Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• That charisma factor between McCain and Obama is a no brainer.
• Minimum wage has been boosted to $6.55 an hour beginning today. Incredible. That $262 a week before any deductions.
• This heat is getting to me. And I work indoors.
  
• I saw Wall-E last night. It was really pretty good. But has there been any reference at all to how the old school robot looks exactly like the one from the movie Short Circuit? Have I messed that? Edit: Someone has thought about it.
  
• That back road behind Denny's and Braum's off of Western Center Boulevard now has a pothole in it that is as deep as . . . . well . . . a huge hole.
• I really don't care for the manager of a restaurant coming around to see how my "dining experience" is going
  
• I hate waking up, looking at the clock, and realizing the alarm is going off in five minutes
• I'm not real sure who Sophie Monk is but I saw some beach pictures of her yesterday and they were-a-good
• I keep a pump shotgun in my house. The reason? I had a buddy tell me once that the sound of putting a shell in the chamber was "universal" and that sound alone might cause an intruder to flee.
• WBAP's Hal Jay was shocked today to learn that some of his co-workers had purchased things off of Ebay.
• Paul Harvey is back on the radio. He doesn't sound dead at all.
  
• Odd thing I did as a kid: I designated March 1st as "my holiday." No reason. I just wanted a day designated for me like any other holiday. I celebrated it for almost five years straight by drinking a coke or something. But I didn't tell anyone because I was afraid they would think it was weird.
  
• I think I'd like being a long distance truck driver.
• Forbes list of Top Five movie actor earnings last year: 1. Will Smith - $80 million, 2. Johnny Depp - $72 million, 3. Eddie Murphy - $55 million, 4. Mike Myers - $55 million, 5. Leonardo DiCaprio - $45 million. (How'd #3 get in there? Oh, yeah. He does that donkey voice in Shrek.)
• The murder of two young girls in Oklahoma who went out for a walk gets very little press. And I don't understand why.
• When I was a boy, I came across at least 10 head of cattle that had been slaughtered in a field near my house. (Near where Overland Drive is now.) They were all within 30 feet of one another and, stay with me here, their stomachs were ripped open. I told my dad who called the owner but I never really got an answer as to what had happened.
• Has anyone else seen that NFL/Reebok "migration" ad? It's kind of creepy but kind of cool. For about two seconds (at the :42 mark), you can see a group of Cowboy players but the only one I recognize is Greg Ellis.
• Kind of nerdy, but some commenter on a Texas Criminal Justice blog created a little skit taking civil libertarians like me to task. It was pretty funny.
• Stumbled across "Brooke Hogan Knows Best" - a new reality show on MTV of VH1. Awful. Completely staged and awful. But she's kind of hot. I watched the whole thing.
  
• I loved Mystery Science 3000 but, man, it was the show where you had to watch with undivided attention.
• Speaking of hot, Megen Henderson of Fox 4 mysteriously missed the 5 o'clock hour this morning but showed up beginning at 6 o'clock. I'm not sure I've ever seen her do this before.
• In a metroplex of a krillion people, is it really news when someone tries to steal an ATM machine?
• The DPS office in Decatur used to be in the basement of the courthouse
• I like Chipotle and Rosa's as far has quasi-fast Mexican food goes.
• Great "ATM out of service" video.