12.06.2017

Wednesday Morning Random Thoughts


  • I know a kid at the University of Texas who has put a deposit down on an apartment not far from campus for next Fall. Get this: Two bedroom, two bath, 597 square feet and ........$2,300 a month. I'm so happy I'm old. His momma sent me this: 
  • Maybe I'll just live, literally, in the jungle: "An American tourist recently died off the coast of Costa Rica in a tragic shark attack."
  • I was watching the end of Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid which is a great flick. As the credits rolled I saw "Card Player #2 .........Sam Elliot." Yep, that Sam Elliott. I found a screenshot. Edit: I've had two comments that this is not Sam Elliott. It's the first image that shows up in a Google search for him and the movie. Sure looks like him but, as always, I might be wrong. 
  • The Supreme Court oral arguments yesterday in the Gay Wedding Cake case were intense. The justices were grilling both sides, and I felt sorry for the lawyers.  Here's the transcript. The audio will be released on Friday. (And I had no idea the heart of the matter was Free Speech.)
  • Not only will I be inducted into the Sports Genius Hall of Fame, I'll be inducted into the Media Coverage Hall of fame for my patented "Ads Which Are Disguised As News Stories". (h/t Bud Kennedy). Article:
  • "Davey Edwards of Alvord filed this week with the state Republican Party to run for Texas land commissioner." I read (and wrote about) that he was trying to collect 5,000 signatures to avoid paying the $3,750 filing fee. I said he would never pull that off. Was I right? 
  • I guess I need to apologize. I didn't know she baked pies. What is this, 1950?
  • Due to aging , last year we retired the Elf on the Shelf. But I look at him every day when I go into the closet. He's actually in a shoe but maybe we should retire him more creatively.
  • Good, god!
  • Time magazine: 
    #MeToo
  • This was great comedy yesterday. A Republican Congressman turned on pedophile Roy Moore, and the same guy sat by Trump earlier in the day. The Toddler In Chief is gonna be mad.
  • I heard this yesterday: "Different scares people." But that is how you separate the smart folks from the rednecks.
  • Mitt Romney pointedly criticized Trump for supporting pedophile Roy Moore. Romney immediately was attacked, predictably, by . . . 
  • And I predict Roy Moore will win in Alabama. 
  • California is, indeed, on fire. That's Highway 405: 
  • Ron Meyer, 76, coach of SMU's Pony Express or "Pony Excess" has died. 

at 8:37 AM

12.05.2017

My Secret Life Has Been Revealed

And you guys just thought I was a bass kayak fisherman!
at 2:59 PM

Let's Check In On The Heartland Of America




And  . . . they were both fired.

I'm stunned, absolutely stunned, they referenced Trump. Who would have thought?

Harris: The first three names we gotta remember are Enzo Gebara, Spencer Espejo, and Nikolas Padilla for Eagle Grove. They have a lot of … um, apparently…

Kusserow-Smidt: Español people.

Harris: Español people in Eagle Grove.

Kusserow-Smidt: Gee, I wonder why that is?

Harris: I wonder why.

Kusserow-Smidt: But the latest there is that they’re just going to gradually come into town, yeah right.

Harris: Uh huh.

Kusserow-Smidt: Uh huh.

Harris: Gradually work their way in.

Kusserow-Smidt: Gradually work their way in … so, who are these people again?

Harris: Oh, you wanna know the names? Enzo Gebara, Spencer Espejo, and Nikolas Padilla.

Kusserow-Smidt: They sound like they’ve been here a while, given the first names.

Harris: Yea, I think they’ve been there. Padilla, I think that’s P-A-D-I-L-L-A.

Kusserow-Smidt: Yea, Padilla.

Harris: Padilla, something like that.

Kusserow-Smidt: Yea.

Harris: The there’s Chase Blasie, he sounds like he’s not a foreigner. Could be though.

Kusserow-Smidt: Yea.

Harris: They’re all foreigners.

Kusserow-Smidt: Exactly, all foreigners.

Harris: As Trump would say, go back where they came from.

Kusserow-Smidt: Well, some would say that, yeah, some days I feel like that too.
at 12:02 PM

What Is This?




at 11:29 AM

Any Bets On Whether He'll Be Arrested Today?




I feel pretty good about that bet.

at 10:10 AM

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

  • Edit: Something happened to the original Random Thoughts. This is the best I could recover
  • When the Cowboys start visiting children's hospitals but don't announce it to the the media, then I'll be impressed.
  • The only thing that surpasses their idiocy is there cowardice. 
  • You could at least tell Sean Spicer knew he was lying. Sarah Huckabee Sanders acts like she believes her lies.
  • You can't make this up.
  • I endured the dreaded high school band holiday concert last night. (Actually, it was pretty good.) But the oddest thing was a guy with a beard who was sitting on the floor while wearing a kilt (or a skirt -- not sure.)
  • Here is a man holding a type of footwear he has never worn before.
  • The "Super Moon" last night was amazing as it appeared over the horizon. There will be another on on January 1, but I suspect tonight will be pretty good even though it's not a true full moon.
  • I don't care if you are a local or news organization. I don't want to see a video about the printed text on your web page.
  • Wait. What? 


at 8:20 AM

12.04.2017

In Case You Missed It




Gronkowski is a punk. 

The guy he literally attacked, Tre'Davious White, is now in concussion protocol.

Edit: One game suspension announced. That's it. 

at 9:18 AM

And A Girl Beat Him


$25,000 for the winner.

Edit: $100,000 for the girl and this guy got $25,000?

at 9:01 AM

Random Monday Morning Thoughts



  • Texas Rep. Brent Farenthold (far right) used over $80,000 tax dollars to settle a sexual harassment claim. He is a former conservative talk show host and graduated from Incarnate Word. He is married (that ain't her) with two kids.
  • The Aggies money whipped Jimbo Fisher and landed him. This is full Aggie. 10 years and $75 million. And if they fire him at any point, he is entitled to the full balance on his contract. But when he left Tallahassee,  he left:
  • I deal with lots of folks who are in now in trouble because it all started because of a traffic stop by the police. One development I've seen over the last three years is that they have no idea where they were when they were stopped because "I was using the GPS."
  • Buzzfeed had a funny headline after the Flynn guilty plea. And they are right. Kushner is next.
  • I did a double take on Saturday morning when I scanned past one of the ESPN channels and saw the Cornhole League Playoffs: Georgia v. Florida. Idiocracy is speeding at us at warp speed.
  • I don't know how the Fort Worth Police can screw around wasting taxpayer dollars. And did they pay a licensing fee to use the image of Chewbacca?
  • Texas AG  Ag Commissioner Sid Miller proudly announced that the defeated Sheriff Joe, who had to be pardoned by Trump to avoid a jail sentence, has endorsed him. 
  • There's nothing more disturbing than your dog going crazy and barking in the middle of the night. Our default (groggy) reaction is always, "He knows something that we do not?!" 
  • Wait. What? Is that a "b"? And you think it would be the other way around.
  • I spliced wires on some old mini Christmas lights to get rid of dead ones. I even used one of those electrical wire cutters to strip away the plastic casings. It was a total success despite Mrs. LL cocking an eyebrow. 
  • Well, I correctly predicted Oklahoma would throttle TCU. Is there a Sports Genius Hall of Fame? I'd be a first ballot inductee.
  • Trump, via Twitter, denigrated the FBI this weekend and endorsed an Alabama pedophile this morning and admitted to a crime (which the White House later tried to blame on his lawyer.) As to the latter, I can't tell you the number of times I have overtaken my clients' twitter accounts and tweeted something that will get them indicted. It's Law School 101.
  • The Republicans passed a 479 page tax bill 51-49 at 2:00 on Saturday morning. The Dems made a motion to recess until Monday so they could read it. The Republicans said no. Those handwritten amendments were troubling. 
    This is real.
  • Wade Emmert, who in my opinion might be the biggest spare political activist there is, was ousted at the Dallas Republican Chair last year by a guy who spent $30 to do so. Now he's the new Assistant General Counsel to the Texas GOP. Texas does have swamps, doesn't it?


at 8:37 AM

12.01.2017

It's Friday. Let's Get Out Of Here.

 Baylor's last two years in a nutshell.
 Opiod epidemic. (No comedy. That's what is actually going on here.)
 Quality comedy, sir.
 When Mrs. LL wakes me up.
 "Once there was this kid who got into an accident and couldn't come to school."
(If you saw what I did there, we could be best friends.)
Well, I know what my nightmare will be about tonight.
at 2:00 PM

Let's Jump Into The History Machine


That boy ain't right.
at 11:13 AM

Random Friday Morning Thoughts


  • It's looking more and more like the Texas Border Patrol agent died as the result of an accident instead of being attacked. 
  • The Aggies are rumored to have offered Jimbo Fisher $7 million to lure him away from Florida State. I've said this before: Everyone went crazy in 1982 when the Aggies paid Jackie Sherrill $280,000 a year making him the highest paid university employee in the entire country. 
  • I didn't know about this, but years ago Deadspin ran a piece from the Dallas Observer written by a Star-Telegram female sports reporter who had a tough job.
  • Joe Barton, wisely, has decided not to run for re-election. Speaking of the Observer, I'll credit a friend I've never met pointing out they dug deep to find this photo in its archives. And you truly wonder what he is looking at. 
  • Jim Nabors died yesterday. Man, Sargent Carter yelled at him a lot. 
  • And another (Houston): 
  • Pre-Mature Candidacy: He later backed off once he learned that the media had screwed up the report via a Pre-Mature Announcement of her resignation. (He's Fox 4 News contributor and, actually, pretty good. He's also a former cop and now a defense lawyer. He'd probably be a great Sheriff if he doesn't start wearing a cowboy hat.)  Side note: Is he right about the way the election would have been handled? If the Sheriff were to resign there would be an election in March? I thought it would be a Commissioners' Court appointment to fill the remainder of her term
  • Who even approved this to start with? 
  • Fight! Fight! Fight! (And Kimmel's monologue last night, was epic:“So if you are challenging me to a fight, here’s what we’ll do. Let’s find a place to do it. I’ll wear a Girl Scout uniform so you can have something to get excited about.” )
  • According to the Update, a guy facing up to 20 years in prison for Agg Assault pled to 16 years in Wise County. Am I missing something? 
  • Mrs. LL was in charge of showing a video to an elementary school today. She chose Charlie Brown's Christmas. She watched it last night and said, "There's no way I can show this." I'm not sure I've ever been prouder. Someone who actually understands the separation of Church and State. (It's a very diverse metroplex school and she would have been crucified -- pardon the pun --  afterwards.)
  • Edit regarding the above: Do those who have rushed to comment not understand that as a government employee that she represents the government? Do you not understand the government cannot advocate one religion over another? Do you not know of Linus' speech? What if she wanted to show Charlie Brown's Ramadan? As I've said before, I've got the smartest and dumbest readers in the world.
  • Remember the illegal immigrant who allegedly shot and killed a lady on a pier in San Francisco in 2015? Well, he was found not guilty on all charges yesterday.  Not guilty of murder. Not guilty of involuntary manslaughter. And he had a public defender. 
  • A Texas Sheriff says he will no longer hug. Good idea, buddy.
  • Breaking News! The dominoes have begun to fall. He has absolutely cut a plea deal to turn on the Trump Mafia. He actually led a "Lock her up!" chant at the Republican National Convention. Delicious. 
  • Never forget: 
  • I find it stunning that Dez Bryant is now the all-time Cowboys receiver in TDs. I'm also stunned that the leader had been Bob Hayes. I would have guessed Irvin. 

at 8:38 AM

11.30.2017

Oops




at 3:08 PM

Cue The "Jaws" Theme





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