High School Results?

The Messenger posts the scores here.

Is This True?

Troy Aikman said tonight, while broadcasting the Redskins/Steelers preseason game, that the Cowboys did not have a play involving a quarterback sneak in the first eight years he played.

I'm Pretty Sure This Is Bad Parenting

Video clip of parents that decide to wake their kids in a sadistic manner.

I Missed This

"A Fort Worth man is in the Wise County Jail on charges of evading arrest, after leading officers on a high speed chase from Mineral Wells to Bridgeport. 40 year old Brian Keith Edwards sped away from an attempted traffic stop in Mineral Wells about 3:00 a.m. Wednesday. After fleeing from Palo Pinto County, through Jack County and east to Bridgeport on Hwy. 380, he crashed his SUV into a bar ditch where it overturned and caught fire. Wise County Deputies pulled Edwards out of the wreckage and took him to jail. He was not injured in the crash.Authorities say Edwards drove in excess of 100 mph and forced oncoming traffic off 380. Two Wise County patrol cruisers were damaged when Edwards squeezed by them at an attempted road block in a Bridgeport industrial park. He is also being held on a felony DWI warrant from Tarrant County. Charges are pending in Mineral Wells." Source: KTFW

I'm So Confused

While reviewing a transcript today on an appeal I'm working on, I had a huge question mark form over my head. It was a drug case and the defense lawyer (not me) was asking the jury panel if they would make the State prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt as required by the law. (Pretty much standard stuff). Then one of the potential juror's said: "In my book all people that's on drugs are guilty anyway. That's my thought." Huh?

Things I Learned At Lunch In The Sports Section

Texas Tech has already sold more than 40,000 season tickets - the most ever. The prior record was 36,839. Baylor had 18 players miss practice due to strep throat (boys, you need all the practice you can get). Mack Brown, the UT coach, is on the cover Texas Monthly with the byline of "Let's Go Kick Some OU Butt". Southlake Carroll plays Midland Lee in its first game tomorrow at, get this, 2:30 in the afternoon. I hope no one dies.

Not a Bad Idea

Some big libraries across the nation are now offering downloadable audio books. It's interesting: They are in a ".wma" format which is Windows version of an MP3 file. That format prevents the downloaded file from being transferred other than what a license file allows. (For example, a music file downloaded from music.msn.com allows it to only be burned to a CD three times and allows a transfer to a different computer only twice). This type of copyright protection prevents you from simply emailing the file to a friend (The friend will get it, but can't play it). And the library even makes you "return" the wma file in that the file simply refuses to play again after three weeks.

Friday Night Lights

High school football starts tonight for Wise County. But there is something not quite right about it being August. Have we ever had that early of a start for high school football?

Have You Ever Wondered . . .

. . . what it's like to almost get hit by a train? (video clip)

Computer Voice Fun

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I'd Still Be Stuck To My Seat

Can you believe the Rangers played a day game today? Can you believe 19,112 people showed up in the heat to watch it?

Movie Thought

"The Upside of Anger", recently released on DVD, is really good.

Now Certainly We Can All Agree On This

Headline: "Brigitte Bardot calls for halt to use of puppies as shark bait". And in honor of the aging starlet, I'll post an old picture of her.

Who's Paying That Electric Bill? Oh

The Star Telegram is running a small story about how the air conditioners failed last night and into the early morning hours at Tarrant County's new $53-million Family Law Center. What got my attention was this: "Even with temperatures in the upper 80s outside, however, Flake said the inside temperature didn't rise much beyond 77 degrees. The thermostat is supposed to keep the temperature at 68. "

New Law Effective 9.1.05 (And I Didn't Know This Was A Problem)

Sec. 201.606. CRIMINAL PENALTY: PROVIDING CHIROPRACTIC TREATMENT OR SERVICES WHILE INTOXICATED (b) A person commits an offense if [a license chiropractor] provides chiropractic treatment or services to a patient while intoxicated, and, by reason of that conduct, places the patient at a substantial and unjustifiable risk of harm. (c) An offense under this section is a state jail felony.

I Don't Know Who She Is . . .

. . . but the fact that this actress, sixteen year old Scout Taylor-Compton, is missing is a big deal.

I Thought Chandler Dane Graduated?

The Dallas Morning News has its high school football preseason special issue today. Of their 10 "expert" prognosticators, here are the votes for the predicted winner of District 7-3A: Bridgeport - 4 votes Decatur - 5 votes Lake Worth - 1 vote

Bloop . . . Bloop

I'm a huge fan of TIVO (the digital television recorder). It's incredibly easy to use and works flawlessly. I was surprised to learn, however, that last quarter was the first time it had made a profit and the outlook for the company is not good.