1.18.2023

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




It's the 10 year anniversary of this. If you haven't seen the recent Netflix documentary about it, you should.  I, along with everyone else, roasted the guy at the time. Wrongly. 

  • Marjorie Taylor Green, a QAnon supporter who has said that 9/11 was inside job and who regularly appears on Alex Jones' show, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. God help us. This is all part of the deal Kevin McCarthy cut to become speaker.

  • The headline is about all we know.

  • The embattled Clay County Sheriff lives for another day. For now. He filed a motion is disqualify District Judge Jack McGaughey. 

  • I kept seeing the still shots of the kid wandering around apartment complex with a gun, and then I  finally watched the video. Oh, my. 

    • Dad got arrested over the incident. He denied having a gun, and said he was asleep during the day because he was home "sick." Cops had been about to leave the apartment complex until a lady came out and showed them the Ring camera video on her phone. 

  • Say what?

  • This is about the only thing I can think of which would rile today's students up enough to inspire a 1960s-like administration building takeover.

  • I can't believe I'm saying this, but I agree with the new Tarrant County Judge Tim O'Hare. He was objecting to spending $230,000 just for a study to update the commissioner's court streaming technology. "O’Hare was told the county had 245 employees in its IT department, but none has the skills to conduct such a study." You kidding me? 

    • You know how you solve the problem? Tell the IT department to submit a list of 10 links to the best county streaming sites they can find on the Internet. And then go contact those counties' vendors for a bid. And then publicly recognize the IT employees who found the best sites. This ain't rocket science. 
  • Until yesterday, I don't think I've ever seen an ATM being installed. Decatur is getting a new one by its Visitor's Center (the old post office) across from the Messenger's office. 

  • Within the last week, a man who gun downed people in the streets with an AR-15 has had an appearance cancelled in Texas and at The Venetian on the Las Vegas strip. 

  •  Kind of an odd concept. Two acres at Alliance Town Center for a place which calls itself beer-friendly yet somehow kid-friendly. And it will have no TVs.


  • Mark Cuban brow-beat the artist into painting over this mural in Deep Ellum. 

  • TCU is considering hiring Art Briles' son as offensive coordinator. He ran Baylor's offense during the high octane days but, of course, was around during the scandal.  He's currently the OC at Arkansas and, since leaving Baylor, has had the same position at Florida Atlantic (under Lane Kiffin), the University of Houston (under Major Applewhite) and at Florida State. No seemed to care about the hire at those schools. From the Star-Telegram: 

  • This is an actual text I received from Mrs. LL last week. It was, in fact, Lawrence Taylor. 

  • Messenger: Above the Fold

at 8:32 AM

1.17.2023

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts





It had only been a handful of weeks since the Sandy Hook shooting, but it was this week 10 years ago when I discovered the conspiracy kooks out there. This was a screenshot of videos I found on YouTube way back then. 

  • This is a mess up north: (1) There is a hearing today as to whether the Clay County Sheriff, who is under multiple indictments, should be suspended, (2) The hearing was prompted by the filing of a Petition by "Frank Douthitt, who is a prominent local attorney and former district judge, 97th District Attorney Casey Hall and Clay County Attorney Seth Slagle."

  • This one is kind of weird. They haven't found her yet, but there has already been an arrest.

  • Whatever happened to this?

  • News from the San Antonio airport. This is, uh, unusual. 

  • This isn't a job for CPS. They may legally figure out a way to justify an investigation, but their jurisdiction pretty much stops there. (WFAA report.)  

  • Yesterday I mentioned WBAP's Hal Jay being in the hospital awaiting a heart transplant. Here's a picture posted by one of his colleagues.

  • Fox4Terry was working last night. This was a bad one and shut down I-30 in Mesquite this morning. 

  • And these murders seem a little unusual. It occurred in the very small town of Tow, Texas which sits along the Colorado River northwest of Austin.  It occurred in the middle of the night. Google street view of the location is here. 


  • I didn't know about this short stretch of roadway with funky street lights in Fort Worth. 

  • I don't know if it's more amazing that he Cowboys won their first playoff game in 30 years or if their kicker missed 4 extra points. It will be more than 30 years until you ever see the latter again.

    • I was trying to do the math of calculating the odds of missing four extra points in a row. Going in, he had a success rate of 94.3%.  So his chance of missing the first extra point was 5.7%.  So, if I remember my Statistics course, the chance of missing four in a row would by 5.7/100 * 5.7/100 * 5.7/100 * 5.7/100.   I think that ultimately gives me "1 in in 55,556" but I am way out of my area and have zero faith in may answer.
  • I encourage you to experiment with ChatGPT, the AI "search engine."  It's almost terrifying. Google how other people have used it, and then have it. It's a weird world that is coming. 


at 8:31 AM

1.16.2023

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




I'm not sure what ever happened to this Wise County SO's RV.

  • In a world where everything is filmed, the plane was captured on video seconds before impact, and TMZ claims it has a video of a passenger live-streaming the whole thing.


  • A Wichita County Sheriff's Deputy and a bail bondsman allegedly came up with a plan for an inmate to pay to get out of jail with something other than money.

  • WBAP's Hal Jay is hospitalized at Baylor Scott and White "awaiting a heart transplant." He collapsed at home last Tuesday, but was able to call into the station from his hospital bed this morning for an update. He said, through a cracking voice, "The doctor told me heart is done." (The host of the morning show amazingly took a "break for traffic" in the middle of the call.)
  • Southlake ISD conspicuously fails to mention in MLK, Jr. when it announces the MLK Jr. holiday.


  • A new MLK related statue was unveiled in Boston over the weekend. Many mocked it because they didn't understand its source material.

  • A play in five Acts
    • Act I: Patriot Mobile becomes a weird right wing PAC. Kind of a MyPillow for cell phones.

    • Act II: Patriot Mobile helps a lot of right wingers get elected on local DFW school boards.


    • Act III: Last Friday, the Grapevine PD posts this and cozies up to Patriot Mobile. They get roasted in the comments including a Ticket host chiming in.

    • Act IV: Grapevine PD decides that wasn't a good idea.

    • Act V: Some people asked an obvious question that avoided us all

  • Wise County has added a holiday. Emancipation Day has been an official "state holiday" for decades and became a federal holiday in 2021, but I don't ever remember Wise County recognizing it before.  

  • I-30 and I-20 in Arlington yesterday.

  • "HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- One person was killed, and four people were hospitalized after more than 50 shots were fired at a club in northwest Harris County, according to deputies."  How would you like to been a guy who just decided to go get a nice foot massage next door  at "FootRelax" when all that happened?


  • It is a holiday, so let's see another play.
    • Act I: This was a horrible story which I completely missed last week.

    • Act II: The guy's obituary pretends it didn't happen, and even takes it a step further.

    • Act III: A GoFundMe on behalf of the family photoshops the murderer out of the picture and replaces him with a white Jesus.

  • Hey, I posted this picture and a note about that game just last week, and RG3 did the same thing yesterday as he supported Lamar Jackson's decision not to play on a gimp leg.

  • It occurred to me that the NFL was somehow able to turn news of a player almost dying on the field because of the violent nature of its business into a feel-good story. 

at 8:30 AM

1.13.2023

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

at 2:30 PM
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