Drug Lair?

This story made the DMN home page tonight. Man, I thought, that had to be a huge bust. Read long enough and you find they had "an ounce" of crack. An ounce? That's it? 28 grams? And this is the preliminary weight - trust me, it'll be less once the lab finally looks at it. Hardly a rare occurrence and certainly not enough to justify a front page story. Or, more importantly, three months of a tax funded investigation. But at least the cops got to use a battering ram.

Harsh

Bulls - Eagles

Not much buzz about the game this year. Here is everything I know about the series from memory: - I don't know anything about what happened before 1960 - Bridgeport won in 1973 (or 1972) and 1978 - I think Decatur owned Bridgeport throughout the 80s - Bridgeport turned the corner in 1992 (I think) and won a few more time in the 1990s - We've now gone back to the future with Decatur pretty much owning Bridgeport the last few years. You can't find sports analysis like that anywhere else. (And I can't believe its been five years since I wrote this about the game.) Pics from Decatur's homecoming bonfire last night are here. And Bull fans, youtube has a clip of the Bulls last touchdown in its last win over Decatur.

If . . .

. . . you worked near downtown Dallas and had an affinity towards Happy Hour, this map would make you very happy.

Good Night and Good Luck

The story pointed out that the company got a 10 year tax break that ended in 2005.

Scarlett Against A Cheap Background

Sports, Planes, and Death

Famous sports people that died in plane crashes (I didn't know of): Knute Rockne, Notre Dame coach, 1931 Rocky Marciano, Boxer, 1969 Rex Dockery, former Tech coach, 1983 Brook Berringer, great Nebraska QB, 1996 (I must have forgotten this) Marshall football team, 43 players, 1970

Ethnic Diversity 101

A curious Blog reader brought to my attention that the web site of the local Republicans has a link for "contact information" for all of the fall candidates. On that link (a pdf file), you get to see the basic information for the candidates - the normal junk - with the exception of the very interesting category of "ethnicity." Why is that on there? (And the sheet even lets you know "AE" stands for "American European".)

Paris Hilton Pumps Gas

This pic was floating around on the celebrity sites today. But I couldn't take my eyes off something in the background.

I'm Completely Skeptical Of Claims Like This

Story.

A Scan of a 1960s Postcard Of Decatur Motel

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Wise County's Black Creek Lake

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Courthouse

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I Don't Do Traffic Reports

But it looks like 114 at the Denton/Wise County line is completely shut down and will stay that way until 7:00 p.m. (If I'm wrong, blame WBAP.)

News You May Already Know

The media is going crazy over a small plane crash in New York City. It's not terrorism, but it freaks everyone out. And then, as the graphic shows above, the story took another turn. And the very top picture is Lidle with his plane as obtained from here.

Amen

Bestselling novelist John Grisham's first non-fiction book, The Innocent Man, tells the story of a wrongful conviction based upon the false testimony by a jailhouse snitch. The accused was exonerated 11 years later based on DNA evidence. Grisham recently said: "Wrongful convictions occur every month in every state in this country, and the reasons are all varied and all the same - bad police work, junk science, faulty eyewitness identifications, bad defense lawyers, lazy prosecutors, arrogant prosecutors."

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I Don't Know

Although Your Chances Of Getting Killed Remain The Same (Or Slightly Higher)

For $200 million, this is the new slogan for the Army: "Army Strong" will replace "Army of One." And I never understood the "Army of One" phrase anyway. So I find that I'm up to my arse in insurgents and I get to depend on . . . uh . . . me? My own little army of one?