11.29.2023

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




Now make that thirty years and twenty-five years. "The days are long but the years are short."

  •  He won't be "running the basketball operations" for long. And this is the first smart business decision he's made since buying the team.  

  • I can't believe I forgot to post this. A few days ago we had this guy on the courthouse square in Decatur with a very odd protest of Israel's bombing of Gaza. (Thanks to faithful reader Jenny who stopped him and had him pose for a photo.) 

  • Breaking moments ago: A crashed military helicopter in the sea off of Japan.  There are conflicting reports as to whether six or eight men were on board. I'll say it again. The military has more unforced aircraft crashes than any group in the world. 

  • A good hostage graphic in the Gaza/Israel war:

  • I've been seeing headlines about this for a few days. It's awful.  You never know what the Butterfly Effect will deal you. A car just suddenly crossed over the double yellow stripe and hit them head on near Johnson City. It looks like he was their heir apparent to this big construction company in Fort Worth which was founded by his dad.



  • Elon Musk is 100% nuts. For some reason he went full QAnon yesterday and decided to support  Pizzagate - a delusional conspiracy theory which almost got people killed back in the day. Musk deleted the tweet after six hours. What a moron. (Even the confusing and silly meme is based on a falsehood.)




  • Trump will shut down a free press who criticizes him if given the chance.  But don't compare him to Hitler, right? MSNBC = Shut it down. Fox News = State approved. And this is in no way, shape, or form a "conservative" position: 

  • Rosalyn Carter's funeral yesterday was really, really good. But I did a double-take when Garth Brooks showed up with a full head of hair. 

  • Texas politics is strange. Abbott apparently doesn't care at all about the failed Paxton impeachment/removal proceedings. The guy below stood up in the Senate and gave an impassioned closing argument for the conviction of Paxton. Despite that, yesterday Abbott endorsed him. Editor's note: I can't stand this guy:

  • Criminal legal news that got my attention:
    • Retired Montague district judge Jack McGaughey, filling in as a misdemeanor court judge in Wichita County, dismissed the cases on a statute of limitations claim. The judge probably did the prosecutors a favor in this case since they were probably looking at some not guilty verdicts -- I hope they realize it. 


    • I find this case out of Waco interesting. The prosecutors must have feared he would testify and the jury would believe his self-defense claim. He'll get seven years deferred adjudication unless the judge, who oddly wants a pre-sentence investigation, rejects it. (Story with the underlying facts.)

  • Random Sports Note: Bobby Petrino is leaving Aggieland to become offensive coordinator at Arkansas.  He was last there as a head coach but had to resign after lying about a motorcycle wreck with a young woman on the back. 


  • Mavs coach Jason Kidd with an angry cussing rant at reporters last night. Video.
  • You can tell Siri, Google, or Alexa to flip a coin for you. 

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11.28.2023

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




I don't remember him being a "whipping boy."

  • There's a 48  hour extension of the pause in fighting in Gaza. I really didn't think both sides would be able to pull this off.  

  • I can't believe this actually happened. He has begun his 30 day sentence after being convicted last month in a trial in Montague County.
     

  • A "tribute service" for Rosalyn Carter is today. I came across this photo and caption yesterday: "Here at a Kentucky Derby party in 1983 with Hillary Clinton, John Y. Brown Jr., Ivana and Donald Trump."

  • Gov. Abbott went skydiving yesterday.   The "tandem jump" seems like cheating to me. It's pretty much like getting on an amusement park ride. 

  • Call me old, but he doesn't catch even a just a little bit of heat for not being married to this gal?


  • Sports Illustrated is in a scandal after it was revealed that some of their articles were generated by AI including AI generated bios and photographs of the fake authors. The magazine blamed a third party contractor. 


  • The Business Second™: Insurance companies, which are always sitting on piles of cash, have decided to invest in . . . warehouses. 

  • Legal nerdy stuff: I can't say I'm familiar with Young Thug or his RICO trial going on in Atlanta, but online lawyers were all bent out shape because of this moment during opening statements yesterday.  It's the equivalent of saying, "Even though the burden is 100% on us to prove the defendant guilty, he won't bring you an evidence that he's innocent."

  • The "Memo of Understanding" for the new Aggie coach is interesting.  The way it's written is that all those bonuses would be cumulative if the Aggies go a long way into the playoffs.

  • Fun fact of the day:

  • Breaking: "Hunter Biden’s lawyers have told the House Oversight Committee that the president’s son is willing to testify on December 13 in their inquiry into his actions."  What a relief. I've been staying up at nights worrying about that laptop. 


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11.27.2023

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




Over the last 10 years, online shopping has killed the wild scenes we use to see on Friday morning. 

  • The hostage release by Hamas continued over the weekend, but today is the last day of the cease fire unless it is extended. But, look out, things might really take a turn for the worse -- look who just arrived: 

  • We've got an inmate escape out of Fannin County (98 miles from Decatur). 

  • No one should cheer this.


  • Let me tell you, this guy was responsible for a lot of weird stuff on Saturday morning TV when I was a kid.

  • Seems like a big deal. "Two ballistic missiles were fired from Houthi rebel-controlled Yemen toward a US warship in the Gulf of Aden, after the US Navy responded to a distress call from a commercial tanker that had been seized by armed individuals, the US military said Sunday." 


  • Once again, we go through this "busiest travel day of the year" fake dance every year.

  • Legal musing: For the life of me I don't understand why prosecutors keep flirting with indicting Alec Baldwin for the accidental shooting on the set of Rust a couple of years ago. But if this paragraph is true, they should be suspended if not disbarred. They convened another grand jury on the case on Thursday.

  • Ending with sports: 
    • The Aggies have a new coach after a chaotic Saturday when an alumni revolt killed the hiring of Mark Stoops of Kentucky. Mike Elko of Duke arrived at College Station late last night. 


    • The Evil Empire has a Big 12 Championship basically gifted to them after Oklahoma State earned the right to face them after a limping, yet winning, effort against BYU. Texas has opened as an 11.5 favorite for Saturday's game. If they lose this, it would rival the loss to Colorado in the 2001 championship game. 

    • Hot color commentator opinion: I think Tony Romo is 100% better at his job, and certainly far more entertaining, than Troy Aikman. 

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11.24.2023

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

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