12.02.2019

Random Monday Morning Thoughts


  • I ventured out on Black Friday to get something unrelated to Christmas. I'd like to report that Wise County seems to be in a very, very foul mood. I, on the other hand, was a ray of sunshine.
  • There was an attack on the London Bridge where the guy was subdued by, get this, people using a fire extinguisher and a "nawhal tusk." Fun American fact:
  • Also regarding the London Bridge, this is not a fun fact:
  • Decatur lost its playoff game on a last second field goal. You can see the kick here. Oh, and the game was played in the fog:
  • If Decatur would have won, they would have been playing Springtown at some nearby location. Instead, the Porcupines continue their road trip that never ends.
  • Who do you think is telling the truth?: Trump or the Taliban? We are at that point. (And the Taliban seems to be a no-brainer answer.)
  • A police officer in Oklahoma received a coffee from Starbucks with "PIG" on the label. The employee was fired. Then things got crazy. News started coming out that Starbucks has filters on its software which would prevent "PIG" being used as a name unless that name was set up by the customer on his app. The cop's daughter went scorched earth on her father. (Below.) And the police chief now says the employee shouldn't have been fired (but really won't say why.)

  • Finally we are seeing the truth come out! And I shall lead them! (Fox 4 is still calling it the "busiest" day, but at least they are providing proof to the contrary.)
  • This old photo of Danny White was floating around this weekend. I had never seen it before, and I have no idea what the story is. I want answers.
  • Good lord. (That's by College Station.)
  • Jerry Jones' bad football Thanksgiving weekend: (1) Cowboys lost, (2) Arkansas, where his grandson is quarterback, lost to Missouri, and, adding insult to injury, the grandson didn't play. The two quarterbacks who did play in his place went a combined 11 of 31 for 77 yards, (3) Three time defending state champion Highland Park lost in overtime at Jerry World to one of the million high schools in Frisco. (I thought he still had a grandson there, but I might be wrong.)
  • I'm started to read Lonesome Dove. I never saw the TV mini-series.
  • Joe Biden nibbled on his wife's fingers? Mrs. LL says you guys need to leave this man alone! (I'll check with her later to ask if she really did.)
  • A law professor from the University of Baltimore becoming a judge normally wouldn't make a bullet point, but it's for the country of Palau. That jogged my memory.  Former Williamson County DA John Bradley, who got caught up in the Michael Morton scandal, got a job there as the country's attorney general.  Seinfeld voice: What's the deal with attorneys getting cool jobs in Palau?
  • College football thoughts: (1) UT coach Tom Herman is firing everyone except himself, (2) With Alabama losing, I now think Baylor could get into the Final Four with an (unlikely) win over OU -- that's a sentence I never expected to write, (4) The Big 12 Championship game starts at 11:00 a.m.? (5) The PAC 12 Championship game is on Friday? (6) Very random stat: Kentucky rushed for 517 yards in a win over Louisville, (7) Alabama would beat Auburn 9 out of 10 times even with a backup QB, (8) TCU isn't bowl eligible, and I've got a weird - and crazy -feeling about that Gary Patterson might want to finally go somewhere else,  (9) Most disappointing season: UNT, (10) Hot sports opinion: UNT's quarterback has been extremely overrated, (11)  The Aggies and Arkansas need to join/come back to the Big 12, (12) It's weird how Michigan's single level stadium holds so many people -- it had an announced attendance of 112,071 on Saturday for the Ohio State game, (13) Charlie Strong has gone from the coach of the Evil Empire to being fired by South Florida, and (14) Ole Miss fired its coach for going 15-21 over the last three seasons. Remember when they fired now LSU coach Ed Oregon after three season in 2017?
  • Monday Safety Tip: Don't wire your handgun to your front door as a way of providing home protection:
  • The BagofNothing guy just casually throws in an attempted murder story this morning. 
  • Messenger: Above the Fold

at 8:32 AM

11.29.2019

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






(That last one was a Cowboys' Thanksgiving halftime joke.)
at 2:30 PM

Random Friday Morning Thoughts


  • It's Friday between a major holiday and a Saturday but who's here? This guy.
  • And call me old school guy, but back in the day this would never, ever happen. Nor would you ever catch Staubach (or even Aikman) smiling after a loss. That's part of the problem. 
  • That's Cole Beasley, of course. Beasley scored yesterday. That score prompted CBS to put up a graphic naming him as one of only three former Cowboys to score a touchdown on Thanksgiving against his old team. One of those three was also Duane Thomas. On Wednesay, I mentioned, as a very obscure fact, that Duane Thomas scored against the Cowboys on Thanksgiving forty-five years ago. Coincidence? 
  • Fans of the Bills actually showed up at the airport last night when they arrived?
  • I hear "he would have scored if . . . . " a lot. I normally disagree. He would have scored:
  • A faithful reader, who understands the fraud perpetuated upon us with the "Busiest Travel Day of the Year" narrative, sent this from Houston's Bush airport.
  • I found a case where everyone involved needs to be disbarred. And I mean everyone: the prosecutor, the defense lawyer and the judge. A guy spent two years in prison for breaking a law that had been declared unconstitutional, but none of three knew it had been declared unconstitional! (Heck, I did a blog post on the law being struck down on the day it happened.) They story is behind a paywall here. Various briefs about the case can be heard here where the Texas Supreme Court will soon decide whether the defendant should be compensated by the State. That's where I got this:
  • I saw these this picture over the weekend. Tablets given to a schoolroom full of kids which would supposedly reveal red splotches to indicate if, and how well, you brushed your teeth that morning. I was in one of those classes.
  • The Evil Empire plays Texas Tech today at 11:00 a.m. as the pressure is mounting on Tom Herman. The unofficial over/under on the crowd in rainy weather is 60,000. Side note: I saw this photo from last Saturday which is great but not as great as the throw that Ehlinger got off as he was being hit. And he completed it. You can't see the ball, but the receiver can barely be seen on the far left.  And this was after Ehlinger almost had his head torn off. Quick loading video of it is here.
  • So is this bullet point:
  • Throughout this whole Ukraine controversy, I've heard the voice of the guy in a Seinfeld episode saying, "You not say Ukraine weak!"
  • The dog deserves a settlement, too.
  • Fox 4 seems to be struggling this morning. This poor purse got robbed and the headline even has a typo.
  • Trump went to Afghanistan yesterday. All gave some. Some gave all. 
  • Ole Miss lost to Mississippi State last night in the most Mississippi way ever.  This guy scored with four seconds left. All they needed to tie it after that was an extra point - an extra point which, because of this fool, then became a 35 yard extra point. It was missed. 
  • It's Black Friday. Is it me, or are we getting less and less videos of crowds trampling each other like Barbarians? Blame online shopping and stores opening on Thursday for depriving us of this basic right of entertainment. 


at 8:34 AM

11.28.2019

Random Thanksgiving Thoughts


at 8:31 AM

11.27.2019

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts



  • Stephen F. Austin beat Duke last night at Cameron Indoor Arena. Watch the ending here (and here's video shot from the crowd.) It's great. Duke hadn't lost at home to a non-conference opponent in 19 years.
  • There was a big plant explosion in Port Neches overnight which is making national news. Someone posted this of the explosion taken from their doorbell cam. (Turn the sound up.) Edit: Here's a another one showing a door being blown off.
  • When do I get an award as an Online Influencer? 
    • From May 8th of this year:
    • Then this happened yesterday with little fanfare:
  • Baylor is # 9 and Oklahoma is #7 in the latest College Football Playoff rankings.  If Oklahoma beats Baylor in the Big 12 Championship game, I bet they'll end up in the final four.  If Baylor upsets OU, Baylor won't make it to the playoffs even with a 12-1 record.
  • Robert Jeffress had now gone full Robert Tilton (and you never go full Tilton.) He posted this yesterday asking for money to line his pockets. Note that a gift to "Pathway to Victory" is a gift to his side project -- it's not a tithe to the First Baptist Church of Dallas. I clicked on the link to try to learn about how your money would "effectively" be doubled but there is no explanation whatsoever. But I did learn that if you wish to give him money by credit card that you'll be asked if you will have the option to give a "3% generous gift extra to cover credit card fees! 
  • I think it would be fun to be an appellate state court judge. And there's a judge in Houston who is after my own heart because he'll fire off some hot opinions. For example, in a case yesterday, the court reviewed the trial court's error in giving the jury an actual transcript of a witness's testimony to take back to the jury room after they indicated they couldn't agree on what was said. That's crazy. The law specifically says the judge is to "have read to them from the court reporter’s notes that part of such witness testimony or the particular point in dispute . . . ." (Emphasis added.)  But, despite this blatant violation and the defense lawyer objecting before it happened, the court said "no harm - no foul." In his dissent, he says he doesn't know why the law says read-it-back instead of take-it-back, but he rightfully doesn't care. That's what the law is. It's not hard. And his dissent starts of with a bang . . . 
  • I had to look the judge up. He's Charles Spain. He just got elected for the first time last year, graduated from Baylor Law School two years after me, and his only previous judicial experience was being a municipal judge. 
  • I was staring at the front the house on Sunday contemplating a different layout for the Christmas lights when Mrs. LL, in complete deadpan/skeptical mode, walked over to me and asked, "What's the plan, Phil?"
  • Liberty County District Attorney Logan Pickett, 38, was arrested Saturday for allegedly assaulting his wife. "His wife said she found out after a Friday night dinner that Pickett had been having an affair for the past 15 months, according to police, causing an argument to begin." They were in Houston at the time. 


  • I am certain that that North Texas State tried, but failed, to have its name changed to "Texas State" in the early 1980s, but I can't find anything to back me up. I think there was even a bill in the legislature but it was shot down. Somehow Southwest Texas State got the name a few years later. 
  • He wants those people to testify! Really! He's just fighting it for future presidents! He's the most selfless man alive. 
  • The anti-Christ is running wild in Parker County!
  • There are two high schools in Texas still in the playoffs who entered it with a 3-7 record. 
  • Amazingly, Bill O'Reilly pushed Trump in an interview yesterday which caused him to say that Rudy was not working in the Ukraine on his behalf. How many times did Rudy's name come up in the "transcript" of the call with the Ukrainian president?
  • When your husband calls part of that city a "disgusting, rat and rodent invested mess."
  • Here's your helpful Liberally Lean Thanksgiving Tip: Don't try to fry your turkey with a nuclear bomb.
  • I wonder if there are any media outlets doing the obligatory, but false, story of this being the busiest traffic day of the year at DFW Airport.  Oh . . . 



at 8:34 AM
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