Your Bag of Randomness for Thursday, February 20, 2025

  • There was an interesting Al Capone special on PBS last night. It featured the creator of Breaking Bad, Vince Gilligan. Capone didn’t serve his full 11 year sentence, about 2/3 of it. When he was released, syphilis got the best of him, a psych evaluation of him showed he was about as bright as a 12 year old. He was only 48.
  • JFK Library reopens after suddenly closing due to Trump executive orderThe John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston reopened Wednesday after it closed abruptly Tuesday afternoon, citing “the executive order” as the reason for the closure.
  • An ICE prosecutor in Dallas ran a white supremacist account on X (formerly Twitter). I’d like to say I’m surprised, but I’ve seen Texas politics lately.

  • Opened a new jar of peanut butter yesterday, and that untouched, smooth surface is the closest thing to perfection I’ve seen in a while. And yes, I promptly destroyed it with a spoon.

  • There’s a venomous snake from Ecuador that showed up in a box of bananas at a New Hampshire grocery store. Imagine reaching for a potassium boost and getting a quick trip to the ER instead.

  • I find it amusing that when my car’s GPS says, “You’ve arrived,” I don’t feel any more accomplished than I did a minute ago.

  • There’s a new interim president at UT Austin. He was a deputy attorney general in Paxton’s office before joining the UT system and will be the first acting president since the 1800s without a teaching background.

  • Speaker of Longhorns, I always wondered how Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson would do on Jeopardy! and got my answer last night during prime time. Not as well as I expected, he even missed an easy one about one of the moons in our solar system. It appears pop-culutre and obscure history facts got the best of him.
  • I read that sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins. This sounds like a fact I will never need, yet here I am, telling you anyway.

  • In a plot twist nobody asked for, orange alligators are showing up in South Carolina. Maybe this is how orange Gatoraide is made. If this is nature’s way of telling us we’re in the end times, I’m ready.

  • Calvin Coolidge had a pet raccoon named Rebecca that he saved from being served at Thanksgiving dinner. He even built her a little house on the White House grounds. The 1920s were wild. Source

  • I walked into a room and completely forgot why I was there.

  • I’m not saying I’m old, but I do remember when the phone was attached to the wall, and you had to remember people’s phone numbers. And, I remember the awkwardness of calling a girl, only for her parents to answer, and then sounding as gentlemanly as I could to speak with his or her daughter.

  • The Dallas Mavericks are still the Mavericks. At least we’re consistent in keeping our therapists employed.

  • I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t use their turn signal. It’s like they thrive in chaos.

  • The Week: The end of empathy – Elon Musk is gutting the government — and our capacity for kindness.
  • When you hear someone say, “I don’t mean to offend you,” just know that whatever comes next will absolutely offend you.
  • Why do we call it “babysitting” when, nine times out of ten, the baby is not sitting?

  • I miss the days when my biggest worry was whether or not I could tape over a commercial on a VHS recording.

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