Bag of Randomness for Tuesday, May 7, 2024

  • BoyGeeding, who attends a charter school paid for by taxpayer dollars was inducted into the National Junior Honor Society. They had a guest speaker, and she said, “Since I was told this is a Christian school,” then paused and looked at the headmaster who nodded with approval, and went on talking about praising, serving, and thanking God. I’m sure everyone that’s a part of the school already felt this way but never acknowledged it, but I it was surprising to me.
  • I like to have something playing in the background when I work. It used to simply be the Ticket, but after all the changes, I needed to find something else. In looking for something, I saw that President Biden was on the Howard Stern Show. That was a bit surprising but Stern has really mellowed out.
  • Waco man suing SpaceX after he says rocket testing damaged his home
  • Forbes ranks two Texas universities as ‘New Ivy’ league caliber schoolsRice University in Houston made Forbes’ “New Private Ivies” list and the University of Texas at Austin made the top 10 list of “Public Ivies” instead of the legacies. 
  • Count the red flags – Wisconsin elementary school teacher, 24, busted for ‘making out’ with 5th-grader — three months before wedding
  • Unlicensed teachers now dominate new teacher hires in rural Texas schools
  • Vladimir Putin cut out the heart of a deer and gave it to former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi
    • “Vladimir showed me a violent nature that I didn’t imagine in such a kind and rational man,” Cicchitto recalled Berlusconi saying after returning from Russia.
    • Putin then went down the slope, holding a knife. He quartered a beast and pulled out his heart. He then had a man from his entourage give Berlusconi a wooden tray on which he placed the bleeding piece of meat, saying it would make an exceptional meal. Berlusconi then hid behind a tree to throw up.
  • Here’s a bear dragging a thirty-foot taperoom coming out of his bottom. – TikTok
  • If that bear video wasn’t enough, here’s one eating ducklins in front of kids who just were taught a lesson on apex preditors – Bear devours ducklings during kid’s birthday party at Seattle zoo
  • If I were to guess the price for a PDF or electronic copy of a transcript from the Denton County Courthouse, I’d say between $15 and $85. I was way off; it’s $455.
  • She can still draw a crowd, and I think this is pretty impressive – Free Madonna concert attracts 1.6 million to Brazil’s Copacabana beach
  • Every now and then, I’ll mention my friend Tony, who is going through a tough custodial battle with his ex-spouse after a surprise and bitter divorce. I met him at a divorce support group and found our cases to be eerily similar. Whatever happens to him usually happens to me three months later. It’s crazy. We both have teenagers and a kid in the sixth grade. His kid reached an impressive milestone last weekend; he/she now has over 1 million YouTube subscribers, and he/she doesn’t even have 50 videos posted.
  • Report: Immigrants Contribute Billions to Dallas EconomyImmigrants accounted for 23.2% of the total population in Dallas and their households earned $10.7 billion in income in 2022, according to a new report.
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