Random Monday Morning Thoughts

That was a heck of catch. 

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• Chaos in normally safe and crime-free Southlake on Friday. "Police say Sean Jordan, 19, crashed while driving the wrong way on Southlake Boulevard, pulled out a rifle and began to fire at another driver and an officer."  And the video of an unidentified guy running while bullets hit the ground behind him is wild.
  

  

  
  
  
  
  
  
• This post on social media right after it happened nailed it: 
  
  
  
• Mega-church pastor T.D. Jakes appeared to begin to suffer a seizure on Sunday and  video caught it. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The cold front, at least a pretty good one for this Fall so far, is blowing through as this is published. High today will be around 52 (with the hottest temperature having already occurred right after midnight.)
  
  
  
• So a 74 year old woman thought she was having online conversations with Elon Musk on an almost daily basis and agreed to send him over $500,000 as an investment? And she was married?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• We knew Trump would fire the prosecutors, but he will also have his Justice Department "investigate" the 2020 election. We are going to have a full Joseph Goebbels-like propaganda machine re-invent history right before our eyes.
  
  
  
• And this goes hand-in-hand with . . . 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• I present to you Trump's new "deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism.": The hot tempered Sebastian Gorka. 
  
  
  
• I can guarantee this won't happen. 
  
  
  
• The silly presidential turkey pardon is today. 
  
  
  
• The Business Second™. Say what? 
  
• The Texas Supreme Court bailed out Ken Paxton on Friday by ruling that he doesn't have to sit for a deposition in a civil suit to answer questions about the conduct which got him impeached (but not convicted.)  The last time a high court ruled against Paxton was when the Texas Court of Criminal appeals did so in an AG authority case -- a ruling which lead to three of the judges being ousted after Paxton target them in the next election.  The Texas Supreme Court wasn't going to run that risk. 
  
  
  
• Delicious: The Aggies and The Evil Empire renew their rivalry on Saturday and, despite the Aggies loss in overtime to Auburn on Saturday (oh, my!), the winner advances to the SEC title game against Georgia.   Texas is a 6 point favorite. 
  
  
  
• And this probably is a game to guarantee a spot in the 12 team playoffs. If the Aggies win, but lose in the SEC Championship game, I bet they still get in and that might squeeze out a two loss Texas team.  But, I suspect, a two loss Texas team (with losses to only Aggie and Georgia) will get in anyway.
• Local sports: Decatur girls win a state volleyball championship, Decatur football is eliminated, Boyd girls lose in the state volleyball final, and Paradise football scored on a dramatic play with two seconds left (video) to continue on -- they face Jim Ned (9-3) on Friday. 
  
  
  
• I royally screwed up on Friday when I said an Intoxication Manslaughter defendant in Wichita Falls only got eight years. That sentence was for a previous conviction. Here's the verdict.