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• I took BoyGeeding to get a haircut yesterday. Or as my father would say, he got them all cut. His stylist said she takes her kid to Six Flags at least once a week. I told her that sounds like a beating especially waiting in lines. She said she’s never waited for more than fifteen minutes for any ride. I found that surprising. Back in the day I remember waiting for over an hour for certain rides, and back then I didn’t have a smartphone to entertain me, I was forced to interact with friends and take in the surroundings.
• It’s about time President Trump gave Putin a nickname.
• If you are local and a fan of NPR’s “This American Life”, Ira Glass will be in town this Saturday.
• According to his former classmates, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh puts ketchup on his pasta. I’m okay with this, but putting ketchup on a chicken-fried steak is where I draw the line.
• A Family Of Woodchucks Ate Paul Ryan’s Car
  • House Speaker Paul Ryan explained Thursday that a family of woodchucks moved into his Chevy Suburban recently, eating the wiring, and rendering the car useless.
  • As a top congressional leader Ryan has a security detail and hasn’t been allowed to drive in three years.
  • The Verge takes a deeper dive into this phenomenon.
• On the way back from East Texas we dined at a Furr’s Cafeteria. Well, I guess they are called Furr’s Fresh Buffet now. I decided that everything right with America was being viewed in front of me. I also decided that everything wrong with America was in front of my eyes.
• GIF – Plywood bending
• Beck remix U2’s “Love Is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way” and there’s a new stop-motion animation video for it.
• The man is simply a great actor, and I had no idea how well he’d do after ‘Cheers’. Sure, he’s great in dramatic roles, but there’s no beating his Zombieland performance. Well, maybe Kingpin  – Vulture – Every Woody Harrelson Performance, Ranked
• Vulture has also updated their ‘Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee’ rankings. I love hearing how these comedians, artists if you will, go about their craft. And one thing that I never tire of is them telling their stories of their first ‘Tonight Show’ appearance.
• DFW comes in 13th, aided by WifeGeeding’s sense of humor – America’s Robot Geography
• DFW Airport and Love Field routes that generate the most cash for airlines
  • DFW – L.A., Chicago O’Hare, Sydney
  • Love – Atlanta, L.A., NY LaGuardia

• Even though WifeGeeding can’t see out of one eye, she always cleans both lenses of her glasses.
• WifeGeeding will hang wrinkled shirts back in the closet and will iron them as she wants to wear them. I don’t put shirts back into the closet unless they are ironed first.
• I helped a neighbor yesterday transfer a lot of pictures from a very old computer. She spent hours trying to get her old computer to work. The issue was actually pretty easy to resolve. There was nothing wrong with her computer, it was her monitor that was on the fritz. I let her borrow one of mine and she was finished transferring pictures in no time.
• I saw a lot of reports stating Croatia is the second smallest country to make a World Cup final. It annoys me when articles state such claims and don’t list what who the smallest country is to make a World Cup final. In case you are wondering, Uruguay is the smallest country to do it, they won the 1930 and 1950 World Cup finals.
• The news reports and footage of the plane crash and rescue in Alaska reminded me of an old television show I used to love to watch in syndication, ‘Northern Exposure’. Maggie O’Connel piloted a similar plane to and from Cicely.
• The news footage of Kay Bailey Hutchison sitting next to President Trump at the NATA summit was interesting. One could easily see on her face she regrets ever working for this administration. I need to see a clip of her reaction set to ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ music. I’ll give the president credit, he campaigned on standing up to NATO and for them to contribute more and he followed through. According to White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, Chief of Staff John Kelly looked upset because he was expecting a full breakfast and there were only pastries and cheese.
  
• I’m not sure if this will make sense, but I have no problem when someone is reasonably picky about something.
• At the bottom of this article is a “Report A Typo” option. I’ve never seen anything like that.
• Flying Passenger Trains Could Be Coming Your Way
  • With Akka’s futuristic concept, passengers would board a train-like tube at a neighborhood station and have their retinas scanned for security during the ride to the airport. Wings would then be attached to the pod for take-off.
• Miami man with no arms charged with stabbing Chicago tourist
  • Miami Beach police say 46-year-old Jonathan Crenshaw held a pair of scissors with his feet and stabbed 22-year-old Cesar Coronado just after midnight Tuesday. The Miami Herald reports that Crenshaw is a popular fixture in the area, known for painting on canvases along a trendy spot in South Beach.
• Peter King’s NFL column returns next week with a new name and a new home
• The ancient library where the books are under lock and key – Inside a specially built, temperature controlled room at Hereford Cathedral, hundreds of medieval manuscripts sit chained to their shelves, exactly as they did centuries ago.
• These guys are fast.

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• There’s a lot of money when it comes to fracking – Worthless Just Two Years Ago, West Texas Sand Now Brings in Billions
• Houston Chronicle – These are the 50 greatest Texas movies ever. Ever.
• I had no idea that there was any sort of legend behind a shooting star on a Tootsie Pop wrapper.
  •  It has been rumored that local convenience stores used to give a free Tootsie Pop to anyone who brought in a wrapper containing the image of the shooting star. Unfortunately, we do not know how this rumor started and Tootsie Roll Industries has never actually honored this promotion. In fact, the shooting star appears on 1 in every 4 to 6 Tootsie Pop wrappers, just as frequent as the other images appear. However, we do believe the star is a sign of good luck to come.
• The New York Times has an article about the twentieth anniversary of the tragedy in Jasper, TX
  • Sheriff Rowles, 73, thinks about the crime that for a while, at least to the outside world, defined Jasper. He sees things this way: What happened on an old country road is a permanent scar that time is finally healing. “Do we ever get over something like that? No,” he said. “And we shouldn’t. But it finally doesn’t come up in conversations every day any more.”
  • “They killed him because he was black,” Sheriff Rowles, who is white, said plainly, nodding his head to emphasize this truth was not negotiable. “This was the first time I heard the words ‘hate crime.’”
• The Washington Post – What we buy can be used to predict our politics, race or education — sometimes with more than 90 percent accuracy
  
• The AtlanticThe Epic Battle Between Breast Milk and Infant-Formula Companies –
• I’ve never been a fan of the comic, his humor makes me uncomfortable.
  • Dick Cheney autographs a waterboard at request of Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Sarah Palin says she was duped into interview with Sacha Baron Cohen
    • The Daily Mail reports that the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee said she unknowingly participated in an interview for what turned out to be Cohen’s just-announced satirical series, “Who is America?”
• A lot of drama at the Mesquite, Texas Sears. Anger and cursing warning.

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