Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• The local game warden told me yesterday that he wants you to know that the LBJ Grasslands is not shut down. (Sounds like he was getting lots of calls.)
• "House Republicans eye short-term debt ceiling fix" after visiting with the President today. Translated: As predicted, they are beginning to cave. 
• The difference between the President's approval rating slumping and the Republicans approval rating slumping (to a historic all time low) is that the President doesn't have to run for re-election. 
• So Bridgeport plays in a five team district and four of the teams will make the playoffs? The Bulls could conceivably make the playoffs with a 1-9 record? That publicity would be worse than going 0-10.
• Fox 4 paid a visit to the Bridgeport bullfighter who had his face stomped on a month or so ago. He looks about 99% better than what I expected. 
• The guy who got hit by a car on 287 in Decatur yesterday and who was on his way to rehab is from Albuquerque -- as in the home of the meth cooking Walter White of Breaking Bad.
• I would like to have been part of the negotiations which lead to an 18 year sentence for Tampering With Evidence for Michelle Williams (now pregnant) who killed her husband a year ago in a very high tone house in Keller.
• The best thing about a new dishwasher: How quiet it is. 
• The best thing about a new fence: The smell. 
• The best thing about a new microwave: I don't know. We had a 24" wide microwave that went out. Try and find a replacement for that. It seems that 90% of those on the market are huge.
• Mark Davis this morning began referring to The White House as The Spite House.  Someone needs to pull him aside an warn him that the last thing he needs to do is become a cartoon for a decreasing audience of angry old white men. 
• Why we hate lawyers: The attorney "and his team" in charge of distributing what remains from Texan Mark Stanford's Ponzi Scheme have earned "$234.9 million from the bankrupt Stanford Financial Group and spent more than half the total — about $124 million — on personnel and other expenses." If you were investor of $110,000 to Stanford, on the other hand, he wrote you a check for $2.81 because there's not enough money left. (A quick search revealed that the Ponzi victim's have been upset with the lawyer for years and posted one of his shocking bills on a blog in 2011.)
• But writing a check for $2.81 made me think of Steve Martin in The Jerk writing out class action lawsuit payments for $1.09.
• Breaking: Four people found shot to death in home in Paris, Texas this morning. 
• The Playboy posing teacher in Dallas hasn't generated the outrage that I expected. Most people, like me, think the situation is a tough one.