Fresh Eyes on Anna Nicole Smith (sort of)
Between the new Cowboys coach and the news of Anna Nicole Smith's unexpected passing, you're unlikely to get much out of us today. Luckily I went to a couple of committee meetings and press conferences before the A.N.S. news reached me and I had to stop everything to start reading celebrity blogs.
In the "AWKWARD!" department, Rep. Pat Haggerty was really on a roll at today's House Corrections Committee meeting. Chairman Jerry Madden set him up for it when a binder clip flew across the horseshoe, saying "These things are a lot easier getting off than putting on." A sly Mr. Haggerty countered: "There are a lot of things I could say right now..."
Then he referred to a stack of reports from the Legislative Budget Board as "night-time bathroom reading," saying he'd "have to have diarrhea" to make time to read all of them.
Meanwhile, in the "Really Cheezy Joke" department, Rep. Rob Eissler joined a press conference to endorse Sen. Jane Nelson's bill to make daily phys ed mandatory for all Texas students. His words of wisdom? "The only negative to having better fit kids is that they may speak in run-on sentences." Bad-um-bum.