1. The latest person to pick up a stick and poke the hornets nest that is the Dallas County constabulary? Why, it’s Danny Defenbaugh. The former FBI conducted a civil investigation into allegations that two constables threatened employees to get them to work for their reelection campaigns. Defenbaugh filed complaints with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel claiming that the men — Precinct 1 Constable Derick Evans and Precinct 5 Constable Jaime Cortes — violated federal campaign laws. I’ll be honest, when we ran a story in October about how the constable system seemed to be out of control, we had no idea how right we were.
2. You know who I like? A guy like Davie Brown. He works for a local outfit that measures how the public feels about celebrities. Surprise! The public isn’t feeling as warm as it once did about Tiger Woods. But that’s not what I’m interested in. I’m interested in what Davie Brown named his celebrity-measuring index. He named it the Davie Brown Index. I like your moxie, Davie Brown.
3. You know why I don’t like to fly? Besides the fact that you get treated like cattle when you do? Because your plane, like American Airlines Flight 331 did last night in Jamaica, might overshoot the runway and nearly wind up in the Caribbean.
