Patricia Arquette Could Hurt Somebody

I Suggest A Couple From Newark And A Couple From Highland Park

ABC Television is currently looking for outgoing, opinionated, "tell it like it is" Dallas-area families to appear on the third season of the hit series "Wife Swap." And it's worth $20,000. More here.

"I Wish This State Knew How To Quit You!"

Rick Perry in 1989.

Why, Georgia, Why

The great Jon Mayer is 29 today. And he was born in Bridgeport . . . Connecticut.

Those Lows Look Incorrectly Low

Source. (Although I'm sure they will fix it.) Edit: Man, I completely misread the dang thing. I think the color coding messed me up. My bad.

I Know This Guy

Pretty amazing story of Fort Worth attorney Jerry Wood who crashed in Palo Pinto County after last being seen at the Wise County Jail on Friday afternoon. He spent two days in his car before being found today. I know him. He's a good guy.

Hey, Now

Yeah, I Know, Slow Sunday

But entertain yourself with this clip from the Crips v. The Bloods that occurred last might during the University of Miami and Florida International game. Remember kids, sports builds character.

Baylor v. Texas Tonight

At this moment, I feel as though I'm on a date with Christina Aguiliar. I've never been happier, but I know it won't last.

If You Know A Tech Fan . . .

. . . take away his belt and check on him in 15 minute intervals tonight.

Even I Hope There's A Little Outrage Over This

This cartoon appeared in the New York Post yesterday. Have memorial services even been held?

Fascinating

"This is a video from dove's campaign for real beauty where you see a girl get a heavy makeup and then 'fixed' in photoshop before she's beauty enough to fit the ad." Video. (This thing lasts 30 seconds and is actually an swf file that loads in a second.)

Lots Of Snow In Buffalo, NY

Sex. Religion and Law

There was a story in the DMN about a lawsuit filed by a former pre-school teacher at the First Baptist Church of Dallas. Quick facts: She gets pregnant while unmarried and then, according to a lawsuit, a meeting was called by her employer where she was asked questions of “Were you a virgin when you had sex with the child’s father?” and “Why can’t you just get married to the child’s father?” She also alleges that at another meeting, the human resources director told her that “she was not living a Christian lifestyle” and that she would have to sign a statement agreeing not to have premarital sex if she wanted to keep her job. The church was going to let her go but finally let her stay as a part time employee. There are laws prohibiting the discrimination against pregnant women, so she sues. My (irrelevant) take on the matter: I don't have any problem with the church's actions at all. This is the "other side" of the much hated "Separation of Church and State" doctrine. Just like the government shouldn't require prayer in school, it also should not interfere by reviewing what standards a church uses in the matters of hiring and firing. And Texas courts routinely back out of church related suits - it's called the "Ecclesiastical Abstention Doctrine." Lots of "doctrines" in the law.

Lightening Never Strikes Twice . . . Or Does It?

In 1997, and I remember this, a lady was seriously injured in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Paradewhen the Cat in the Hat balloon hit a big street light and it went crashing to the ground - on her. Her name was Kathleen Caronna (which, incidentally, sounds like the name of our County Treasurer.) Anyway, this week a plane carrying Yankee's pitcher Cory Lidle crashed into an apartment in New York City. You know whose apartment that belonged to? Kathleen Caronna. Yep. Same one. (Source.)

Did Anyone Call 911?

Decatur 56 Bridgeport 20 (Box Score)

Bab's F Bomb

Even the straight laced Today Show informed me this week that Barbara Streisand dropped an F Bomb in her concert this week. Apparantly she was going on an anti-George Bush rant when a fan yelled at her to shut up and sing. And then she dropped The Bad Word. Someone had a video camera. Someone put it on youtube here. (Warning: It contains a bad . . . oh, you know.)

"They're All White Up"

The Star Telegram's Bud Kennedy is on to the Wise County European American Republicans in his own blog. (And I'll give him credit: He saw it before I did.) Edit: This will be the subject of Kennedy's Saturday column that will appear in the Star Telegram.