Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• There's a bill in the Texas legislature making it a capital crime to kill a prosecutor. Doesnt' that discussion entail an uncomfortable valuing of lives?
• I heard on PBS yesterday evening that Annette Funicello had not made a "TV appearance" since 1986. That doesn't sound right at all.
• I don't know if the cop needed to shoot and kill the lady in Richardson yesterday who was fleeing from a traffic stop. According to at least one witness, the officer placed himself in front of her car and drew his weapon. When she fled, he fired through her driver's window killing her. The phrase "he feared for his life" should mean something and not just used as a cliche after every police shooting.  
• And I'd like to know her back story. She worked part time for a law firm, went to high school at the Catholic girl's school of Ursuline Academy of Dallas (tuition $17,500 a year),  and had a soccer scholarship to Florida State. 
• There's a special meeting of the Chico school board tonight with the sole purpose being the reading of a complaint by a Principal against the Superintendent? That's odd. Very odd. 
• Mrs. LL and I are going to see Natalie Merchant (formerly of the 10,000 Maniacs) with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra at the Bass Hall on Friday.  I've always loved her performance on MTV's Unplugged when she sang "Because The Night" with the small orchestra . 
• First drones, and now lasers.  NBC News last night had video  of the Navy using a new laser gun to knock a drone out of the sky. This isn't science fiction, this is real. And they expect it the technology to go into widespread use next year. (One interesting fact: Instead of the cost of a missile, each laser blast will cost less than a dollar. So once you sink the cost into one of those things, it doesn't cost a lot to blast away.) 
• Edit: I just went over to BagOfNothing and noted he had an identical bullet point as the one above. I didn't steal it. Promise. 
• The Rangers won on a final called strike last night that everyone believes was a ball. Video. And in this age of information, this website has broken it down in shocking detail. 
• I kept half of an eye on the National Championship game last night, and it looked entertaining. (But with all the accolades of Louisville coach Rich Pitino, I haven't heard much this week of the extortion attempt he experienced after having an "affair" in a restaurant.)
• But watch him duck at the end of a game after a celebratory cannon went off. We're nearing Celebration Idiocracy.