It Just Might Happen

(Language warning.) This is the first three minutes of Idiocracy, a movie about a normal guy who ends up in the future and automatically becomes the "smartest man in the world" - simply because the rest of society had been dumbed down. (The president of the United States is a former ultimate fighting champion, and the House of Representatives has been renamed The House of Representin'. Oh yeah, the #1 television show is a program that constantly shows men being hit in the crotch.) Anyway, the first three minutes shows how it could happen. Ever since I first saw it, I can't get it out of my mind. It's supposed to be a comedy, but most of my friends who have seen it believe it's not that far fetched. Interestingly, a study came out in London last week saying it will happen.

Favorite Name Of Big 12 Basketball Player

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Mildly Interesting

The Fort Worth Court of Appeals went traveling today and is using the district courtroom in Decatur to hear oral arguments. I'm 99% sure that hasn't happened before. The three judge panel in Decatur this morning consists of Justices Terrie Livingston, Bob McCoy, and Sue Walker.

I listened to a little bit of the proceedings this morning but it got pretty boring pretty quick. Something about whether the Attorney General was a party to a child support proceeding and another case involving a failed property development near a private landing strip.

(Photo taken from outside the courtroom through a window in the door.)

As We Wrap Up Halloween

Trinity Lateral-Fest 2.0

Here's a better angle of the crazy touchdown play involving Trinity University last weekend. It's worth another watch for one reason: In addition to the amazing laterals, check out the Millsaps player (dark jersey) who just squats down around the 50 yard line while the play nears its end. And I think he is still there during the celebration.

Happy Halloween

Trivia: This girl (I think) is now 39 years old.

Prepare For More Wells

In other news, gold hit $800 an ounce and Google hit $700 a share. So, in summary, we can't afford natural gas, gold, or Google.

Halloween Giggle

I assume it's real.

And Another

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A Tow Truck Is Never A Good Sign

If you folks in Wise County are wondering where your Fed Ex package is, it might be a little late.

The Today Show . . .

. . . cast always dresses up for Halloween. This year they went with the Munsters theme. That's Matt and Meredith.

I'm Soooo Trying To Figure Out What Position He Was In

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Black Creek Lake from last night. Ya know, I've never been to Black Creek Lake.

We All Need To Be Reminded Every Now And Then

For the heck of it, I googled the name of a girlfriend of over 20 years ago. Just a handful of hits came up, but within those small number of hit I quickly learned that she was a schoolteacher near Houston (which is exactly where she expected to be.)

But the only information about her came on a post she had made on a blog. A blog about a family that struggles with a newborn diagnosed with leukemia. Heck, I spent more time reading about the baby than what she wrote. It puts life in perspective. As I say so often, "I can't imagine . . . . "

The home page of that blog is here. The first post, the moving one that I first stumbled upon, is here.

Halloween Brit

And I forgot about Paris from one year ago. And Lindsay. Or, eek, Ann Curry.

I Finally Found Some Guys I Wouldn't Want To Defend

All the college sports blogs have posted this youtube video from last weekend. (Extreme language warning, by the way.)

It shows a mob of Penn State fans taunting (and actually assaulting with beer cans) a couple of Ohio State fans. The guy holding the camera is a punk. The kid at the end is a huge punk. I rarely get mad, but this thing just drives me insane.

Edit: The Penn State student newspaper covers the incident.

Normal Looking Guy

But you do not want to know what he is accused of. At least it's close to Halloween.

Not Sure . . .

. . . what that plume of smoke was coming from the Bridgeport area (as taken from Decatur overlooking Lowe's). It just might be the energy plant burning off excess whatever, but I'm sure someone knows.