4.06.2021

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts





I haven't thought about this since I posted this tweet 10 years ago, nor has the DPS Twitter account referenced the chant since then. Do they still do it?   

  • Baylor 86, Gonzaga 70. That was a thrashing. For a guy (me) who first saw them play in the old barn which was the Heart O' Texas Coliseum in Waco, it was a long time coming.  




  • Baylor refused to cancel classes today. 
  • We've got what looks like another murder in Wise County with the body of Michael Bolling, 61, having been found near Cottondale. In reading in between the lines, it doesn't sound like a gunshot wound, but I haven't heard the cause of death. Note: The "48 hour" rule of solving the case is now in effect. (I don't understand this quote from the Sheriff: “There were injuries that made it look as if it was a murder.”)



  • Six dead in Allen. One of the two killers involved in the suicide pact left an Instagram note which seemed bizarrely calm. Excerpts here. Note: The excerpt in that link did not include this crazy tidbit: "The brother also noted that he was disappointed with the way the sitcom The Office ended."


  • The official attendance announced at the Ranger game yesterday was 38,238.  These ladies decided to a bit. 
    Pic submitted by Faithful Reader Michelle.

  • The Rangers have "Dallas Truck World" written on the back of the mound. 

  • The governor didn't show up yesterday as he decided to protest MLB's decision to pull the All-Star Game out of Georgia.  It's hard to tell the snowflakes these days without a program.  (They moved the game to Colorado which happens to mail a ballot to every registered voter.)

  • A guy stole an ambulance yesterday and went on a joy ride in Collin County. If you want to see the pretty entertaining end of it, here ya go. 

  • Good grief. Shouldn't there be a lesser sanction than an indictment and arrest? Seems a little harsh.  Story. 


  • As of today, Kurt Cobain has been dead longer than he was alive. Side note: Haven't heard much of Courtney Love lately.  

  • Final board. My scoring system was designed to reward upset picks in the first two rounds which might be enough to allow you to hold on even if you didn't pick the ultimate champion. That worked. I note that 15 of the top 50 picked Baylor to win it all but none of the top 4:

  • For some reason I've heard this fact twice in the last couple of months: Plywood is now crazy expensive. It's running $60 a pop. 



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4.05.2021

Random Monday Morning Thoughts






The County Commissioners in Anderson County had allowed for the Confederate Flag to be flown on the courthouse lawn for all of April, 2011, when it also declared, on a 3-2 vote, that it was "Confederate History and Heritage Month." The Palestine mayor was none to happy and called for an emergency meeting asking his city council to pass a resolution to tell the commissioners to reverse their decision. They didn't have to. Moments before the vote, the Commissioners announced the flag was being voluntarily being taken down by the Sons of the Confederacy -- the same group which had asked to fly in it the first place. 

Here's a line from the story: "A crowd of roughly 20 persons sang 'Dixie' after the flag was removed from the courthouse." Sheesh.

  • The number of attempted kidnapping of women in Denton County kept changing over the weekend, so I got my Liberally Lean Research and Graphics Development Department on it. How bizarre this all is. The current count seems to be four (although some reports put it at three.) The map below is my painstaking attempt to put a red "x" at all the locations referenced in the news although one of them is sometimes referred to as an attempt to "lure" someone towards him instead of an attempted kidnapping. Cops finally stopped what they believe to be the car involved in the incidents and arrested the guy for DWI yesterday afternoon. But they haven't come out and said it is the same guy involved in the four incidents yet. 


  • Edit: Moments before my press deadline, a very Faithful Reader sent me this. The Denton County Jail is now showing charges of Aggravated Kidnapping have been placed on the guy. (I don't think the Dirty Liberal Lamestream Media has reported this yet.) His DL shows him to be a Lake Dallas resident. My source also says that he probably was released from a State Jail in October after a felony conviction out of Gregg County. 

  • This would seem to be a huge problem in the Derek Chauvin trial: "Special Prosecutor Jerry Blackwell told jurors last Monday that while Hennepin County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Andrew Baker ruled Floyd's cause of death cardiac arrest, prosecutors would prove he died of asphyxia, or, lack of oxygen, while Chauvin knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes." Keep an eye on this aspect of the case. 

  • Major League Baseball will move the All-Star Game out of Atlanta after Georgia made it harder to vote. If that makes you mad, you still have to go to baseball games and watch it on TV because you are also against, and can't be part of, the Cancel Culture. 

  • Fox News on-air broadcast will hardly touch the Matt Gaetz scandal, but its website doesn't shy away from it -- at least with the headlines. 

  • The Trump campaign added a pre-checked box last Fall to its donation form causing a second automatic draft to occur. It ended having to refund $122 million once people complained. 




  • I used an electric chainsaw for a couple of hours on Saturday and was having so much fun that I was afraid I turn into Leatherface by the evening. 
  • Jordan Speith drives me nuts because he and his caddy talk forever before he hits the the shot. He first got on my Irritation Radar in 2017 when he took a whole 20 minutes to decide where to take a drop at the British Open. Yesterday, he was almost as bad. For example, he and his caddy went back and forth for a few minutes about whether to lay up on 18 with a two shot lead. You don't need to think about that. And then Speith took out an eight iron and hooked it left anyway. 

  • Ticket fans only: Former Ticket Ticker guy T.C. Fleming often mentioned how his parents shipped him off to "Excel" as a teenager for smoking weed (!!!).  Well now the Dallas Observer has a story about a project T.C. has about the experience. It's not so funny anymore. 

  • Anyone want to tell him that neither team wanted his support?

  • The Liberally Lean standings are here. My quick review reveals that only "Unemployed Random Thought Girl", in tenth place, has chosen Baylor tonight and, even if he's right, the points he'll gain (30) would only be enough to get him to fifth place. My tricked up scoring system has bitten him.  



  • Speaking of Baylor, how did the Waco paper celebrate on Sunday the team making the finals the night before? By printing one of the most boring headlines ever. And the story even played second fiddle to something Chip and Joanna are doing. 


at 8:33 AM

4.02.2021

It's Friday -- Let's Get Out of Here

at 2:30 PM

Random Friday Morning Thoughts




This one is a little weird in that I was referring to Friday, April 1, 2011, when no one was injured. But a few years later, on April 17, 2018 to be exact, "Jennifer Riordan, a 43-year-old Albuquerque bank executive, died after shrapnel from an engine failure blew out a window on Southwest Flight 1380 and she was pulled halfway outside the plane."   

  • American Airlines and Dell issued statements yesterday either specifically condemning the Texas Legislature for making it harder to vote. Southwest Airlines and AT&T followed suit with a slightly less curt press release. Good for all of them 

  • More news on Matt Gaetz. But here's a prediction: I bet he will be able to ride this out. The voting public shockingly no longer cares about stuff like this.  


  • Fun Fact: Matt Gaetz was a Senior at Niceville High School in Florida in the year 2000. On September 29, 2000, Niceville actually played Bridgeport in a football game at the now-imploded Texas Stadium. 
  • Update on a Texas Sheriff:

  • This part of the Rangers' box score yesterday is why I lost interest in baseball years ago. And there are 161 more games to go.  

  • The Evil Empire raided Texas Tech yesterday and stole their basketball coach. If I'm a Red Raider I wouldn't feel that bad. The last time UT did that to them was David McWilliams and that that didn't work out to well. 

  • New this morning: We continue to pull out of it. 

  • My favorite Trump Insurrectionist post-arrest photo. “I Was There, Washington D.C., January 6, 2021”:


  • New Gallop poll shows Americans are turning into a bunch of heathens. 

  • The father of the Official Liberally Lean Girl has asked the court to pay him $16,000 a month for his "job" as his conservator and wants Britney to pay for his legal fees when she tries to fight him. One lawyer he hired charged $1,090 an hour for an alleged 220 hours of work.  "Free Britney!' indeed. 

  • Calmest bus driver and calmest kid in the history of ever. Video.

  • Heard on the radio this morning that basketball teams (even Houston during it's most famous Final Four appearance) used to wear odd numbers on the road and even numbers at home.  Maybe my brain is malfunctioning, but I kind of remember doing that when I was in high school. But I don't trust my memory on that at all. 
  • Time which has passed since the Wise County Sheriff's Office has failed to solve the murder of Lauren Whitener in her home at Lake Bridgeport: 637 days.
  • Messenger: Above the Fold 

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