If you do nothing else in the next hour, watch the 10 minute of Tucker Carlson getting spanked by a Rutger Bregman, a Dutch historian.

It will make you hoot.  It never aired for obvious reasons.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Well, Judge Amy Berman Jackson is a much nicer and more adult person than I am.  Roger Stone is a free man.

She did put him under a full gag order.  He’s been fully gagging me for some time now, but I guess he’ll be doing gagging selfies.

She didn’t believe a word that came out of his mouth.

But Jackson didn’t buy Stone’s apology. She said it looks like the explanation came from his lawyers.

“So thank you, but the apology rings quite hollow,” she said, adding: “There’s nothing ambiguous about crosshairs.”

He claimed that a volunteer posted the picture of the judge in the crosshairs, but he didn’t know which volunteer because he had “a lot” of volunteers.  Yeah, five. He had previously said he had five volunteers.

You can just count your lucky stars that you’re not Mark Harris.  This is at the top of Google News front page.

Today they added the check Harris wrote to McCrae Dowless PAC to hire him to come corrupt another campaign.

And when your own son says that he warned you about what was going on and you just kept clutching your Bible and passing the offering plate, it don’t look good.

And then, after all the testimony you now say that maybe there should be another election because the public doesn’t trust the process. Not that you did anything wrong, but the public needs to see you do it again?  No, no, there can be another election but you should be watching it from jail.

Like I said, there are bad days and then there is this day for Mark Harris.

Humble, Texas is just up the road from me and just a bit north of Houston.

They really know how to have birthday parties in Humble.

A Texas girl’s Sweet 16 birthday party over the weekend was soured by her father accidentally shooting himself while playing with a loaded gun.

According to investigators, the father was spinning a gun on his finger when the firearm went off, shooting the man in the stomach during his daughter’s 16th birthday celebration.

So here he is, playing Roy Rogers to impress the kiddos at his daughter’s party, probably while flipping burgers on his barbecue pit that he set up in the driveway when wham! that pistol just up and shot him.

I mean, that there is some dandy party entertainment. It beats the hell outta one of those bounce houses. Years from now those kids will be saying, “Remember that time your Dad bled all over the driveway, flopping around like a fish and hollering cuss words? That was cool.”

Hey, I was right about the barbecue pit being in the driveway. That dude’s got two of them and boy howdy, might as well impress the neighbors instead of showing them off in the privacy of your backyard.

He was rushed to the hospital and his condition is currently unknown.

I wouldn’t worry, this guy would have to sober-up for a day or two to die.

Thanks to Charles for the heads up.

CNN is announcing that Mueller will have a report as early as next week.

Attorney General Bill Barr is preparing to announce as early as next week the completion of Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, with plans for Barr to submit to Congress soon after a summary of Mueller’s confidential report, according to people familiar with the plans.

Does somebody other than a Trump appointee get to see the entire report?

I am preparing myself to be disappointed.

Okay, here’s the background: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been an indicted felon for 5 years now.  He was indicted in 2015 for securities fraud.  He has not gone to trial because he keeps finding ways to avoid it. The reason for that is because he’s guilty as the dickens.

He’s filed all kinds of stalling briefs. One was to move the trial to the last remaining Republican stronghold in Texas – Fort Worth. Next, he got his friends on the Colin County Commissioners Court to quit paying the bills for the special prosecutor. So he’s flitted around for half a decade to keep himself from going to trial.

There’s a saying among the writ twits that if you get indicted, stay away from trial because if you wait long enough, all the witnesses will die or they will change the law.

There’s this. Paxton’s wife got herself elected to the Texas Senate. They’ve been in session for a full month and half now and she introduces a bill that would make what her husband did completely legal.  I’m not kidding and with Republicans controlling both the Texas House and Senate, she’s liable to get it passed.

You would not believe this if you read it somewhere else, right?

It’s true. That’s happening in Texas.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.