- Boulder Updates:
- We learned the shooter, who was raised and educated in America, and was able to buy the gun just a few days before the mass shooting, had a foreign sounding name. A fact which changes nothing.
- He was born three days before the Columbine shooting occurred. We've been dealing with the crap a long time.
- Ted Cruz is upset that people demand change after every mass shooting. Every. Mass. Shooting.
- Don't worry about your guns. If twenty dead six and seven year olds at Sandy Hook Elementary School didn't cause a change, nothing will.
- Good lord.
- The President has ordered flags flown at half-staff. I've said it before: We might as well just leave them there.
- Most news stories that appear on a local TV news' website are normally ridiculously short with no information other than the headline. Not this one. It is detailed and, trust me, it is wild.
- In Johnson County, one high school student from Venus High School and another from Joshua High School are dead after taking a pill which wasn't what they were expecting. Speculation is that it was fentanyl. Another student is in serious condition.
- A cargo shipped got all cattywampus in the Suez Canal and has had it blocked for over 24 hours. There's a massive and expensive traffic jam going on there now.
- In an article released this morning, The New York Times has pieced together footage showing Officer Brian Sicknick, who died immediately after the Trump Insurrection, being doused with bear spray. It's fantastic work.
- Hunger Games: Alvord Edition?
- There is definitely a COVID induced backlog of criminal cases on the docket. The Tarrant County D.A.'s office released this graphic to demonstrate the new problem.
- Actor George Segal has died. Accounts of his career reminded me of this cringe-worthy film that I'm pretty sure I saw in a theater. That's a 26 year old Denzel Washington as his co-star.
- From the Messenger today: That's a bad look for Bridgeport.
- Messenger: Above the Fold
3.24.2021
Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts
3.23.2021
Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts
- Ten dead in a mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado. That's the second mass shooting in a week. Yes, America is getting back to normal.
- Here's the most shocking video of the incident which was posted to Twitter within minutes of it happening.
- QAnon showed up in the replies on Twitter immediately after the above video was posted. I'm telling you, these guys are all around you.
- Police were being ridiculously tight-lipped after the shooting. Everyone is speculating that this guy in handcuffs was the shooter but the cops wouldn't come out an say it. No word if he was motivated by "low blood sugar" or if he was just having "a bad day."
- Colorado is an open carry state.
- CNN is reporting that the weapon was an "AR-15 style." So the guy just legally walked into the grocery store carrying it for all to see.
- The crazy Colorado congressman offered her thoughts and prayers.
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- Crazy lawyer Sidney Powell has filed a Motion to Dismiss the defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion because, she says, no reasonable person thought her election fraud claims were a statement of fact. Really. She is saying you would have to be a moron to believe The Big Lie. (That's actually the Tucker Carlson defense.)
- I've found my favorite Insurrectionist. She was committing treason and adultery unbeknownst to her husband cop. Well, at least he didn't know about the adultery part.
- Meteorologist promoted a reader submitted "Kitler" photo and was then forced to apologize. Come on, that's funny.
- "Unaccompanied alien children" have, for years, been treated with unique care under U.S. law. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a loophole, but it's easier to stay in the country as a minor than an adult. This isn't a new problem.
- Whoever is running Sen. Cornyn's Twitter account must hate him. "Humane treatment" is a bad thing?
- Do you ever get the feeling that there's something going on that we don't know about? Here is a random bill I noticed which was just filed in the Texas legislature:
- Inside the board room of Krispy Kreme: "Anyone have an idea to get a person in a store which cost only a few measly pennies so they'll end up spending $10 while they are there, and then trick the entire national media into promoting it for us for free and make us look like we are thanking the public?"
- Liberally Lean leaderboard. With my tricked up scoring system, I would have thought we would have wider margins than what we are seeing. But I think the big difference is that those who picked a handful of upsets are doing better than those with more correct picks but used favorites. From here on out the scoring gets pretty much back to normal. But you were rewarded for boldness in the first two rounds.
- Wise County Justice of the Peace Kim Redman's office is always incredibly responsive.
3.22.2021
Random Monday Morning Thoughts
- Be careful partying in Dallas:
- A woman is dead in Uptown over night. She may have jumped on a car during "disturbance" and fell off. A white Camaro didn't stop.
- Early Saturday, a lady was killed at Pryme Bar which is on Technology Boulevard off I-35 (and near Cowboys Red River.)
- The White House fired five people for past marijuana use. That's dumb.
- Cops in Colorado pulled over a Chicago Cubs minor league pitcher driving a BMW on Wednesday before finding 21 pounds of suspected methamphetamine and 1.2 pounds of suspected oxycodone in his car.
- NCAA Tourney pictures:
- Oh, Texas.
- Oh, Abilene Christian! (Video of the campus reaction to the final two made free throws and the win. Pretty cool)
- Oh, North Texas! It was fun while it lasted.
- Oh, Oral Roberts University! They've won two and are still going.
- Random FBI thought: It takes you this long to identify someone and you still can't do it?
- I ended up being in downtown Decatur on Friday evening. It was packed to the gills. (I'm not sure what "to the gills" actually means.)
- Hot court opinion that every criminal defense practitioner holds but is too scared to utter:
- A prosecutor in Pennsylvania who made at least $125,435 a year has been demoted for having a side-hustle as a DoorDash delivery guy. Side note: What's up with these salaries for prosecutors?
- I've spent a lot of time focusing on Frisco being a hotbed of White Christian Nationalism and now The Washington Post gives it a front page story this morning. Eighteen people from Collin County were charged in the Trump Insurrection of January 6th.
- Who at TxDOT greenlighted this ad campaign?
- Random golf shot from the Honda Classic on Friday. Video.
- Here are the Liberally Lean Pick 'Em standings. Some guy or girl named "Loyal ilk of BSG" (no relation) is in first place.
3.19.2021
It's Friday -- Let's Get Out of Here
MAGIC ☺️! This sweet boy in Italy believes by holding his parents’ hands he can make the water travel from one mouth to the other 😁 💦
— GoodNewsCorrespondent (@GoodNewsCorres1) March 14, 2021
🎥: ghety____ pic.twitter.com/VyUoq4MtP4
The fellas were HYPED about the roof blowing off @starting9 (via IG:nottu_staff) pic.twitter.com/GRcf6jzvTw
— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) March 15, 2021
Happy #NationalLandlineTelephoneDay pic.twitter.com/uB3JmndTIv
— Tom's Old Days (@sigg20) March 10, 2021
Lower Greenville area this evening pic.twitter.com/70lu0MY3fr
— Dallas Texas TV (@DallasTexasTV) March 17, 2021
Human engineering—the Dutch construct a tunnel under a freeway in one weekend. Science baby.
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) March 15, 2021
Can’t imagine how long that would take here. We can’t even fix most of our roads, lead water pipes, and bridges.
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Timeline cleanser:
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) March 17, 2021
If you’ve already seen a sloth on a boat playing with the water today just keep on scrolling...pic.twitter.com/5Z3zL4kl0L




















