William R. Brown, 30

. . . died Monday in Afghanistan. His mother is Anita Walton of Boyd. He leaves behind a wife and two children. Our hearts, as I speak for all of you out there, go out to the family.

Who Would Have Thought

In light of the ongoing success of the Borat movie, MTV has been replaying old episodes of "Da Ali G Show". I watched a couple of them two nights ago - I had never seen one before - and I (literally) laughed out loud. If you like uncomfortable humor, you'll love it. This week's issue of Newsweek has a very short article on the actor behind Borat, a guy named Sacha Baron Cohen. I learned that he is engaged to Isla Fisher who was the very hot love interest of Vince Vaughn in The Wedding Crashers. It is nice. I like.

Adios, Macaca

Amazingly, the Democrats took Virginia tonight (or at least the AP says so) and now will control both houses of Congress. I know George W. is a lame duck but, man, the Republicans are sooooo going to blame him for this disaster. He might as well have leprosy because no one will want to be near him. It's been a long fall from grabbing that bullhorn shortly after 9/11.

And As We Bid Rumsfeld a Not So Fond Farewell . . .

. . . let's not forget this moment in history.

Enough of That Election Silliness

Let's get back to things that are important in America.

Defense Secretary Rumsfeld Is Out . . .

. . . and Robert Gates, the President of A&M, is to take his place. Yep, the same guy that appears on the cover of this month's Texas Monthly. From "Save the Aggies" to "Save the War."

Uggghh

D I've already moaned about the Dallas Morning News rack always being empty by noon. So what happens today? Now we have two empty Dallas Morning News racks.

Former DFW Weatherman Scott Chesner . . .

. . . fires off the most violent of F Bombs. Warning: Uh, there's an F Bomb.

"Ma'am, could you describe the suspect?"

Background.

Straight Ticket In Wise County

Thanks to a prompt return phone call from County Clerk Sherry Parker-Lemon, here are the "straight ticket" votes for Wise County: Republican: 3,228 (25.7% of all votes cast) Democrat: 1,571 (12.5% of all votes case) Libertarian: 112 Total votes cast: 12,541 Percentage of all votes cast that were straight ticket: 39.1% (That's my math, not Sherry's, in case I'm wrong.)

Wise County Registered Voters and Turnout

Stolen from the local Republican Party web site. (Click to enlarge.) Edit: Something seems wrong. In the current election we had 8,917 vote early and 3,624 vote on election day? I bet those numbers are reversed.

Great Pic From Last Night

I Guess We Did Decide

How the Republicans were able to screw up the biggest strangle hold of power in the history of ever is simply amazing. (The second headline is from the parody site, The Onion.)

Political Junkies Only

Dallas County looks like it has officially turned Democratic. Results here. If you look at the gazillion of county wide judicial elections, the margin of victory in race after race is 50.5% (Democrat) to 49.5% (Republican). It is an absolute Republican Judge Blood Bath. Edit: It changed to 52% to 48% when all votes were counted. This is truly the big news tonight. (Although the local media spends most of its time on the Governor's race which was never a race at all).

Britney Is Back On The Market

And looking pretty good.

Local Interest Of A Dallas Election (Updated)

Vaught is a former Bridgeport resident.

Local Election Results

Are here on the Messenger's site. Write this down: Since Wise County runs about 15 years behind the times politically, JP Mark Autry has pulled off the amazing feat of winning as a Democrat. As more and more newcomers move into the county who do not know who they are voting for, that may be the last contested Democratic win we will ever see in the foreseeable future. And I like Mark, I just think it's crazy to run as a Democrat in this crazy county. Incumbent JP Kay Swaim lost for one reason: She ran as a Democrat.

I'm Strangely Turned On

Hot girl does Creed impersonation. Here.