"Ted Wallis, a doctor in Austin, Texas, recently came upon a lost child in tears in a mall. His first instinct was to help, but he feared people might consider him a predator. He walked away. ‘Being male,’ he explains, ‘I am guilty until proven innocent.’"
The solution, as I see it, is to have children of your own. Fathers are innocent until proven guilty.
Via Instapundit
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The Longhorns finally showed up in the second half, just fashionably late. And Colt redeemed himself. Goodnight horny toads. Good wrapup here.
I’m on pins and needles awaiting kickoff at 6 p.m. or so between Texas and Texas Christian. I’m just trying not to show it. You can also read this. I will go mow the back forty to try and take my mind off it.
UPDATE: 10-0 TCU at the half. Scary. Both scores on Colt’s two interceptions. The Texas offense looks worse than last week. This looks to be an awful season. Oklahoma will eat us for lunch, just to mention one Big 12 opponent.
MORE: 10-10 at end of third quarter. Texas is coming back! Heck yeah, 17-10 Texas at start of fourth quarter. About time.
I’ve gone back to playing Halo 1 and become so enamored with the music that I bought the CD. Reminds me, vaguely, of Carmina Burana. ("I hate that guy," says Mr. B., confusing the name of a symphony with a person. He gets it in the car sometimes on the way home from school in the afternoon. But he also "hates" Willie Nelson, which doesn’t seem possible.) Playing Halo 1 on easy level is cheating, in a way, and certainly less challenging. But on normal I was stuck in the second section. This way, at least, I get to marvel at the scenary of the ring world. Someday we’ll get an XBox and try it that way.
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Tagged Carmina Burana, Halo: Combat Evolved music, Willie Nelson
This isn’t precisely new. It’s just so much fun to look at. Texas rarely has no drought anywhere. Just look at how different it was less than thirteen months ago. Texas would be even more of (chauvinism alert) a garden than it already is if we got this much rain every year.
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Tagged no drought 2007, Texas drought
What a joker, that O man, or whatever character is playing him in the latest video. Million laughs transcript here. He wants us all to convert to Islam, so we won’t be burdened with taxes and, especially, interest-bearing mortgages. Notice how he seems to have grown younger. Could he be dyeing his beard? It’s dark now, and it used to be gray. Shocking infidel behavior. The CIA is convinced it’s the real Osama. Big whoop. They were convinced the Soviet Union would be around for another hundred years, and 9/11 would be just another day.
UPDATE: Looks like even the conservatives are buying it, after a fashion, unveiling me as a 12th tier blogger. But that’s no surprise, right? So, the O man, they say, is alive (somewhere) and wearing a fake beard to keep the troops happy. Or something like that. But Roger L. Simon ain’t buying it.
Going to take Mr. Boy to the scout headquarters after school this afternoon to pick up his new duds for Wolf year: scarf, slides, patch, handbook and maybe a cap. I didn’t take him last year, which might have been a mistake. I figure his innate consumer will be thrilled at all the stuff to buy as he works his way up to Boy Scouts and beyond. Of course they tell parents they don’t have to buy all the stuff, and we didn’t buy the trousers or shorts. He wears his own. But some of it, like the shirt, patches, scarf and handbook are hard to do without. After that, we’ll stop by the Jewish Community Center and register him for the rookie (ages 6-7) co-ed fall basketball league. He’s not so sure about the co-ed part, but he likes the idea of competition. I explained to him that almost all Texas colleges have womens’ basketball teams, but, in typical age seven mode, he was skeptical. He’ll learn.
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THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 