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Huffpo – Angus T. Jones doesn’t want to be on “Two and a Half Men” anymore. In a video interview with the religious website Forerunner Chronicles, Jones spoke out against the show and called it “filth.” “If you watch ‘Two and a Half Men,’ please stop watching ‘Two and a Half Men,’” Jones says around the 7:45 mark in the video below, which the website billed as “The Testimony of the Awakening of [a] star.” “I’m on ‘Two and a Half Men,’ and I don’t want to be on it. Please stop watching it, please stop filling your head with filth,” he continues. “People say it’s just entertainment,” he said. “Do some research on the effects of television and your brain, and I promise you, you’ll have a decision to make when it comes to television, especially with what you watch on television. It’s bad news.” Jones earns more than $300,000 an episode The sitcom made Jones, who just turned 19, the highest paid child actor on TV. As an adult, he still is among the biggest sitcom earners.


I heard this story all day yesterday but finally got around to viewing that portion of the clip. I'm very confused. Is that the same kid? About the only Two and a Half Men I've seen is when the kid was actually a little kid. And what's up with the black guy? He's just keeps looking at the camera like he's going to go all Marcellus Wallace on us if we didn't listen to Mr. Angus T. Jones. Worked on me, though. I'm never watching that show again.

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• I'm not particularly bent out of shape by the Hurst officer's treatment of the kid that has made the news recently. I'd suspend him for a couple of days, but that's about it. 
• The Texas Supreme Court approving forms for simple divorces is something I didn't think I would ever see. 
• I saw a lady testify in Wise County's district court yesterday who had the most high pitched and irritating voice I've ever heard. The whole place just stopped down when she uttered her first sentence. 
• TCU has a good team as they sit at 7-4. But let's face it, if they were in their old conference, they would be 11-0 and yelling about being shut out of the BCS Championship game.
• I've had several people mention that Michael Morton article in Texas Monthly (links below).  I've been bothered ever since I read it. 
• Man gets life sentence for DWI in Texas.  (It was also his eighth conviction and his blood alcohol concentration was a shocking .446).
• Had a client take a prison term plea bargain yesterday after she had been out on bond. I've said it before, but those are bad days at work no matter how fair the plea bargain.
• Every time I feel smart watching Jeopardy, they'll hit a category of literature or science and I then feel dumber than a fifth grader. 
• Our Christmas decorating is always delayed by the guy who we are willing to pay to get up on the high roof to hand the lights. Inside decorating is delayed because I hate to pull out what was once a beautiful fake tree which has been destroyed by The Family Cat. 
• I've got a DWI trial today barring a last second change of plans.

Shut Down The Internet

We've got 15 seconds of hot girls, a singing midget, and a face plant.

Guy Involved In Wise County Motorcycle Accident

Haven't found a picture of the girl yet.

Messenger story.

Justin Bieber Stylin'

As he meets the Canadian Prime Minister.

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• Being in the driver's seat with three people (two kids) fast asleep for six hours on the way to Arkansas is both equally relaxing and stressful.
• Auburn's coach gets fired two years after a National Championship. His consolation prize? He takes home $7.2 million buyout. Sign me up.
• I played "Capture The Man With The Flag" this weekend for the first time since I was a kid. I forgot that it involved sprinting, and my thighs are still on fire. But I would like to announce I won a game by juking a Freshman girl in high school.
• We later played basically Hide And Seek with flashlights.   I walked by a huge trash can and just casually looked in it expecting nothing. Instead I saw two eyes staring back at me. I screamed like a school girl and then laughed for the next five minutes. 
• Mrs. LL told me that Larry Hagman died. I asked her how she knew that. She told me, "He's a co-worker." (Remember she will be an extra which should make the cut on the next season of Dallas.)
• Wasn't the episode of "Who Shot J.R.?" on a Friday night during high school football season?
• How can Johnny Manziel not with the Heisman?
• I was watching the Baylor game on Saturday and would casually yell an "Oh, man!" every now and then. Mrs. LL told a relative, "Wait until the fourth quarter. He'll be standing in front of the TV yelling." Freshman-Girl-In-The-House: "Has he seen this game before?"
• Fourth-Grader-In-The-House: "That RG3 guy always makes a touchdown when he throws it a long way."
• The highways in Arkansas are fantastic. And I could see myself living up there.
• I don't believe the hype behind "Cyber Monday." (And isn't the term "cyber" just a little out-dated?)
• The Turkey Trot in Fort Worth was really fun. A 10K vs. the Dallas 8 Mile was a nice change and Fort Worth is just, well, Fort Worth. More friendly. More laid back. Just a fantastic morning. But I did have trouble finding my car on one of the streets in the Ridglea area after it was done.
• Ugly Christmas sweater T-shirts is a great idea.
• We are trying to talk the girls into letting the two remaining bunnies go free. They are getting big and wild. (That is, the bunnies. Come to think about it, that may be the girls, too.)
• The truce between Israel and Hamas was really bizarre. They struck the deal in the morning with it to take effect at 1:00 p.m. that afternoon. They continued to launch bombs at each other up until 1:00 p.m. 

On The Way Back From Arkansas

. . . Mrs. LL saw this sign in the women's restroom in a McDonald's.  This seems a bit insane. (No.  she didn't need a changing station -- just thought it was interesting.)

Weekend Reading (As I Sit In The Hills Of Arkansas)

Texas Monthly has just completed a two part article on the wrongful conviction of Michael Morton out of Williamson County. I thought I knew this case well but it is more shocking than I even realized. It has everything: A good-old-boy know-it-all former Texas Ranger turned County Sheriff, overzealous and perhaps even crooked prosecutors, and a CSI turn of events that no one would believe.

It is a must read for anyone interested in criminal justice. More importantly, it is a must read for anyone whoever sits on a jury in the future.

Part One.
Part Two.

In typical Texas Monthly fashion, they are long. But they are also fantastic. (The articles are free online but there might be a very quick and easy registration first. It is more than worth it.)

NBA: So Wrong

Edit: Video.

Above The Fold

Black Smoke Friday

Thanksgiving Annual Message

As this post appears, I'll be in a mass of bodies at a Turkey Trot. This year, for the first time ever, I'm doing it in Fort Worth instead of Dallas. It's a 10K instead of 8 miles. A little shorter run. A little shorter drive. Perhaps the first signal that I'm slowing down. 

And that brings us to Thanksgiving and my annual call back to this post, a favorite of the Liberally Lean readers,  that I put up seven years ago. . You know, I love going back to it. It is still true. And it t needs to be read slowly -- the way it was written.

Thanks to all of you for this crazy little club we have.

Unconfirmed Direct Message To Me

Malone is the man accused in the murder this week of a young woman.

From Casa Torres Yesterday

That appears to be a fox tail and fox ears on the lady on the right.

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

• Mitt Romney pumping gas looks like he is hung over.
• I wonder how many Black-Friday-Someone-Gets-Trampled stories there will be.
• I'm planning on running the Fort Worth, instead of the Dallas, Turkey Trot this year. Just seems right to make some changes.
• There's a lady catching grief for posing for a very disrespectful photo at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier which has gone viral. She's working hard to distance from it. 
• Some college kid scored 138 points in a basketball game last night. I think that tells me more about the opponent than the kid. Edit: Deadspin is calling the game "a sham" with an explanation of what a mockery it was. 
• It's amazing it took 49 years to get a historical marker for the place of the death of J.D. Tippett.
• There were two Indians convicted of murder and sentenced to death in Jack County in 1871. The murder occurred on May 18th with a trial on July 6th. Amazingly, the governor. Surprisingly, they were released two years later simply as a symbolic gesture to help with Indian relations. "The Trial of Satanta and Big Tree." 
• I'm not sure how the NFL survives the concussion lawsuit/concussion problem. They have attempted to make the elimination of concussions a priority but they seem to be happening more than ever. And those guys are just going to get bigger and faster.
• A sexual assault of a male caused a crime alert to go out at UNT last night.

Above The Fold

Oh, The Glamorous Life

DM –  An agitated murder defendant poured a cup of water over his attorney’s head during trial just as jurors were getting ready to start their deliberations. Jerome Power, 50, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, dumped the water on attorney Steve Addington, of Des Moines, catching Addington, jurors, and the judge off guard. Power, charged with first-degree murder, has been accused of strangling his 68-year-old neighbour, Doris Bevins, to death in her home on September 19, 2010. ‘It should have been a mistrial,’ Power shouted after dumping the water on Addington, ‘You sold me out!’

Go ahead. Watch L.A. Law, Law and Order, Matlock, or The Practice. The chances of the regular lawyer getting a cup of water poured on his head during the course of an average day is a heck of a lot more realistic.

P.S. What's up with this camera angle and the perfect photo? I'm not sure the photographer didn't slip ol' Jerome there a pack of smokes to give Mr. Addington an impromptu bath. 

This Is Some Blogger Named . . .

. . . Chloe Melas for some site named Hollywoodlife.com?  I've been doing this for years and the paparazzi never bothers me when I'm lounging around in my favorite speedo at Wise County Park.

No justice.