- Dallas City Councilmember Ron Natinsky, on spending $12,000 in city taxpayer funds for shopping bags, pizza cutters, letter openers, and tape measures bearing his name: “I don’t see anything wrong with this.” I’ll turn comments on. (Nice work, Dave Levinthal.) (And appropriate Natinsky’s name is found on so many tools.)
- Shawn Williams at DallasSouth Blog and Scott Henson at Grits for Breakfast are all over the recent, grisly murder in Paris, and the racial aspects involved. Solid work, guys.
- Leaving aside standard TV reporter ignorance on the proper name for semiautomatic sport rifles, this is otherwise a pretty balanced report, if a tad overblown. And good on people for thinking ahead. The future of tomorrow’s black market (sorry, JWP) starts with you planning ahead today. Give yourselves a round of applause.
- The Reuters newsroom in New York reports that the Reuters newsroom in New York was evacuated. Wait a minute, how did they do that?
- Best. Country. Evah! Mustached American of the Year is an actual award. Harry Reems approves.