Skattershooting as I wonder why my Achilles Tendon ruptured like an old rubber band. 

• Isn't the Quizno's commercial with the man "raised by wolves" one of the oddest things you've ever seen?
• Let me predict failure for Infone. The service that claims you can call them and ask for anything: "Need a restaurant reservation? A hotel room? A taxi? Flowers for your anniversary? Where is that concert? And when? Where is your favorite radio station? Event times and locations, etc., etc., etc. Even the weather, a stock quote...or maybe your horoscope. We've got what you need." All for 89 cents a minute.  Failure. Failure. Failure.
• Another service bound to fail is the Dallas Morning News' new fee based web site (CowboysPlus.com) for Dallas Cowboy information. You mean they've been holding back on us in their sports section?
• The President's new press secretary, Scott McClellan, is not near as smooth as the man he replaced, Ari Fleisher.
  
• How has Michael Irvin gone from criminal defendant to ESPN pre-game show host? Where's the stigma associated with a drug related probation?
• I've always liked the song "Tempted By the Fruit of Another" by Squeeze which is now associated with a GAP jeans commercial.
• Texas has slightly over 24% of its residents that do not have health insurance coverage.
  
• I personally would like to strangle TV advertising lawyer Jim Adler, "The Texas Hammer".
  
• The time it has taken to extradite ex-Baylor player Carlton Dotson is ridiculous and very unusual.
• Microsoft Corp. announced on September 24th that it would shut down its Internet chat rooms in 28 countries, saying the forums had become a haven for peddlers of junk e-mail and sex predators.  Seems to be a bit dramatic.
  
• Every time I see the photo of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed I think of John Belushi in Animal House. (But I'm not the first one to think of it).
  
• Every year at this time you will see news reports about the opening of the Texas State Fair. That is followed by some boring banter amongst the anchormen about how they "can't wait" to have a "Fletcher's Corny Dog". I bet they've never even seen a Fletcher's Corny Dog.
  
• Every time there was a news conference about Congressional Redistricting, state senator Jane Nelson always seemed to be in the background mugging for the camera. I've always found her to be naive. Case in point, she sponsored senate bill 433 which entitles alleged sexual assault victims to get a Protective Order against the alleged attacker. Oh, yeah, that will solve a lot of problems.
• Attorney General John Ashcroft is a nut. He has now issued a memo to all United States Attorneys that they should no longer engage in plea bargaining. Most U.S. Attorneys aren't smart enough to use any discretion, I suppose.
  
• And it was funny to see NBA Commissioner David Stern take a shot at Ashcroft when asked if Kobe Bryant would be allowed to play this season. "Absolutely," Stern said. "We don't have a Patriot Act in the NBA. That means that you're innocent until proven guilty."
• One thing that confuses me is ads for medicine on television that don't tell you what in the heck they do (i.e. Levitra). I suppose the reason is some FDA regulation that requires a disclosure of side effects if you state the purpose of the medicine.
• NBC's Dateline had a segment on a shocking development: "College Binge Drinking". I think I had heard about that somewhere before.
  
• Jim Rome on his ESPN show on OSU’s Rashaun Woods catching seven touchdown passes against SMU – “Maybe SMU needs the death penalty again just for that”
• It's wierd how much actress Leelee Sobieski looks like Helen Hunt.
• The city of Dallas has a budget of two billion dollars. That's with a "B".
• From the Dallas Morning News on 9/26/03, at p. 3B : "Narcotics officers went to the roots of Denton County’s drug problem this week, seizing 79 cultivated marijuana plants from area lakeshores." “We’re probably saving lives and families by keeping these drugs of the street,” said Kevin Patton, spokesman for the Sheriff’s Depratment and the narcotics task force. " Yes, the world is a lot safer now.
  
• Speaking of illegal drugs, Rush Limbaugh may very well be guilty of obtaining pain pills without a prescription. After he announced last week that he was addicted to painkillers, the "liberal media" quickly found this quote from Rush in 1995:“Too many whites are getting away with drug use. The answer is to ... find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them, and send them up the river.”  And this quote about Jerry Garcia: “[He’s] another dead drug addict.”
• One odd lawsuit was that brought by Karen Sawyer against B.I. Inc. who manufactures ankle monitors for the criminal justice system. Her ex-boyfriend, Joseph Whitlow, slipped his off without the device detecting it, and went to her house and killed her. Federal Judge Terry Means found that responsibility for Sawyer's death should be broken down this way:  Gunman Joseph Whitlow 70%, the victim 10% and the company 20%. The judge wrote that the company bore some responsibility “even though Sawyers’ front door was unlocked and she was drunk and on methamphetamine when she was attacked by Whitlow, BI’s marketing defects gave her a false sense of security.” Huh? The victim is at fault for being at home? And the shooter is just 70% responsible for her death?
  
• Rocker Robert Palmer is dead at age 54. He is most famous for his "Addicted to Love" video with the hot girls in the background making up his band. Did you know they did not record the video together? The girls were superimposed behind him after the fact.
  
• A $70 million traffic study reveals that traffic is getting worse. Please feel free to fill in an obvious comment.
  
• From Time magazine's 10/6/03 issue on page 93: "Bruce Willis entertained the troops in Iraq last week. 'If you catch him, just give me four seconds with Saddam Hussein,' Willis said." Calm down, Bruce.
  
• Get this lead sentence from an AP story on 10/1/03: “OAKLAND -- After four weary months of deliberations, the jury in Oakland's police corruption trial on Tuesday acquitted three former officers of eight counts including kidnapping and assault and said they were hopelessly deadlocked on 27 other charges.” It was the longest jury deliberation in California history.
  
• Did you see this photo of another galaxy as taken by the Hubble Telescope. Amazing. And to think a galaxy is made up of millions of stars like our sun. Kinda makes you feel insignificant.
  
• Everyone goes crazy when the Paris marching band displays a Nazi flag during a halftime presentation about World War II. Hey, everyone calm down. It was like a performing mini museum.
  
• I'm half asleep the other night watching some baseball playoff game when I see Julio Franco come to bat for the Atlanta Braves. Yep, that was 42 year old Julio Franco who once played for the Texas Rangers.
  
• The University of Louisville has a 6'2", 300 pound defensive tackle. No big deal, you say? What if I told you he was sixteen years old?
• I like high school football games but any television coverage of it drives me crazy. Why? Because every time the video footage is taken from ground level.
  
• Did you catch the amount of the new contract of Minnesota's Kevin Garnett? That's $100 million over five years.  And that was a pay cut!
  
• Five teens died in a car crash when another car swerved to miss an ice chest in the road in Caldwell County near Austin. Their ages were 15, 15, 15, 18 and 19.
• Kansas City Chief return man Dante Hall is setting records left and right in the NFL. You might recall he was kicked off the team at Texas A&M.
• Last month I wrote that Haley Joel Osmont played the young Forest Gump in the movie. Two faithful readers quickly pointed out that I was wrong. Osmont played the role of Jenny's son.
  
• Doesn’t a page on the Star Telegram's web site take forever to load?
• For the first time in history, the Top Ten of Billboard’s Hot 100 Singles music chart last week was occupied solely by African-American artists. Nine of the songs were rap, and one was reggae. And I remember a time when Donny Osmond’s Puppy Love reached number three.
  
• One of the craziest stories over the last few weeks was the tiger found inside of a New York apartment. I have soooooo many questions about that.
  
• Did you notice the huge water pipe being laid between Bridgeport and Decatur along highway 380? I have a question. How are the pipes put together to form a waterproof seal? PVC glue?
• Did you know Google can serve as a quick calculator? Just type something like 35400 / 5.54  in the search box and see what happens.
• The University of North Texas played Idaho in Moscow, Idaho in the Kibbie Dome last night. I didn't know there was a Moscow, Idaho and I dang sure didn't know there was a domed stadium there.
• OU and the University of Texas are threatening to move out of the Cotton Bowl for the annual Red River Shootout if they don't receive an extra $350,000 to cover expenses. It would be the smartest $350,000 the City of Dallas ever spent.
  
• Speaking of OU/Texas, how long do you think Head Coach Mack Brown has left?