7.07.2023

Random Friday Morning Thoughts





I forget how much carnage was routinely put on the front page of the Messenger for a couple of years back then. They briefly had.a different owner than long-term Decatur media mogul Roy Eaton. 


  • I guessed that the Medical Examiner was the source of the headline below, but I was wrong. That's the police with a hot opinion even before the ME got to see the body. That's all we know right now.
  • They didn't boot her because she's a QAnon crazy but instead because, in part, she was mean to Lauren Boebert.

  • This kind of treatment of the Official Liberally Lean Girl is unacceptable. 

  • Elon vs. Zuckenberg. Twitter vs. Threads. Full letter.  Is it ok to hope that both lose?

  • Look out! There's been a big jump in mortgage interest rates in the last seven days. We've even got conflicting headlines as to just how how they hit yesterday afternoon. The 6.81% comes from Freddie Mac. The 7.22% number comes from a private monitoring firm.


  • Trump's co-defendant in the Mar-a-Lago documents case was finally arraigned in federal court yesterday once he found a lawyer to represent him at the hearing. 


    • Uh, here is some of the new lawyer's past advertising.


  • Here's the door dash tipping video that everyone was talking about yesterday. Language warning. Story about it is here


  • Texas is back!

  • NFL Training camps start later this month and no one yet wants Zeke Elliott. 
  • Time which has passed since the Wise County Sheriff's Office, despite having a full male DNA profile, has failed to solve the murder of Lauren Whitener in her home at Lake Bridgeport: 4 years and 3 days.