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Leading Off (01/09/09)

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1. President Bush tells the Dallas Morning News that he’s not sure how he’ll fill his days in Dallas (and weekends in Crawford): “Being a type-A personality,” he says, “I’m confident I’ll be able to fill my days with activities.” I’ll let the commenters handle that one.

2. A Dallas law firm has paid back $200,000 (and will pay back hundreds of thousands more over the next five years) in an insurance scam that involved faking auto accidents. The owner didn’t know about the activities of, among others, legal assistant “Tommy” Tung Tran and ringleader Tuan “Andy” Nguyen. Not implicated, of course, was Long Duk Dong.

3. The Dallas Mavericks won and the Dallas Stars lost. I think that about covers what happened in the sport world yesterday.

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