12.05.2023

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




A decade ago, Texas Monthly profiled had bad things were bad for the Longhorns after another bad season.  


  • I think there is an interesting Intoxication Manslaughter case going to trial this morning in the district court in Decatur. If I remember correctly, it involves a head-on collision on FM 730. 
  • This truck driver had quite the scare yesterday near downtown Dallas.  They were able to hoist him out of the cab after he spend hours dangling off the bridge.  


  • There's video of this event that went down last night and it is indeed something. 


  • There really aren't any details about what happened in this domestic disturbance last night on I-30 near Eastchase Parkway other than the person who fell was on the hood of the car. Don't do that. 

  • The video (on YouTube) has been released of the shooting of the Tarrant County deputy during a planned robbery in Fort Worth that happened last week. It's pretty wild. The deputy returned fire despite being hit. (But if you look closely at the 53 second mark, you can see his gun accidentally fire when he first tries to get up.)

  • This story has been around about a week, but we still haven't seen a picture of the trigger happy homeowner. An 80 year old had a medical incident at 8:00 in the morning, crashes through a fence and into the home of someone, and then that homeowner comes out an open fires.


  • A bunch of conservative white dudes on the Fifth Circuit are about to have a new bunkmate.  She was confirmed in an unusual 80-12 margin.  

  • He's a very strange guy.

  • The field is getting cut down in the battle to go head to head with Trump as the primaries  in Iowa and New Hampshire are right around the corner.  I'm guessing Nikki Haley will end up being Trump's main foe. I don't know if she can ever catch him, but very weird things always happen between March and May in election years. 

  • Cowboys 3.5 point favorite over the Eagles. The Evil Empire is a 4 point favorite over Washington.