2025-01-01: On my CFP bingo card I didn't have Ohio State blowing out Oregon and Arizona taking Texas to two overtimes. Crazy day of football.
2025-01-03: Georgia lost to Notre Dame by 13 points. National reaction: Notre Dame is good.
Indiana lost to Notre Dame by 10 points. National reaction: Indiana is bad.
2025-01-06: I heard a PSA on the radio today. "Drive like a Texan: Kind, Courteous, and Safe." Seriously? What the heck roads have they been driving on?
2025-01-10: Headline: "Stocks tumble following blowout jobs report."
Just in case anyone needed more evidence that what's in the interest of workers is not always what's in the interest of bosses.
2025-01-12: The chair of the Dallas County Republican Party, Allen West, threatened to censure Angie Chen Button and Morgan Meyer and campaign against them in 2026 if they do not vote for David Cook for Speaker of the Texas House. Hard ball. Be our puppet or we will find someone else who will be.
2025-01-12: "Every month from June 2023 to September 2024 broke climate records. 'It has been considerably hotter even than climate scientists expected,' Gavin Schmidt and Zeke Hausfather wrote in November. We are seeing, in the wildfires turning swaths of Los Angeles to ash, the precise kinds of extreme weather events that we’ve been warned about — and we are also seeing how unprepared we are to deal with them."
-- Ezra Klein
2025-01-15: City of Richardson's Charter Review Commission meets for the first time Thursday evening. Without cameras. Maybe someday, someone will invent something that could record government meetings for the convenience of people who can't attend in person.
2025-01-16: In the runoff vote for Speaker of the House in Texas, 14 Democrats who had voted for Ramos (D-Richardson) switched their vote to Burrows (R-Lubbock) after Ramos was eliminated in the first vote. The lone Democrat to switch to Cook (R-Mansfield)? Ramos herself. 🤔?
2025-01-16: Houston Chronicle: "Ramos doubled down, referring to Burrows' track record of attacking Texas' cities, counties, women and the LGBTQ+ community. "[He] gave us no promises he would stop if elected Speaker," RodrÃguez Ramos said. "That is why I lodged a protest vote against him."
So if every Dem followed Ramos and cast a "protest" vote for Cook, Cook would be the Speaker instead of Burrows. How is that a better outcome? Protest votes are stupid.
2025-01-16: Headline: "Freezing temperatures are expected during Trump's second inauguration."
No jokes about hell freezing over, please. Too easy.
2025-01-21: The far-right backlash to progressive urban trends is not just a US phenomenon.
Headline: Why Is Ontario Ripping Out Toronto’s Hard-Fought Bike Lanes? It’s Not About Traffic.
nextcity.org/urbanist-news/for...
2025-01-24: Headline: "Dallas Cowboys Legend Michael Irvin Rips Taylor Swift & Caitlin Clark For Trying To Make Kansas City Chiefs The New “America’s Team” "
lol. There's no quicker way to make the Chiefs the country's most hated team than to tag them as "America's Team "
2025-01-26: Headline: "Chair of 'Arab Americans for Trump' blasts president’s ‘wild’ call to relocate Gazans."
The eleventy-seventh group to learn that Trump shows no loyalty to anyone who bends-the-knee to him. Anyone.
2025-01-28: Headline: "‘Gulf of America’ name change now official, Trump administration says."
This reminds me of a joke.
Teacher: If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have?
Student: Five.
Teacher: Wrong. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one.
2025-01-28: Perhaps significantly, the joke was a point made by President Abraham Lincoln, who knew a thing to two.
2025-01-29: "Sign Control Board (SCB) Case #25-01. This is a request from First United Methodist Church Richardson to install a 25 ft. pole sign. The SCB unanimously recommended approval of the request."
Richardson City Council can't say no. First Clay Cooley. Now FUMC. The arms race is on.
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