Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• I really didn't deal with Terri Johnson very often, but I did have an extended conversation with her once at a wedding at the old Ruben's Ball Room. I don't easily get drawn into a conversation but she had me rambling on and on in no time. Sweet lady.
• I saw where JP Mandy Hays was called to pronounce her dead at the scene. If there hadn't been a reason to repeal that archaic Texas law, there is one now. 
• The LA Clippers owner, Donald Sterling, is in the news for being a racist, but I was struck by what a horrible person the girlfriend was in baiting him into the comments while secretly recording it. 
• I was surprised that President Obama commented on those remarks, but what he said was pretty good: "When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don’t have to do anything, you just let them talk.”
• It took forever for the "mainstream media" to run with the story simply because it broke on TMZ.
• Pope John Paul began a Saint this weekend. One the "miracles" used to grant him Sainthood was the alleged curing of a brain aneurysm of a Costa Rica woman. Uh, she saw him on TV and that's how she was cured. 
• You want to see a crazy house explosion? This mansion in Illinois is gone. Photo. Story.
• The Rains County deputy who shot the dog and got fired because of it hired the attorney who often appears on Fox 4 as a commentator. The lawyer decided to have a press conference on Friday afternoon which seems odd for a media savvy guy who should know that no one hears about any news which occurs on Friday afternoon. 
• Both Girls In The House played in the same softball game on Saturday, but the more curious aspect of the game was the scorekeeper who brought his own PA system. In between innings he would play songs and that's where the comedy came in. As the game went by, they got crazier and crazier. By the third inning he had played The Wobble and Flo Rida's Low.
• I told a joke in an Ali G voice over the weekend and I've never seen so many confused looks from the Family Unit. 
• Attorney General Candidate Dan Patrick once called Connie Chung's Eye to Eye program "Slanted Eye to Eye."
• Mrs. LL played in her own softball game this weekend that had to be cut short when the umpire had a heat stroke and an ambulance had to be called. 
• We watched Gravity over the weekend. I can only guess that it needed to be seen in 3D on the big screen. I give it a meh.
• Sports thoughts: (1) Vince Carter's last second game winner against the Spurs was fantastic (I saw it after that fact -- my Mavs ban is still in effect). The Star-Telegram had a great photo of it. It was ruined by Mark Cuban running onto the court immediately after it in another "look at me" moment.  (2) The NBA proves how ridiculous the game is by this travel by Jeremy Lin. (3) Nemesis update: I can't complain about the performance of Ross, Lewis, and Harrison over the weekend. 
• I watched most of the Hillsborough 30 for 30 documentary over the weekend and had to hit pause at one time as I teared up while a lady explained how she never saw her son again after he walked out the door. I fired off a, "Oh, man. I'm sorry" as I looked at Mrs. LL. She said, "What?" as she looked up from her phone. (But she did finish the kitchen painting project and it looks fantastic.)