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"LOS ANGELES — The fantastical story of the Southern California football player Josh Shaw leaping out of a second-floor window to rescue a drowning nephew was, it turns out, too fantastical to be true."
- If there was ever a major back-story crying out to be told but was not, it's this story.
- Good lord. We knew something happened to her two weeks ago, but we finally got the details yesterday. "[She] said her right eye was knocked out of its socket after a student threw a wooden hanger at her during the first week of school."
- Lots of yelling and screaming about this from Trump yesterday, but it was just the special counsel refining the most important indictment in the most important case in the light of the incomprehensible Supreme Court immunity ruling. (It you want the details of what the changes were in a nerdy way, this thread is good.)
- Speaking of the Insurrection, we have another sentence. Not enough.
- One of those cool rocket boosters that returns back to Earth and lands upright has finally failed after its 23rd mission early this morning. Video.
- It sounds like this was a plea bargain for probation but, if so, I don't know why they are doing the sentencing in September.
- I-35 in Oklahoma had a bit of trouble yesterday. That's the trailer of an 18 wheeler definitely pointing the wrong way.
- In one of the cheesiest and cringiest things you've ever seen, Trump released a two minute commercial yesterday where he tries to convince you to buy his trading cards. It's amazing. He even threw in a couple of "people are saying".
- I have questions: (1) Why would anyone listen to these chowderheads?, and (2) How in the world can Amazon sell over $100 million in advertising in order to turn a profit?
- The NFL will now allow a team to sell "no more than 10 percent of its ownership to private equity from a list of firms approved by the league." But I remind you once again they have an arbitrarily self-imposed "salary cap" for players.
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- Very legal nerdy stuff: We had a ruling yesterday regarding drug dogs (you know, those amazing animals that can smell marijuana even when it is in gummy candy form and hermetically sealed). Well, an appellate court said that if the pooch sticks its snout inside a vehicle's passenger compartment in order to sniff the weed, then it's an illegal search. Makes sense, I never believed an officer can stick his head inside a vehicle to detect an odor, but I've never seen a case perfectly on point -- although others with imperfect facts have tried.
- AI writing offense reports? What could go wrong . . .
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