Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• I didn't watch any of the Canada/USA women's hockey match but that open-goal-shot-that-bounced-off-the-poll was breathtakingly heart-breaking.
• You'll see Superbowl Rings or College National Championship Rings sold on E-bay, but do you ever see Olympic medals on there? 
• Early hot sports opinion that is not an official prediction: The Rangers will not make the playoffs. Holland will miss half or most of the season, Harrison is having back problems, and who knows if Colby Lewis will come back. 
• Judge Carlos Cortez of Dallas, who was no-billed by a grand jury yesterday, said he is stunned at how something like the potential prosecution could happen even if he's not guilty. Note that he is a civil, not a criminal judge. That explains that sentence.
• Grand juries need to be public, no? Edit: I meant the proceedings, not the names. 
• Postings may be sporadic today. I'm in a legal seminar, which from looking around right now, seems to be horribly attended. Edit: Except they guy who just sat down right beside me didn't seem to realize the open seats. Double edit: He just used the term "ergo" in casual conversation. I'm moving. 
• I was on a Dallas and Irving tollway this morning. Wasn't there a time when tollways meant no traffic? And for those of us who don't worry about inconsistent traffic, they have computed their commute into work so that they arrive within a five minute window.
• Mrs. LL and I are going to a play tonight in downtown Fort Worth at some local theater company's place. She loves plays.
• An Alvord fire killed two yesterday, this morning the Messenger still hasn't released their names. Is the paper being more cautious?  
• I saw some of that fighting in the Ukraine last night on the news on NBC and it was insane. I think I'm going to go back and find the name of the photo-journalist because he was putting his life on the line with insane risks being taken.  
• Ted Nugent has always said nutty stuff. Greg Abbott just forgot that politicians rarely, if ever, appear with him. 
• The Tea Party may be passionate, but it just doesn't have the numbers. Except in one scenario: A Republican runoff at the state level that charges the base to turn out when most people have lost interest. That's how Cruz beat Dewhurst. If Dan Patrick can get into a runoff this time with Dewhurst (I'd love those ads), I could see it happening again. 
• But Dewhurst is not running the same idiotic Cruz-Represesented-The-Chinese type of campaign as he did last time.