Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• It's W's last day! It's W's last day!
• The content of The Dallas Morning News is shrinking at an alarming rate.
• I used a hand held blow dryer on my hair this morning for the first time in two years. It is so long in the back that it was officially proclaimed as Crazy Hair yesterday.
• T. Boone Pickens bankrolls Oklahoma State to such an extent that they've offered $700,000 a year for their defensive coordinator's job.
• Compare that to this paragraph from a 1982 Sport's Illustrated story about Texas A&M hiring head coach Jackie Sherrill: "Six days earlier, the 38-year-old Sherrill had stunned the college football world by signing a six-year contract with the Aggies for—hold on, folks—$267,000 a year, a total of $1,602,000. That makes him far and away the highest-paid college coach in the land."
• Craziest recall ever.
• I saw The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button. Verdict: Not bad. My problem is that I over-think anything that requires a suspension of belief.
• I was reminded how much I like The Bluest Eyes In Texas last night after I heard a contemporary version of it at the end of a movie. Love it.
• I like standing in my driveway and looking at my house.
• The hatred for Obama before he has even taken office is unsettling and jaw dropping. It's like they want him and, as a result, the country to fail.
• WBAP's Hal Jay called the inauguration a "farce" this morning and asked Mark Davis "are you really moved by this?" Absolutely incredible. The average old white guy doesn't understand what is going on.
• Tony Romo's latest quote: "If I'm never going to win the Super Bowl, I'll be content in life." Is this guy a quarterback or some kind of New Age Zen Master?
• The Star Telegram's Bud Kennedy is in Washington covering the inauguration. He sent in this pic of the subway escalators this morning.
• 80 degrees on Thursday?
• When MLK was uttering the words "I have a dream", there was a guy right behind him looking up in the air like he wasn't paying attention.
• The seven year old from Boyd who got a heart transplant yesterday gets a story in the Star Telegram. If that ever happened to me, I would want to know who the donor was and then I would constantly visit their grave.
• Edit: And VP Dick Cheney will be on stage in a wheelchair today because he hurt his back moving?
• Edit: Jarhead sends along this approval rating chart.