Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• More news yesterday on how former NFL player Steve McNair died: His 20 year old girlfriend shot him twice in the head and twice in the chest while he was sleeping.
• Note to self: Get rid of 20 year old girlfriend.
• I don't know why I haven't mentioned the 500 dogs seized in Montague County due to neglect. Maybe it's because they don't look near as bad as some other cases we've seen.
• I can't imagine being a defendant in a felony case waiting for the verdict. I've experienced sitting right beside them, but that's not the same thing as being in their shoes.
• Man, colleges do some long term planning. Baylor and Duke just worked out an agreement to meet in football on 2017 and 2018. Obama will have finished his second term by then.
• Something I learned from my new book Assassination Vacation: Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, was wearing a T-shirt at that time with a picture of Abraham Lincoln and the motto: Sic semper tyrannis, the state motto of Virginia, and also the words shouted by John Wilkes Booth after he shot Lincoln. (The translation: Thus, always, to tyrants.)
• I really don't know what "Thus, always, to tyrants" means.
• Our County Attorney spent most of the weekend in an RV at the Sheriff's Office in connection with "Nor Refusal Weekend." I told him he was crazy.
• Mena Suvari has a tattoo on her back, too.
• Megan Henderson, formerly of Fox 4, has been gone for months and hasn't been replaced.
• There's a web site that almost always steal a pic from for the Random Girl. Now it's started to put a watermark on them which greatly distracts from the hotness. Ugh.
• If you saw Alpha Dog you'll be very interested in this.
• I'm amazed at how many cops don't understand they are an agent of government.
• 41 dead in Iraq in the last two days. Anybody truly believe it's only going to get better?