What? A 13 Year Old Girl Pitching Her Team Into The Little League World Series? And She's Good?

BRISTOL, Conn. -- Female pitcher Mo'Ne Davis led her team into the Little League World Series, throwing a three-hitter Sunday to lead Taney Youth Baseball Association Little League of Philadelphia to an 8-0 victory over a squad from Delaware. More.

Legalize marijuana. Gay marriage. And now this?

Well Maybe That Border Crisis Is Still A Crisis

Irony: Anson residents protest illegal immigration around statue of Texas President Jones /pic by @BrianBethel_ARN pic.twitter.com/t5GDJm9RSd
— Bud Kennedy (@BudKennedy) August 11, 2014

Edit:

At a protest in Massachusetts that was crashed yesterday. h/t @curlyseamonster who was there pic.twitter.com/FXyGjl7uA2
— Adrian Carrasquillo (@RealAdrianC) August 11, 2014

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• James Brady's death has been ruled a "homicide". Not to start a rant about the arrogance of medical examiners but, in their defense,  there is a crazy "but for" rule in criminal law. That is, "but for" the bullet, Brady would still be alive. 
• I rewatched American Hustle this weekend. Man, I may have underrated it. It has moments of brilliance. 
• Kudos to whomever mentioned the current HBO Nixon documentary to me. It is fantastic. And the parallels between Iraq and Vietnam are shocking. 
• And if you love that sort of stuff, watch the first three minutes of this video which shows him before he addresses the nation and resigns. I find it riveting. 
• I'm pleased and and comforted that we haven't invaded a different country over the last six years. 
• The Waggoner Ranch, with ties to Decatur, is for sell for almost three-quarters of a billion dollars.
• What if Charles Whitman would have had drones deliver him food, water and ammunition? (Assuming he had been smart enough to lock the door.)
• I didn't know there was a major league pitcher from Bowie. 
• There was a "legal analyst" on ESPN yesterday talking about the Tony Stewart incident. He said, "the issue will be whether he intended to commit murder or manslaughter." Intent to commit manslaughter? By definition, manslaughter means a reckless killing? I sighed heavily. 
• Football superstar Devonte Fields was kicked off of the TCU team, and he decided to transfer to Stephen F. Austin. But now a "committee" from the school has ruled that he can't play immediately and has to wait a year. How sorry is that? Let the kid get on with his life. And I have a sneaking suspicion that Gary Patterson is behind it. 
• I got called out by the Texas Tribune on Friday for posting one of their photos without credit. I apologized and fixed it. 
• Last night: Six dead in police chase near Houston. 
• I listened to the It's Just Banter podcast this weekend (Ticket related) and they played some of the youtube videos of the guy behind the Jerry Jones hot-girl-pictures. That guy is mentally ill, and he needs help. Despite millions of people in the metroplex, we will just ignore him instead. 
• Wise County had 12 people hurt in two accidents over the weekend? (And I'll admit I had never heard of "Fossil Pointe" before.)
• That first Wendy Davis ad is fantastic. I'm guessing it might not set forth the legal issues involved, but it serves the point of landing a right hook.  She won't win, but at least she's fighting. 

Did Tony Stewart Murder A Guy?

I don't know why I'm awake at the crack of dawn of Sunday morning, but I turned on ESPN to hear the very odd story of Tony Stewart running over a guy during a dirt track race. "No arrest has been made." Wait. What? Arrest? He ran over a guy during a dirt track race? Wouldn't that be an accident?

Maybe not.

I doubt he'll be charged. If charged, he won't be convicted. Not that he didn't intend to kill the guy. There's just no way to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.

Above The Fold

Crazy Rainstorm This Afternoon

Public Service Announcement

Photo stolen from the great Texas Tribune

That's Rick Perry this morning, and he's fired up.  Hard line Republicans are in Fort Worth for some convention today, and it sounds like they are working themselves up into a frenzy.

Ted Cruz is there!  Heck, it should be called Red Meat State Gathering.  By the time we wake up tomorrow, Texas may have seceded.

That is, after they have some Mexican food:

Get Me This Cat!!! .... No! Wait! Retract! Retract! Retract!

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• Jerry Jones didn't give a single interview during last night's pre-season game? (That's what I heard. No way I was going to watch that.)
• TMZ has identified the two "ladies" in the Jerry Jones' photo. Both are strippers and one works at Cabaret in Ft. Worth.
• Another motorcycle death. This time in Arlington. Sounds like a couple of bikes were racing and smashed into the back of a vehicle.
• I think I might have been duped by photoshop when I posted that Baylor Stadium picture when it was lit up like a nightclub.
• It's the 40th anniversary of the resignation of Richard Nixon. If you have never seen the footage of him, before heading to the helicopter, going through a line and saying goodbye to every single White House employee, you should. 
• They found some bodies of the old Jonestown Massacre in Delaware. And that deadline confused me greatly when I first saw it. (Speaking of, the documentary Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple is beyond fantastic. And it's on youtube.)
• Anyone else get beaten down when they walked out of the door this morning to face 80+ temperatures with a krillion percent humidity? And that's how the day starts. 
• My office went paperless over a year ago, and we haven't had a single problem. 
• I forgot to thank whoever pointed out to me that the guy behind Breitling Energy (the company runs crazy right wing radio commercials for some reason) was the head of the very troubled CI Hosting company a few years back. 
• Funny radio commercial about the old movie Armageddon which is being shown at the Granada Theater: "And we get to ask the question: Wouldn't it have been easier to teach a bunch of astronauts to drill instead of teaching a bunch of drillers how to be astronauts?"
• I finally got to see a part of the first episode of Hard Knocks. That Falcon that married that chick from Real Housewives has to be out of his mind. She's a train wreck. 
• Speaking of commercials, those Time Warner Cable ads where former NFL coach Bill Cowher just suddenly appears are the worst. And they make no sense. (The most recent one with two lawyers of the same firm involved in a "deposition" with him drives me nuts.)
• "Mission Accomplished" comes back to haunt us again . . . 

Clever Headline

It took me a second.

Drunk Wife Makes Worst Meal Ever

There's a lot going on here. I can't believe I clicked on it. Can't believe I couldn't turn it off. And I'm still not ruling out fake.

Oh, That Good Ol' Day Justice

Remarkable: A century after the mass lynching and hanging of 42 Texans, Gainesville will finally dedicate a memorial http://t.co/8Tda7pUvNT
— Bud Kennedy (@BudKennedy) August 7, 2014

I really don't know much about this, but here's a site which has collected information and Internet posts about the hangings over the years.

Chinese Action Movie Being Filmed

Wait for it.

Is it wrong for me to think that would have been really cool in 3D?

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• Horrible and weird: Moped rider death on I-35 in Fort Worth last night. (Picture.)
• Someone caught a picture of some insane green and gold lighting being tested at the new Baylor Stadium last night. (And for Baylor fans only, take a look at this fun drill the receivers did yesterday.)
• A bunch of reporters were taking pictures of Tiger Woods empty parking slot at the PGA Tournament before he showed up yesterday. One of the funniest tweets about it read, “Hey, Wang! What's with the pictures? It's a parking lot!”  Dated but funny.
• Ann Coulter, in light of the doctor contracting Ebola on a mission trip, wrote a column asking why do Christians have to go to Africa at all when we've got enough problems in the U.S. She'll troll you, but that is at least thought provoking. 
• Had three horrible dreams last night -- and I do mean shockingly horrible. And that doesn't include one where all my teeth broke and fell out. 
• A Facebook friend posted a picture of the front page of the Bridgeport Index from 1971. One of the stories was the death of a seven year old named Robby Renner who had hit his head on the curb after a bicycle fall. I don't remember that at all, and there are a lot of Decatur names listed as relatives and pallbearers. Made me think about middle-agers who say, "We never wore bike helmets back in the day, and we did just fine."
• Had no idea I was listening to music and bells from local churches. The sound bounces around crazily around the square. 
• "WAGONER, Okla. — A public school teacher was arrested Monday after police say she showed up at school for her first day of work under the influence of alcohol and without her pants." Hey, cut her a break. Those in-service days are a beating. And pants make it that much worse. 
• Dallas is thinking about implementing "sex offender free" zones, but Channel 8 had a great interview last night with a convicted sex offender about the issue. He basically pointed out that he did his prison time and satisfied all of his parole. Now he can't get a job anywhere and Dallas is going to make it tougher to just find a place to live. His crime: At age 21, he had sex with a 16 year old.
• Had quite a few people send me the footage of "Karma, the surfboarding pig." Our pig still has trouble with non-carpeted floors. 
• Jerry Jones' son picks up gals on the Sunset Strip and takes them to the Cowboys party bus. (I saw Fox Sports' Jay Glazer in the beginning getting out and I'd love to have a roster of who else was on there.) The New York Post is a couple of days behind . . . 

This Is A Little Bizarre

I think it is strange that a former Tarrant County judge can be beaten to death in his law office in Lubbock and it doesn't even get a blip on the local news. (Unless, of course, I missed it.)

I was also very surprised to learn he practiced for a brief while in Wise County.  Maybe he did transactional law and never came to the courthouse.

It's Time To Lower The Texas Flag to Half Staff

Marilyn Burns, who played Sally Hardesty in 1974’s hit horror movie ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre,’ has died . She was 65 years old.

Never has an actress screamed more than in the ending scenes of that movie.

We Demand a Brett Shipp Investigation!

food truck craze hits Bridgeport TX but this owner HAS move his operation every 3 hrs. Why, at 5 @wfaachannel8 pic.twitter.com/cflh0tPUJM
— Todd Unger (@ToddWFAA8) August 6, 2014

Super Model Throwing Out The First Pitch

She admitted she was pretty liquored up.