Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

This wreck shut down southbound 287 in Decatur and traffic had to be routed down 730 to Boyd then back up 114 to Rhome. And, as a result, 730 turned into bumper to bumper traffic for hours (screenshot). 

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• This is weird. It was at 12:30 p.m. at an intersection, and the deputy was in his personal vehicle and not in uniform.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• And the suspect's escape plan was not well thought out. 
  
  
  
• This event from 2022 was weird and, after this story, doesn't get any clearer. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
• It's not major news, but the local network affiliates have been running this story of a party being broken up in Dallas.  "A neighbor recorded the home on Ivanhoe Lane after police arrived near 10:40 p.m. The video shows a seemingly endless stream of people leaving."  And 
  endless stream" is exactly the way to describe it. That was a ton of kids!
  
  
  
• Remember this about the swing states: The easiest way for Trump to win is Pennsylvania + Georgia + North Carolina (NC not shown but leans heavily to Trump). The easiest way for Harris to win is Pennsylvania + Wisconsin + Michigan. Those combos would guarantee a win for either regardless of what happens in Nevada and Arizona -- assuming we don't have some unexpected safe state for either flip. 
  
  
  
• I know this Texas Monthly writer is (unsurprisingly) not a a Liberally Lean reader because otherwise he would have reworked that headline. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• And you, dear readers, were definitely aware of this:
  
  
  
• Should have put this in my wrecks bullet point list from a day or so ago.
  
  
  
• Is there  somewhere I can bet money on the failure of this thing?
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Legal (and fashion) stuff: Yesterday, Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Nathan Hecht helped swear in new clerks for this term while wearing ill-fitting and cheap pants.  He makes $204,600 a year, so you'd think he would invest in a couple of suits. 
  
  
  
• Extremely legal nerdy stuff: A car's search based upon an "inventory search" was invalidated yesterday by a court of appeals. And I think the same could be said of almost every inventory search I see -- although normally the search can be justified by some alternative theory.