• Did you see that Dennis Rodman's new 40' speed boat is named "Sexual Chocolate"?
• I doubt if Gary Condit had anything to do with Chandra Levy's disappearance, but what point was he trying to make by subjecting himself to the Connie Chung interview?
• Speaking of the Levy case, isn't the mother of Chandra just a little bit creepy?
• I finally saw Gladiator the other day. Very good flick.
• Quincy Carter, new QB of the Dallas Cowboys, will not be in the league five years from now.
• There has never been as much anticipation about the upcoming football season than from the Texas Longhorn faithful. They are convinced that this year is the year for a National Championship. Did you know the 'horns haven't finished in the Top Ten since 1983?
• I find it odd that George W. Bush, no matter what elementary school he visits, always brings the same book to read to the kids:  "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". He has never read anything else to them. (See Google search results)
• Last week, a plane crashed in the Bahamas killing U.S. pop and soul singer Aaliyah and eight others. I had never heard of her before.
• Did you note that the Dallas Morning News has killed its Thursday Technology section? The Sunday insert Access Magazine disappeared in June.
• I said it two years ago and I still believe it: Monday Night Football's sideline reporter Melissa Stark is incredibly hot.
• Good riddance to Senator Jesse Helms.
• Have you driven the new section of the George Bush turnpike that connects I-35 in Lewisville to the North Dallas Tollway? Very cool.
• The legislature apparently thought it was important to criminalize the conduct of photographing another having sex without that person's permission. Makes sense. The statute, however, would make it a felony to photograph a bikini contest in Padre Island.
• Talk show host David Gold, a KLIF regular in the 1980s, is filling in this week on the drive time shift on WBAP.
• Fox News advertises itself as a "down the middle" news organization with its "We Report. You Decide" slogan. It is, in my opinion, a mouthpiece for the Republican Party. Bill O'Reilly, while funny, is so biased it taints his broadcast.
• I'm still trying to figure out Stem Cell Research.
• Pay-At-The-Pump is getting complicated. Type of Payment? Receipt? Car Wash? Foot Long Corn Dog? Ok, maybe the last one is made up.
• I have now come to the conclusion that Tim McGraw's Don't Take The Girl is the worst song ever written.
• Did you know that a Chuck E. Cheese employee hand stamps every incoming group of folks with a unique, yet invisible, number. When a child leaves the restaurant, at least one adult who is accompanying him must have the same number as the child on his hand.
• On September 11, 2001, MADD and the Denton County DA are holding a breakfast "to help thank Texas Senator Jane Nelson for her efforts in passing the Open Container law." Under Nelson's law, everyone can drive to the event drinking Bloody Marys so long as they are in a limousine. If you are, say, in a five year old Honda, however, your passengers do not receive such special treatment. (By the way, I wasn't invited to this Made For Publicity Only event).
• Speaking of MADD, as of September 1, 2001, their lobbying efforts have increased the driver's license suspension period for refusing to provide a breath specimen after being arrested for DWI to 180 days from 90 days. (Note, this is even before a jury has a chance to hear the case). The result: I guess the DWI problem has been solved.
• Most folks know I also write The Spin. I was flabbergasted today when a man, who I had never met, dropped by my office because of something I had written about his plight several months back. "I just wanted to come by and thank you personally," he said. It made my day.
• Two years ago, a buddy and I were out at Lone Star Park. We both talked about how we were missing a huge opportunity by not investing in the NASDAQ.
• More DWI fodor: I attended a DWI seminar the other day presented by my arch enemies: The Texas District and County Attorneys Association. The program was riddled with video clips of funerals for those killed by allegedly drunk drivers. Prosecutors need to be objective. Not emotional.
• One of the presenters was very proud of his conviction of Tera Fowler who was involved in an accident that killed two young people. She was sentenced to prison for Intoxication Manslaughter. I was a little disturbed, however, because her blood-alcohol concentration was .05, far below the legal limit.
• Why does President Bush want to vacation for a month in Crawford, Texas? If I were president, I'd constantly be in Washington D.C. or on Air Force One for a short appearance somewhere in the country or the world.
• Planet of the Apes was a marginal movie, but still pretty cool.
• Blind Date, which comes on TV way too late (Channel 238 on the Dish Network), is very funny.
• I am always driving down Camp Bowie Boulevard in Fort Worth to attend driver's license revocation hearings. Even on days of 100+ heat, there is some guy or gal dressed up in a gorilla suit pushing a vacuum cleaner back and forth on the pavement in order to call attention to a vacuum cleaner business. One of these days I swear I'm going to stop and talk with him.
• I hate to offend the Wise County Internet folks, but there are some very lame topics posted on the county's message board.
• I would never be a county commissioner.
• From today's USA Today: 10,000 people a year visit the emergency room for methamphetamine overdose (read "Nazi Meth Overdose" if you live in Wise County). Hmmm.  That is 28 people a day in a country with a population of 270,000,000. Just wondering - How many people a day visit the ER because years of legal cigarette use? Abuse of saturated fat? Not paying attention when carving up an onion? Falling while roller blading?
• HBO's Six Feet Under is weird but I can't stop watching it.
• HBO's Taxi Cab Confessions is better.
• "There's nothing like the sight of a dead human body to assist the living in separating the good days from the bad days." - Quote from Six Feet Under.

Barry Green served as District Attorney for Wise and Jack Counties from 1993 through 2000. He is now a partner in the Decatur law firm of Smith & Green, P.C.