Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

The verdict would be released on appeal although the case would be settled in 2017 for an undisclosed amount. Ventura sued Chris Kyle for a passage in Kyle's book where he wrote that Ventura had said in a bar that the Navy SEALs “deserve to lose a few” in Iraq. Kyle was killed while the suit was first pending.

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• I'm surprised this story didn't get more pub yesterday: Local law enforcement were aware of the sniper some 45 minutes before Trump's shooting with one of them even snapping a picture of him and sharing it in a group chat with other officers.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• A sinkhole developed in the middle of an "upscale apartment complex" in Houston yesterday.
  
  
  
• I didn't have room for this yesterday: This is exactly the real-life plot of the movie "Open Water" except it has a happy ending for this Oklahoma couple. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• This guy died in March, but his family didn't announce it. The media just figured it out this week through public records.  (Gift link here which quickly summarizes the whole mess. The Wikipedia entry on the My Lai Massacre is incredibly detailed and incredibly good.)
  
  
  
• Maybe the best photograph from the Olympics so far. Story behind it. 
  
  
  
  
• Trump waffled last night in an interview with Laura Ingraham on whether he will debate Kamala Harris. He got one part really right, though: "I want to do a debate. But I also can say this. Everybody knows who I am."  Oh, yes, we do. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• They had the disaster at Uvalde, and you can't get an easy appointment at the DPS office, but they spend their time promoting a meaningless contest for best looking equipment? Equipment that your tax dollars paid for? 
  
  
  
• The Business Second™. And we don't drill enough? "Key pipelines that transport barrels produced in the Permian Basin to the Port of Corpus Christi are more than 90% full, and companies that operate some of these lines say the congestion is likely to get worse. . . . Demand for the limited pipeline space comes at a time when the US is producing more crude oil than any other nation . . . ."
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I've always been in the "I want my coaches to be in shape" camp. New Cowboy defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer doesn't meet that criteria. 
  
  
  
• I knew that singer Chris Brown was sued over some alleged weird brouhaha at Dickie's Arena in Fort Worth, but I just learned that the Plaintiffs' lawyer is Tony Buzzbee. Yeah, that guy.