I recently posted about my children’s high school football team “encouraging” freshmen to kiss their mother before getting out of the car. Well, I guess that’s not as unique as I thought it was, because on Friday, Steve Hartman had a segment on an Oklahoma school that takes it up a level. The entire senior class gets involved, to the point that they push car doors in, keeping the freshman inside, until they kiss their mother or father.
This first-day-of-school tradition leaves freshmen embarrassed, parents slightly emotional and hundreds of seniors cheering. @SteveHartmanCBS is On the Road in Oklahoma. pic.twitter.com/h8G83Jhajr
— CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil (@CBSEveningNews) August 14, 2026
And here’s another Steve Hartman segment I wanted to post because it made me literally laugh out loud, something I rarely do anymore. Seeing those two play is just darn cute. Ducks are my spirit animal, I think. How many species can walk, fly, and swim?!
Praise God the dog and duck are on the socials (LinkTree)!
There’s so much material I’m tempted to post, but I fear I’m getting duped by an AI image, video, or article.
DaughterGeeding recently had to get her blood drawn. Interestingly, the person who did it attended high school with my older brother. He noticed her last name and said, “Oh, Geeding, huh? I went to high school with a — Geeding in Mineral Wells.”
Adam Driver is going to be in the future X-Men movies. The man has already ruined one of my other favorite franchises; why must he ruin another? He’s a very talented actor, and from what I understand, a good human being, but he automatically ruins any movie he’s in. People tend to overrate the guy. He annoys me more than the 30-seconds I see Nicole Kidman introduce an AMC movie. They just suck the life force out of me.
- “We cannot tell you the precise cause of this,” Morath said.
- Bob Templeton with Strive Public Policy said the decline is not expected to stop soon. Templeton said the state could lose another 120,000 students next year and 400,000 students four to five years from now. He pointed to declining birth rates and an increase in families choosing homeschool or private school options. Some lawmakers questioned how vouchers could widen the gap.
Students surprise teachers by asking them to autograph their old high school photos.
The only thing that annoys me is when the teachers ask, “Where did you find this?” Sheesh, everything is online. Anytime I search for an old high school classmate, I’m usually directed to a website that hosts old high school yearbook pages.
This article about Stargate, one of the country’s largest data centers, being built outside Abilene states that the average rent is now higher than in Austin. It also states the Abilene City Council gave Stargate an 85% tax abatement.
This photo in the article also caught my attention. They are obviously not part of an HOA, lol. And personally, choosing red for a cross to display outside your home is a bad move. For one, a red cross typically distinguishes the rescue organization or military medics. But those crosses have the same width and height measurements. Red crosses that are longer vertically are only seen in horror movies or goth-type events.
The worst argument anyone can make with me regarding HOAs is: “What if your neighbor wanted to paint their house purple?” Dude, I’m the neighbor who wants to paint my house purple. And I’m the neighbor who wouldn’t care if my neighbor hung an absurdly ugly red cross on the front of their house. My job is to love my neighbor, not to deny them life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness like those socialist-nazi HOAs, and the people who support them.
All of that reminds me of this old news story about old houses that display swastikas. Most of the houses were built before WWII, and the Navajo and other tribes considered them good-luck symbols, which leads to a lot of modern-day confusion. I recall touring the Baker Hotel and seeing a bathroom with small floor tiles with that symbol. Something a lot of folks also don’t consider, Nazi Germany used a tilted version.
An interesting Sojourners article that I know most of my Evangelical friends won’t take seriously, since it references several seminaries or schools they claim teach “liberal theology.” Rather than giving anything they state the benefit of the doubt, they simply dismiss it, which is frustratingly sad.
Reckoning With the Youth Groups That Raised Us – We were meant to live for so much more. But we lost ourselves.
“IF YOU TRACE youth group history, most of these groups are about social control,” says Liz Moore, the assistant director for the Institute for Youth Ministry at Princeton Theological Seminary. “They’re deeply connected to how you live in your body. And I would say that that as a strategy did not pay off for young people in the long run.”
I noticed a new Texas Lottery commercial, played ad nauseam during the Cowboys preseason game, that solely features a very well-known Baylor alum the university likes to showcase. I wonder how the ultra-conservative school reconciles one of its own endorsing gambling. My close friends who are Baptist preachers are so firmly against gambling that they won’t accept any tithe or donation from gambling money, no matter the amount, even if it were in the millions.
Personally, I have no issue with any of it. I’m just curious to understand their perspective.
For those of us who labored installing a ceiling fan, it’s about to get a lot easier. I tried to embed the two-minute YouTube short, but for some reason, it ain’t working.
How THC shops are dealing with Texas’ new ban
Scott Pelley Wins Award for 60 Minutes Segment 2 Months After His Firing from the CBS News Show – The newsmagazine’s “The Bus on Route 62” report earned an Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Writing