Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• I was just going to go with the bodybuilder, but I panicked at the last second. 
• Pilot/Hero Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger is releasing a second book. I've got a short hero's list, and his profiting with the first book was almost enough for me to kick him off it. The second book will do it.
• Notre Dame will play Navy in Ireland on September 1st. It'll start at 8:00 a.m. here. Cool. Very cool. 
• "Why?" - WBAP's Hal Jay after hearing their Sports Director say that "The White House will welcome defending NASCAR Champ Tony Stewart today."  (Shaking. Head.)
• The Anderson Cooper giggle fits are funny. 
• I always file a federal income tax extension (which is the easiest form in the history of ever.) Today is the deadline in case you didn't know. 
• My dreams continue to exhaust me. Last night I'm in a river. I see a fish. Then I see a bear come up out of the water to snag the fish. Then he looks at me. 
• If you drive on I-35 south of Fort Worth you'll see a restaurant called "The Rig" which has, uh, a big fake oil rig in front of it. It had a trailer in its parking lot which caught fire last night killing a homeless man who was inside.  I don't think that will help its Zagat rating. 
• Caught the premiere of "Girls" on HBO -- the new edgy series. Meh.
• The "60 Minutes" special on Mike Wallace on Sunday was great. That's a lot of tension between he and a translator when he asked the Ayatollah Khomeini during the Hostage Crisis if he was a lunatic.
• I don't care about the Mavericks and it wouldn't bug me if they missed the playoffs. But I get interested when one player got a technical foul last night for giving a Utah Jazz player a violent "Wet Willie." 
• I find it bizarre that a tremendous athlete died in a "Mud Run" in Fort Worth while trying to cross the Trinity River. Channel 8 had a great segment on it which had video shot from the water of people trying to cross it. It was chaotic. Since there was a rope from one short to the other, the organizers told participants they didn't need to know how to swim. Oh, my.  I predict that will be the last "Mud Run" at the Trinity. (The Dallas Observer has a pretty good story on it.)
• Bridgeport had one of those runs about three years ago. I prefer pavement. 
• Mrs. LL is a huge "The Office" fan and we've watched a ton of them with her in syndication. An oddity: One of the first ones I ever saw began with Dwight dressing up as The Joker. I've never seen it again despite rerun after rerun. 

Offensive TSA Patdown?

DM – A traveller’s sobs were left ignored this weekend, as she was subjected to an invasive pat-down despite her cries – in another blow to the TSA. A video posted to YouTube captures the weeping woman’s ordeal during the security checkpoint at an airport in Madison, Wisconsin. Mr Hoft wrote: ‘This morning at a Midwest airport I witnessed this poor woman suffering through this horrible sexual violation’. It’s the latest in a long line of disturbing behaviour during security checkpoints. Loud sobs can be heard as the woman, wearing a pink sweater, is patted down by a female TSA agent. The woman is then left alone, and can be seen hunching over, her arms crossed across her body in humiliation.The TSA has come under intense scrutiny for the pat-down and body scanner policy in recent years, especially in the age of YouTube.

Oh, come on lady. Suck it up. The only person that should be crying is the TSA agent

Just Announced: Pulitzer Prize For Breaking News Photography

In Wise County, we have car wrecks. In Afghanistan, they have bombs.

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Woman Went To Bridgeport To Have Third Baby . . .

And she left her other two kids with a boyfriend who would eventually be sentenced to life in prison for killing one of them. Today she pled guilty in Denton on her first day of trial in exchange for a 10 year sentence for neglect.

The prosecutor said she will have to serve "at least two years" but I don't think that's right. I think it's probable that she'll serve more than two years, but I don't know of a two year minimum.

(In a completely unrelated story, two Denton prosecutors were banned from a courtroom earlier this month after the judge told them they did not have “the innate intellect of a fifth-grader.” Ouch.)

Boston Marathon Live Results

Kinda cool.  Wise County attorney Thomas Aaberg is here, The Ticket's Junior Miller is here. 

Thomas posted this pic yesterday from Fenway Park:

Hologram Concert?

I'm way out of my element on this one, but apparently "Tupac performed by a hologram last night at Coachella." And by this I mean, some guy that got killed in Las Vegas was recreated via technology at a big old concert.  It may or may not be music, but it's pretty cool.

And who knew that the Japanese have been doing this for years?

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• You know, "Cabin in the Woods" sounds like it might be pretty good. 
• I got sucked in to quite a few Titanic specials yesterday. (Thought: I wonder what it would cost to rebuild the Titaninc and put it in service today?) 
• I miss that Little Ceaser's guy who would say, "Pizza! Pizza!"
• The feds are re-trying Roger Clemens for perjury beginning today. And they are using five prosecutors. Good grief.
• I finally saw "Bridesmaids" over the weekend. Funny, funny stuff. 
• Hayden Panettiere playing tennis in a bikini.
• Because temperatures might be in the 80s in Boston today, marathon organizers are allowing any runner to defer participating until next year.  I can't see many going to the trouble and expense to get to Boston taking them up on that offer. 
• My hair is getting long, but deciding to grow it out in the windy Spring was a dumb idea. I've got to wearing a visor on weekends because Mrs. LL says I'm "not a cap guy."  Edit: Hey!! If it is good enough for Steve Spurrier, it's good enough for me. 
• A 21 year old from Rhome is in the obituaries. What happened?
• I'm not sure I've ever seen so much early warning for tornadoes in the Midwest -- a warning that was dead on. 
• The Marlins finally hit a home run so we got to see what that awful looking contraption in the outfield actually does. Idiocracy.
• Fox 4 News at 9:00 last night was an epic train wreck. For some reason, they couldn't get any video to play so they were left to vamp and stretch things out. After 30 minutes, they abandoned the news altogether. But the anchors were very good sports about it. 

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Taking You Into The Weekend

Remember Yesterday's Random Thought About The Moped Fatality?

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What The Heck Is That In The Background?

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• Decatur Police have put up one of those "Your Speed Is" radar gun signs on Trinity Street south of the courthouse square. I'll be running sprints by it later this afternoon. 
• Big storms are moving in this weekend and if they get here Saturday night, that'll be one heck of a scene at the Texas Motor Speedway. 
• I had the Girls In The House lined up as quarterback and cornerback as I ran post patterns last night in the back yard.
• "You realize they aren't boys, don't you?" - Mrs. LL after stepping outside.
• (Seinfeld voice) What's the deal with those Fox Sports Southwest Girls (pic) that are on Ranger broadcasts? 
• A not-so-exciting Driving While License Invalid appellate opinion released yesterday which involved Boyd police and the Wise County Court at Law. 
• A lawyer coming from Denton to Decatur yesterday got lost and ended up in Runaway Bay, and I  laughed about it when he called the court for directions. Once he made it, he saw me in the hallway, ask me if I remembered him, and then told me how he beat me in a criminal trial 15 years ago. That gave me Failed Smile.
• There wasn't much left of a Mustang that crashed and burned on 114 by DFW airport last night. 
• I found that someone had left "Empire of the Summer Moon"  for me at my office this morning. 
• North Korea had a failed missile launch last night. The missile type? Taepodong-2.
• It's Friday the 13th. It's the second one we've had this year. 
• Mark Cuban getting interviewed while he's on a treadmill drives me insane. 
• I'll give the Messenger credit: That's an incredible amount of detail in the plywood-causes-wreck story in today's Update.

I'm Not Saying This Is True

I am saying that I received this email from a faithful reader who was not happy at the the thoroughness of the cooking tonight at a certain restaurant in Decatur.

From The Ranger Game This Afternoon

Slow Going On 114 Between Bridgeport and Paradise

Helicopter ambulance on the scene of a wreck.

(Thanks Shawn)

When Kids Go Missing

Someone sent me this from Parker County. Two kids go missing from Bridgeport (perhaps with a female relative) and, although it's worthy enough to get an "Endangered" flyer published, we've otherwise heard nothing about it?

It's kind of like going into Walmart and seeing a million "missing kid" flyers but then one child can't be found in Ohio and it becomes national news.

Somebody decided to drive into a diner on the Decatur Square last night