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…or “How To Not Get Arrested for DWI”

Background for the Post

I went to see Steanso and his band play some excellent tunes from the 80’s a few months ago and it was a great gig. Folks were talking about it all over the Travis County Courthouse for some time afterwards. Rumor is the setlist got published or at least emailed, and that there might be a second go-round. And that they might take requests in advance. I hope so.

…about Mark Bennett here.

And mind you – that post is written by a prosecutor.

I now have almost 50 half written posts in my folder on my C Drive labeled “Partial Blog Posts”. This time I’m going through each one, and either finishing and publishing it, or deleting it.

[Yes, I’ve made this threat in various forms before, so perhaps I’m the boy who cried wolf…]

My rough transcription – but possibly accurate, I rewound several times - from Obama’s Tuesday night victory speech:

[McCain’s] plan to win in November appears to come from the very same playbook that his side has used time after time and election after election.

Yes, we know what’s coming. I’m not naive. We’ve already seen it.

Via Huffington Post, the first sentence of a new post by the Chief of Congressional & Public Affairs for the U.S.

Drug Enforcement Administration:

The drug trade never fails to surprise those of us at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

You mean, you keep touting your successes (‘Major Heroin/Cocaine/Marijuana Bust’)… and, yet, nothing ever changes?

Larry King interviewed the apoplectic comedian Lewis Black tonight on CNN (30 minutes past the end of the broadcast and it’s still not linkable – is this the internet age or not? No seriously, I’ll try to link to it when it’s available.)

Last question from Larry was about whether or not the rumor was true: had Black started a blog? Absolutely not. “I refuse to blog,” said Black, continuing:

…just because you can type on a screen doesn’t give you legitimacy as an authority on anything.