1. This piece of news about Texas sales taxes dropping 11 percent in November is disheartening. What’s even more disheartening is that the numbers show a drop of 20 percent for Dallas. But that number’s ugly due to a technicality. It’s actually only about 5 percent. So that’s not so bad. And since these are November numbers, we can still blame 2009. This means 2010 is as awesome as we all thought it’d be.
2. Peer pressure. It just never gets old. When 13-year-old Ethan Fitzgerald saw his friends getting their tongues pierced, he decided to do it, too. He walked into a parlor, they asked his age, he said 13, and they pierced his tongue. Then he texted his dad to tell him what he’d done, dad called the cops, boy got grounded, parlor is being investigated. Sending text messages instead of having real conversations, kids these days have it so easy. IJS.
3. And I know none of you really care about anything today except for a certain game that’s on this evening and the weather. It’s cold, folks. Stay warm.
