10.26.2022

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




I had stumbled across this image on Facebook from someone claiming it was a deer 
swimming across Eagle Mountain Lake. 

  • I wouldn't suggest this. 

  • Control of the Senate, and the confirmation of federal judges, might come down to the race in Pennsylvania between John Fetterman and Dr. Oz. Last night they had their only debate.

    • Fetterman, who has had a stroke, struggled with his communication skills. Badly. Video example. I have no idea if last night hurt him or helped him. I was surprised this morning to hear many conservatives think the issue make him sympathetic and/or inspiring as he struggles to recover from something he had no control of. I don't know. 

    • Then Dr. Oz then stepped in it when he said that abortion you be a decision between the woman, her doctor, and "local political leaders."  Video. Who amongst us wouldn't want Ronny Jackson to have a decision in our daughter's decision? 

  • This is one of the victims of the crazy doctor who has been indicted on federal charges for intentionally injecting IV bags with foreign substances.

  • Fox 4's weather guy posted this photo of Lake Bridgeport this morning. The first real cold air will produce this wild looking smoke on the water. 

  • I don't want to speak for the guy, but I bet he would be fine on going out that way. He just thought everyone deserved the free choice to take the risk. 

  • Not only have home sales grinded to a halt, but so has refinancing because of lack of demand. There's almost no one who would benefit by doing so since you would first need to have a  mortgage with an interest rate which is higher than the current rates.  That's basically no one. 

  • A Texas Supreme Court justice posted this picture yesterday. Whatever that is (a breakfast burrito?), one of them is plenty. You don't need two. Secondly, the names displayed above each plate is beyond pretentious. 

    • But it's really the tone-deafness of stuff like this that gets me all torqued up. It's like saying, "Hey, look at me! You taxpayers are paying me a high salary but, while at work, I'm being served breakfast that you paid for. And I'll even jack around and post it to social media instead of working like you have to."
  • Updates from yesterday all involving Aggies: (1) The rumor mill is that the Aggie freshman player suspensions were due to smoking weed in the locker room, but I can't find any legit news source confirming that. (2) The NFL says that the referee wasn't asking for a post-game autograph from former Bucs player Mike Evans but instead provided this bizarre explanation . . . 

  • The most entertaining college game this weekend maybe Baylor and Texas Tech for one reason: Both teams are absolutely nuts about going for it on fourth down. And I love it. Here are the national leaders in attempts:

  •  "Top Shots" are NFTs which I have previously proclaimed, and will always proclaim, to be the dumbest thing in the world. The concept of "owning" a video clip of an NBA game is beyond absurd. Yet many people were suckers.   The current sales of Top Shots have dropped off a cliff. And demand is the only thing that gives them value. It's over. NFTs, of any type, are digital Beanie Babies. Source:

  • Editor's note: I'm not as grumpy today as I sound. 
  • Messenger: Above the Fold


at 8:31 AM

10.25.2022

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




I'm not sure why I posted this pic of a scruffy Pete Delkus 10 years ago. 

  • The Star-Telegram continues it's coverage of Runaway Bay letting raw sewage run into Lake Bridgeport. And I'll say this again: This problem didn't catch them off guard. They knew about it for years. 


  • We had a surprising number of early voters yesterday in Wise County: 1,645.  On the first day of early voting last March -- for the primaries where, let's be real, that's where the only contested races really happen -- Wise County had only 436 voters.  By the way, we have 50,026 registered voters right now. 
    Source: Sabra Srader CERA, Election Administrator

  • A new update regarding the DPS fallout over Uvalde.


  • Another day in America.


  • A play in two acts.
    • The wife of a Supreme Court justice is nutty and wouldn't mind overthrowing an election.

    • Yesterday that Supreme Court justice stopped a state government from investigating whether federal officials tried to overthrow its state election. Incredible. 


  • It's not supposed to work this way.

  • Adidas should have done it last week but they finally did it this morning. This is a big financial hit to Kanye but maybe more for Adidas. Have I mentioned it's beginning to feel a lot like pre-WWII Germany around here? 


  • Britney Griner's had her appeal predictably denied moments ago by a Russian appellate court on the spot. She got to attend by video feed from her prison cell. 

  • I just learned that a former Decatur High School graduate ('66) is going into the Texas Tech Hall of Fame this weekend. Edit: I was wrong. He was a Decatur resident but married a Decatur graduate -- Lynn Smith. Reuther graduated Tech in 1966. 

  • Former Texas great Sam Ehlinger gets the start on Sunday for the Colts, and the job is his to keep for the rest of the season. He's never thrown a pass in an NFL game. 
  • Trouble in Aggieland. 

  • The NFL is reviewing two refs getting an autograph from Tampa Bay's Mike Evans.  They aren't supposed to do that. Video.

  • Re: The Rangers hiring Bruce Bochy. Compared to the hiring of a football coach, the hiring of a major league baseball manager is basically inconsequential.
at 8:29 AM

10.24.2022

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




"Space shuttle Endeavour's final journey was a 12-mile ride from LAX, through Inglewood, to the California Science Center in Exposition Park. Here it is in time lapse." Which was really cool.

  • This is awful, and isn't getting near enough press from the weekend skeleton news crews.

    • The shooter entered the hospital on Saturday morning, went to the maternity wing, struck his girlfriend who was there to deliver a baby in the head with a handgun, and then shot two workers dead who had come into the room to help. 
    • The workers were probably nurses, but we don't know for sure -- the hospital has basically gone into a communications lock-down. Something is going on, and I'm guessing they are scared of being sued (and Fox 4 had a story last night about how employees have complained about security for years.)
    • And the shooter is a poster child for guys who need to be locked up.
      • He had been to prison once before on a two year sentence for robbing a guy he had met in a convenience store.
      • And he went back to prison on an eight year sentence for robbing a woman as she walked into her apartment, leaving her duct taped in her bathroom. 

      • And his picture is like he had been cast for the role for a TV movie. 

    • And this shooting will cause all sorts of knee-jerk reactions about "law changes." Hey, his second crime was a first degree felony (5 years to life) where he was subject to serving 1/2 of his sentence by law.  He got 8 years so he got out in 4. If he had gotten 40, he would have had to have served 20.  The problem isn't with the laws, it's that his case gets lumped in an avalanche of penny-ante crimes that shouldn't be felonies to begin with. 
    • He also had an ankle monitor as a condition of parole. Almost all parolee's don't have an ankle monitor, and the fact that he had one tells you that TDC considered him high risk.  
  • The Runaway Bay cluster of dumping raw sewage into Lake Bridgeport is finally getting some metroplex press -- although this was page 23A of the Star-Telegram. This problem has been developing for years but . . . 


  • DPS finally fired a trooper in connection with Uvalde. But it was quietly done on Friday in a late day news dump.

    • Remember that the $300,000 Man said he would resign under these circumstances. 

  • This is a weird story.  The dad thinks people are "after him" so he disappeared with his wife and two autistic sons. The family hadn't been heard from in a week until they surfaced over the weekend. They left behind an elderly family member they were "taking care of" and "was found [last] Monday walking the neighborhood."

  • More trouble for the Clay County sheriff.

  • Trump was in Texas on Saturday. Remember a couple of months ago I mentioned how the Nazis began to make a martyr out of the date of Hitler's first coup attempt? And how I said we need to watch and see if ultra-MAGA did the same thing over January 6th? We didn't have to wait long. Video.

    • Related: On Friday in the trial of the leader of the Oath Keepers, we learned that the Brown Shirts were coordinating with each other.


  • The El Paso DA is probably in over her head, but you never -- I mean never -- ask for the Texas AG's office to help you in a criminal prosecution because they will screw it up. They aren't in the business of prosecuting. And they'll send in Austin lawyers who are bad at it while all the while being oblivious to the nature and customs of the jurisdiction they've walked into. She actually lucked out here.

  • How strangely worded is this from the Wall Street Journal? Ordered? Who would have known that you can't always trust an illegal drug courier. 

  • The wildest thing out of the college football weekend is that four snaps sailed over the punter for Weber State's head and all four resulted in safeties. I didn't think that's possible. All four quick loading videos are here.

  • The Cowboys had a 52 yard punt return to the Lion's 42 yards and then -- had to punt after not getting a first down.  That's hard to do. 

at 8:30 AM

10.21.2022

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

at 2:30 PM
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