4.01.2024

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




The Rangers issued an apology for all of the beer cans on the statue. By the way, it was (only) the ballpark's 20th anniversary.

  • Someone fell 150 feet into the spillway at Lake Bridgeport yesterday. He was care-flighted and is in serious condition. How do you survive that? That's a long way down. 

  • Cameras are everywhere. Kansas City Chiefs WR Rashee Rice was in a multi-car wreck and allegedly left the scene.  Someone's dash cam caught the wreck while others filmed and photographed him walking away. He might want to try and handle this. 

  • On Friday, this thing fell off an overpass and onto a highway in Dallas. Fox4Terry was all over it.

  • I mentioned several months ago that I kept seeing news reports of shootings in and outside of hookah lounges. I've noticed two more in the last month. 



  • If you haven't seen the video of the car going through the fitness center in Dallas on Friday, here you go.  And keep your eye on the center where a couple of people are sitting on a couch. 

  • Trump: 
    • By noon on Easter morning, Trump had made 71 posts on Truth Social, including this one: 

    • Nothing says resurrection celebration like this:

    • And he started off on Good Friday by posting a video depicting President Biden hogtied in a truck.  

  • I'm not even going to mention the Trans Day of Visibility "controversy." How can people be so ill-informed? It's painful.
  • That's a three foot tall buzzsaw blade embedded into the front of a convenience store. Here's a crazy video showing how it ended up there. And one guy is very lucky.

  • Highway 1, the Pacific Coast Highway, had a little trouble this weekend. 

  • Good. That D.A. was a moron. 

  • The Washington Post article on Kim Mulkey came out on Saturday. I read all of it. Why was she so bent out of shape before it was released? It was fine. (Although that women will never speak to you again once you wrong her.) 

  • Wasn't Microsoft's "Clippy" a little bit of AI back in the day?

  • Who is SMU's press person? Not only did they have a glossy fawning piece in the New York Times this weekend, that ACC commercial on ESPN for them might be one of the best I've ever seen. 

  • We've got quite the barn-burner in the Liberally Lean Pick 'Em Tourney. (Standings.)

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3.29.2024

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




ESPN sure was overly excited about Johnny Manziel's pro day. But even George W. Bush and Ricky Perry showed up for it. 

  • Messenger - Above the Fold. (I forgot to post this yesterday.)
  • Last Friday, a school bus crash in Bastrop County killed two. The Austin-American Statesman knew the bus would have a dash cam so the paper made an open records request. They got it. 

  • The Rangers had months to figure out how to hang the World Series banner and managed to do it in a way that it has a crimp in it. 


  • That's just a harsh sentence. 

  • True this.

  • Of course.


  • Presidents Obama, Biden and Clinton got together last night in Manhattan. 

  • I didn't believe this was real, but it was.  And if you think he was joking, he wasn't. He doubled down on it before he was exposed. 


  • After bouncing around in appellate orbit for six years, the outrageous conviction in Fort Worth of Crystal Mason was overturned last night and an acquittal entered. Opinion.

    • These are the Tarrant County DA's lawyers responsible for the prosecution and trying to hang on to a the now declared wrongful conviction. 

  • This story about CPS is on the front page of the Star-Telegram today, and it got my attention because it sounds exactly like the documentary called Take Care of Maya on Netflix -- which is really good.


  • A new book to be released about Southlake ISD which has implications close to home. I love the title.  

  • Nothing says Jesus like an Alaskan cruise sponsored by a pastor and advertised during Easter week. 

  • Just announced: Louis Gossett Jr., who won an Oscar for his drill sergeant role in An Officer and a Gentleman, has died.
  • 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 277 days.



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3.28.2024

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts







It came as quite the shock a few hours later when it was discovered the former SMU player was alive and well and living in Desoto. He had been misidentified. 

  • Wait. Ken Paxton has ruled that we can't hear the 911 tape of an alleged crime being committed against Ken Paxton? Once you get past the absurdity of the procedure of it all, why wouldn't he want the public to hear it?

  • These proclamations are dumb.  The residents of those counties will be far more inconvenienced by the typical elementary school pick-up line than the day of the eclipse. 

  • A Fox News poll says Republicans have an abortion problem in that 59% now believe it should be legal all or most of the time. Only 7% support at total ban which is what Texas lawmakers have enacted. 

  • Ok, that's a funny screenshot from ultra-conservative Newsmax.

  • Pay attention. Gov. Abbott and his cronies in Austin are simply trying to kill public education so they can kneel to school vouchers which will only benefit the rich with your tax dollars. 

  • This is jaw-droppingly stupid (and even made it to Twitter's "Bad Legal Takes" account.)  The Texas government is now mandating that colleges crack down on free speech.  It's 100% illegal government censorship based upon the content of the speech. You can't do that. Man, this isn't your daddy's Republican party any more. 


  • Random Fun Pic: A ticket to see the Beatles at the Dallas Convention Center on 9/18/64 for the price of $5.53. 

  • Retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is making the rounds promoting a new book, but I don't think I've ever seen someone turn all their books around in a bookcase. 

  • A trigger warning in a legal pleading? PDF. 

  • The Business Second™. That's a lot of money. SRS is "a leading construction materials distributor [which] supplies to the home building and remodeling trade and serves professional roofers, landscapers and pool contractors." So they deliver stuff to construction sites? (Fun fact: SRS has been owned since 2018 by a Gordon Gekko-like equity firm.)

  • Have I ever said how much I hate the very concept of The Masked Singer, and how I think it is the dumbest TV show ever produced?



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