Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• In July of this year there was a big story of a newlywed allegedly pushing her husband off a cliff. (Man, it was tailor made for crazy Nancy Grace.) Amazingly, her trial has already started. 
• Major League Baseball is on the verge of outlawing home plate collisions. The new rule would require sliding instead of trying to run over the catcher. I support that. 
• That probated sentence for the sixteen year old in Fort Worth for the Intoxication Manslaughter of four people was making the national rounds yesterday. There were, of course, the "he should be locked away forever" crazies, but there was also a heck of a lot more understanding than I thought there would be. 
• "So people who were just calling Mandela a Communist a week ago, are now concerned he wasn't shown proper reverence at his funeral?"
• RG3 got "benched" for the rest of the season. Good move. Let him get healthy. Bring in a coach in the off season who knows how to use him. The Redskins will be fine.
• WBAP's Brian Estridge constantly says things that are totally off the wall or misinformed. Today, he basically said that once Obamacare goes into effect that hospitals like John Peter Smith would no longer accept indigent patients who are having an emergency health situation if they had not signed up for Obamacare. The only reason he can get away with the crazy things he says is that the demographics of the WBAP listener want to believe what he says. The Echo Chamber on the far right is a scary place. 
• I like the phrase, "Being on the wrong side of history." It's so easy to see current beliefs in America which will be the subject of "What were they thinking?" conversations fifty years from now. 
• I tried to make it through A Clockwork Orange a few years back but bailed on it. I'm thinking of giving it another shot. 
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty with Ben Stiller gets my attention. 
• How did the war in Syria go from a global crisis requiring American bombing to being completely out of the news? That war is still going on, no?
• I think Mack Brown is gone. And once that happens, it truly is the changing of the guard down in Austin. Deloss Dodds has already been ousted, and Brown's "retirement" will send a message to the Joe Jamails of the State that they are no longer in control.  That will be a good thing for the Empire. (And I'm not sure President Bill Powers, a Brown supporter, is safe.)
• AT and T understands that the "Are you competing for cutest kid right now?" commercial with that little girl is a huge crowd pleaser. 
• Elian Gonzalez was the subject of a famous photo in 1999 when the U.S. forcibly removed the six year old Cuban refugee from a Florida home at gunpoint in order to eventually ship him back home. I told a buddy then, which wasn't long after the fall of so many communist countries, that I could see him becoming a young man and leading a Cuban revolution due to his notoriety. I was wrong about that.