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- Texas hospitalizations: +149. It was sixteen days ago when Gov. Abbott put the wheels in motion for almost all bars across the state to open to larger capacities. I'm not saying it's related, but that seemed odd timing even then.
- Jury trials were supposed to begin again across Texas on December 1st. Let me tell you something, that ain't happening with the number of cases on the uptick -- especially after this development:
- Man, this threw me off this morning. The Ticket's Gordon Keith reported on this story and said twice, "And it happened in Decatur." I was disappointed in myself for not having heard about it. Then the Google told me it was in Decatur, Illinois.
- Minor debate observations:
- #1: Trump said that only immigrants "with low IQs" show up at their scheduled hearings. So only dumb people follow the law?
- #2: We all learned for the first time that your income tax returns requires a heretofore little known "filing fee."
- #3: It didn't have anything to do with the fact that the U.S. doesn't know the identify of the parents of 525 immigrant children, but Trump didn't mean this kind of coyote.
- #4: John Daly and Kid Rock were in the audience looking at their masks as if they had never seen one before. They probably hadn't.
- The presidential election in 1968 was the closest one in Texas voting history. Once you get past how close it was, you then have to scratch your head over the fact that Humphrey actually beat Nixon in this state. (Wise County even went 47% for Humphrey, 33% for Nixon, and 18% for Wallace.)
- [Insert record scratch sound effect]. But they were kind enough to pick him up at DFW Airport and drive him to their secluded cabin in Oklahoma. Story.
- Expert Weather Observation: If you walk outside at this moment, it won't get any warmer. By 4:00 p.m., it will have dropped to 45 degrees.
- "On this day" from the New York Times for October 23, 1934: "Pretty Boy" Floyd was killed which caused George "Baby Face" Nelson to rise to the top of the FBI's most wanted list. What was up with those facial-feature nicknames back in the day? Then again, J. Edgar Hoover had become the head of the FBI ten years earlier.
- Now this just popped into my head:
- Does anyone else automatically see a negative sign on the new Fox graphics this year?
- If you didn't see the laughingly tragic ending to Daniel Jones' 80 yard run last night, you have to. Spoiler alert: He didn't score. (Baylor fans had a flashback to this.)
- A penny-ante drug conviction out of Wise County was affirmed yesterday by the Fort Worth Court of Appeals. The most interesting thing is that the State's brief utilizes hyperlinks. I very rarely see that. I give it a big technological thumbs up.
- Time that has passed since the Wise County Sheriff's Office has failed to solve the murder of Lauren Whitener at Lake Bridgeport: 1 year, 3 months, 18 days.
- Messenger: Above the Fold
