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Two burrs in my butt

I have a couple of burrs in my butt this morning.
One is the mother in the school bus incident.
Lady, give it up.
Your son was done wrong. You have a right to be pissed.
All of us were on your side -- but now you are pissing us off.
The boy is OK. He has not been harmed for life. You helped expose some big problems in the school bus system.
Now leave it alone.
The driver does not need to do hard time for being a jerk.
And any suit against the bus company is plain silly and frivolous.

If something like this had happened in my old neighborhood -- and it wouldn't because we walked to school -- we would have:
Thrown the driver off the bus.
Whipped her ass.
Set her on fire.
Stole the hubcaps and sold them for gas money.
And Clarence Daily -- who had his driver's license when he was about 6 -- would have driven us all the Acuna.

Now for that second burr.
.

I am tired of all the Hirschi bitching.
You people were right and the paper was wrong in a headline that appeared on Page 1B not long ago. The publisher, the editor, the copy editor and the headline writer should offer you one huge apology.

But don't let all that carry over to my sports department.
You guys are getting equal coverage with Rider and Wichita Falls High.
I know that because I demand that.

One guy even wrote me bitching about how the Hirschi football game story was not in his paper last Saturday morning. He accused me of short-changing the Huskies.
BS!
BS!
The reason he didn't have the story is because he picked up an early edition. The game lasted almost four hours. It didn't even end until after the early edition deadline.
I covered the game, made the final edition -- and also had it posted on our Web site before midnight.

We also did a follow-up, second-day story for Sunday morning (Page 1D) because the game was so remarkable and some people get the early edition.

Look at our sports section today. We had three stories about high school football this morning.
All of them were about Hirschi.

Does that mean the Rider and Coyotes will start whining about Hirschi getting too much coverage?

Quit whining, Hirschi.
And keep winning.

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