Guys, I updated the “Where I Go” links on the righthand side.  I took off those who have stopped blogging and added a couple of folks who mean a lot to me.

My friend and neighbor Bob Dunn has redesigned his site to reflect his new interest in photography.  Bob has become a gentleman farmer as he continues his quest to do everything there is to do before he hits the age of 60.

One of my favorite people, the smart, funny, mean as hell, and wise Judge Susan Criss has left the bench to become a trial lawyer.  Bubba and I went to Galveston yesterday to have lunch with her at Benno’s – crawfish, shrimp, oysters, and three hours of some most excellent political stories.  She doesn’t blog every day but she ought to.  Enjoy.

So Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney met in Utah last week.  Not by accident.  This was an arranged meeting.

Bush was asked about the meeting on a Friday at an event in San Francisco, the Washington Post reported. He said the two potential 2016 contenders, who are expected to vie for many of the same donors and voters if they both decide to run, chatted about the National Football League — but they didn’t really touch on the fact that they could be political opponents soon.

Top Five Things They Did Discuss:

1.  How to make funny limericks with Ted Cruz’s name.

2.  Who gets to kiss Sheldon Adleson’s hiney first.

3.  If deflated balls drummed up such interest in the Superbowl, maybe we should get Marco Rubio to deflate his.

4.  Two Koch Brother – two candidates.  You do the math.

5.  How can we both run for President without using our last names?

So Sarah Palin went to Iowa to run for President again.

She gave a speech that even conservatives said was “bizarro.”  Honey, when you make Rick Perry look smart and coherent, you’re drunk.  That’s all there is to it.

The kids on Twitter had fun.  Especially with stuff like this:

“It is good that we have a deep bench and its primary competition that will surface the candidate who’s up to the task and unify and this person has to because knowing what the media will do throughout all of 2016 to all of us it’s going to take more than a village to beat Hillary,” she said.

So, the clown car just got a new driver.

Lucky us!

Texas Republican State Representative (See?  You’re already giggling, right?)Bill Zedler wants to file a bill requiring that all high school seniors should have to pass a civics test before they can graduate.

Not a bad idea and I’m pretty impressed that a Republican came up with that.  Until he didn’t know when to shuddup.

When asked whether he took a quiz, Zedler said, “No, but I think I would do pretty well. I know the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776. I know World War II was started Dec. 7, 1941. I know what the Civil War was fought over.”

Close, Bill, but no cigar.  World War II started a tad earlier than that.

On the upside, this tea party gun-toting fool didn’t give his answer to what the Civil War was fought over, but I bet the answer involved the words “northern aggression.”

And nobody asked him the exact date the Declaration of Independence was signed.  I’ll be willing to wager a pony ride that he doesn’t know.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Ah, Chicago.

One of two teens accused of robbing two Logan Square delivery drivers at gunpoint earlier this month accidentally shot himself in the finger while eating stolen pizza, Cook County prosecutors said Thursday.

They ordered the pizza, robbed the delivery guy, and then one of them shot himself in the finger while eating the pizza.  He was treated at the hospital, released, and then did the same damn thing again four days later.  This time they order Chinese and held a gun to the head of a 52 year old delivery guy.

The two teens decided to rob another delivery driver on Jan. 18, Karr said. This time they placed an order on Reece’s phone to the Chinese restaurant, and a 52-year-old man delivered their order.

Reece came up to the driver’s door and Colon opened the passenger door and removed the food, Karr said. Reece then opened the driver’s-side door and pointed a gun at the man’s head before striking him in the face with the gun, she said.

Please, please, please let there be food poisoning involved.

They were found and confessed.

Thanks to Wayne for the heads up.

News in Texas …

Lightning struck the state Capitol early Thursday morning, knocking out power in some places. State troopers were posted outside to make sure employees could get in after some key-card readers stopped working.

I’d be willing to bet my best pair of pink boots that God was aiming for Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick but that little sucker slithered away before the bolt hit the ground.

Just to be safe, I wouldn’t stand anywhere near Patrick without a lightning rod on my head.