Your Bag of Nothing for Wednesday, May 14, 2025

  • Was MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred aware that the Reds and White Sox were playing against each other later in the evening when he announced yesterday that the ban on Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe (their respective teams) was lifted? And how exactly will Trump take credit for this?
  • Paige Bueckers was at last night’s Stars game and sporting the team’s jersey. She seemed quite taken when the camera caught her after the hat-trick (23-second mark). My first impression of her first impression of Dallas was that she wasn’t happy to be here, but it looks like she’s slowly acclimating.
  • I saw an article about Fort Worth’s Meacham International Airport and thought, when the heck did Meacham  Municipal Airport become international?! Well, the answer: 1995. 

    Today, it is the sixth busiest airport in Texas and the second busiest general aviation airport in the state, with more than 210,000 operations in 2024. A general aviation airport refers to all operations that are not commercial airline flights or military. This includes things like private and corporate, aircraft, flight training, aerial surveying and recreational flying.
  • I’ve always used moist.

    How you order brisket at a Texas barbecue joint says a lot about you – Whether someone asks for it “moist,” “loose,” or “off the top,” each phrase is a linguistic breadcrumb pointing back to a particular time and place.
  • And it begins… The new pontiff was asked if he had “any message for the United States.” “Many,” Leo replied with a smile. He added: ‘God bless you all.’
  • Good point.
  • Transportation Sec Sean Duffy reportedly changed his wife’s flight to avoid Newark and then went on TV to broadcast it’s safe to fly in and out of Newark.
  • Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, ends partnership with US government [BR]
    (RNS) — In a striking move that ends a nearly four-decades-old relationship between the federal government and the Episcopal Church, the denomination announced on Monday (May 12) that it is terminating its partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by President Donald Trump’s administration.
  • Cats don’t like aluminum paper, I had no idea.

  • Men and women have different centers of gravity.

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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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Your Bag of Nothing for Monday, May 12, 2025

  • When I picked up BoyGeeding from school on Friday, he was his usual teen self—tight-lipped about the day, even with a bit of coaxing. So it caught me off guard, in the best way, when he hopped in the car and proudly told me he won a silver medal in the school’s Latin competition. There’s a unique kind of joy in celebrating your kids’ accomplishments, one that hits deep. It saddens me to know there are mothers out there who, for whatever reason, choose to deny their children the gift of sharing that joy with both parents.
  • I was lucky enough to hang out with the wonderful woman who joined me for the Tina Fey and Amy Poehler show a couple of weeks ago this weekend. She’s not looking for a relationship, but we have a lot of fun together. We met for an early patio dinner a little before 4 PM, strolled through downtown Grapevine with ice cream in hand, and capped off the evening with the latest Marvel movie, leaving the theater around 11 PM. She’s the only person I know who has graduated from Ithaca and was a Navy brat.
  • To get out of my shell, I took my first dance lesson class yesterday. I’ve got a long way to go.
  • Can a sitting pope vote in U.S. elections, and is he still a U.S. citizen? An Investigation

    It’s a more complicated question than you’d think. The short answer: he can probably still vote, for now at least, and is likely still a citizen unless he takes action to change that.

  • How the new Pope Leo XIV’s childhood church in Chicago fell into disrepair — and what may lie ahead

    Here’s the current state of the altar of his childhood church.

  • I ran across this comment on Reddit and thought it was worth sharing. 


  • I saw a profile on her years ago and was really impressed.

    President Trump fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden
  • I was a big fan of this show, but only watched all the episodes after it went off the air.

    ‘Northern Exposure’ Rewatch Podcast To Launch With Rob Morrow & Janine Turner
  • It sounds like the current Heisman Trophy winner and number two overall draft pick is a well-manered young man.
  • Since the 1950s, undergrads at Auburn University have staffed a domain-general helpdesk. Anybody can call between 7 am and 11 pm, Central Time, to ask questions on any topic.

    The Alabama Landline That Keeps Ringing – Auburn University’s help desk is still answering the public’s calls 70 years on
  • Tampa Bay Buccaneers rookie Desmond Watson already has made NFL history — as the league’s heaviest player.


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Your Bag of Nothing for Friday, May 9, 2025

  • Now that the new Pope is from Chicago, I can’t stop picturing a packed St. Peter’s Square at night. The lights cut out, the crowd hushes… then suddenly — BOOM — the Chicago Bulls intro music blasts through the speakers. A spotlight hits the balcony, and the announcer booms:

    “Aaaaaand now… from Villanova University (seriously)… wearing white and red… number 14… POPE LEOOOOO!”

    Can somebody make this happen using AI, please? For now, I’ll have to settle for this.

  • I know formally he’s Pope Leo XIV, and his birth name is Robert Francis Prevost, but how cool would it be if he just went by Pope Bob? It’s hard for me to ignore that his middle name is(was) Francis. And when I come across that name, this is the first character I think about.
  • Pope Leo should wear a white Villanova hat at all official functions during March Madness. I can only imagine how pissed Notre Dame fans are that the first Pope from the United States graduated from Villanova. In case you were wondering, he was a math major.
  • Made me laugh: *Camera pans to a group of fans outside of the Vatican in Pope jerseys, going nuts even though most of them haven’t heard of the pick before last week*
  • It was pretty cool seeing Pope Leo’s brother being interviewed shortly after the announcement. What an amazing, unique experience that he got to experience.
  • I see a lot of non-Catholics complaining that this isn’t a big deal. I, for one, am just happy that my Catholic brothers and sisters have something to be happy about and feel some joy in such a chaotic world.
  • The world missed having a Catholic U.S. President and an American Pope by four months. I’m pretty sure most of the world is feeling a bit of USA fatigue.
  • “We should be grateful to the Lord to now be blessed with having an American on the world stage who embodies good and not evil.”
  • “America now has both the pope and the antichrist”
  • I bet a lot of people will start watching the Jude Law HBO series The Young Pope, which is about the first Pope from the United States. I enjoyed watching it, but know it’s not for everyone.
  • Tom Cruise will be in Dallas on May 22, visiting local theaters for his Mission: Impossible film. When I watched Born on the Fourth of July for the first time earlier this year, I read about the making of the movie since most of it was filmed in Dallas. Cruise seemed to have really enjoyed his time here when he was a young actor.
  • Dallas-Fort Worth is sinking faster than any other inland U.S. city – Study shows
    Dallas and Fort Worth are sinking at a rate of 4 millimeters per year due to groundwater loss
  • A firing squad tried to shoot a prisoner in the heart. They missed, autopsy indicates

  • Trump Organization Admits President Still Controls His Business In New Filing – Donald Trump can lie to the American public, but the Trump Organization has a harder time deceiving authorities in Britain, where private companies face greater disclosure requirements.


  • There’s a lot going on here. I think it’s a new trend for the bridesmaid to hand the groom provocative boudoir-type polaroid photos of his bride getting ready.

    In the second video, you have the Cowboys’ home stadium in the background, and the groom is assisted in putting the finishing touch on the end of the ceremony. Who cares about the height difference? I just care that they love each other.

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