Liberally Lean From The Land Of Dairy Queen: Random Monday Morning Thoughts

1.06.2025

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

The civility of ten years ago seems impossible now.

The weather outside reminds me of the famous words of Michael Irvin.
The new Wise County Sheriff's Office top staff: Chief Deputy is Eric Debus. Former Decatur Chief of Police Rex Hoskins will oversee the Support Services Division. Captain Todd Taylor will oversee the Patrol and Criminal Investigation’s Divisions. And I think everyone is sporting new uniform colors.
This story is about Rhome. Apparently they aren't posting city announcements on Facebook any longer but instead using something called GoGov.

But this part of the story contained a very confusing quote from a city official.

Now make it Day 14.
Trump is not happy about the flags still being half-staff by the time the inauguration rolls away.
Those are some pretty nice homes to have a body just appear in the lake behind them. No one knows who the deceased is.
Happy January 6th to all the "patriots." If you would have told me on this day four years ago that Trump would be re-elected after that carnage, I would have thought you were crazy. Instead, it was the country who went crazy by putting him back in office. And I'll never understand it until the day I die. But let's get those egg prices down, right?
No, she's not "forced." She's willing doing her constitutional duty without being an election denier.
"Ann Telnaes, who has worked at The Washington Post as an editorial cartoonist since 2008, says her cartoon below was killed — and now she has quit the paper." (Explained: Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Sam Altman (ChatGPT) giving Trump's alter money, The LA Times owner (who blocked the paper's Kamala Harris endorsement) putting on lipstick, and a defeated or dead ABC/Disney which settled the Trump defamation lawsuit.)
Kudos to the New York Times for tracking down the history of the subway burn victim. Gift link.
Random post. I saw this on Twitter from a guy bragging that he was able to very cheaply create a replacement part with a 3D printer. That's great, but its black appearance would remind me daily that I was too cheap to spend $34 to get a matching knob.
Legal stuff: This was a crazy story on the front page of the Dallas Morning News yesterday about the U.S. Attorney's office in Fort Worth. A federal prosecutor, Nicole Hammond, was slow to turn over evidence in a criminal case and had to take the stand to explain herself. She said (1) that “I feel very unwell . . . . And it’s apparent that my perception is not great" (2) that she "felt misled" by and agent in connection with the cases' evidence, and (3) that she thought her work computer had been "tampered" with. Judge Reed O’Connor didn't believe her and banished her from practicing in the Northern District for a year. She has since left the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Sports photos from the weekend: