Random Wednesday Mornign Thoughts

This is a follow-up to a last week's 10-Years-Ago post.  A faithful reader also reminded me that Tracy Smith would pass away three years later. The ME ruled it a suicide. 

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• The Chief of Police of Colleyville, Michael Miller, is a former Wise County deputy. 
  
  
  
• By this time tomorrow, we will know if they were right:
  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Locally, the Liberally Lean Weather Center tells me that the highs for next Tuesday and Wednesday will only be 72 degrees around here.
• She was hired simply as PR move during a Mavericks sex harassment scandal, served only as a (relatively out of sight) figurehead, and her job was guaranteed to be eliminated once Mark Cuban sold out. I never got over the fact that when she was hired in 2018 she said she had never even heard of Cuban before he called her. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• "On October 8, 2024, at about 3:00 p.m., a Dallas Mounted Officer was patrolling at Big Tex Circle inside the State Fair of Texas when his horse was startled. The officer tried to regain control the horse, and in the process a fair patron was injured. The officer was then bucked off the horse. Dallas Fire Rescue transported the fair patron to a local hospital to be treated for injuries."
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Oh, man. The bee attack happened in North Richland Hills a couple of weeks ago. 
  
  
  
• Random Throw-Up-My-Hands-Bullet-Point: This country isn't smart enough to continue, is it? Seriously.  I've said this before: I used to believe the average person I came in contact with was a thoughtful and rationale human being. But since the advent of social media where I can now see what they believe, I think I'm surrounded by nutcases.  
  
  
  
• There seems to be lots of ways to die on a motorcycle. 
  
  
  
• The Business Second™. For the second day in a row, warehouses!
  
  
  
• Legal nerdy stuff: More proof that the prosecutor in the "Young Thug" trial in Atlanta has no idea what she is doing.  The trial is in its 140th day.
  
  
  
• Random photo from Denver Broncos game last weekend.
  
  
  
• It's Texas/OU week which normally makes me excited, but I fear NIL and the Transfer Portal has now even ruined that for me.