Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

- Wise County tells Mena Suvari (pictured above from last weekend - uh, on the right) to "put on some britches."
- The Rangers won last night bringing them to .500. The last time they were at .500 was on April 13, 2007 (5-5),
- My review of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward of Robert Ford: Over 2 1/2 hours of Ford and James sitting around looking at each other, followed by the killing, followed by 15 minutes at warp speed of the very interesting post-assassination life of Ford.
- Robert Ford settled in Creede, CO after the assassination. Take a look at this incredible picture of the town in its current state.
- Query: I wonder if those that spew the incredible venom in the comments of the "gay Teen Court guy" below are also racists?
- Odd moment on Fox 4 a second ago from traffic guy Chip as he was reporting about an accident in Grapevine: "And the reports are that the driver has died. You're watching Good Day."
- I'm off to Jacksboro this morning. Listening to Steve Martin's new book, Born Standing Up.
- The Messenger has a story today about a gun incident on the Weatherford College campus in Weatherford (not the Decatur branch). I don't think it had anything in the world to do with Wise County. It even had the sub-headline of "Weatherford" above it. Just odd.

Oh, Maybe They Were Right

Over the last two weeks, there has been a controversy over whether this magazine cover depicting LeBron James was racist. I didn't get it. At All.

Until this was revealed yesterday.

If You're Not First, You're Last

A faithful reader sends along this pic of Dale Jr's car at Decatur High School today. Somebody needs to take that thing to the Sonic.

Edit: Make that another reader pic sent in which is pure gold . . .

Gay Man May Lose His Job Of Running Teen Court In Collin County?

Story.

"It's my fundamental belief that your public life and your private life are separate," Mr. Nichols said. "It's amazing that we're having this debate in 2008."

I agree with ya, bruther. (In a non-gay way, of course.)

Edit: The quote from Ricky Bobby comes to mind: "The room's startin' to spin . . . cause of all the . . . gayness."

I've Been Begging For This Here For Years

From San Antonio:

Hoping to ease clogged court dockets and put more drunken drivers under the state's watch, Bexar County District Attorney Susan Reed today will begin making a new pitch to people facing a first-time DWI charge.

The deal would allow drivers to avoid a formal DWI conviction — and some of the hefty financial penalties that come with it — in exchange for a quick guilty plea to a different charge and an agreement to abide by a raft of conditions that are far more rigid than the rules of probation typical for such cases.

I don't know if either of the Wise County Attorney candidates (who are in a run-off) would support such a policy.

Not A Joke

Learned that on April 1, 1934, Bonnie and Clyde (or part of their gang) killed two troopers at 114 and Dove Road in what is now Southlake. I'm not sure I knew that.

Baseball News

Greatest first pitch person in the history of ever:

Look who is in last place:

24 Hour Spam Update

Edit: After 55 hours . . .

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

-Motorcycle death in Fort Worth this morning.
-Madonna could hurt me, and Paris goes down.
-My dad and I were talking about my iPhone which has this nifty application that pulls up a Google map of your current location (no matter where you are.) If that technology could do it for my phone, we thought, it certainly has the capability of letting me know where my friends phones were currently located. So, yesterday, this article came as no surprise.
- I really like LifeHacker.com
- It was announced yesterday that Kathie Lee Gifford will host the fourth hour of the Today Show. If you watch four hours of the show, you deserve that misery.
-A faithful reader sent me this youtube video of young people in Palestine supporting Obama because they think he can bring peace to the region. I'm not sure I understand the emailer's point. But I do know those guys, with their thick accents, calling Bubbas in the U.S. before each primary are doing Obama no favors.
- Heard a radio ad for UTD's Master's Program this morning where they proclaim you'll get to mingle with "movers and shakers." Is this 1990? Do they get to meet Gordon Gekko?
- I'm guessing this is Google's April Fool's Day joke.

Tampa Bay Mascot Is Crazy

But funny.

Wise Demo (oxy) Caucus

A faithful reader sends along this email

Have you heard how the Democrat Party convention went in Wise Co.? I attended the disorganized, painfully slow and boring event.

When voting was finally conducted, the various precincts were grouped by their vote in the past governor's election. These groups then by majority vote selected 1 or 2 delegates to the Austin convention. Because Clinton won precincts across the county by about 2 to 1 margin, this pattern was reflected in the precinct votes resulting in Clinton winning ALL the delegates from Wise Co. So even tho Obama won about 35% of the vote, he received about 0% of the delegates.

Where this format was very unfair to Obama here, he had the same advantage in the really big precincts statewide. My summary is that it was a real mess; Wise Co Democrats are a weird looking, very old agglomeration of folks with nothing better to do on a Saturday morning and afternoon. Will Rogers would recognize this as not an organized party, it was a Democrat party.

What A Coincidence

Arizona Cardinals QB Matt Leinart and I had the exact same weekend. Without the hot tub. And the four girls.

Why Don't I Get Cases Like This?

Hot college chicks charged with assault. Assistant football coach, who was probably just sitting on his couch at the time, loses job.

Story.

Gmail

Two things:

(1) I've switched over to Gmail and love it. The "labeling" as opposed to "folders" takes a moment to get used to, but it's tremendous. (Its custom filtering is also great.)

(2) And as far as spam is concerned, it has a tremendous spam blocker: The best I've seen (puts Yahoo Mail to shame.) I also believe that I get more spam than anyone. I just cleared out my Junk Mail - which had over 5,000 in it - and there's the fresh and clean screenshot above. I'll post another at the end of the day and week to let you know how much it catches. (I just looked and it has already captured 3 in the last couple of minutes.)

Man Arrested. Might Be Hispanic.

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

- It looks like an alleged drunk driver smashed into a trailer carrying a huge replica of the Ten Commandments overnight. Fortunately for him, alcohol is not mentioned among them.
- If North Carolina and UCLA win next weekend and then UCLA wins it all, I've won a $200 gift certificate in this pool. (Sidenote: Hypnotic tourney pic here. Edit: Great companion pic.)
- The great Christopher Walken (65) and Al Gore (60) have birthdays today.
- "HOUSTON -- Rusty Yates - the father of five slain children - has a son with his new wife."
- It's the first day of Ranger baseball. It's the last day of hope for Ranger baseball.
- I've worn a tie to work for 22 years.
- I don't have a pic of it, but Channel 8 has the goofiest graphics for its traffic reports. Cars, if to scale, would be 50 feet long.
- I've been watching The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. The movie is almost as long as its title.

Bad Photo

Carnage?

As I sit in a restaurant in Boyd (don't ask), I've seen a ton of
emergency vehicles go by.