Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

A video of two OU fraternity guys, ages 19 and 20, singing a racist chant with racial slurs got the nation's attention. It also got them kicked out of school, and the fraternity shut down and banned from the university. 

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• A wild evening in Lubbock. These videos (here and here) are bizarre.
  
  
   

  

  Yep, that's green. 

  
  
• It's a good thing he was a bad shot. 
  
  
  
• Oklahoma does not have a statute of limitations on these crimes, and the allegations against Robert Morris involved acts from 40 years ago. (PDF of indictment.) There probably should be a statute of limitations.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Let's check in on Elon Musk's SpaceX.
• At least this one didn't blow up. 
  
  
  
• But Musk got $17.5 million of your tax dollars from Texas yesterday.
  
  
  
• It seems like you either need the fire chief's "permission" or you don't.
  
  
  
  
• We have the public speaker count (signed up) for the voucher scam bill's committee hearing.  Tell Rep. Andy Hopper to vote no and prove he's not a puppet for the West Texas oilmen. 
  
  
  
• He's at it again this morning. 
  
  
  
• So what was this all about in the first place. For a dog and pony show?
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Pam Bondi, the Attorney General of the United States, sent a one page memo to all employees on the important criminal justice issue of . . .  paper straws. 
  
  
  
• Say what? Video. 
  
  
  
• Legal nerdy stuff mixed with authoritarianism  (Gift link)  .
  
   
  
  
  
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