- I had a few inquires about the picture I used in yesterday’s Bag of Randomness, here’s the background – Georgia trooper in 1992 image with toddler dressed in KKK garb recalls that day
- While putting on my shoe yesterday the gecko startled me by running out it.
- Is it possible that Johnny Manziel has already wrapped up Texas Monthly’s annual Bum Steer award?
- WifeGeeding and the kids have been visiting her folks in East Texas, and it turns out the community has some interesting Manziel family stories to tell.
- Big local sports radio news which will eventually lead ESPN Radio into promoting Ticketstock – Cumulus, owner of The Ticket, to run ESPN Radio in Dallas; exec delivers ‘tough’ news to KESN staff
- I’m on this crazy streak of getting ice stuck at the bottom of my straw.
- One enemy of mine is the square ice cube that has that small indention. I can’t tell you the number of times when my drink hits that sweet spot on the ice cube which makes the liquid shoot up in the air like a Willy Water Bug.
- For you ‘Breaking Bad’ fans, I didn’t realize this was a real website: www.SaveWalterWhite.com
- For once, I’d like to sit behind the dugout at a MLB game.
- SuperCook.com – Just enter the ingredients you have and it will provide a recipe.
- LG’s latest smartphone has no buttons on the sides, but on the back. They think it will help people from dropping their phones.
- Daily Kos : : 15 things everyone would know if there were a liberal media
- The turn signal is now an MP3 – How GM makes a car sound like what a car is supposed to sound like
I'm sort of bummed about The Ticket/ESPN news. I enjoy listening to the Musers in the morning, but for the rest of the day very little in the way of actual sports is meaningfully discussed and nothing in the way of national sports news. Without competition, it will only get worse. I usually listen to Mike and Mike on ESPN from 5 to 7 a.m. and I get more sports info and coverage [both local and national] in those two hours than I would get listening to The Ticket for the entire day. Likewise, Cowherd can be grating but he does stick to the nuts and bolts of sports. The press release claims that they will continue to air their shows but I wonder how long it will be before The Ticket swallows ESPN up altogether and competition completely disappears.
Reading through the Daily Kos article, the gerrymandering item was the most interesting. I understand that the party in power in each state house has the constitutional right to re-district following each census, but, still, there are also rules on how far they can distort voting districts to maintain their lock on a state and congressional seats. The issue gives new weight to the importance of the strategy of winning state legislatures over congressional districts. If I read it correctly, in some re-districted states Republicans can control their U.S congressional seats with only 33 to 40% of the votes cast statewide. Now that the Voting Rights Act has been tossed this should become even more unbalanced.
It's time to name the gecko and call him a pet!