Skattershooting for no apparent reason:
 

• In the National Spelling Bee Finals held on June 1, 2000, the top three finishers had something in common: they were all home schooled.
• Last month, in order for DNA tests to be performed, Gov. George Bush granted a last minute stay of execution for convicted child killer Ricky McGinn. Wonder why? One day before the stay was granted, attorney Barry Scheck’s stated on NBC’s Today Show that the DNA analysis would occur even if  McGinn was executed. Bush had no choice. If the execution occurred and the DNA later exonerated McGinn (which it did not), then the Bush campaign would be DOA in November.
• Did you see that after an audit of the bills of the now rich lawyers who represented the State of Texas in the tobacco litigation, the attorneys voluntarily returning $6.9 million that the State had over-paid them in expense money. We are not talking about attorney's fees - we're talking about reimbursement for hard expenses that are supposed to be documented (copying, travel, telephone).  How did they make a $6.9 million dollar mistake?
• The Southern Baptist Convention desperately needs someone in charge of public relations who will simply tell the powers at be to shut up. Every time they have their annual meeting in June, they always take a position on an issue that gets them beaten to death in the press. Sometimes it is women submitting to husbands, sometimes its women and the clergy. Your free to believe whatever you wish, but do you have to grab hold of a lightening rod every time you meet?
• Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post stated on the 6/14/00 episode of MSNBC’s The News With Brian Williams that Gov. Bush admitted to reporters that he did not know who Leonardo Decaprio was.
• Judd Rose, an investigative reporter for ABC who died prematurely of cancer, stated that he enjoyed “comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable”.
• Did you see that Donato (“The Fisherman”)  Dalrymple of Elian Gonzales fame filed a $100 million dollar lawsuit last month against Janet Reno for the “damages” he sustained during the FBI raid last month. Since he didn't even live in the home, what was he doing there in the first place you ask? He claims he was outside at 4:00 a.m. protesting and decided to enter the home shortly before the raid to catch a nap on the couch. Hmmm.
• Not to beat up on Bush, but politicians drive me crazy for their inability to answer a direct question. Check out the governor failing to answer Sam Donaldson's simple question about whether Christian Family Values Guru James Dobson is correct in his assertion that Bush will not win the presidency without a strong pro-life vice president. By the way, Al Gore is no better.
• I think I'd rather watch paint dry than view another episode of Survivor.
• There didn't seem to be much of a public outcry when the Tarrant County jury could not reach a verdict as to whether Richard Franks abducted Opal Jennings.
• Do you really care if Hillary Clinton rattled off a racial slur 26 years ago?
• Ted Nugent pulled out of a Houston concert after he balked at signing an agreement that would have prohibited him from saying on stage: "everyone should learn to speak English or get the $&#$ out of the country".  Apparently, Cat Scratch Fever and Wang Dang Sweet _____ are OK, but otherwise we'd like for you not to offend anyone.
• My "Skattershooting" edition of  11/3/99 made this comment about Dallas ISD Superintendent Bill Rojas: "That man is a short timer".
• Yesterday's Star Telegram wrote that "After a lengthy debate and a series of procedural moves, a divided City Council decided yesterday not to endorse a resolution calling for an open-ended moratorium on the death penalty in Texas." Please explain why any city council needs to express an opinion on a subject that they have absolutely nothing to do with.