Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

• There was a personal injury case starting yesterday in Decatur (some guy got injured on a gas well) but everyone in the courtroom was gone by the afternoon. It may have settled -- I'll find out. 
• Today at 1:00, every TV and radio station will do a 30 second emergency preparedness test. It will be like a car alarm going off, only bigger.
• Mrs. LL told me she had a McRib yesterday and it was delicious. I think that qualifies as Low Maintenance. 
• For you nerdy legal types: A prosecutor got crushed at oral argument at the Supreme Court yesterday.
• Collin County Craziness: A bribery trial against a state judge started yesterday with news that one of the co-defendants (the briber) had been given complete immunity in exchange for testifying. Politics over there, however, is  like a middle school playground so I don't know who to believe.  
• One thing even I'm guilty of regarding the Penn State story: Assuming the sexual abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky are true.
• I have no idea whether Herman Cain has engaged in sexual harassment, but those who support him just blindly dismiss every woman who comes forward. 
• The big well fire yesterday in Wise County involved equipment owned by Imperial Oil & Gas, Inc. who called the site a Green Tide Salt Water Disposal Facility according to its press release.
• "The quarterback had grown up in tiny Texas towns like Decatur and Stephenville, small spots in which life was lived a particular way." - Story today about Kevin Kolb on the Arizona Cardinals website.
• The drought in East Texas caused a lake level to lower so much that a car was found -- with a body inside of it.  Seriously: Do you think there are human remains at the bottom of Lake Bridgeport right now? I do.
• I told you to fear Abilene Wylie again (who knocked Decatur out of the volleyball playoffs last night.)
• The Bridgeport Booster Club is holding a "Meet The Bulls" event tomorrow. It's just shocking they don't know who those boys are. 
• BagOfNothing.com has a crazy near miss traffic accident video in Rockwall.
• Wise County voters only voted for one of the ten proposed state constitutional amendments yesterday. I have no idea what that says about us -- perhaps we are against things we don't understand. 
• CoCo goes shopping.
• Chico ISD is auctioning off old items including these two broken toilets. All items listed here. 
• I'm loving how the NBA players aren't backing down after the owners "take this now or we'll offer less tomorrow" negotiation tactic. I think there's a chance the entire season is lost (which is fine with me.) 
• I didn't really follow the Jack Abramoff case but I see he is out of prison and hawking a book on Fox and Friends this morning. 
• Good read on the plane to Vegas: The Texas Monthly article on the decades old murder of 77 year old Mary Eula Sears of Abilene. I had never heard of it but I suppose the case is famous there. 
• Does the government still own a large chunk of GM? It announced quarterly profits of $1.7 billion this morning.