Bag of Randomness for Tuesday, March 1, 2022

  • I don’t think I’m a fan of McNeese State’s baseball field. The school was founded in 1939 as Lake Charles Junior College, and renamed McNeese Junior College after John McNeese, an early local educator. Their mascot is the Cowboys. I’m sorry, but when I think of Louisiana, “cowboys” don’t come to mind. The McNeese State University newspaper is The Contraband and the yearbook is called The Log. There are 14 Greek organizations on campus. I hate Greek organizations. Once I find out someone was affiliated with a Greek organization, I automatically think less of that person. Joe Dumars is the school’s most famous alumni, followed by R. C. Slocum.
  • R. C. Slocum is from Orange, Texas. Orange has several high schools. The first two I looked up had school colors of red and blue, not orange.
  • In Orange, TX, the nearly completed Confederate Memorial of the Wind is being built on private land at the intersection of Interstate 10 and Martin Luther King Jr Drive. It has 13 columns arranged in a circle, one for each Confederate state. It will display 32 flags representing U.S. Civil War units from Texas, along with eight large Confederate flags visible from the highway. Supposedly, the location was chosen because of the low cost of land in the area.
  • Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed a bill making lynching a federal hate crime. Seems like a no-brainer. The bill sailed through with bipartisan support, but three Republicans – Reps. Andrew Clyde (Ga.), Thomas Massie (Ky.) and Chip Roy (Texas) – voted against it. Roy had this to say about lynching a year ago, “We believe in justice. There’s old sayings in Texas about ‘find all the rope in Texas and get a tall oak tree,’” he said. “You know, we take justice very seriously, and we ought to do that. Round up the bad guys. That’s what we believe.”
  • It brings much joy to my heart every time I hear Art Briles has been fired or was forced to resign. No one believed me that he was a horrible person, which I’ve been preaching since high school. The man is rich enough; he doesn’t need to work another day in his life. And that’s the sweet part. He wants to work, particularly in college, yet no one can tolerate employing him.
  • FiveThirtyEight – Texas May Have The Worst Gerrymander In The Country
  • A broken church clock facing a £50,000 repair bill was finally fixed by two bell-ringers with a £3 can of WD-40.
  • Former Texas Ranger Joey Gallo trying to be goofy.

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