Your Bag of Nothing for Tuesday, May 13, 2025

  • The Mavs had a 1.8% chance of getting the number one draft pick in the NBA Lottery last night, and they did it. Unfreaking real. Interestingly, how often has a team won the NBA Lottery with lesser odds? Amazingly, three, and that’s why many feel it’s rigged.

    The largest upset in the lottery occurred in 1993 when the Magic won the lottery with just a 1.5% chance to win. The second-largest upsets occurred in 2008 and 2014 when the Chicago Bulls and Cleveland Cavaliers both won their respective lotteries with just a 1.7% chance.  
  • This article was written in 2011, and the hotline is still operating.

    Callin’ Oates: The Hotline You Don’t Need (But Might Call Anyway)


    If you pick up your phone and call 719-26-OATES — at least as of this writing — you’ll get a computerized woman’s voice telling you what numbers to press to hear one of four Hall & Oates songs.
  • I didn’t have a high opinion of retired General Stanley McChrystal. And I thought it was interesting he was plugging a book titled On Character on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night. But I became an admirer halfway through the interview and have reevaluated my stance. He spoke about his embarrassing resignation and how he felt he needed to start this book by addressing it. He talked about being born on an Army base, raised by an Army family, attending West Point at age 17, his career in the Army, and how he felt all that was stripped away in an instant, and being a leader of none, and literally said he felt like a failure. It was the way he described how he didn’t believe the Rolling Stone article was accurate, but accepted responsibility and owned the whole situation that caught me. He further described feeling like a failure and ashamed, which is something I’ve battled over the past five years. Surprisingly, he also talked about how President Obama was very gracious when he got fired. Man, talk about not carrying any bitterness and showing growth and character. He described coming home to his wife after offering his resignation to the president and how he came home and immediately told his wife, “It’s over.” Her reply, “Good. We’ve always been happy and we will always be happy.” He understood what she was really telling him it’s all about facing forward. Granted, he did jokingly say she lives life like she drives – that she has no use for the rear view mirror. But he also added how it’s about committing to something, that he committed to the military, his marriage, and his country. Not only do I admire him, but I admire his wife. She stayed committed to him; she didn’t give up on him. He found a woman of noble character. It made me think of the doubt of character I felt about the person I was about to marry, and justified that no one is perfect. But in the end, I learned I shouldn’t have sacrificed on character. People of character don’t quit on their commitment.
  • Comedy Central previewed a special focused on focused young Donald Trump voters by Daily Show correspondent Jordan Klepper that will air next Monday. I noticed he was on the Texas A&M campus, so it should be “interesting.”
  • This is funny, as if he’s going to leave office.




    Personally, I think the public is getting trolled, and something else they have planned is going to happen. I’d like to argue that the Secret Service wouldn’t allow it because it takes a lot of work to get such a thing safe enough for a sitting president. However, it doesn’t matter who tells him no; he’s going to do what he wants when he wants to. I don’t feel I can get upset over any of this. His party nominated him, and the majority of the voting public voted him in, knowing exactly what they were getting. And from what I heard from General McChrystal, only 65% of eligible voters chose to exercise that right.




    But hey, if all it takes is for a foreign government to gift him a $400 million luxury plane to get him to leave office, I’m all for it.
  • Holy cow, I had no idea these things were so long.

  • Watching this put me in such a good mood yesterday.

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