Too tired to get up and watch at that time? Don’t have a DVR, or even a VCR? Get a preview of what she’ll be talking about right here.

Yes — 72% / 103 votes

No — 18% / 26 votes

I don’t know who that is — 4% / 6 votes

I pretend to not know who that is but OMG YES — 4% / 6 votes

I prefer Robert — 2% / 3 votes

First, I shouldn’t say I disagree with every single thing. I agree with his headline and overall conclusion that these troubles are “self-created.” We just come to that conclusion in very different ways.

His logic goes as such: The decision to cut the funding to Planned Parenthood was made over months, systematically, in a series of meetings. So it must have been better than the subsequent change of heart, which “seemed to take mere moments, long enough to get right with the indignant pro-choicers poised to make their lives miserable.” As proof that the anti-Planned Parenthood decision was so well thought out, Davis points to none other than Karen Handel, the recently resigned vice president of Komen. Davis does not mention that before these long deliberations, Handel just so happened to run (unsuccessfully) for Governor of Georgia with those exact same anti-Planned Parenthood politics.

In her world — and probably in Mark Davis’ — saying anything bad about Planned Parenthood gets a round of applause. Indeed, Davis’ reasoning boils down to this: “One thing is clear. Whether one admires the first action or the second, Susan G. Komen for the Cure set this trap for itself the day it decided to start sending checks to Planned Parenthood.”

He heartily dismisses that argument that none of the Komen money (which, let’s face it, in the grand scheme of things, really isn’t a lot for either organization) goes to fund abortions, or what he calls “some magic funnel through which money can flow to a Planned Parenthood cancer screening with no chance of paying for an abortion.”

He suddenly trusts Komen’s decisions completely when he learns they are anti-Planned Parenthood, suggesting the organization simply should have told upset pro-choice donors: “If you care as much about ‘women’s health’ as you say you do, you will respect our decision to make these judgments as we see fit.” But he doesn’t seem to trust the same organization when it comes to the complex grant application process, which Davis surely knows consists of detailed plans on how the money can be spent.

That’s because in the anti-Planned Parenthood world, if the organization performs something as immoral as abortions, it could easily perform something as immoral as fraud. One of the interesting things revealed in the wake of this back and forth over Komen is the fact that anti-Planned Parenthood people honestly don’t care what — if any — good work that organization might do, because they also perform abortions. (By the same token, it might appear that some fervent pro-choice people threatening to withdraw donations from Komen also don’t care much about the good that organization does.)

And that’s where the Mark Davis-es of the world have to change. In this stratified world, we all have to deal with people we don’t completely agree with, especially on issues like abortion. He should be careful he isn’t cutting off a bit of nose to punish some face. When he says that “donors will have to decide whether they mind that their dollars intended to save lives are commingled with dollars that fund the extinguishing of life” he could be, for a political ideal, causing more harm than good.

News reports, like the one from WFAA above, say that the Transportation Security Administration and Dallas Police are offering to help DART Police secure their stations, following yesterday’s shooting, the latest in what seems like a string of violent public transit incidents. This would involve having more officers posted on DART trains and at DART stations.

Would that have made a difference for Eric Johnson, who lost his life when a DART police officer exchanged gunfire with a man who’d been turned away from riding a bus for trying to board with an expired pass?

When we’re faced with tragedies like this, it’s natural that we want to do something to prevent such a senseless act from occurring again. But isn’t the plain fact that we live in a big city, with a lot of other people, some of whom are prone from time to time to commit awful acts?

Things like this are going to happen. After all, there was already an officer on the scene.

And, as WFAA reports, one of yesterday’s victims claims he was struck by a bullet fired by the officer, not the suspect.

Texas in particular come off looking compartively great. Dallas-Fort Worth has the second-biggest gain in jobs during the last year (among the nation’s 100 biggest markets), the fourth-most gain in the last five years, and the fifth-most in the last 10 years. (Houston finishes No. 1 on all three lists.)  Of course, the picture is slightly different if you rank cities by their percentage gains in jobs, with DFW ranked 10th, 8th, and 27th looked at that way.

Only 13 of the top 100 U.S. metropolitan areas have showed a gain over the last five years. Six of them are in Texas.

Portlandia is ranked No. 52.

Rowlett Asks Gun Range To Be Safer. I don’t think it’s too much to ask: if you’re a gun range, make sure stray bullets don’t travel into a family’s home. Yesterday, the owner of the gun range agreed to try to make his business safer. The city of Rowlett filed an injunction after the third stray-bullet incident.

DISD Will Probably Have More Layoffs. But you’re not surprised, are you?

This development means a grand slam for females holding the news director positions at the area’s four major television stations.

Just as, in the wake of the policy “reversal” and the resignation of Komen vice president Karen Handel, the anti-Planned Parenthood crowd is accusing Komen of bowing to pressure from the left, now the actual left is vowing to make sure Komen doesn’t bow to pressure from the right, asking the foundation to promise it will not cut funding to Planned Parenthood after next year. So much vowing and bowing. Makes me want to watch a Kung Fu movie.

Randy Travis is the guy in the middle, in case you didn't know.

Reuse Jeans sent out an email today to share pictures from the Jan. 21 grand opening of its new store at the Shops at Park Lane. In the email, they were sure to note how grateful they were that country singer Randy Travis had been able to stop by (see photo above.)

This new photo, and Mr. Travis’ recent Denton County Sheriff’s Department mugshot, have sparked an intra-office disagreement.

Settle the argument: Does he look more like a vampire bat or a vampire from the TV shows Buffy and Angel?