12.29.2022

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




Do you remember we had an actual White Christmas in 2012? The forecast issued the night before (above) actually came true. I should have posted this on Monday.

  • Southwest's troubles continue this morning.

    • But a local radio talk show host was able to make it out to Phoenix for this weekend's TCU/Michigan game. (Cue the orchestra music.)

  • If people want to get all up in arms over the lying Congressman, I'm right there with them But I think it's a bad look for a D.A.'s office to go looking for crime in reaction to sensational headlines.

  • I'll say it: He was unnecessarily mean and a bully.

  • A sentencing hearing before a Tarrant County judge in an Intoxication Manslaughter case was held yesterday after the defendant pled guilty and waived a jury. It sounds like a heart-breaking case with the victim being an assistant dean at TCU.   The sentence was seven years. 


  • DFW radio ratings were just released, including the results of the new sports station "The Freak" (I still hate that name.)
  • This is going in at Alliance Center at I-35 and North Tarrant Parkway. It seems like only yesterday where that whole area was just pastures. 

  • Very random thing I noticed that no one cares about but me: A brief split second of a local commercial for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra showed a guy who reminded me of Will Bailey from The West Wing. 


  • Come again? (Here's the Petition.) The replies to the tweet remind me of what a bloodthirsty country we are. 


  • Bowl quick hits: 
    • Good win for Tech over Ole Miss, 42-25.  Ole Miss went 2-for-7 on fourth-down attempts, and had five turnovers. They entered the game as a 4.5 point favorite. 

       
    • A touchdown reception in overtime in the wild Kansas/Arkansas game was obscured last night by a pig and/or demon. 

    • Based upon amount of advertising I'm seeing for Cotton Bowl tickets, I don't think they've sold many to the USC/Tulane game. And that makes sense. SeatGeek has a mountain of tickets for sale for . . . $5. 
    • The Evil Empire plays in the Alamo Bowl tonight (ESPN at 8:00) at the same time as the Cowboys play (Fox/Amazon at 7:15). I bet they've never been on TV simultaneously before. 


at 8:31 AM

12.28.2022

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




WBAP made a big mistake, and Liberally Lean got mentioned in the Dallas Observer.

  • The lying newly elected Congressman from New York appeared on Tucker Carlson last night expecting to be in a friendly forum. He didn't get it.  Tulsi Gabbard was filling in and let him have it. The last 29 seconds was just a brutal scolding: 

  • As stores were about to close on Christmas Eve, this alert went out.

    • What actually happened, which was only learned a couple of days later, was maybe even wilder.

  • So a Tarot card reader posted a series of videos on TikTok where she said that a professor at Idaho University "had been involved with one of the students and ordered the killings to conceal the relationship." The professor says she didn't even know any of the students, never had them in a class, and was on vacation with her husband at the time the killings. After her lawyer sent the Tarot card read a cease and desist letter, she posted 20 more videos continuing to make the claim. So she got sued. (At first I thought this would be a slam dunk lawsuit. But the more I think about it, the more it seems that it would be a pretty good defense of, "I didn't say it as fact. I'm just saying the Tarot cards said it.")

  • Speaking of paying up:

  • Tesla stock fell 11% yesterday and ended up at $109 a share. It's been a bad year:


    • And Elon Musk was up in the middle of the night last night doing the following. Yes, this is real. 

  • A warehouse fire in Dallas yesterday gave rise to a heck of a photo

  • Things that I didn't think I would be interested in, but was. Video here. 

  • I don't know anything about high school basketball, but it would seem to be noteworthy that on the first day of a tournament in Bridgeport yesterday,  little Paradise beat two bigger schools.

  • Legal nerdy stuff: I didn't know the State has collected all of the completed jury charges and verdict forms in every capital murder case in Texas since 2007. 
  • New holiday reading from the great ProPublica. “I know what a guilty father, mother or boyfriend sounds like.” - A self-proclaimed expert on 911 call analysis. 

  • It's bowl season. After an Oklahoma State loss last night to Wisconsin, Mike Gundy got mad at another reporter. It's nowhere near "I'm a man! I'm 40!" but he was pretty snarky. 


  • With two weeks left in the regular season, the Cowboys (the Dallas version) have no home games left and there's no realistic way they will have a home playoff game either. 
  • Messenger: Above the Fold

at 8:30 AM

12.27.2022

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




Movie thoughts as 2012 came to a close.

  • If  you've got a friend or co-worker flying on Southwest yesterday, they probably aren't where they planned to be right now. This is truly fiasco:  Around 70% of all of its flights were canceled on Monday and it won't stop today or this week.   This has to be the result of some type of internal labor issue. 



  • It was an epic storm in the Buffalo area. The blizzard lasted 37 hours. 

     

  • There are some strange new charges appearing on the Tanner Horner entry on the Wise County Sheriff's Office jail roster. We knew about three new "Sexual Assault Child" charges out of Tarrant County, but there are now three new specifically worded charges of statutory rape of a child under 17. This tells me the alleged victim was between the of ages 14 through 16, inclusive. If they were younger than 14, the charge would be called Aggravated Sexual Assault so these charges aren't related to the Wise County abduction and murder.  (Oddly, one of the those three "Sexual Assault Child" charges out of Tarrant County has disappeared.  )

  • The Wise County official government website, at least the portion for court and jail data, was wonky over the last three days. I think a security certificate has expired (below). Depending on your browser, you won't be able to get to it without tweaking the settings.

  • Sad news out of Aggieland. And these lines just hurt: "Hoang's family said they were on their way to College Station to attend his graduation the weekend he went missing . . . .  They were supposed to meet him for lunch, but never did. Texas A&M University said Hoang was not qualified to graduate, Fox 26 reported." It would have been Ok. It would have been Ok. 
     

  • As everyone expected, the judge threw out crazy Kari Lake's election challenge. She responded as you would expect. These election-denying people are lunatics. 


  • A Christmas presentation in four acts.
    • Act I:

    • Act II:

    • Act III:

    • Act IV:

  • Let's check in presidential Christmas messages. 



  • Good lord.

  • Random photo from Texas Monthly's photos of the year. Boats converge at "party cove" on Lady Bird Lake on May 7, 2022. I'd be so worried about my boat once the slightest of wakes came along.

  • Nothing says Christmas like your pastor celebrating the Lord's birth by being on Fox and Friends on Sunday and Christmas morn before dawn. 
  • That is a great photo. The way the guy just looks into the camera. The two women beside him who are about to realize there might be something unusual about their row mate. Here is his Wikipedia entry.

  • The George Santos story of lies is really is amazing. The recently elected New York Congressman didn't work for Goldman-Sachs, didn't graduate from college and also lied about his religion.  And we now have this great all-time line: “I never claimed to be Jewish,” Santos said. “I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background I said I was ‘Jew-ish.'”

at 8:32 AM

12.23.2022

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

That last one is old, but it make me laugh every single time.
at 2:30 PM
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