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. . . of the prediction for this morning's weather as shown by Fox 4 News last night. Nice job.

My Favorite Lines From The News This Morning

Channel 8's Cynthia Vega (who is on the street near Everman) said "It has truly been a lethal mix of sleet and snow." Fox 4's Tim Ryan said that he had "called home to speak with my child bride" to get a weather report. Genius.

School Delays? Closings

This is what I have found but it could change and my news team has confirmed it to be 100% accurate. Decatur ISD - Closed Bridgeport ISD - KXAS & KDFW now changed to"closed" Boyd ISD - Website shows "closed" (now confirmed at KXAS) Chico ISD - KXAS now changed to"closed" Alvord ISD - WFAA now changed to "closed" Paradise ISD - KXAS has updated to "closed" --------------------- To cause mass confusion, the Messenger Update reads this at 7:49 a.m.: BREAKING NEWS - SCHOOL CLOSINGS - Due to icy weather, the following schools are closed today: Decatur, Slidell and Northwest. Delayed: Chico until 10 a.m., Bridgeport until 10:30 a.m., Boyd until 10 a.m., Paradise until 10 a.m.. Edit: At 7:51 p.m., the Update had been, well, updated to show all Wise County schools as closed.

Enough Sports. Time To Appease My Tens Of Thousands of Female Fans

And Details magazine doesn't look that bad.

Cotton Bowl

As the Dallas City Council foolishly considers investing $50 million in upgrades of the Cotton Bowl, it is time to come to the realization that the stadium's days are numbered. The Cowboys' new stadium will open in about three years - it will be a showplace of showplaces - and the New Year's Day Game and the OU/Texas game will move there at the drop of the hat. I love the Cotton Bowl. I have a very vague memories of my parents taking me there when I was in elementary school to watch the Cowboys play the Green Bay Packers. I was just a junior high kid when I watched SMU and Houston play there (I took a bus with a bunch of other kids from the Bridgeport Methodist Church, but that's all I remember.) I was there when Baylor played Alabama in 1981 in the Cotton Bowl Classic - a disturbing loss. I went to other New Year's Day games just for the heck of it: A&M and Notre Dame, BYU and Kansas State (an 80 degree day), Oregon and Colorado (with an empty stadium in freezing weather), and Texas Tech vs. Alabama. I was there about six years ago when OU's Roy Williams hit UT's Chris Simms in the end zone as the game winning interception was thrown. And I was there with good friends in the late 1980s when we decided to watch a Carter High School playoff game simply because we had heard so much about them. But tradition is only tradition. And time moves on. Far too quickly.

Old Cowboy Fans . . .

. . . like me, check out this presentation on the NFL Network: Monday, Jan. 22, 7:30 p.m.: Super Bowl XIII, Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Dallas Cowboys; Announcers: Curt Gowdy, John Brodie and Merlin Olsen (NBC) That's not the glorified NFL Films crap, but a replay of the actual broadcast. It was my senior year in high school, and I watched the game with friends across the street at a neighbor's house. I was sick to my stomach after the game was over - I wish I still cared that much.

Video Fun

(1) Why do I think the typical Wise County resident would embrace the human slingshot and (2) the audio of this clip reminded me of my fourth wife.

You Think Your Life Is Going Badly?

Memorabilia for Colts Cowboys ex-NFL kicker Mike Vanderjagt is not held in high regard.

Oh, You Didn't!

Pete Delkus keeps showing up on my TV screen teasing the 10:00 o'clock news with, "Snow and sleet in the forecast. I'll tell you when tonight on News 8 at Ten." I'm headed down there to beeeyotch slap him right now.

Drama Queen

The fact Bill Parcells has to take a couple of weeks to "think" about whether he wants to return as the Cowboys' head coach for $4 million is brain-numbing. He's nothing more than a drama queen wanting attention. T.O. does it with end zone celebrations. Bill is doing it now. There is no difference. Trust me. He'll take the money - and the publicity. (All the while his former understudy Sean Payton schools him during the regular season, takes AP Coach of The Year honors, and prepares for the NFC Championship game.)

A Post MLK Day Observation

There are some incredibly bright Public Defenders who have blogs that I check on all the time. (It's always good to know about other people that still care about the the Bill of Rights.) One in Dallas penned this non-legal observation a couple of days ago: The other day I went to the Dallas Stars game with a coworker (not a good game, by the way; L 2-5). While driving home, we had to stop to let the DART (Dallas' mass transit authority) light rail pass. The first train was headed north and was packed with what looked like to my coworker and I to be nothing but white people. Then a trained passed us going south, this time backed with nothing but black and hispanic people. It was a stark reminder that racial divisions (not to mention racial/class divisions) still exist, even in the PC, non-racist 21st century. Source.

There Was Some Type Of Chemical Spill . . .

. . . in Rhome today but I don't think it was a big deal. So I'll have to go to my default: Britney.

Serena Williams - Just For Fun

I Had A Pep Club Girl Wait For Me After A JV Game Once

After Patriot's quarterback Tom Brady led his team to a come from behind win over the Chargers on Sunday, this girl was waiting for him outside of the locker room. That, sir, was one fine day. Source.

They Didn't Even Teach Country Music In Law School

From a recent opinion in a dissent from the Waco Court of Appeals discussing the meaning of "reckless" discharge of a firearm: In the context of discharging a firearm, what does it mean to shoot "at" something? According to Bubba, when he shot at the juke box and hit it, it was not the reckless discharge of a gun because, in Bubba's words, "reckless hell I hit just where I was aimin'." MARK CHESNUTT, Bubba Shot the Jukebox, on LONGNECKS AND SHORT STORIES (Universal 1992). But we know that just because you hit what you are aiming at does not make the discharge any less reckless, or any more lawful. Thus we know that Bubba's definition is too narrow to be used in connection with defining "at" for purposes of the Penal Code provision.

Eeeek

Not Dead . . .

. . . just beaten down this morning. But I have learned that (1) 51% of all women are not living with a spouse, (2) Dallas-Fort Worth is getting a new sports talk station, and (3) a guy in a wheelchair has allegedly conned some teenage girls to send nude photos of themselves by pretending to be his teenage sonon the Internet (and "In one case, Burk offered a 16-year-old housekeeping work, but after a few visits, he persuaded her to pose nude for payment instead of cleaning.")

Golden Globes

I always like the Golden Globe Awards (which are on at this moment) but I'm not particularly jazzed by them tonight. At least until Salma Hayek presented an award and fired off that accent of hers. I think she's my favorite non-blonde actress in the history of ever.