Liberally Lean From The Land Of Dairy Queen

6.29.2007

Greatest Book-In Tattoos

About a dozen more here. And this doesn't come close to being one of the good ones. People are crazy.

Hey, Buddy, An iPhone Doesn't Look Like A Mic

"Moments after FNC reporter Laura Ingle said, 'We're going to need some security around here,' a man ran up and grabbed the mic -- not the iPhone -- during a live shot with Newsweek columnist Steven Levy outside an Apple Store in NYC."

Today on Fox.

Band On The Run

It'll be gone soon, but this radar on Friday afternoon is amazing in that it shows this narrow band of showers that has Decatur right in it path. And its raining. Hard.

Just Received This

It may be fake, but it's still funny.

USA! USA! USA!

The Road To Jacksboro Looked Ominous

And here's a very bad picture of the lake. That little island (which is not an island when the lake is down) is near the bridge on the east side.

The #1 Pick . . .

. . . in the NBA draft, Greg Oden, says, "I like to get my freak on at My Place On The Lake at Runaway Bay."

Mark Cuban Gone Crazy?

"Cuban is [counter-] suing [former Mavs Coach Don] Nelson, claiming the Warriors beat the Mavs in the first round because the Warriors' coach -- and former coach of the Mavs -- had 'confidential information and he [Cuban] wants to enjoin Don from coaching against the Mavericks.'" Story. Huh? First it was the refs fault and now it's Don Nelson's? Randy Galloway had the funniest line: "If Cuban wants to sue someone over the Golden State debacle, why not Dirk?"

6.28.2007

This Guy Is An Internet Legend

But he has resurfaced again after killing a jailer last week during an escape. I'm speechless. And the Hitler on the chest is a nice touch.

Price For A Gram Of Cocaine

Source: The Economist.

What A Cluster

Looks like the cops down in Red Oak have seen too many Die Hard movies.

For about four hours today, the FBI and every cop in the Southwest Proper surrounded a bank in Red Oak due to a hostage crisis. Turns out there were was no crisis. Yeah, a guy had robbed the bank earlier, but he had been caught away from the scene.

For some reason, the cops thought there was a hostage crisis going on inside. So one by one the employees of the bank walked out with their hands up.

Yeah, I understand everyone being cautious. But you would think that some time during the four hours there would have been enough phone calls made to convince everyone that everything was OK.

Leelee Sobieski Says,

"That last post gave me Tired Head. But did you see that Jack County is all over the television screen because it is in a Flash Flood Warning? I hope the Green Frog is OK."

Brown v. Board Of Education II

You'll see an uproar today and tomorrow over the Supreme Court decision today that "restricted the ability of public school districts to use race in assigning students to schools." No one out there will have time to read and understand what the heck is going on so let me, humbly, try to explain.

Here is what the case would look like if it originated in Wise County (and I'm not doing schtick here, I'm being serious for once):

Decatur has two elementary schools: Carson and Rann. For each entering first grade class, students (through their parents) are allowed to choose which school they want to attend. If one school is more popular, a decision needs to be made as to which students get their wish and which ones don't. The Decatur ISD School Board decides to create a tie-breaker system to make that decision. The first "tie-breaker" is whether the incoming student has a brother or sister at that school. If so, he's in. Next, the student's race is considered. Here's where things get interesting. Let's say that the Decatur population as a whole is 70% white and 30% non-white. The school board has decided that it would be wise to make sure that both Rann and Carson have that same racial makeup. So if Carson had become 80% white (i.e. "too white") then the non-white soon-to-be First Grade students who had selected Carson as their first choice would get preference. In the Supreme Court case decided today, one of the parents of a white kid who wanted to get into Carson, but was denied because non-whites were given preference, sued.

He won. The majority ruled that consideration of race in the application process was unconstitutional.

That decision is a direct result of the Bush Administration. Had a Democrat been in office Alito and Roberts would have been replaced with more liberal justices. Somehow, the Constitution is read differently based upon who is President. Isn't that weird?

You can read all of it yourself here.

WikiFuture?

I've written before about how amazing it is that Wikipedia ("the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit") will be updated within moments of an event happening. For example, when Anna Nicole died, her entry on the site was updated with the news within minutes.

But, in a story that seems a little bit chilling, police are looking into how the entry for a famous wrestler revealed the death of his wife before the police even discovered the body.

(Chris Benoit, the subject of the story, is the wrestler who killed his wife, son and then himself last weekend. By the way, I had never heard of the guy.)

(Thanks for the tip.)

Welcome To Prison: Population 2,300,000

I"m stealing this from someone else:

"ABC news has a great report on the continuing growth of America's prison population. Here are the stats about Prison, USA- 1. America has 5% of the world's population, and 25% of the world's prison population. 2. 5% of ALL black males are in prison. 3. One out of every 133 Americans in in prison. 4. The American prison population is greater than the population of New Mexico. The drug war is to blame for this mess. Prisons are not full because of a surge in violent offenders. Violent crime is down dramatically since 1993. Federal prosecutions for violent crimes are at the same level as 1980. Drug prosecutions are up over 400% over the same period."