(sigh)

Well, the Texas Tech Red Raiders once again proved that they are not all they want to be, nor even what they seem to be, nor even what they're cracked-up to be. Ole Miss kicked their asses 47-34.

It was not as close as the score.

Well, the Texas Longhorns will hopefully do some damage against Ohio State next week, but I don't have high hopes.

Light posting

Apologies all five of you out there for the light posting these last few weeks. I've been preoccupied with some personal shit and blogging was very, very low on my list of priorities for spending time.

That said, a few quick hits:

1. I'm still in mourning for the shellacking Texas Tech took at the hands of the Sooners on November 22nd, falling from a #2 ranking to #7 and out of contention for the national championship. At least the team who did that to them are themselves now playing for the national championship and Tech will be playing (#25) Ole Miss in the Cotton Bowl on January 2nd.

2. Holy Shit a fighter jet crashes into a tranquil San Diego neighborhood! (h/t Broadway Carl)

3. This afternoon, I just finished reading "The Road." I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it yet, but I'm still disturbed and upset so that may or may not be a good thing. Right now, I'm leaning towards thinking that the whole thing is some kind of metaphor for something. Details to follow.

4. I am almost done watching HBO's "The Wire" (all five seasons!) and that show does an amazing job at fictionalizing the futility of Reagan's War on Drugs, a war that continues to this day, unabated. It also depicts very clearly the depravity such a futile war generates in the policing organizations charged with enforcing it's anti-Constitutional dictates, a depravity that deepens every day as all our rights and liberties are abrogated in the name of Law & Order (the concept, not the Tee-Vee show). In most essential ways, the War on Drugs was a dress-rehearsal for the War on Terror and the concommitant shredding of the Constitution.

Thus, no other explanation than gross police misconduct can explain both this (via Digby's Hullabaloo):

Man dies during arrest in Minneapolis.

Officers found the man on the street and tried to arrest him. He resisted and officers shot him with a Taser, Palmer said.

So, just remember that the Police can taser you if you don't show them enough respect and it's all A-OK.

and this (via Balloon Juice). Unlike the last one, this one is so many different levels of awesome.

KopBusters rented a house in Odessa, Texas and began growing two small Christmas trees under a grow light similar to those used for growing marijuana. When faced with a suspected marijuana grow, the police usually use illegal FLIR cameras and/or lie on the search warrant affidavit claiming they have probable cause to raid the house. Instead of conducting a proper investigation which usually leads to no probable cause, the Kops lie on the affidavit claiming a confidential informant saw the plants and/or the police could smell marijuana coming from the suspected house.

The trap was set and less than 24 hours later, the Odessa narcotics unit raided the house only to find KopBuster’s attorney waiting under a system of complex gadgetry and spy cameras that streamed online to the KopBuster’s secret mobile office nearby.

Texas Tech Ranked #2!

Texas Tech

Best.

College football game.

I ever.

Ever.

Ever.

Watched.

Ever.

Go Red Raiders!



(Sorry Longhorns. Next week, I'll be rooting for you -- and the Raiders, too -- again)

Go Raiders

My two college teams are pitted against one another tonight in the marquee match-up on ABC. #1 Texas at #7 Texas Tech in Lubbock. ESPN College Game Day has been broadcasting from the Tech campus all day and I imagine it must be pretty exciting to thought of and treated like a contender.

This is the only game of the year when I yell against the Longhorns.

So, Go Red Raiders! Guns Up!

Longhorns #1

Rock on, 'Horns.

UT-Austin ranks Numero Uno in all four major football polls. Texas Tech ranks an average of 6.5 across all four polls.

College football RAWKS!

Hook 'Em (UPDATED)

I've changed my background color to burnt orange to commemorate them University of Texas at Austin Longhorns (No. 5) beating those fucking OU Sooners (No. 1 - but not after today!)

Boomer Sooner this, losers.

Second-half surge carries Texas over No. 1 Oklahoma

Oct. 11, 2008
CBSSports.com wire reports

DALLAS -- Mack Brown can finally say he's done something in the Texas-Oklahoma game that Bob Stoops hasn't -- pulled off an upset. And it's a big one.

Brown's Longhorns grabbed some second-half momentum by foiling a fake punt Saturday, then Colt McCoy and the defense built on it, carrying No. 5 Texas to a 45-35 victory over No. 1 Oklahoma.

The Longhorns outscored the Sooners 25-7 after stopping the trickery, and their half of the record crowd of 92,182 fans loved every bit of it. At game's end, the folks in burnt orange enjoyed the biggest postgame celebration in the 103-game history of this Red River Rivalry.

With the win, Texas (6-0, 2-0 Big 12) grabs the inside track in both the conference and national championship races. History shows the Longhorns should think big. The last two teams to come out of this game unbeaten -- Oklahoma in 2004, Texas in 2005 -- went to the national title game. And the last time the Longhorns knocked off the Sooners when they were No. 1 was 1963, which turned into Darrell Royal's first national championship.

Brown and Stoops have brought their programs back to prominence over the past decade. Stoops has been credited with outcoaching Brown, primarily because of two blowout wins. But the higher-ranked team had won every matchup. In fact, this was the first upset in this series since 1996.

Oklahoma (5-1, 1-1) sure didn't seem headed to defeat when Sam Bradford pulled off another quick scoring drive on his first series of the third quarter, putting the Sooners up 28-20. But Texas answered with a touchdown. And when OU's next drive stalled just shy of midfield, Stoops gambled.


AP NEWS

UPDATE:
So, it was for my money almost a perfect college football day. Texas beat Oklahoma, Texas Tech won and Texas A&M lost. The only thing sweeter would be if the Red Raiders could be the one to beat A&M. Goddam I hate me some Aggies. Even more than Sooners.