Random Monday Morning Thoughts

This issue/non-issue has been going on a long time. 

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• There sure seems to be an inordinate number of homes being damaged by lightning strikes these days.  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Number of graduating students on Friday night: 1,772.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Now that's a heck of a wreck.
  
  
  
  
• Weird story. (Gift link.)
  
  
  
• Dateline North Carolina. Both will survive. 
  
  
  
  
• This is literally Orwellian. 
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Bullets flew near the White House on Saturday.
  
  
• This reporter has been mocked for not automatically realizing she was hearing gun shots. Because in America, we should all recognize the sound of gunfire, right?  (She's been a good sport about it all.)
  
  
  
• Real estate news.
  
• Good. 
  
• There were all sorts or reports about a "settlement" with Iran over the weekend.  The reality is, Trump just wants to announce that it's done, declare it a victory, and move on. This is turning out to be a disaster with a stronger Iran who will come back to haunt us.  (And never forget we killed over 160 girls by bombing their school.)
  
  
  
  
  
  
• "Speed and efficiency."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Random weird stuff Trump posted this weekend. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Remember when Bill Clinton briefly met with the Attorney General on an airport tarmac? 
  
  
  
• The only thing I know about the Indy 500 yesterday is this great photograph of the winner.
  
  
  
• THWMISB™.

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

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A vehicle caught fire and subsequently exploded near the iconic Charging Bull statue in New York City's Wall Street district pic.twitter.com/HmGaZ8J7Pv

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) May 20, 2026

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This is Frank. He was getting checked out at the vet when he decided the appointment was over. Has things to do and places to be, but doesn't mind if you come along. 13/10 pic.twitter.com/c5xxuzNtDG

— WeRateDogs (@dog_rates) May 21, 2026

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Anyone else shocked this doesn’t happen more often?

I think this all the time. Golfers are humans, they mishit sometimes.

Not exaggerating, someone could have been killed right here. The camera saved the day.

Don’t stand directly in front of a golfer!
pic.twitter.com/s34xLvHv1F

— Rick Golfs (@Top100Rick) May 16, 2026

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Stumbled upon magic. Had to share pic.twitter.com/TofXTdyEyi

— Jomboy (@Jomboy_) May 20, 2026

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The "What does it mean?" at the end of the last one makes me laugh.

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

And they still aren't sure what caused the jet, heading from Paris to Cairo, to go down. 

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• They tried for an hour before they gave up.  That's ghoulish.
  

  

  
  
• Dateline Virginia: A school administrator was criminally charged when a six year old brought a gun to school and shot and injured a teacher. Yesterday, the judge granted a directed verdict after the State rested. (The fact that the prosecutors charged her with eight counts for each of the eight bullets the child had tells you a lot.)
  
  
  
• Well, actually it was a former United States Attorney for the Southern District of Texas..
  

  

  
  
  
  
• The news of this NASCAR death came down yesterday afternoon, but the New York Post has an update this morning. 
  
  
  
• Update from yesterday: A grand jury refused to indict the Trinidad, Texas woman who was guilty of complaining about the city's water. 
  
  
  
• Dateline Austin. We truly can't have nice things.
  
   
  
  
  
• Speaker Mike Johnson pulled the measure off the floor yesterday once he knew Trump was in trouble. 
  
  
  
• Lots of headlines yesterday about how Republican senators were outraged with the Insurrectionist Slush Fund after a closed door meeting with Acting AG Todd Blanche. So what are they going to do to stop it? See the highlighted text: 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• So I get to write a check to guys like this? 
  
  
  
• I'm not sure Trump knew that Junior was getting married this weekend.  
  
  
  
• I was completely distracted by this guy in the background. Buddy, if you don't get that thing fixed, it's gonna blow. 
  
  
  
• The Business Second™. From the front page of the Washington Post, and I find this surprising:
  
• Legal stuff.  I promise you AI is going to have this number skyrocket even more. And the AI- prepared-document filings by pro se litigants in those cases will be able to fill the Library of Congress. 
  
  
  
• Very legal nerdy stuff: For you civil lawyers, the Fort Worth Court of Appeals yesterday affirmed a jury's take-nothing jury verdict after Hurricane Harbor in Arlington was sued by the mother of a kid who was murdered in the parking lot. The main issue was the admissibility of extraneous crimes in the area, and the judge was not kind to the Plaintiff in that regard. The briefs were great, and you can tell there was a lot of money poured into this case in order to try it. And it looks like there is a Decatur legal connection to it all, but I can't tell how much.
  
• The head coach for the Evil Empire took a shot at Texas Tech. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 323 days.

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

I had forgotten how much she struggled while in office.

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• This is a crazy story (and a very detailed one) regarding a woman who was arrested for a felony because of a Facebook post.  Trinidad is down by Corsicana with a population of 880.
  
  
  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  
• Gift link.  Everyone involved in this traffic accident made some very poor choices.
  
  
  
• Pretty big story out of Weatherford about the planned construction of a massive data center (with a little irony in the headline.)
  
   
  
  
  
• Updates regarding the Insurrectionist Slush Fund:
• This guy is such a clown.  Video 
  
  
  
• And we will never know who all gets paid or how much. 
  

  

  "Pay the man his money."

  
  
• "Stand back and stand by" turned out to be a promise. 
  
  
  
• New York Times editorial: “Americans should be clear-eyed about what the president is doing. He is taking their money and showering it on criminals.” 
  
  
  
• What Congress?
  
  
  
• One of our oligarchs said this about Trump yesterday.
  
  
  
• I've never understood why Republicans drag out that Scott Pressler guy for the crowd.
  
  
  
  
• The more you study this photo, the crazier it gets.
  
  
  
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