Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• Hey, don't yell, they are all Olympic athletes.
• It's the first day of school - a day when mothers cry uncontrollably.
• I was glad to get junior high and high school over with, and I've never had a desire to to back in time to those periods of my life. No desire at all.
• Each political party gets $17 million from federal government for their respective conventions. It's from that "Check here if you, or your spouse if filing jointly, want $3 to go to this fund (see page 12)" on your income tax form. I've never checked that box
• Someone suggested this to me as a Random Thought that wasn't my own: Whatever happened to trash compactors?
• Bill Maher was on Larry King last night and a caller asked if he was the guy that had the lead role in the film "Body Double." The answer, of course, is no but it dawned on me they looked exactly alike.
• It's a good Olympic moment when you've watched something great and you know it will be part of the highlight reel.
• Before political conventions became made for TV productions, George McGovern gave his acceptance speech in 1972 at 2:30 a.m. (That's what NPR told me this morning.)
• Holy cow: A Fox News reporter jumps in the middle of a protest rally yesterday in Denver and things get a little ugly. (Youtube clip here. Language warning.)
• Why is that only Democrats care enough to protest?
• I had forgotten about Biden's "clean" comment about Obama. But it's good to know Obama didn't care.
• There's a story today in the Star Telegram about the capital murder trial that begins this week based upon an incident that occurred at Putt-Putt Golf & Games in Hurst. Is that the one on Loop 820 just down the road from Northeast Mall? I went there last year.
• Putt Putt sounds like a beating but it's really pretty fun.
• Former Dallas Cowboy Frank Cornish was found dead late last week in his Southlake home. He played for the Cowboys in the early 1990s, but I really don't remember him.
• I need to remember to followup on this story about a PI lawyer in Houston who has pled guilty to settling cases and, uh, not giving any of the money to his clients. Sentencing will come later. Maybe he thought his contingency fee was 100%.
• The Rangers have lost 14 of 17. Yep, they are still playing.
• Earliest Monday Morning Pick Me Up Ever: Russia Cheerleaders v. U.S. Cheerleaders.
• Madonna, who seems to always need a bath, had a hot sports opinion during her concert this weekend as images of Hitler, Zimbabwean strongman Robert Mugabe, and John McCain were flashed in the background in succession. I think we all know the reaction of the crowd: Who is Robert Mugabe?
• I don't know if I'd rather be a "strongman" or a "kingpin".
• Someone in the comments last week told me to "quit posting pictures of girls in bikinis." I'm just glad he didn't bring it up during his Sunday sermon.
• The most shocking moment from the Olympics that you probably missed along with a very funny line from Jim Lampley.