Lancaster wayyyy off the News’ radar screen

So much for the hope that Kathy Goolsby might actually be given, or find, the time, to follow up on the Smith Bros. and other things at Lancaster ISD, soon to become known as WH-West, perhaps.

Tanya Kersh working for Alan Steele … clawing out of the LHS principals’ box?

Never heard before of an assistant principal at a school making a move like that. I guess working for Alan may give her a layer of "insulation" from both Randall and Lewis?

Astrological signs predict accident rates??? Puhleeze

I’m sure a study like this is too stupid to even waste the time refuting, with selecting perception/cherry-picking evidence, etc.

To think I could have been a Latin teacher at LHS

Supposedly, Lancaster High is in need of one or two such critters. Well, my undergrad major is classical languages, so, though noncertified as a teacher, I could meet the academic qualifications nemo problema.

And, to think of what imprecations against Lewis or district stupidity I could have taught those high school minds. You would have loved personally trying to deny a recommendation to hire me, Larry.

Illegitimi non carborundum, baby.

“Life’s one big long barter”

So says a friend of mine:

Life's one big long barter, as far as I can tell. Things are forever
changing, including us, so it's prioritize and then re-prioritize, over and over and over again!

Calling bullshit on one item of cowboy mythology

In a federal appeals court ruling upholding the standing and enforceability of a 1949 Texas law banning the slaughter of horses for sale for food, Judge Fortunato Benavides said:

“The lone cowboy riding his horse on a Texas trail is a cinematic icon. Not once in memory did the cowboy eat his horse”

Judge, your memory is awfully underinformed, you’ve read too many dime novels or something.

Cowboys and other westerners might view eating one’s horse as a last resort, but horses did get eaten if people were hungry enough, in dire enough straits, and the horse was about to get to “downer” point anyway.