Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• Wise County now has a trooper named "Zebadiah". Nothing wrong with that, but I think it's the most unusual law enforcement name I've seen. (No offense, Adolfo.)
• Family Ties ended its network prime time run twenty-five years ago. When I was in my 20s, I had strangers tell me I looked like Michael J. Fox. Mrs. LL says she doesn't see it.
• A 17 year old female conservative has won the Republican primary in West Virginia for a state House seat. If she doesn't adopt a slogan of "I'm A Different Kind of Wild and Wonderfully White Girl From West Virginia", she's doing it wrong. (Documentary reference.)
• On my jog the other day over a creek bridge, a group of kids stopped me to asked me how to remove a fish hook from a turtle they had caught. (There it was on the ground.) I told them it's basically impossible.
• I wonder if there has ever been a race horse named "Liberally Lean"? Hey, they have crazy and catchy names. (I saw a preview of the Preakness on ESPN and thought about that.)
• I almost ran out of gas yesterday, panicked when I realized I didn't have my wallet,  but luckily was close to a convenience store and a clerk who had seen me so often that she authorized free gasoline based upon my promise I'd pay them back. And I did so within thirty minutes. Try and do that in the metroplex.
• I can't imagine not buckling my seat belt.
• A bunch of North Texas students were all over the news last night after they designed an ad campaign for the acceptance of breastfeeding. Some of them look like they are in high school. 
• Maybe it was all about the oil: Ross Perot Jr.'s company is ramping up its oil production in Iraq. 
• What got my attention regarding the Duncanville High School dress code controversy is that the kids can't wear denim. They can't wear jeans?
• Sports: (1) I refused to see Draft Draft day simply because the NFL endorsed it. And Mrs. LL even tried to get me to go see it one day. (2) Baseball Nemesis? What did I predict about Rangers pitching? The fill-ins wouldn't be able to handle it? Yep. That the injured starters wouldn't necessarily return injury free? Yep. "I am the one who knocks is a sports predicting genius." (3) I don't know how you guys can watch one second of the NBA.
• To the commentor who keeps posting comments accusing a person of a crime: Hey, buddy, you are anonymously accusing a specific person of committing a specific crime with no evidence to back it up. Think I'm going to post that?
• The Wise County Grand Jury handed down over 70 indictments this month? That's insane. I doubt if grand juries serve the purpose that our forefathers intended -- to be a safety net between us and the government. They have the absolute right to ask for witness testimony and to explore every case in depth, but they never do. Sol Wachtler, a  former New York State chief judge once said that District Attorneys now have so much influence on grand juries that "by and large" they could get them to "indict a ham sandwich."  
• Yeah, I saw the Dallas TV talk show host walk off the set over the ESPN gay kiss controversy. But my mind was numb from all the cackling. Although the "No, I'm going to Midland" may be an all time exit lines. 
• A 19 year old Springtown kid met a gay guy online and invited him over just to attack him? Am I reading between the lines correctly?