Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• The First Baptist of Dallas is building a new $130 million 3,000 seat sanctuary in downtown Dallas. Those fellowship churches are making it hard to keep up with the Jones'.
• Eye gouge the weekend in a college football game.
• I'm convinced Texas, after killing OSU, will be in the National Championship game, and TCU may be having their best season ever that no one cares about.
• Moonwalk fail. This made me laugh.
• Last night I dreamed I was at the White House and sat by Sarah Palin (???) who accused me of stealing her old Polaroid camera. The the dream evolved into my "got to get to class but don't know my schedule" dream.
• The ladies at my cleaners are now asking me questions regarding legal advice. Sheesh.
• Two motorcycle deaths over the weekend -- but that's the first time I've heard of any in a couple of months.
• NBA player swats a bat out of the air on Halloween. What?
• Odd pet peeve of mine: Those that end every blog post with "But what the hell do I know?" or "I could be wrong."
• My Halloween costume was a straight jacketed mental patient. It was a good look.
• The Cowboys Stadium had its huge end zone doors open but not the roof yesterday -- apparently Jerry didn't want the sun beating down on the crowd. (From The Ticket this morning: "It's kind of like ordering the sun roof option for your car that you never really use."

Kids Today

I mentioned this a couple of days ago -- I stumbled upon a high school football game on TV and came across the most awkward of halftime presentations.

Ron Burgundy

I may be the only person to find this funny, but I loved the Newy Scruggs layout while Mike Snider does his annoying Anchor Man Small Talk.

Sheriff's Report

The Messenger has started printing weekly call summaries for the Wise County Sheriff's Office. Good stuff.

Confusing Halloween Pic

One of my friends sent this to me. I have no idea.

There He Goes Again With That Silly Compassion Stuff

Link.

Halloween Pick Me Up

Do These Look Like A Couple Of Burglars Who Would Use A Permanent Marker To Make A Disguise?

Why, yes. Yes, it does. That's a poor effort there, fellas. I'm worried about this new generation of kids if this is the best they have to offer.

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• When anyone is forced to submit to "diversity training", I don't have much hope that it will take.
• Chris Berman Applebee's commercial = Beating.
• My ranking of scariest movies: (1) The Exorcist, (2) Halloween, (3) The Blair Witch Project, (4) Rosemary's Baby.
• I don't get too excited about the NFL, but I'm interested in watching Brett Farvvvrrraaaa return to Green Bay on Sunday. I love tension.
• "Prominent" Houston plaintiff's attorney John O'Quinn died yesterday in a traffic accident. He made most of his money off of breast implant litigation (which one of my close lawyer friends involved in that litigation called "more like extortion than practicing law.")
• O'Quinn was also involved in the bizarre "what to do with Anna Nicole Smith's body" case before the goofy judge in Florida. I was so horrified by his performance at the time that I wrote about it here.
• And O'Quinn was one of five hand picked lawyers to split the $3.3 billion fee in Texas' litigation against tobacco companies. That whole thing was so seedy that former Texas Attorney General Dan Morales went to federal prison for his wrongdoing.
• But I have no idea if he was a good guy or not.
• Allen High School has 638 members in its high school band, and it takes 18 buses and three trucks to transport them?
• This is hard to explain, but I stumbled upon a metroplex high school game on TV last night (Channel 21 or 27?). It was halftime, they were promoting - on the sideline - some radio station at 93-point-something, and then they cut to a shocking dance competition of hot girls of a local club. Did I mention this was a high school game telecast?
• I wouldn't mind going to some church's "Hell House" because I'd like to see how Wheels Off it has become.
• I think Cowboys WR Roy Williams is a complete bust. And his attitude drives me insane.
• A 20 something Fort Worth teacher received probation from a jury for sex with an 18 year old student (an act that is only illegal because of the teacher-parent student relationship.) But the judge, who I've always thought was extremely uptight, gave the guy 180 days in jail as a condition of the probation.
• A baseball player gets killed when struck by a ball and his parents sue. Well, they just won almost a million dollars from the obvious culprit: The aluminum bat manufacturer.

Trench Coat Mafia? Naaaaa

Read more. Denny Crane was on this story yesterday, but I'm not sure it is much of a story. I can't tell if the "threats" were made last February or if they were referring to potential actions for February, 2010. Somebody read that story and figure it out. There's a huge difference between an "I'll kill you" said in anger (my third ex-wife used to say that whenever I would get handsy) and a Columbine Looney Toons Crazy Kid. But schools and cops freak out whenever they hear about stuff like this.

Ring Of Fire

Just finished an article in this month's Texas Monthly about the Aggie bonfire tragedy which, amazingly, is coming up on its 10 year anniversary. The entire piece is composed of quotes from those that were there or from those who could place some historical context to it. That sounded stuffy. There's some moving, moving stuff in that article. ("I was assigned to a kid who was trapped inside the stack. I remember I was pretty freaked out because the only thing that was keeping this kid from being crushed by a log was the body of the kid next to him.") God bless the Aggies. I remember two days after the accident that the Dallas Morning News had a horrific photo of the collapse. I'll try and find it.

Thursday Afternoon Pick Me Up

This girl might be to classy for Liberally Lean.

Costume Fail Thursday

Let's see. Spandex Man? Overweight Spiderman? Insane Clown Posse guy? Decisions. Decisions.

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• It's been a crazy baby week for the blogroll over to the right. Silicone Alley had her first baby, and yesterday BagOfNothing announced that Mrs. BagOfNothing was pregnant for the first time. The only way this gets better is if Crazy Texas Mommy surprises us with an announcement.
• Dick Cheney endorses Kay Bailey Hutchison and she's happy about it?
• Edit: WBAP's Mark Davis called Dick Cheney "a modern day Winston Churchill" this morning at 8:40 a.m. Really? Davis on crack?
• Crazy picture of a criminal defendant in a Fort Worth trial. He's either worried about the swine flu or everyone else is worried about him spitting on them so they put a "spit mask" on him. It happens.
• Ugh. I lost my DWI case yesterday. I tell you when I win so I might as well tell you when I lose. But driving two miles on a closed lane on 380 wasn't a good factual start to the case. But I really liked my client.
• But I was in the courthouse bathroom early that morning and looked in the mirror and instantly thought about Keanu Reeves in the Devil's Advocate.
• I swear I heard a young girl talking on a cell phone (loudly) on the square in Decatur yesterday afternoon say the following in a gleeful manner: "I feel so sorry for your mom. You're sixteen and you drink, smoke, and have sex. I mean even if your parents let you, they shouldn't know that you do that."
• The president of DART said that next year's UT/OU game would be a night game, and the Dallas Morning News just reported it without a second thought. Then all hades broke loose in the college football world as both schools denied it. I bet the DART president (1) isn't a bright man and (2) was thinking about the Cotton Bowl Classic that will be played in 2011 for the first time at night in Arlington.
• Cold front coming through today? Yay. But the three feet of snow in Colorado makes me want to go skiing for the first time in years.
• President Obama went to Dover Air Force Base at midnight last night to watch the caskets of our dead soldiers from Afghanistan be removed from a transport plane. I hope that influences his decision making.
• If there is bacon on your burger, you probably shouldn't be eating it.

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Double Fake Dead Harold Taft Predict Rain

Another Reason I Didn't Have Kids

Just my luck little Barry Jr. would get laid out and then start crying like a baby.

Men WIth Chainsaws And Attitudes

For the last few weeks, whatever company owns the powerlines in Decatur has sent crews around to cut back any trees that might interfere with the sweet flow of electricity. But those boys cutting down the branches do not know the words "subtle" or "restraint". They whack those trees like the foliage had just offended their manhood. The above picture represents what can be seen everywhere around Decatur.

Temporary Graveyard In Decatur Median