12.16.2025

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts



And then the Decatur QuikTrip was born. 
  • He is a vile and disgusting man. 

  • How can a guy commit a shooting on an Ivy League campus and then just vanish?


    • If you want to feel a little bit of the fear of what it is like to go through a school shooting, watch this. 

  • A faithful reader sent in this pic of various cameras being added/installed/tweaked on the Decatur courthouse square. 

  • Those rocks came in handy.
     

  • "The US military conducted strikes against three alleged drug-trafficking boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, killing 8 people, according to US Southern Command." That brings the total to 95 dead.

  • Place your bets.

  • Breaking Business Second™ News.
  • The Business Second™.

  • Arch Manning is returning to Texas next season. 

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12.15.2025

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




That would be Kyler Murray.

  • That widow is the former Superintendent of Boyd ISD.  Gift link.

  • Good grief.  And it looks like Reiner's son might be the suspect.  (And TMZ has been the lead news organization on this story from the beginning.)


  • A mass shooting yesterday committed by a father and son at a gathering of Jews in Australia left  15 dead yesterday. Crazy video footage of all of it is everywhere. Video of full 10 minutes. Video of the heroic disarming. Video (graphic) of victims. 




  • It turns out that a "person of interest" was not of interest at all.  The manhunt resumes.


  • This was big news 48 hours ago. 

  • Dateline: Lavon, Texas. 


  • Story. 



  • Gift link.
  • Seems significant.
  • Twenty-five years ago, Bush v. Gore was decided.  And Gore's great concession speech makes it feel even longer ago than that. How far we have fallen. 
  • A real photo from the Oval Office on Friday, 

  • Denton Braswell High School's AD and head football coach has been placed on official leave, but we don't know much more than that. Students complained about him to the school board last summer.
  • The best sporting event on TV yesterday may have been the Lady Aggies upsetting #1 and undefeated Nebraska in volleyball,  Just look at that fourth set. 

  • Southlake Carroll is out of the playoffs after failing to convert on a fourth and goal despite the side judge, who was just feet away from the tackle, signaled touchdown on the play.   After a gathering of officials, the call was overturned.  Video of it all.

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12.12.2025

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




The time I posted a gif of a cat attack and followed it up with a pic of The Family Cat watching the gif.

  • Update on the shooting which involved a bunch of 17 year olds at a Burleson park in a "drug deal gone bad."

    • Victim's photo. 

  • This is on the heels of the state taking over Fort Worth ISD a few weeks back. 

  • Video. 


  • "A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., declined on Thursday to indict Letitia James, the New York attorney general, the second time in a week that jurors had rejected the effort." And these were two different grand juries in two different cities.  That's hard to do. 
  • Trump told Indiana Republicans to redraw their congressional maps to eliminate all Democratic districts. Their legislature, unlike the Texas legislature, said no yesterday.

  • AI headlines: 
    • So much for state's rights.  And isn't this supposed to be something Congress decides?

    • Gift link.


    • Things are about to get weirder. 

  • Random Trump stuff. 
    • He's thinks he can pardon a convicted, crooked, and elecction-denying politician of state charges.



    • He says the strangest things. Video.

    • Ominous Trump stuff from the same speech last night: “We’re going to have a great three years, four years, 10 years, we’re going to make it great. Our country’s going to be strong, safe, rich, it’s going to be great. We’re going to make America great again!” (Video)

  • Legal nerdy stuff: Wichita Falls had a high profile capital murder case over the last couple of years where their local paper describes it this way:  "James Staley, the 43-year-old scion of a prominent Wichita Falls oil family, was found guilty by a Fort Worth jury in connection with the Oct. 11, 2018, smothering death of Wilder, his then girlfriend’s son, at his Wichita Falls home in the Country Club neighborhood" But then, earlier this year, the conviction was reversed by the Fort Worth Court of Appeals based upon an illegal cell phone search.  Yesterday, we had another development. (PDR is here.)

  • Legal nerdy stuff. There is no way the judge's comment was an accurate statement of the meaning of "beyond a reasonable doubt." Oral argument video is here (cued up).  Briefs are here. 

  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 162 days.

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