Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

A Dallas judge was arrested but would be no-billed two months later. But he would be back in the news a couple of months after that.

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• Japan is having a heck of a start to the new year. A landing commercial jet carrying 379 collided on the ground with a Japanese Coast Guard plane. Amazingly, only five are reported to be dead so far. Video of it happening. 
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• By the way, the death count in the earthquake in Japan is up to 48.
• Not that it matters, but those were some little motorcycles involved in this. Video of the incident.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Texas vs. Washington quick hits.
• The Texas Longhorns failed to make it to the National Championship game, and I have diagnosed the two reasons why: 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• But it did come down to a final play. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• In other broadcast highlights: 
  
  
  
• This Twitter account can have some wild videos, and they posted a gruesome one last night. (You've been warned.)
  
  
  
• Train derailment in Roanoke this morning. And that's not how you spell locomotive.
  
  
  
• Fun fact: National Championship game bound Michigan, who has opened as a 3.5 point favorite over Washington, will play both Texas and Washington next year:
  
  
  
• When a game ends at midnight, it's hard to have coverage of it on the front page . . .