The Three Stooges

Jim Carrey, Benicio Del Toro and Sean Penn

These three were rumored last year to be starring in a new movie about the comedy trio, and this picture started flying around the Interweb today. I have no idea if it is real or photoshopped, but that's the strangest grouping of actors ever.

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

• Would you pay $106 million for this? The older I get, the more I'm convinced that the "art" world is nothing but a scam.
• I stared at a lawyer at a license hearing this week because I was trying to figure out if he had on a toupee. Looked absolutely normal from the front and wheels off from the back. I'm still not sure.
• The more I read about the mortgage crisis (and that's a lot), the more I'm completely convinced that the Community Reinvestment Act had nothing to do with it. It was greed, and greed alone, that caused mortgage lending at ridiculous standards. People weren't forced to lend billions -- that was a voluntary act.
• Saw a prosecutor turned new defense lawyer at the courthouse yesterday who told me he was just "seeing how this works from a new angle." "It's easy," I said. "You go in that office and get beaten down, and then you change floors and go to a different office and get beaten down. That's all there is to it."
• Honda has never had 0% interest or a rebate deal. (I could have sworn I heard that last night.)
• That flooding in Tennessee, which is being overshadowed due to the oil spill, is awful.
• I've said this recently, but I never have pleasant dreams. Three or four times a week I get to wake up and be thankful that it was "only a dream." (And their just weird: Had one this week where my dress shoes were sliced up.)
• Cops raid a home and shoot the family dog with kids present all over a little bit of marijuana. Drives me insane. (Video.)
• I write most of this between 5 and 6 in the morning.
• Techy fun: Every now and then you'll see someone on Twitter try to send a direct message but accidentally send it to the world. Saw one last night that said, "I still love you, baby." Man, I want to know the story behind that.
• Corey Haim died of "natural causes" the corner ruled yesterday. I'm always confused by that -- especially if you are young. You have to die of something? Right?
• The Phoenix Suns will wear jerseys tonight that say "Los Suns" in protest of the new Arizona immigration law. Viva la basketball protest.

Caption This

Star Telegram story.

I Wanted To Hate This

But it's kind of hard to do that.

I think that Glee TV show is infecting the young people of 'merica.

17 Year Old Runs On Baseball Field -- Gets Business End of Taser

This, my friends, is one great photo.

Local news footage above. The unedited raw footage on youtube here.

Hot Chick From DFW Radio

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/sportatorium/2010/05/one_of_the_hottest_women_in_na.php

Barry (from iPhone)

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• While you were sleeping: A man suspected of being behind the Times Square bomb was arrested trying to board a plane to Dubai last night.
• And the guy had a home in Bridgeport ..............Connecticut.
• The goofballs on Fox News this morning said, "I hope he wasn't read his Miranda rights."[Edit: That Brian guy in an off the cuff remark]. Sheesh. The guy is a naturalized U.S. citizen, accused of a crime on U.S. soil, and was arrested in the U.S. I thought "obeying the law" (i.e. immigration) was a big deal lately.
• While you were sleeping #2: A security guard fired at two guys in downtown Dallas who had a safe from the Sixth Floor museum loaded on to the back of their truck via a wench. [Edit: Too funny to correct.] They fled. I wonder what's in the safe?
• A picture of Tony Romo and that guy from The Hangover. (This was before the Whitehouse Correspondence dinner last weekend.)
• I liked it yesterday when that small band of thunderstorms moved through. Then you had sun and clear skies in the West and a dark-as-night blanket of clouds in the East.
• You'll see rookies hold out of NFL training camps until a contract is signed, but they never hold out of the summer mini-camps. What happens if Dez Bryant had torn his Achilles last weekend? (Former UT star Limas Sweed fell victim to that very injury on Sunday.)
• Redneck Mother's Day gift out of Springtown (via Craigslist.)
• I had to break into a closed inside locked door (mine) this weekend. I did it with a hack saw blade -- without the saw.
• We know the Super Bowl is coming to Arlington in 2011 but they are now seeking to bring it back in 2016. I'll bet they get it.
• ESPN's 30 for 30 (its mini-documentaries) featured former Longhorn Ricky Williams last week. It was awful.
• I've lost about 11 pounds on Nutrisystem (and a heck of a lot of running.) That's about a pound a week.
• Jessica Biel in some "Hey, now" boots.
• Speaking of Texas, they've got a Big 12 conference win streak in baseball going on -- I think it's at 20. They beat Baylor twice over the weekend. Both times in extra innings. Ugh.
• There were only 8,874 at the Rangers game in Oakland last night.

Caught On Nanny Cam: Cat Attacks Babysitter

Cats are crazy. Since when have they care about anything?

That Oil Rig Thing

Some amazing pics, as always, at the Boston Globe.

Oh, and the crazy conspiracy theory: a North Korean submarine attacked it. (Thanks, Ken.)

But Rick Perry thinks if may be "an act of God."

From Messenger at 4:41

Your Day Is Not This Bad (With a Huge Edit)

I wonder if the "negotiator" ever thinks to himself, "Sheesh, this guy really does have a horrible life." Uh oh. He's naked. http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/05/03/2159505/fort-worth-police-negotiating.html Edit: A Fort Worth working loyal reader sends along these pics! Oh, my!

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• The Six Flags ad campaign has added a second weird dancing guy -- kind of a Minnie Me character. It's just weird.
• A bomb in Times Square, one along a marathon route in Pittsburgh, and one in Colleyville on the same weekend. Coincidence? Yeah.
• Underrated movie that I saw on cable this weekend: One Hour Photo.
• A mini-series that should have been great but is a flop: The Pacific.
• Tiger Woods' golf wheels flew off last week and he didn't make the cut for, I think, the sixth time in his career. I wonder if there's a chance he's completely, completely lost it?
• Twenty-five shot dead in Mexico over the weekend. Heck, I'd want to get out of there, too.
• Motorcycle death in Sanger over the weekend.
• The Rangers started the weekend in last place and ended it in first place. (And pitchers C.J. Wilson, from the bullpen, and Colby Lewis, from Japan, are fantastic.)
• Our DA's office has already hired two prosecutors to replace the two that left last week.
• I wrote a couple of weeks ago about a DPS trooper who was convicted of shaking down motorists for cash. Now, after a about a week in jail, the 42 year old is dead.
• Denny Crane threatens frequent Messenger letter to the editor writer Ken Hughes?
• That oil slick in the gulf is bad and getting worse. But I can't believe the Fox News crowd has started a "where was Obama's response?" campaign.

Best Obituary Of The Year

From Fort Worth. The rest of it.

(Source: Bud Kennedy)

A Very Newsy Front Page Today

From The President's Commencement Speech At Michigan Yesterday

Still, if you’re somebody who only reads the editorial page of The New York Times, try glancing at the page of The Wall Street Journal once in a while. If you’re a fan of Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh, try reading a few columns on the Huffington Post website. It may make your blood boil; your mind may not be changed. But the practice of listening to opposing views is essential for effective citizenship. (Applause.) It is essential for our democracy. (Applause.) And so, too, is the practice of engaging in different experiences with different kinds of people. I look out at this class and I realize for four years at Michigan you have been exposed to diverse thinkers and scholars, professors and students. Don’t narrow that broad intellectual exposure just because you’re leaving here. Instead, seek to expand it. If you grew up in a big city, spend some time with somebody who grew up in a rural town. If you find yourself only hanging around with people of your own race or ethnicity or religion, include people in your circle who have different backgrounds and life experiences. You’ll learn what it’s like to walk in somebody else’s shoes, and in the process, you will help to make this democracy work. (Applause.)

Preach on, sir. Preach on.

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Holy Crap: Get Ready For College Chaos!!

This news is breaking all over the place tonight. Wow. My prediction: The Big 12 is dead. Texas will probably flee to the Pac 10. The Aggies will go along with them or defect along with OU to the SEC. Everyone else will scramble for whatever they can get.

If you are fan of college sports, you'll remember this day forever.

Edit: Ok, this may be a false alarm. Power Down. (My bad for getting sucked into it.) But, trust me, this is going in happen in the next 60 days. Either both Nebraska and Missouri or one of them.

Edit: And the news got my attention because Sports Illustrated's Peter King acknowledged it while it was going down.

The Messenger Has Lost Its Ever Loving Mind

This political cartoon will appear in this weekend's edition of the Wise County Messenger. I've always thought their political cartoons were a little odd for one of the most conservative counties in the nation, but this one is Jump The Shark crazy. (If you've been out of the loop this week, Arizona passed a get-tough-on-immigration statute. The cartoon depicts the Arizona flag with the star portrayed as a Klansman.)

I Just Noticed Something

I've seen this People magazine cover all over the place, but I haven't really looked at it because Sandra Bullock just doesn't do it for me.

But then I took a close look at the kid. Man, that is one menacing face. I can almost hear Samuel L. Jackson's voice saying, "Say 'what' again. I dare you! Say 'what' again!"