12.06.2023

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




Ran across this in the Messenger from a decade ago. Figured some local guys, now in their late twenties, would like seeing their names. 


  • Quite a lot of action around Austin yesterday. It started with a shooting at a school where a school resources officer was injured. He was finally arrested deep into the night.

  • Blurred the faces to protect the insurrectionists from law enforcement? Video of him saying it. (His office later issued a statement saying he actually didn't mean that.) Plus, he can't be very smart if he thinks the FBI didn't already have the footage. 

  • A combative divorce, alcoholism, and lawsuits filed which were full of grievances? That checks all the boxes.

  • Time's Person of the Year was revealed this morning. Hey, I'm sick of her, too, but she had a year that rivals the Beatles. Heck, she probably surpassed even the group's biggest year. 

  • The UIL has released new attendance figures. Here are the largest high schools in DFW. These are single campuses, by the way. 
  • Pro-Publica does such great work. Yesterday they released a comprehensive Uvalde piece to go along with the Frontline documentary.  It should be noted that all bodycams and recordings featured in the two have come from all agencies except DPS which has refused to release them.

  • The failed football coach from the South finally threw in the towel.

  • This headline is a wrong and it bugs me. What actually happened was a current employee, Mr. Y, referred Mr. X as new hire as a detention officer. Mr. X was hired, then Mr. Y, the current employee, received the $500 for the referral. Mr. X then immediately quit. Mr. Y continued his employment albeit $500 richer. 
     
  • Today in "Things are expensive":  That's not $1.9 million for a new building. That's $1.9 million to design the renovation of an existing building. 

  • Let's check in on Fox Business. Yes, he actually said that last night, but I expected the channel to say he was taken out of context. Instead they embraced it.

  • One of the men from the West Texas Oilmen's PAC is about to get richer.
     
  • Breaking entertainment news: TV icon Norman Lear has died at age 101.