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11.18.2013
How In The World Is Jane McGarry Still Smokin' Hot?
Live with the animals on GMT for my exclusive interview with the billionaire brains behind the FW Zoo, Ramona Bass pic.twitter.com/KrhdVrwIqL
— Jane McGarry (@TheJaneMcGarry) November 18, 2013
Random Monday Morning Thoughts
- Mrs. LL went to the Oswald play at Casa Manana with a neighbor on Saturday night. She described it enthusiastically when she came home.
- I took a walk in the park with the Fifth Grader in House yesterday. It was fantastic especially with all the leaves turning. But she thought it was odd, as she tried to cross a creek, that I told her, "I don't care if you fall in but just don't hurt yourself."
- Everyone on Facebook is doing a list of 6 to 10 things that "you didn't know about me." If those lists were based on complete honesty, we'd all be both shocked and wildly entertained.
- My interest in the NFL has plummeted to an all time low. The only thing I think I watched was the last RG3 interception which was beyond stupid. Robert!!!!
- We hired a guy to hang the Christmas lights over the weekend. One day later the string of lights which were supported by the use of glue gun were on the ground.
- I made a conscious decision to be more affectionate this weekend. I think Mrs. LL thought I was on drugs.
- Mrs. LL made a reference to "if these walls could talk" on Saturday which is something I thought deeply about the night before. It was beyond weird and a stop down moment. Then I mentioned the Amy Grant song to her which, amazingly, she had never heard. Later I came across this live version of the song where she seems, at least to me, to be incredibly troubled.
- I've loved that song and thought about it as I walked out of the first house I ever owned and sold. Back then I was honest enough to admit to myself that those walls really wouldn't have much to say.
- College football: (1) How in the world did Oklahoma State lose to West Virginia? (2) I'm thinking about going to Stillwater this weekend -- Baylor plays there on Saturday. Never been there. But I did own an Eskimo Joe's t-shirt once, (3) With Baylor down 14-0 to Texas Tech on Saturday night, I was amazingly calm but pacing furiously if that makes any sense. (4) I told Mrs. LL this weekend that even if Baylor lost the last three games, I would be eternally grateful for having the greatest Fall football season of my life. (5) I love the BagOfNothing guy but man he hates Baylor for some reason. (6) I think I may be the only one who likes my observation that Baylor is like Walter White with a machine gun in the trunk tracking down old enemies. (7) I've watched the end of the Auburn game a million times with clicker in hand.
- I think volleyball in an underrated sport. And the Decatur girls who are one match away from playing of the state championship have to be having the times of their lives. And they will remember it forever.
- How can a person have so much hatred in his heart that he posts anti-Obama comments on my post about Batkid on Friday?
- I watched Joel Osteen yesterday because I've become fascinated with the guy. And I discovered exactly what he does: He will constantly rattle off a list to connect with his audience. Example: "You may have been laid off, you may have trouble in your marriage, you may have a loved one suffering with illness." It's a simple trick to connect with his audience, and it is genius. I have no problem with what he says but make no mistake: It is not religion. It's therapy.
- I got mentioned in Grits for Breakfast!
11.15.2013
Injustice Just Received An Exclamation Mark
 | keyetv (@keyetv) |
Former WilCo judge Ken Anderson out of jail. Served 3 days of 10 day sentence. #MichaelMorton served over 2 decades. keyetv.com/news/features/… | |
From The Email Bag
Chico has a police department? I've been involved in the criminal justice system for Wise County for over 20 years, and I've never heard of a Chico Police Department.
Random Friday Morning Thoughts
- Saw most of Killing Kennedy last night. Rob Lowe as JFK? OK. Not bad. Overall, I really liked it, but it also felt like reading Cliff Notes instead of the novel. (Does anyone know what Cliff Notes are any more?)
- Random odd thought: What ever happened to iron lungs?
- Another JFK documentary I saw last night was one on CBS Sports, Marching On: 1963 Army-Navy Remembered, about the decision to play the Army/Navy game after the President's assassination. Fantastic. Four things: (1) The Army quarterback interviewed for the show looked and sounded so much like Dick Cheney that I actually thought it was Dick Cheney, (2) footage of Roger Staubach playing reminded me of Johnny Manziel, (3) the last play of the game was beyond wheels off - I'm trying to find a video of it - so much happened, and (4) It used to be commonplace to see a quarterback get an official timeout if the crowd was so loud that the team couldn't hear the snap count. When did that end?
- I saw the story of how the Star-Telegram will now be printed at a plant owned by the Dallas Morning News but I missed this last sentence: "More than 75 full-time and 200 part-time employees in the Star-Telegram production operation will lose their job when the transition occurs in early 2014."
- I've always hated Star Wars and I finally figured out why: R2D2 and C3PO. Those guy irritated me to no end.
- UT is in big trouble in light of the lawsuit filed by women's track and field coach Beverly Kearney. If I understand it correctly, she was forced to resign after having an affair with a student. Meanwhile, football offensive coordinator Major Applewhite, who also had an affair with a student, remains on staff.
- I'll be stunned if the Star-Telegram doesn't run something about the judge chastising the jury about a not guilty verdict that I wrote about yesterday. I've been in the law business for over 25 years, and I've never seen anything like it.
- Random obscure local traffic note: The road striping under 287 on FM 730 by James Wood Motors is dangerous. You have vehicles traveling 40 mph in opposite directions who both have the right to simultaneously go into a "left turn only" lane. It's a recipe for head-on collisions.
- BagofNothing guy and I both posted the Noah trailer and the Volvo commercial yesterday. I have no idea who did it first but it might have been almost simultaneous. We think oddly alike.
- "If you look down on me because I'm young I'm going to look down on you for being ignorant.....and I'll still respect you." - Tweet last night from Uncle Nate (the college dropout spare who hangs with Johnny Manziel as his pseudo manager). Now that's an example of passive-aggressive.
- My favorite Gordon Keith bit: The Ed Carter Sports Line.
- My favorite mayor: Toronto's Rob Ford. (You can Google him and have high entertainment. That man is full throttle.)
- Amazon leased a 1.1 million foot warehouse on 68 acres near Haslet for 15 years. Now a pension fund has bought the property. And I get nervous about buying a dishwasher.
- Hey, that ID theft suspect pictured in the Update is wearing an Evil Empire shirt.
11.14.2013
Making The Rounds: Visiting Judge In Tarrant County Chews Out Jury For Finding DWI Defendant Not Guilty
Amazing. It happened just over two weeks ago in County Criminal Court no. 4.
The jury has an absolute right to disregard an Intoxilyzer result if they have a reasonable doubt about its accuracy. It's not jury nullification, it is following their oath and the law. How he doesn't know that is beyond shocking.
It was visiting judge Jerry Ray who retired last year as district judge in Palo Pinto County. Before being judge, he was the elected District Attorney.
Godless Hollywood Is Making A Movie Named "Noah"?
Big budget. From the director of Black Swan. Starring Russell Crowe, Anthony Hopkins, Jennifer Connelly, and Emma Watson.
Who would have thunk it.
That Looks Bad
BREAKING: There has been a gas pipeline explosion south of Milford on FM 308. More details to come. pic.twitter.com/amnLVdfJKG
— WFAA TV (@wfaachannel8) November 14, 2013
Milford is in Ellis County. (I had to look it up.)
Edit:
Milford Explosion UPDATE ~ All Milford ISD students have been evacuated to Italy ISD pic.twitter.com/yfNehDINrM
— FOX 4 NEWS (@FOX4) November 14, 2013
Funny edit:
Milford TX is home to 700 people "and 3 or 4 old grouches," per city homepage. Also 3 energy pipelines, 1 now afire pic.twitter.com/Gtkus2fJ2w
— Bud Kennedy (@BudKennedy) November 14, 2013
Random Thursday Morning Thoughts
- On March 29th, I made the very specific prediction that Yu Darvish would finish second in the Cy Young voting. Yesterday that came true. Never doubt my sportz geniusness.
- Former Cowboy Sam Hurd received 15 years in prison instead of life for being a wannabe drug runner. Even that sentence is ridiculous. And the amount of tax dollars used to set him up was ridiculous.
- The case kind of reminds me of the FBI tracking down a dumb Muslim kid online and setting him up to do a fake terrorist act that he would never have been able to pull off if he had just been left alone.
- Another Earthquake around Eagle Mountain Lake last night. What's going on? I go all my life without hearing about one in the area and now we have four or five a week.
- I watched a documentary last night on PBS about how cautious Walter Cronkite was before he would officially announce on TV that Kennedy was dead. I didn't know that CBS radio had already announced the death before Cronkite finally made his famous announcement. And look at his words: "From Dallas, Texas, the flash apparently official: President Kennedy died at 1 p.m. Central Standard Time, 2:00 Eastern Standard Time, some 38 minutes ago. Vice President Johnson has left the hospital in Dallas, but we do not know to where he has proceeded; presumably, he will be taking the oath of office shortly and become the 36th President of the United States." Using the words "apparently" and "presumably" gave him some wiggle room just in case he was wrong.
- Back then there were three TV news organizations. If you were wrong on a major story, you were done.
- We had a reverse "And Another" (meaning it was a male teacher and not female) sentence yesterday in Tarrant County were the guy received the maximum of 20 years in prison. Then again, if you have sexual relations with five students, that's going to happen.
- Baylor's coach Art Briles got a contract extension last night making it a ten year deal with a reported $5 million buyout. That's no guarantee he won't leave along the way but it guarantees he won't be going to Texas if Mac Brown is fired after this season (which seems less and less possible anyway.)
- "Why would you do that, daddy?" - Briles oldest daughter when he was contemplating taking the Baylor job. I thought the same thing at the time.
- Not surprising to me that so few people have signed up for Obamacare months before the deadline. There aren't many who file tax returns in January either.
- Word broke yesterday that Florida State's star quarterback and Heisman favorite Jameis Winston is a suspect in an almost year old sexual assault. The victim described "the suspect in the sexual assault case as being between 5-foot-9 and 5-11. Winston is listed by Florida State at 6-4." I don't think he has much to worry about.
- I love the tie in the Paradise school board race between Bill Mundy and Ben Sanders. They could agree to settle it by "casting lots" like a coin flip or drawing straws. They need to come up with a similar concept but which is fantastically creative and get then get the metroplex news crews involved. It'd be great publicity for Paradise.
11.13.2013
Ken Anderson Has Just Checked Into Jail
The former Williamson County prosecutor who will now do nine days in jail for intentionally withholding evidence that led to the wrongful conviction of Michael Morton for 25 years.
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