Really)

American Skin

Paris In Chains

Source.

My Sesquisentenial Suggestion

I Don't Know

Back To Life

I've had a couple of people send me this pic. I don't know if it's real. I was in Jacksboro all morning begging the AG's office not to throw my court-appointed-father-very-late-on-child-support client in the hoosegow. I was successful, for now. It sure didn't feel like a Law and Order episode.

My Desire to Do Pro Bono Work Just Increased Dramatically

If I See One More Pic Of %$*&^ Suri . . .

. . . I will be on tomorrow's morning news as the fourth guy in two weeks that has lost his mind and barricaded himself inside his home. Where's my dress blues?

Play Simon - Go Insane

Here.

Horse Slaughtering

ABC's Nightline had a story on how some U.S. companies slaughter horses to be sold overseas. (Former Rep. Charles Stenholm is in favor of the process.) Which gives rise to this question: Why do Americans detest the thought of horse meat but embrace cow meat?

It's Finally Cool Enough To Jog Outside

And I've been doing it alot lately. My MP3 player had this ecelectic, er, eclectic playlist in it as I ran though the neighborhoods tonight. At this moment, I'm so glad I disabled all comments.

Fox 4 News Story On Wise County Child Abduction

The youtube.com clip of the story is here. (The picture is not the alleged defendant. It's our sheriff who appears in the story. Don't confuse the two.)

Jail Population As Of 8/1/06

Even when you click it, it is hard to read. But, the best I can tell, we have 55 people awaiting felony trials (both regular felonies and "state jail" felonies) and 28 people awaiting misdemeanor trials. (I can't tell how many of those are probation violation allegations.) It looks like 20 people are serving a county jail sentence (post trial or plea) and 13 people are awaiting to be shipped to the state prison system (post trial or plea). Total local inmate population is 133 with an additional 35 being held for other counties on a contract basis. But with the new jail, that only brings up to 51% capacity. My math could be wrong. (And some of the above figures just don't sound right to me.) The pdf file for the above graphic is here. (Oh, yeah, I bet the vast majority of them are drug users - there has to be a better way.)

Rick Perry's First Post-Labor Day Ad

Stuff I learned: Our borders are secure, we use really cool airplanes to secure our borders (and I got the feeling that thing was capable of bombing some poor group of Mexicans at the push of a button) and we pay for really cool "I'm a country kinda guy" jackets for our governor.

Most Bizarre Story In The History Of Ever

The Grunke brothers are very disturbed. (You probably don't want to click on it.)