1. This morning on FrontBurner, it’s not about winning. It’s about rediscovering effort. And reinventing compassion. And prospecting for stick-to-it-iveness. Accordingly, we are typing in full pads.
2. We mentioned earlier in this space that the Cowboys had trouble keeping their website up earlier this week. The News wrote about it, too. But there’s something charming about the way this British news outlet described the snafu:
A leading US professional sports outfit saw its website go down this week following the failure to renew its domain name. Struggling American Football club the Dallas Cowboys — who have lost seven of their first eight fixtures this season — witnessed a number of days of downtime following the administrative oversight.
Makes it sound like the Cowboys lost some drawer pulls in their kitchen.
3. We’ve had three suicides in two days on our roadways. One guy jumped from the High Five. Another hung himself from the Houston Street viaduct. [shaking head, having a hard time understanding the need to turn such a tragic act into a public spectacle]
4. If my math is correct, yesterday’s settlement of a whistleblower suit in connection with the computer contract shenanigans at DISD means the district has now paid out nearly $3 million to whistleblowers who were involved with this case. Suggestion to DISD teachers: might want to focus less on the teaching and more on the whistleblowing. It pays better. [Update: HP paid yesterday's settlement.]
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I wrote this for veterans day in 2006. I offer it up in appreciation for veterans Day. I wrote this about my dad, who died in April 2009. The morning the editorial ran, I took it to him and his coffee buddies. His service in the South Pacific was the thing he was proudest of in his life:
http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/11/that-their-effo.html
@bill Holston: That was a nice piece, Bill. Thanks for posting.
Last night about 9:30 I was going down I-35 south right before 635 and a guy walks across the highway and instead of hurrying across he slows down in my lane and stays there. I braked and had to go slowly around him and he just stood there.
There were two cops behind me that definitely saw him. If someone was texting or something else he would have been hit which is what it looked like he was trying to do.