Drugs + Dumb = 30 Days

A What?

Story.

(And wikipedia has more on the little fella.)

That Would Be Awkward

Truck Jump Fun

A "Saint Jo" ambulance shows up at the end, but I'm not sure this is from Texas.

(S-bomb warning.)

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• They saved that little boy being held in a bunker in Alabama but they haven't disclosed the details of how they did it.  One reporter asked the Sheriff last night if an explosion they heard in the afternoon had something to do with it but he wouldn't say.
• Attorney General Greg Abbott and Ted Nugent, among others, were on Piers Morgan last night "discussing" guns. Man, it made me cringe.
• This morning Nugent said, "Did I dance on his skull with an intellectual pirouette or what?” He might want to re-watch the tape.
• February Fog?
• Facebook page of the Boyd man killed yesterday in a traffic accident on 114.
• The murder case where Chris Kyle is the victim will be tricky. Decorated war veteran killed by war veteran driving crazy by war.
• I've had clients who have suffered from PTSD. There's no myth about that. It's very, very real. 
• The Neighbor's Cat was catting around in our back yard in the middle of the night causing The Family Cat to go crazy. I got up and let The Family Pup out to go chase it. The Pup launches out of the back door like a cruise missile when I do that. 
• The Update notes that the man who was injured in a home invasion last year has died from his injuries. Will the invaders now be charged with murder? Not likely. All of the suspects have already pled to Aggravated Robbery and have been sentenced. 
• I think the correct term is "pleaded" instead of "pled" but no one uses "pleaded" because it sounds so weird. 
• Johnny Depp as the Lone Ranger just sounds cool.
• The Internet was abuzz yesterday about the bones of Richard III being found under a parking lot in England.  I hope I'm not the only one who wasn't sure there even was a Richard III.
• Note about the Mavericks "keeping their powder dry": They got drilled by Oklahoma City last night while former Mav Tyson Chandler had 20 rebounds for the Knicks. 

Oh, Boy. Here We Go Again.

This Guy Never Holds Back An Opinion

Gotta Love A Lady Getting Launched

From halftime last night.

Good Grief

And Another - Georgia

Story.

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• I can't take another second of Ray Lewis.
• I didn't know the Ravens lost four of five games in December. 
• The lights going out at the Super Bowl was beyond bizarre and for a second there I thought they all had gone out. 
• The game is tough to watch because when you also want to see the commercials you feel like you never get a break.
• Thumbs up to Beyonce. (Didn't she and Destiny's Child play the halftime at one of the Cowboys Thanksgiving game one time?)
• Phil Simms seemed clueless as the game entered its final minute last night. 
• Mark Davis was going off this morning on the Jeep commercial narrated by Oprah which was dedicated to the military and entitled "Whole Again." Some how he sees that as an attack on the "war" in Afghanistan. 
• The police chase listed in the Update sounds crazy.  And I think I've seen the name "Shannon Hood" a few times on previous criminal dockets. 
• Wrong way driver on I-30 in Fort Worth last night caused the death of two people. 
• The news finally came out about the body found on the Wise County line.
• I've criticized the "world's deadliest sniper" by trying to capitalize on his military service by writing a book, but his death at a gun range this weekend is simply awful.
• I'm getting the feeling that the murder of the prosecutor in Kaufman County may not be solved. 
• That Daddy/Daughter Dance held Saturday night in Wise County is turning into a pretty big deal.
• After watching Daytripper this weekend, I want to go to the Guadalupe Mountains.
• Even I'll agree that Chuck Hagel did a horrible job at his Secretary of Defense confirmation hearing. 
• Mrs. LL went to sell girl scout cookies yesterday and took her mandolin. I have no idea. 

At The Stock Show Last Night

Above The Fold

Right In The Kisser!

NBC12.com - Richmond, VA News, Weather, Traffic

(CBS ATLANTA) – Investigative reporter Jeff Chirico took a blow to the chin while investigating a businessman charged with stealing customers’ tax refunds. A CBS Atlanta News undercover investigation found Richard Wilder, 43, of Braselton, operating a new business in Gainesville weeks after he was arrested by the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office in September. Shortly after questioning Wilder, Chirico was approached by a man who called himself Donald Wilder, Richard Wilder’s father. As Chirico asked him questions about the business, Donald Wilder turned and punched Chirico in the chin, knocking him to the ground.

And So It Goes

Nice ad placement.

Story.

Edit: There is still a little meth out there despite the conviction.

Hot Sports Opinion By TCU Professor

Excerpt from Washington Post opinion piece: Sports games — some of the only events that lead Americans to set their differences aside and sit down and watch together — have become stages for large-scale patriotic theater. This is no accident; many of the militaristic rituals we see in stadiums and arenas across the country were deliberately designed to promote unity during times of crisis. But they’ve stuck around far longer than needed, making sports feel less like pastimes than pep rallies for our military or a particular war.

It really isn't that hot in my opinion, but there is some yahoo on the radio in the background who is so angry that he is saying, "There used to be a time where the professor would be prosecuted for saying something like this!"  

Budweiser Super Bowl Commercial for Sunday

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• I've always thought the X-Games were silly, but I'm going to have to come up with a better description after the death of the guy from Krum who suffered injuries in a snowmobile event. 
• The unemployment rate has ticked up to 7.9%! Presidential election conspiracy! Presidential election conspiracy!
• Dallas DA Craig Watkins said on the radio this morning that his office would match the $30,000 reward offered for the killer(s) of the Kaufman County prosecutor, and that the money would come out of seizure funds. Is that legal?
• I was in a Wise County Courthouse Security meeting over fifteen years ago, and I promise I made the statement that guards at the doors or metal detectors wouldn't protect me because I walk from the same parking spot to the same door at 8:15 a.m. every morning. 
• Clint Eastwood did the Republicans no favors at the National Convention but his daughter is a "Hey, Now."
• I used the word "boycott" at the dinner table last night prompting one family member to think it involved something about a boy and a cot. 
• There was quite the scene up at the Wise County Courthouse yesterday. After next week's trial, I'll explain. 
• It's the 10 year anniversary of the Columbia shuttle disintegrating over Texas. I've mentioned this before, but that morning I got up and turned on the TV news but the screen showed nothing more than a camera pointed at the sky with a reporter saying things like, "Some have said they saw streams of what looked like a glistening light." I swear for 30 seconds I starred at the screen and thought there had been a bizarre UFO sighting. 
• Even without knowing the back story, this apology a couple of days ago is funny: "''The derogatory comments I made yesterday were a reflection of thoughts in my head, but they are not how I feel.''
• A malfunctioning button on the TV remote control drives me nuts. 
• I've known lots of criminal defendants who gripe about how slow their case drags through the system only to want to slam the brakes on it once the case is actually set for trial.
• I've mentioned before it's absolutely legal to carry a rifle or shotgun down a public street and a group of gun advocates did just that yesterday in the Stockyards.