Kid tries to join Baylor game tonight

Ladies!

Ouch. I'd be on the floor.

And that ref who didn't blow his whistle gives a whole new meaning to "let 'em play."

And Another - Arizona

Man, this one is really similar to the Mansfield gal that was tried in Tarrant County last year.

I'm Not Sure That Protective Order Would Do Much Good Anyway

An Ohio woman who was seeking an order of protection against her ex-boyfriend was brutally assaulted by the man inside a Domestic Relations courtroom last week, an attack that was recorded by a surveillance camera.

As seen in the above video, the attack by Rashad Greene, 30, occurred after he was briefly left alone in the courtroom with Dominique Morrow, 28, and Greene’s grandmother.

Greene and Morrow were in the Summit County courtroom for a hearing in connection with Morrow’s application this month for a restraining order against Greene, whom she has accused of making threats and abusing her. (More)

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

• Gov. Perry's assertion yesterday that the multi-billion dollar Rainy Day Fund be returned to the taxpayers is nothing but smoke.
• "Five people, including two men that investigators believe to be pimps, were arrested on charges stemming from a prostitution sting in Weatherford late Friday and early Saturday. Law enforcment [sic] officers with the Weatherford-Parker County Special Crimes Unit targeted online ads on Backpage.com and FWWeekly.com advertising services." Are there too many cops in this state?
• Mrs. LL has decided that The Family Pup needs to have puppies, and a "date" was set up with another Yorkie yesterday. I'm sooooooo keeping out of this and any conversation that goes with it. 
• Jason London, who I'm not sure I've seen since Dazed and Confused, got arrested and has one of the craziest book in photos ever. 
• It was a crazy day in the metroplex yesterday: (1) A huge line of storms with hail, (2) a man shoots his co-worker to death in Grand Prairie, (3) a Fort Worth cop was shot and is in critical condition, (4) T. Boone Pickens grandson dies, (5) cops were called to a conveniences store at I-30 and Watson in Arlington last night to find three people shot, two of them "critically" and (6) the teacher turns herself in for the hit and run death of child. Whew.
• And if Pickens, a TCU student died from a drug overdose as NBC5 is speculating about, then TCU's drug reputation is getting bad.
• Has Modern Family gone horribly downhill this season?
• Amazon announced today that it is building a 1.1 million shipping center in Haslet.
• I'm stunned that the female trooper involved in the caught-on-tape intrusive searching of two women a month or so ago was fired.  DPS normally stands by their own but they sacrificed that woman.
• Thanks for all the travel tips from Monday. (But pricing travel online is enough to take the fun out of a vacation.)

Random ad from this week's Messenger. Another church.

If Sen.Ted Cruz Wrote This, It's Going To Be A Wild Ride

Complete letter.

A Couple Of Unrelated "Wows"

In Case Your Phone Isn't Ringing

Media Day At The Superbowl

Mrs. LL's Television Debut In "Dallas" Last Night

The back of her head made it.

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• 730 South of Decatur is shut down right now due to a jackknifed tractor trailer. 
• Got to love the guy who tried to impersonate a fire marshal in order to avoid a $10 cover charge at the Glass Cactus in Grapevine.
• Todd Staples was on the Mark Davis Show this morning. He's the Texas Ag Commissioner running for Lieutenant Governor. He's also a guy who refers to himself in the third person to a nauseating degree.
• What a weird day: We've got a Red Flag Warning for potential fires with an 80% chance of rain as well. 
• The guy who shined a laser into a Dallas PD helicopter was described as was described on Fox 4 News last night as wearing only boxers and smoking a cigarette. Heather Hays tried to make a joke out of it but everyone laid out on her.
• The Tarrant County DA is taking heat for the "no fault" settlement of a sexual harassment claim. But, as expected, the taxpayer spokesman for his office was defending him in a "statement" released to news outlets. However, that statement is conspicuously absent from the archive page of news releases.
• When a dispatcher sends out a "second tone" to a local fire department in Wise County, does that mean no responded to the first?
• That monkey that Iran says it sent into space may be the saddest looking monkey ever. 
• The conservatives don't sound too excited about proposed immigration reform. 

From My Email Bag

Former Texas Ranger "Josh Hamilton stuck his head in my mom's car last night. probably more to the story but that's all I know."

Say what??????

I've Got To Get Me These Shorts!

Director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back)

Park Cities Kid Kills A Pig

Reed Graff is a second-grader at Armstrong Elementary in Highland Park, and presumably enjoys a good juice box, some down time with a video game, and the finest of cookies. He also likes shooting feral hogs with guns as big as him.

There's nothing particularly remarkable about this video other than the unusual bags under the kid's eyes and his gun safety habit of sticking his head in front of the the barrel. 

Our Dog Is This Dumb And This Happy

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• We saw Zero Dark Thirty this weekend. Review will be forthcoming, and I'm definitely in the minority on this flik. 
• Any suggestions about the Florida beaches in the Panhandle?
• There was a time in my life that dogs really did disgust me. Now I kind of want one around me at all times. 
• We were watching some awards show last night, and I tried to shut down the house (unsuccessfully) because the great and white haired Dick Van Dyke was receiving a lifetime achievement award. Afterwards, Mrs. LL said, "I can't believe they didn't show any of the clips from him in the Naked Gun movies."  It might have been the most awkward household moment ever.
• Former WBAP host Mark Davis is becoming a borderline religious zealot nut.
• A bat attacked a college basketball game this weekend. 
• The lack of football began to sink in this weekend. Not that I'd watch it if it were on, but I just like to have the option. 
• The Brazilian nightclub fire fire that killed at least 238 people was horrific. (Irrelevant Side Note: All club-goers that got out seemed to not have shirts on.)
• I've heard that in north Fort Worth a former huge grocery store is being converted into a "satellite church" for crazy pastor Ed Young's Fellowship Church. That means he'll be broadcast on a screen. Idiocracy.
• Dallas debuts tonight. Mrs. LL will be in the crowd scene when Sue Ellen makes a campaign appearance. (Unless the scene ends up in the cutting room floor which would also mean that Mrs. LL will end up on the living room floor.)
• I forgot to mention that at the Stock Show I met a lady who seemed to be in charge of "Bond's Ranch" as in the Bond's Ranch that is the basis of Bond's Ranch Road. 
• The Obama re-election and the Benghazi story petering out may put the Far Right in therapy.
• I'm seeing a headline that a person was arrested in Dallas for shining a laser at a Dallas Police Department helicopter. Without reading the story, how in the world could they ever find him?