Liberally Lean From The Land Of Dairy Queen

10.13.2006

"Jacksboro teen dies from gunshot wound"

I don't think this story made the Star Telegram this week.

10.12.2006

Katie Couric's . . .

. . . proposed "sign offs" for her new gig on the CBS Evening News. (As seen on David Letterman last night.) 31 seconds and well worth it. (And that last one strangely turned me on.)

Lt. Governor David Dewhurst's TV ads kill me. He must spend all of his time on a horse (because he loves that image) but now I learn he's saving babies "one at a time". As his ad tells me, after being elected Land Commissioner he [confusing correlation forthcoming] "championed the Baby Moses Program, encouraging mothers to bring their unwanted babies to safe places." And he actually had a re-enactment of the Baby Moses Program in action: An African-American firefighter longingly looks into the eyes of baby that was abandoned into his arms. Sheesh. (Maybe I'm just grumpy today.)

Hey, Now

MADD

I can't stand MADD. Not that their hearts aren't in the right place - it's just that they have too much influence. One of the first things I heard when I was a misdemeanor prosecutor in the Tarrant County DA's office, was "Be on the lookout for a representative from MADD being in the courtroom to observe you." They tend to be bullies more than advocates. But they sure know a thing or two about PR (as the graphic shows). Source. And, yeah, comments off. I've heard your wrath before. Today I just can't take it.

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".)