On a whim and had never heard of them before, I bought some Swedish dishcloths because they were on sale. What are they? Here’s a short explanation of the environment-friendly dishcloth comprised of 70% cellulose and 30% cotton:
One Swedish Dishcloth replaces 17 rolls of paper towels. They absorb 20x their weight, are far more hygienic than a sponge, and won’t crumble or pill. They air dry quickly, so it doesn’t breed bacteria or smell. Once you’re ready to wash your Swedish dishcloth, throw it in the washing machine or place it on the top rack of the dishwasher so you can reuse it over and over again.
Nine months ago, Mike “Fernando” Fernandez of KTCK The TICKET retired after producing the morning show for the past 30 years. Yesterday, in one of the station’s promotional spots, TICKET voice guy Conrad announced his death and provided information on his memorial service. He was really looking forward to retirement, and when he left, it didn’t seem like there were any health issues. Wanting to know more about it, I checked out the TICKET’s webpage and Twitter stream, but I didn’t see any mention. None of the personalities mentioned it on air. I didn’t see anything on the TICKET’s Reddit page either. Now I’m wondering if I’m imagining things or if it was played in error.
Last night, I caught a little bit of an LBJ documentary. LBJ said the one thing that made him feel best about his time in Congress was bringing electricity to the Hill Country. For a while, it was even free. I’m sure most folks won’t think much about a comment like that, but when you really think about it, bringing electricity to people who have never had the luxury of using it and establishing that infrastructure, which is now a commonality of everyday life, is pretty significant. These people who lived all their lives at night by candlelight could now simply flip a switch.
That documentary also featured former Texas Governor John Connally. That brought back a memory, which caused me to do a deep dive, and I found some interesting stuff.
I first became aware of him watching television with my father in 1993 when the local news (Channel 4, KDFW, CBS back then) interrupted whatever we were watching with breaking news. They announced Connally’s death. As a confused high schooler, I looked back at my father and said, “What’s the big deal? A former governor died; why is his death so important that they had to interrupt what we were watching?” Stoicly, he replied, “Boy, he was in the same car with Kennedy riding in the front seat when he was assassinated. The bullet went through Kennedy and into Connally. He died with the assassin’s bullet still in him.” Well, that got my attention.
Until then, I thought President Kennedy and Jackie were the only ones in the car besides the driver. I also thought they were the only car in the parade. Later, I learned there were a total of five cars, which is why they called it a motorcade, and the Vice President was in one of them. I thought that was so odd; it was just the coincidence of all those things. The VP just happened to be from Texas riding in a car behind the president who got shot, and then he, in turn, immediately became president in his home state. For a teen, it was a lot to process.
It was the first time I learned that sometimes a bullet, or its fragments, can’t be removed from a body, and people have to live with a hunk of metal in their bodies for the rest of their lives.
That bullet according to the Warren Commission report: “Governor Connally was struck by a bullet which entered on the right side of his back and traveled downward through the right side of his chest, exiting below his right nipple. This bullet then passed through his right wrist and entered his left thigh, where it caused a superficial wound.”
So, for the longest time, all I knew of Connally was that he was in the motorcade when JFK was assassinated, and he got struck by one of the bullets. Later, I learned he worked in the Nixon administration and later switched parties, becoming a Republican.
Last night, I learned that Connally and LBJ go way back and were much closer than I ever imagined. How close were they?
Connally met and befriended LBJ in 1936; they were friends their entire lives. As a congressional aid, Johnson helped Connally get a job stacking books in the University of Texas campus library for $0.17 an hour. Connally managed Johnson’s campaign for Congress in 1937 and rewarded Connally for his help by taking him to Washington in 1939 to serve on his staff.
Before serving as governor, Connally was President Kennedy’s Secretary of the Navy. During his tenure, the Bay of Pigs occurred.
I think it’s safe to argue that Connally is responsible for three Texans becoming President of the United States. Obviously, there’s his connection with LBJ. But get this, he helped make it possible for both Bushes to hold the office. Party lines back then weren’t as bad as today. To my surprise, he ran himself in 1980. Here’s a snippet from Connally’s Wikipedia page about the Bush connection:
In 1971, Republican President Nixon appointed Democrat Connally as Treasury Secretary. Before agreeing to take the appointment, however, Connally told Nixon that the president must find a position in the administration for George H. W. Bush, the Republican who had been defeated in November 1970 in a hard-fought U.S. Senate race against Democrat Lloyd Bentsen. Connally told Nixon that his taking the Treasury post would embarrass Bush, who had “labored in the vineyards” for Nixon’s election as president, while Connally had supported Humphrey.Nixon named Bush as ambassador to the United Nations in order to secure Connally’s services at Treasury. Ben Barnes, then the lieutenant governor and originally a Connally ally, claims in his autobiography that Connally’s insistence saved Bush’s political career, leading to Bush’s eventual presidency and indirectly to the presidency of his son, George W. Bush.
If you are into fashion and stuff like Project Runway, I think you’ll like this “influencer.” The transitions are pretty neat, and you have to look past some of the crazy looks in the beginning, but she’s really creative with the most random of stuff.
I’ve been corresponding with my new pastor. Many of my friends would be uncomfortable with a woman leading a church and feel strongly that scripture backs them up. I’m not saying that is right or wrong, but I will admit it’s a first for me, and I’m adjusting. Recently, we’ve been discussing the Episcopal Church’s stance on “having all the questions—not all the answers.” She even used the term “sojourner.” While I’m familiar with the word, I don’t think I ever heard it used in any Evangelical, Mainline, Bible, or non-denominational church I’ve been a part of. For the heck of it, I decided to cut and paste that section of her reply in an AI tool and ask what it thought about her use of it. I liked the answer.
I didn’t know Texas Head Coach Steve Sarkisian’s son played for his football team. Here he is wholesomely talking about what it was like watching his son get a chance to play last Saturday.
I was reading an article on the inditement of Sean “Diddy” Combs. It says he had over a thousand bottles of baby oil. That got me wondering how that would look like visually. Well, a standard size of baby oil is 20 ounces. A thousand 22 ounce bottles would equal just under 172 gallons. An oil drum holds 55 gallons. So, that’s more than 3 oil drums of baby oil.
“The teachers didn’t believe me when they heard I play quarterback, but then they saw me on the field…”@SLUHfootball‘s Kyren Eleby may not look like a typical HS quarterback at 6-foot-2, 285 pounds… but don’t underestimate him. And good luck tackling him.@CoachAdamCruz1pic.twitter.com/uUDhAXgJrf
I was made aware of a typo or mistake in yesterday’s post, which I think is pretty funny. Yesterday, I wrote:“I don’t expect to change their minds, but I think they would be impressed by his thoughts, actually, his defense, of the Apollo 8 crew reading the first ten chaptersof Genesis in December 1968 as they circled around the moon.”Of course, I meant to say the first ten lines of the first chapter of Genesis. Reading the first ten chapters would have been overkill.
I don’t understand why car radios don’t have a rewind or other similar DVR features. I’m not saying it should be legally mandated, but I’m surprised it’s not something standard in all vehicles like cruise control. Sometimes, I don’t catch something and want to rewind a little bit to hear it again. I’d be happy with just a 15 or 30-second rewind. I know some 2020 GMC, Chevrolet, Buick, and Cadillac vehicles offered the ability to pause for 15 minutes.
Bon Jovi may have saved a life last week, but there’s never been a bigger poser than saying he was a cowboy. He grew up in Jersey.
People’s sneezes are either loud or frequent, but not both.
Watching movies just isn’t as thrilling as it used to be without the FBI warning me they would be taking me to jail.
Is there Narcan for the meat sweats you get gorging on great BBQ?
I had a friend that would whisper “bitch” every time she killed a mosquito biting her.
For some reason, “everytime” is not considered an acceptable compound word, yet everywhere, everyday, and everyone is. At least that’s according to my spellcheck.
People always take things the wrong way when it’s prefaced with, “Don’t take this the wrong way.”
I’ve watched this Tom and Jerry cartoon a plethora of times as kid. But now watching it a single time as a 49-year-old, I had no idea how sad and dark it is.
We were too young to understand this Tom and Jerry episode from 1949 where three drowned kittens arrive in Heaven pic.twitter.com/Z0mQ0oiQKd
@HamiltonMusical – In honor of National Voter Registration Day tomorrow, the Broadway company of Hamilton headed into the booth to record “The Election of 2024”. We’re proud to partner with @WhenWeAllVote @VoteRiders to make sure everyone’s voice is heard at the polls. Register to vote now!
Maybe it’s just me, but I didn’t like the way this headline and the article were written. They seemed to imply that the quarterback wouldn’t touch the ball because it was yucky. But the quarterback still had to take the snap; there was no way for him to avoid touching it. He just ran with the ball on a pass play instead of throwing it. I’m assuming he chose not to throw because the ball was hard to grip. The article also didn’t mention if the team could have asked for an official timeout that wouldn’t have taken one away from the team. Back in the day, players could openly bleed and stay in the game, but now that’s considered a biohazard, and players must leave the field and get the wound covered to come back in. So, in this case, the ball is a biohazard. The officials would have stopped the clock to exchange the ball. At least, I think they would.
There’s still a lot of college football to be played, but it has to bug diehard Aggie fans that they have been in the SEC for 12 years and never been ranked number one in football, yet their biggest rival did it in their first three weeks in the conference. In other related news, a Longhorn is calling on other Longhorns to help out an Aggie family in need.
A Vietnamese YouTuber Thánh Chế casually launching his UFO shaped boat into the river
These high school football commentators are fantastic, but I can’t oversell them enough. The whole thing is worth listening to, but here’s a random starting point.
This was pretty cool. A North Texas card shop teased a special guest to appear on Saturday. You see these marketing gimmicks all the time. How good of a special guest can this be? One of our local athletes? A washed-up has-been that no one really remembers? Well, when Tom Brady is the surprise special guest at your local card shop, that’s what you call over-delivering on the surprise. From what I hear, there was no special prior announcement. The crowd formed by word of mouth. In my day, when I was a kid, this sort of thing wouldn’t have happened. But thanks to our mobile devices and social media, word can spread fast and people will catch the word and show up. What a great moment for those kids. I’m happy for them.
“Parents, you don’t want to raise your kids, I’m going to start raising them. Every time we make an arrest, your kid’s photo is going to be put out there. And if I could do it, I’m going to perp walk your kid so that everybody can see what your kid’s up to,” said Sheriff Chitwood.“The second point of this is, if I can in anyway find out that a parent knew what was going on and wasn’t doing anything, your (expletive) is getting perp-walked with them,” he said.
On Friday, Drew Brees told Jon Gruden, “There’s never a week I expended more mental energy than going against a Mike Zimmer defense.” I wish we would have seen that sort of defense yesterday.
Same here, it’s a bonehead decision by Coach Prime
Led by co-pastors Joe and Dawn Weaks, Connection Christian Church, a 118-year-old congregation in Odessa, has transformed while keeping true to its legacy of helping the community.
A lot of my Evangelical Christian friends dislike Neil deGrass Tyson because they say he often picks on or insults Christianity. I don’t expect to change their minds, but I think they would be impressed by his thoughts, actually, his defense, of the Apollo 8 crew reading the first ten chapters of Genesis in December 1968 as they circled around the moon. It’s towards the very end of this video, and I have it cued for you.
The University of Texas puts on a great drone show when the Longhorns play in Austin at night. Some folks were complaining that not everyone in the stadium can see it, and that’s because of FAA rules.
A lot of folks were impressed with Arch Manning’s play at QB after Quinn Ewers got hurt, especially how fast he ran. Well, to compare it to one of the fastest players in the NFL. As for how most Longhorn fans felt about their Heisman candidate QB leaving the game to injury and being replaced by Arch Manning, this sums it up. No matter how the season ends, it’s going to be a memorable season – First year in the SEC, a big win at Michigan, #1 ranking, Heisman hopeful QB, NFL QB royalty as your backup QB, and the rivalry game with little brother Texas A&M starting back up. It can all go downhill fast, and they can lose to both Oklahoma and little brother A&M, but I’m enjoying it so far. Regarding Manning, I was surprised to find that he has a brother who plays on the offensive line.
