It’s been a day for bizarre, horrible stories out of the Lone Star State:
1. A Dallas judge (African-American) is blasted by local politicians for writing an editorial in which he observes “Black folks have been cleaning up white folks’ messes for hundreds of years.” And it’s not even about Obama! Evidently the Dallas City Council is deeply offended when a judge they appoint has the temerity to mention that the sun rises in the east. Hopefully Judge C. Victor Lander will take time out from writing his apologies to begin working on a campaign for Governor.
2. Also in Dallas, the principal and other staffers at South Oak Cliff High School made students settle their differences by fighting bare-knuckle brawls inside a steel equipment locker in the boys locker room. No word as to whether or not they ever read Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man.” Dallas police said they have no record of any investigation by the department (nor of any President named “Kennedy.”)
The allegations come about 10 days after law enforcement authorities reported that careworkers at a Corpus Christi institution forced mentally disabled residents to fight each other and recorded the brawls for their entertainment.
But the Piece of Resistance (as they say on the Ewing Ranch) has got to be…
3. In Houston a 26 year-old man who killed his wife and two kids by stabbing them and ripping out their hearts because “God told him to” (this is what he told the cops after he turned himself in) and then five days later pulled out his right eye has been found competent to stand trial because he is “Clearly ‘crazy’ but also ‘sane’ under Texas law.”
The above is a quote endorsed unanimously by the nine-member Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
It was written after the man pulled out his remaining eye and ate it.
The Texas definition of Sanity explains a great deal, but sadly, does so a bit too late for the rest of us.
