1.07.2025

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




Wait a second! I came up with the idea to renovate the Wise County Courthouse? The same courthouse that is currently being renovated? And to think I've been praising County Judge J.D. Clark all this time. They'll probably name it after me once they read this. 

  • I've got the highly compensated Liberally Lean Weather Team in the lab going over computer models.  I told them to get me a snow estimate and that they better not screw this up.  Developing . . . . 




  • The peaceful transfer of power has once again been restored.  It really isn't that hard to do if you're not a nut. 


  • A plane crashed into a backyard in California yesterday with remarkably little damage.


  • "JetBlue said the plane had most recently flown to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport from New York JFK Airport with the flight number 1801."

  • Meta/Facebook is cozying up to Trump like nobody's business.

  • But wait, there's more. Facebook announced this morning that it is going to be like X with no "fact checkers."   X is already like InfoWars with its avalanche of conspiracy posts. Great. Just great. 


    • They specifically sucked up to Trump during the announcement. They even made the announcement on Fox News.  The change was made, they said, because of Trump's "commitment to free expression" Huh?! He literally wants to shutdown TV networks that criticize him. 

  • An example of Trump's "commitment to free expression" yesterday:

  • This is actually surprisingly funny when you see it. Video.


  • I wonder if we are going to have the American version of The Diary of Anne Frank? 


  • Trump might actually just be crazy.  What's next? Rolling tanks into Poland?

  • The Business Second™. Junior will also become an "equity owner." I don't know if I can handle four more years of stuff like this.

  • Unethical prosecutor news. Gift link.   

  • When the new DA in Houston took office on January 1, 2015, he didn't know his law license was suspended because he had failed to pay a late fee to the State Bar.  He has since fixed it.   


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1.06.2025

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




The civility of ten years ago seems impossible now. 

  • The weather outside reminds me of the famous words of Michael Irvin. 

  • The new Wise County Sheriff's Office top staff: Chief Deputy is Eric Debus.  Former Decatur Chief of Police Rex Hoskins will oversee the Support Services Division. Captain Todd Taylor will oversee the Patrol and Criminal Investigation’s Divisions. And I think everyone is sporting new uniform colors. 

  • This story is about Rhome.  Apparently they aren't posting city announcements on Facebook any longer but instead using something called GoGov.

    • But this part of the story contained a very confusing quote from a city official. 

  • Now make it Day 14. 

  • Trump is not happy about the flags still being half-staff by the time the inauguration rolls away. 

  • Those are some pretty nice homes to have a body just appear in the lake behind them.  No one knows who the deceased is. 

  • Happy January 6th to all the "patriots." If you would have told me on this day four years ago that Trump would be re-elected after that carnage, I would have thought you were crazy. Instead, it was the country who went crazy by putting him back in office. And I'll never understand it until the day I die. But let's get those egg prices down, right?


  • No, she's not "forced." She's willing doing her constitutional duty without being an election denier. 

  • "Ann Telnaes, who has worked at The Washington Post as an editorial cartoonist since 2008, says her cartoon below was killed — and now she has quit the paper." (Explained: Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Sam Altman (ChatGPT) giving Trump's alter money, The LA Times owner (who blocked the paper's Kamala Harris endorsement) putting on lipstick, and a defeated or dead ABC/Disney which settled the Trump defamation lawsuit.)


  • Kudos to the New York Times for tracking down the history of the subway burn victim. Gift link.


  • Random post. I saw this on Twitter from a guy bragging that he was able to very cheaply create a replacement part with a 3D printer. That's great, but its black appearance would remind me daily that I was too cheap to spend $34 to get a matching knob. 

  • Legal stuff: This was a crazy story on the front page of the Dallas Morning News yesterday about the U.S. Attorney's office in Fort Worth.  A federal prosecutor, Nicole Hammond, was slow to turn over evidence in a criminal case and had to take the stand to explain herself. She said (1) that “I feel very unwell . . . . And it’s apparent that my perception is not great" (2) that she "felt misled" by and agent in connection with the cases' evidence, and (3) that she thought her work computer had been "tampered" with. Judge Reed O’Connor didn't believe her and banished her from practicing in the Northern District for a year. She has since left the U.S. Attorney's Office.

  • Sports photos from the weekend:
    • Ouch.

    • Kim Mulkey's wild (and unflattering) outfit.

    • Cowboys defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer, 68, got engaged to Katarina Miketin, 42.

  • Ticket radio news: After 30+ years, the Musers morning show is cutting back from 5:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. to a new length of 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. 

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1.03.2025

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




It didn't take much to get us excited.

  • Wise County roads are already not cooperating for the new year. Moments ago:

  • The Las Vegas Cybertruck bombing update:
    • He shot himself before the vehicle blew. 


    • The amount of nutty conspiracy theories that people come up is mind-numbing. The Chairman of the Republic Party of Tarrant County asserts that someone else killed the guy and then had auto-pilot drive the vehicle to the Trump hotel: 

    • Sometimes the answer is the most obvious one:. A suicide after he was caught cheating. 
  • There are lots of horrific videos from the Bourbon Street Massacre out there if, for some reason, you want to look for them, but this one of everyone escaping the speeding truck contains no gore. And that girl with the red hair has to be thinking she's blessed. She barely made it to the sidewalk in time.

  • North Richland Hills make the news again: "A 47-year-old man died Wednesday morning, after he was booked into the in the North Richland Hills detention facility the previous day. The man, identified by the Tarrant County Medical Examiner as Michael Gene Knight, was arrested by Watauga police and booked into the facility at about 3:45 p.m. on New Year’s Eve."

  • What a wild image from yesterday afternoon.


  • Congress gavels in today with a vote on the House Speaker occurring at 11:00 a.m. CST when we will learn if Mike Johnson can retain his leadership role.  And CSPAN will be allowed to have additional cameras in the chamber which is great for capturing some wheels off moments (like two years ago.)



  • Oh, no! We are losing Osmonds now!


  • Fish crime! Game wardens in Travis County "located two suspects—one actively spearing black bass with a pneumatic speargun while snorkeling (a violation of state fishing regulations), and the other stationed onshore with a cooler and bag" at Lady Bird Lake in Austin. 


  • Is there any chance we are all living in some big computer simulation and are all being punked? I mean, there's no way that this is coming from the richest man in the history of the world, right?:

  • The Business Second™. Who would have thought that acting like a nut would scare off people from buying his cars?

  • Wise County's newly elected state rep is already doing stupid things. And who could this possibly benefit anyway?


  • Quite the headline. 

  • Fun upcoming Cotton Bowl fact: The first game of the year for both Texas and Ohio State next year will be against each other. 
  • Since we have a change in administrations of the Wise County Sheriff's Office, I need to reword my weekly Lauren Whitener bullet point. Until then, it has been: 5 years and 183 days.

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