Bag of Randomness for January 4, 2023

  • I started 2023 feeling sick. Thankfully, I tested negative for COVID. It’s probably just a bad case of allergies.
  • Generic Youth Minister – “Republicans denied to elect Kevin McCarthy as Speaker in three different votes today… but do you know who else was denied three times?”
  • I hope to have a better 2023 than Rep. Kevin McCarthy.
  • I tried an Impossible Burger yesterday. It just didn’t taste right. As much as I’d like to switch to plant-based proteins, I don’t see it happening.
  • I think it’s interesting that “small” Christian university TCU is playing in the national championship game in football, but most can’t name their denomination. They are part of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). After researching them, I think I’d feel more comfortable worshiping with them than with my current denomination.
  • Jeremy Moran, formerly of The TICKET, stated he has transitioned to Jillian. I can now say I actually know someone personally who has transitioned. He and I were classmates at a small Southern Baptist college. That must have been hard, and I have all sorts of questions for him. We weren’t close, he wouldn’t even remember me, but he was always visiting the guys who lived next door to me. I was the RA of the first floor, so I kinda knew everyone who came in and out.
  • I read in a book that Ronald Reagan, as President, used to carry a gun with him in his briefcase. That was hard to believe, but it appears to be true. I learned that reading Brad Meltzer’s latest work.
  • Here’s another interesting Reagan fact I recently read in another book. After Truman, Reagan was the last president to use the presidential railway car, the Ferdinand Magellan.
    • President Reagan’s five-stop train journey required transporting the train from Florida to Ohio, re-assembling it, and putting it back into commission. Over 100,000 people came to see the President, who at each stop cited the memory of Truman and said, “Mr. Truman could also make very plain the differences between himself and his opponent, and, my friends, that’s just what we’re going to do today.”
  • Dear AMC Theaters, please end that Nicole Kidman ad.
  • Ransomware gang apologizes, gives SickKids hospital free decryptor – The LockBit ransomware gang has released a free decryptor for the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), saying one of its members violated rules by attacking the healthcare organization.
  • Watching porn now requires age verification in La. because of new law – websites would verify someone’s age in collaboration with LA Wallet. So, if you plan on using these sites in the future, you may want to download the app.
    • there are other ways websites could ask you to verify your age if you cannot access LA Wallet. She added that although some personal information will be required, companies must not retain personal data after complete verification.“It doesn’t identify your date of birth, it doesn’t identify who you are, where you live, what part of the state you’re in, or any information from your device or from your actual ID. It just returns that age to say that yes, this person is old enough to be allowed to go in,” explained Kelley.It will be the website’s responsibility to ensure age verification is required when accessing their site in Louisiana. Schlegel said there will be consequences for those who fail to follow the law.
  • One thing that’s a bit sad, selfishly, and a part of divorce, is that during Christmas, no one takes photos of me opening presents as I do them.
  • The recently deceased Barbara Walters was born the same year (1929) as MLK and Anne Frank. As well as Christopher Plummer, Bob Newhart, Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Jackie Kennedy, and Arnold Palmer.
  • I was college classmates with Matt Chandler and Jeremy Jillian Moran. Talk about a broad spectrum of friends.
  • What happened at Southwest Airlines, from a longtime pilot at Southwest Airlines
  • Good guy Shaq – Shaq Picks Up Tab For Customers at Popular Houston Restaurant
  • 2023 Public Domain Debuts Include Last Sherlock Holmes Work – The long-running contested copyright dispute over Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s tales of a whip-smart detective will finally come to an end as the 1927 copyrights expiring January 1 include Conan Doyle’s last Sherlock Holmes work.
  • I’ve mentioned that Robert Griffin III is a good commentator, but he needs to dial it down just a little bit, as if he’s trying too hard to be liked. That came to mind as I was watching him praise TCU during their game against Michigan and saw this.

    It also reminded me of this titbit I found on my favorite blog. Nothing like having your greatest football player commentating and praising your biggest (I think) rival.


  • Brandon Hughes was only one when his father died on the surface of Tiger Stadium, but as soon as he saw what happened to Damar Hamlin, the emotions hit hard. “Everything they were saying was so familiar to me,” Brandon, an employee at a mutual fund company, told me. “But they kept talking about how this is unprecedented, how that is unprecedented. I thought, ‘No, no it’s not. Not at all.’”

    Brandon Hughes called his mother Sharon – now 77 but widowed at 24. She sounded saddened—both by the uncertainty of Hamlin’s future and the familiar echoes of past tragedy.

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