2.05.2024

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




I always go back to thinking about him in Capote. If you've ever seen it, watch the actual Truman Capote interviewed by Johnny Carson to learn how much he nailed him.

  • We bombed everything in the Middle East over the weekend.


  • Last night a bi-partisan border bill was released. The Republican controlled House immediately said it was dead on arrival. If they supported a border solution there would be nothing to campaign on.  



    Fox News reporter

  • Meanwhile, I small "convoy" showed up at the border to . . . well, I'm not exactly sure what their purpose was. 





  • This happened yesterday. He was on the loose for 20 minutes and headed straight for McDonalds.

  • The jury begins deliberation today for the mom on trial for the sins of her mass-murdering teenage son in Michigan. I've done a complete 180 on her lawyer. She's a mess. She makes mistakes. She doesn't know how to preserver error. But her closing argument might have been the most endearing and relatable argument I ever heard. I love her. (Full video of her closing.) And I'd never convict the mom, although I fear this jury might. I just don't know.


  • A former Dallas Star stood trial for attacking three women in one day. It did not go well for the prosecution. (Franklin County is in East Texas and has a population of 10,359.)


  • The Super Bowl comes to Vegas this week. This is what the Luxor looks like right now. Really. 

  • Over the weekend we've learned nothing more about what happened to this woman after being "found safe" in Laredo.  Maybe I'm, wrong, but my radar is going off on this one. 

  • I was lucky enough to turn on the Grammy's at the exact moment this happened. It was fantastic. (Although 80 year old Joni Mitchell singing "Both Sides Now" later in the show was moving in its own way.)


  • Legal nerdy stuff.

  • I have a conspiracy theory that the number of views of a viral TikTok (i.e. "It has been viewed over 40 million times!") are ridiculously over-exaggerated and inflated. 



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2.02.2024

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




Well, that was awful and depressing. It happened in Depoy, Kentucky.

  • District re-alignment for Wise County schools in football was announced.   Decatur has become part of Fort Worth - and I think almost all those teams are historically awful. As far Bridgeport, I wasn't familiar with "Eagle Mountain" High School. And for good reason -- it opens this Fall.




  • The Liberally Lean Weather Team forecasts rain beginning late this afternoon with the heaviest downpour at 10:00 p.m. 
  • Crazy good national job numbers (yet again) were just released.
  • Here's dashcam video of the car going over the Woodall Rogers flyover killing four. "The two women have been identified as Sabria Lacey and Raejon Aubert while the two men have been identified as Alexander Gowans and Isaiah Lisbon." All are in their early 20s, and the car was stolen. 

  • Not sure what's going on here. The Alert was "issued [yesterday] for 37-year-old Lacey Lyn Overby after police said she was abducted from a fast food restaurant in Lancaster while buying a meal for a man believed to be homeless." She was "found" in Laredo. That's all we know. 


  • I think they are going to convict the mass shooter's mom in Michigan. I like her testifying yesterday, but I didn't like the way she testified. Cross-examination begins this morning, and you can watch it on YouTube. (And I've come around a little on her defense lawyer. She's still in over her head but, man, she takes the case personally. I appreciate that.) 

  • There's a wacky case going on in Waco where a lady is charged with manslaughter and failure to stop and render aid of a Baylor student. She didn't get arrested until an anyonoums tip was sent in two years later. Good details here.



  • Put me in the group.

  • Two days ago there was great fanfare as tech company heads appeared before Congress so Congressman could get their sound-bites.  Lindsey Graham was one of them. You could say the same thing to AR-15 manufacturers, right?

  • Mar-a-Largo post-trial party pic.

  • Tech stuff
    • This New York Times article praises the use of Perplexity as a Google search replacement. It's pretty cool. 

    • Apple's first shot at VR is expensive and a little clunky, but this concept is fantastic. We can go anywhere in the world and visit in person with anyone we want without leaving our chair. 

  • The Business of Warehouses Second™.

  • Fun college football fact: The following are conference games that all occur on the same weekend (October 26th) this Fall. Try to explain that to yourself two years ago.

  • Time which has passed since the Wise County Sheriff's Office, despite having a full male DNA profile, has failed to solve the murder of Lauren Whitener in her home at Lake Bridgeport: 4 years and 221 days.

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2.01.2024

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




Forgot about that.

  • A little excitement at Decatur High yesterday.
  • "Early this morning: Irving police chased the suspected stolen vehicle approximately 12 miles to the 35/Woodall Rodgers interchange [in downtown Dallas]. They say the driver lost control and plunged off the flyover to the ground below killing the 4 inside."


  • The front page of the Messenger has a story of how the Texas Oilman PAC, which was recently embroiled in a White Supremacy controversy, has donated $5,000 to one of the Wise County Sheriff candidates.  That's noteworthy but nothing like the $155,000 (here and here) given to the opponent of incumbent Texas House Rep. Dr. Lynn Stucky -- a blatant attempt to buy our election by outsiders. 
  • TxDOT is advertising in the Messenger about a public hearing regarding a new interchange for highway 287 and 1810 just north of Decatur.  That looks like a new segment of a highway they are proposing.  
    Red arrows added by my Graphics Department.

  • Is Ken Paxton trying to make everyone hate him?


  • Insurrection update. (Video of the moment.)


  • Police say that folks were dealing meth out of a Dairy Queen in Clifton, Texas.


  • No one crashes jets for no apparent reason like the U.S. military.

  • This is at the Northpoint development right at the Wise/Tarrant County line. Story.

  • Messenger - Above the Fold

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