Andy Rooney famously tackled the disappearing “pound of coffee” in his classic 60 Minutes commentaries. He frequently pointed out how manufacturers would advertise a pound of coffee but quietly reduced the net weight of coffee cans, dropping from 16 ounces to 14, then to 13, 12, and even 11 ounces, while charging the same price. I thought about that when I saw this sign in my neighborhood. Mini-gallons?!
In light of Scott Pelley’s firing, this short segment with the late Morley Safer about story approval and management oversight is very telling of how 60 Minutes is getting murdered by Bari Weiss.
Long-time readers know my admiration for Scott Pelley, who grew up in Lubbock and got his start locally at WFAA. He’s just a great, salt-of-the-earth, kinda guy. A man from another era.
Other than CBS Sunday Morning, I’m not sure I’ll watch any of their programming.
If you were wondering about the letter the Musers were reading from Keith about the percentage of high school football playing surfaces that are now synthetic, with a brief mention of Santo, TX- yep, that was me.
I recently took both dogs to the vet for a check-up and vaccinations. DogGeedingII is 15, and I was told that his mother, who is four years older than him, died earlier this year. I was pretty optimistic going into the appointment. However, he’s been diagnosed with a bad heart, and I have to give him medication twice a day.
Ted Turner died last month on May 6, 2026. I sorta had a negative impression of the man, but I recently watched a five-part documentary on him and have changed my tune.
However, the funniest comment I read about his death, and I’m sure he’d even get a kick out of it, was this tweet. And for anyone of my generation who doesn’t get it, shame!
The documentary also referenced the Turner Doomsday Video. He chose that song because he learned it was the last thing played on the Titanic.
The Turner Doomsday Video is the internal title of an apocalyptic video intended to be broadcast by CNN at the end of the world. The video, created at the direction of CNN founder Ted Turner before the network’s 1980 launch,is a performance of the Christian hymn “Nearer, My God, To Thee” performed by multiple members of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine bands in front of CNN’s original headquarters at the Turner Broadcasting Techwood Campus in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia.
The recording was made right after “The Star-Spangled Banner” was recorded for CNN’s sign-on (which also appeared in TNT’s sign-on from 1988). After they recorded it, Turner asked if they would record a song just in case the world came to an end. At CNN’s launch, Ted Turner declared, “Barring satellite problems, we won’t be signing off until the world ends”:
We’ll be on, and we will cover it [the end of the world] live, and that will be our last, last event. We’ll play the National Anthem only one time, on the first of June [1980], and when the end of the world comes, we’ll play “Nearer My God To Thee” before we sign off.
I hope they prove me wrong, but there’s no way DART rail will run near the future home arena of the Dallas Mavericks. Like Jerry, there’s just too much money to make when it comes to parking. They call that area of 635Hell-BJ for a reason.
Tampa school zone catches 6,000 speeders in 2 days as city weighs $100 camera fines
- City records show the decision comes after a RedSpeed traffic study looked at 31 school zones across 29 campuses. Investigators discovered severe speeding issues at 18 of those locations, with daily averages ranging from 200 to more than 3,000 violations per school zone.
- Cameras counted 17,044 total vehicles and flagged 6,043 speeding violations, which averages out to 3,021 violations each day. The data tracked speeding during morning arrival, afternoon dismissal and the standard school hours.
At the first divorce support group session I attended, I made a friend, and we’ve remained close, especially since our experiences were eerily similar in many ways. He said he would never marry again, and he would do everything he could to prevent me from doing the same. However, he met someone and quickly fell for her. Next thing I know, he surprised her with a trip to Paris to watch the Olympics and proposed to her while eating at the Eiffel Tower. They even had a child together, who I think just turned two. He called me yesterday to talk as he left the courthouse after filing for divorce.
WIRED He Blew the Whistle on DOGE. Then His Brakes Were Cut – A federal IT staffer filed a complaint about DOGE, then went public. Shortly after Elon Musk boosted a post calling his claims false, his brake lines were cut. Now he’s suing for defamation.
Trump Interstate? After U.S. Senate loss, Cornyn says it’s no longer a priority
Now he says that bill “may not make it into my priorities the next seven months.”
ESPN has an article that has just about everything you’d probably want to know about that UFC stage sitting on the front lawn of the White House. Some highlights:
- It’s owned and being constructed by a Belgian event-staging company called Stageco.
- The company shipped most of the equipment in 18 containers by boat and flew other pieces from Germany and Belgium.
- It was assembled in Pennsylvania for a test run, then shipped in 14 trailers for the Secret Service to inspect as it was guarded at a holding facility.
- Disassembly will take seven to ten days, though I’m sure you’ve heard Trump tease it will be a forever structure like the Eiffel Tower.
I’m surprised the article didn’t mention that U2 had a version of the claw, four of them, actually, that was part of a world tour.
One of them is a permanent fixture at a Utah aquarium.
She didn’t even want to do it until her husband told her it would be funny. The two black actors she interacted with wrote the lines.
Random goofy promotion for the new He-Man movie.
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