Midwestern State?

The condemnation, the shaking, the tension, and the awkwardness. (I saw this yesterday when it was just labeled "A school in Texas". Today a user on youtube says its Midwestern State up in Wichita Falls.)

Now That's The Way To Run A Congress!

I'd watch CSPAN 24/7 if I had the chance to see eggs, fights and smoke bombs!

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• Goldman Sachs executives will testify before Congress today. Prepare yourself for lots of five second soundbite showboating on the evening news ---- that is, from the congressmen.
• Someone will say, "While people were being kicked out of their homes through the front door during the mortgage crisis, you were [insert witty way of saying making a bunch of money.]"
• Chicago murders so far this year: 116. US Troops killed in both Iraq and Afghanistan during same period: 127. Yep. Pretty much the same.
• Rick Perry and Glenn Beck were on stage together in Tyler, Texas over the weekend. Perry might want to throttle it back a bit.
• I've already had the Yellow Pages salesperson come by this morning for her appointment. I think I gave her the impression I wanted the renewal deal done in a hurry. She was accommodating. Big time.
• The high tech blog Gizmondo pays $5,000 for a "lost" new iPhone 4G prototype, writes a review about it which gets ton of Internet buzz, and then the author gets his home raided and computers seized by the police. Big government, indeed.
• I just heard someone in my office use the word "potty."
• I wouldn't even bet on the Mavericks to win tonight in Dallas before being eliminated in San Antonio.
• I had read about the "mutilated" woman found on a Lewisville street yesterday morning, but I had no idea she was killed with a chainsaw by her husband. (Or so The Ticket says.)
• There are a couple of hotels in Decatur which seem to have been under construction for years.
• Almost one year ago I wrote about a Texas Monthly article that put me in tears. Last week, the author won what is probably the highest honor for magazine writing for that very same article.
• The doctor that treated deceased Tarrant County DA Tim Curry was reprimanded for telling another cancer patient, "if it were me, I would get a bottle, a gun and go into the woods and contemplate my options." Good lord, woman.
• I've never called 911. For some crazy reason I believe it is to be used only for emergencies.
• Paris Hilton wannabees at the Ranger game last night. Hey, now.
• How silly was it to cancel Fort Worth's Mayfest last year due to the Swine Flu?

Explosion?

http://www.wcmessenger.com/update/?p=2022

Barry (from iPhone)

Allow Me To Translate

Don't be stupid.

Monday Afternoon Pick Me Up

Flashback: 1992

I was actually going to do a post on the new numbers for circulation for the Dallas Morning News when I stumbled upon this from the Dallas Morning News. (Click to enlarge). And the remainder of the story is here and here.

Edit: Sorry, you can't post a comment naming someone as being "right in the middle of it" and "got away with it" without any proof whatsoever. Trust me, I'm protecting you.

Ticket Personality Might Be In A Little Hot Water

Mike Bacsik is a former Major League pitcher who now is the producer for Norm Hitzges show on The Ticket. He gets his fair share of airtime, however. Last night he seemed to forget that the radio station's sometimes weird and shocking sense of humor might not be understood by the masses. (It's a reference to the San Antonio/Dallas game.)

He has since deleted the post (and a few others) from his Twitter feed but someone grabbed a screenshot of the posts before he could do it.

And now we've got a small storm brewing (see people referring to the incident here.)

But for years there has been an audio drop of one of the morning hosts saying, "I think all Mexicans are dirty." That's probably the origin of his tweet.

Update: Suspended.

Remember This Lady?

This Plano woman was found not guilty by reason of insanity a few years back of killing her baby by cutting his arms off. She was in the news briefly this weekend after a generic AP story reported she had been ordered back to a mental hospital. But look at this shocking tidbit buried in the story:

"[I]n March, firefighters in the Dallas suburb of Richardson found her walking down the street at 2 a.m."

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• Last night I dreamed I ran into Ann B. Davis (Alice from The Brady Bunch) in the Northeast Mall. And then moments later I saw LizaMinnelli. That's so weird.
• Hung out by a beautiful backyard pool on Saturday night. It made me realize how incredibly boring my backyard is.
• The mysterious unknown little boy found dead in a Wylie park was ID'd over the weekend. Then it seems like the cops jumped the gun and arrested his grandmother.
• Richie Whitt over at the Dallas Observer posed an interesting question about the many people who showed up for the dead boy's candlelight vigil: Why don't we care that much about the living?
• I wish there was a constant Mark Cuban cam that I could watch when the Mavericks are struuuugling.
• A team leading a seven game series in the NBA by a 3-1 lead, have gone on to win the series 181 out of 189 times. (That nugget comes from WBAP, however, so it might be wrong.)
• I caught a little bit of a bicycle race at Indiana University this weekend on TV -- the same race that is featured in the old movie Breaking Away. The crashes are insane. (And I've mentioned it to a couple people but I don't think anyone remembers Breaking Away.)
• A Dallas Morning News delivery guy was murdered this morning. I think I recall the same thing happening to another one a couple of years back.
• There was a borderline assassination attempt on the President this weekend which seems to be getting very little press.
• I haven't had my home air conditioner on in a week and resorted to the weird practice (for me) this weekend of leaving my windows open.
• President Obama visited Billy Graham at home over the weekend. It seems like Graham has been on his death bed for years, doesn't it?

Fort Worth Cop Allegedly Drunk -- Decides to Ignore Pavement Ending

This seems to happen a lot at Fort Worth PD. They need to get control of their scene over there. (Story.)

From The Update This Morning: Major Accident! Not So Much!

"Think this is going to end well?" -- Tweet by KTCK's Gordon Keith.

Story.

Tweet.

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• The Cowboys drafted WR Dez Bryant last night. Hey, that guy's not smart enough to remember to run a 15 yard out. I don't have a good feeling about this. At all.
• I've been looking everywhere for a 13 year old document, and I finally found it in the back of my closet last night. I had put it in a secret hiding place so I'd always have it. It was so secret that I almost lost it.
• I also found a bunch of girlfriend letters from the 1980s. Oddly, I wasn't that interesting in reading them. That's kinda sad.
• In this day and time of "get tough on DWI" is 30 days work release (show up on weekends and work from 9 to 5 and get 3 days for 1 credit), tough enough for a DWI-Second?
• Determing the minimum allowable age of your mate: Take the oldest person's age, divide by 2, and add 7. Whew.
• A wave of bombings in Iraq this morning -- at least 61 dead. Dubya's legacy continues.
• Anyone remember the huge record store in Fort Worth in the 1970s called "Peaches"?
• Fox and Friends this morning (you have to watch that silliness some day) was basically a full time commercial for Huddle House. (I think Decatur had one but it went belly up in about a year.)
• And Tim Tebow went on the 25th pick to the Denver Broncos? Reeeeaaaaaccccchhhh.
• Lots of emergency sirens in Decatur this morning at 8:13 a.m.
• Yesterday I went down to the DPS office to replace my license that was lost/stolen five months ago. A surprisingly smooth experience.

Chico Newborn and Mom Featured In The Dallas Morning News

Story.

(Thanks Christine.)

A Lady Just Stopped By My Office And Invited Me To Get Neeked

And gave me a free T-Shirt.

It looks like our local nudist resort is having it's annual Skinnydipper Sun Run 5K this Saturday.

I've got to go stretch.

Seems Like A Dangerous Place

The Update has a pic of a wreck in front of Allsups on 287 in Decatur. I never have liked traffic pulling onto the highway like that (or having to slow down on the highway to get in there.)

Uh, Oh

Hey, I don't care what you do with your private life, but why high profile people do the "park thing" is incomprehensible. Anyone remember Ty Herndon?

(Source.)

Edit: More details.