Archive for January 27th, 2011

And I rode away on the Tennessee stud…

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

Jeff Fisher out as coach of the Tennessee Titans. Well, that was somewhat unexpected. (Nashville Tennessean link.)

It will be interesting to see where, if anywhere, Fisher lands. He seems to have been a highly regarded NFL coach, but why?

Fisher’s record with the Titans is 147-126 including postseason. His 147 wins — including postseason — ranks him third among active coaches in career wins behind Bill Belichick (177) and Mike Shanahan (160).

Yet Fisher is also just 5-6 in the playoffs and hasn’t coached a playoff win since the 2003 season. His teams also lost at least six games in back-to-back seasons, and posted five-game losing streaks in five of the last several seasons.

147-126 is about a 54% winning percentage.

Things I have learned in the past 24 hours.

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

Something called Vladimir Putin Action Comics exists, and is funny.  (I am particularly amused by this one.)

(Found by way of “Hipster Hitler“, which in turn I found by way of Borepatch.)

Ford produced “Bullitt” commemorative special edition Mustangs in 2001, and again in 2008/2009.

There is an “International Mustang Bullitt Owners Club“.

(The latter two facts were fallout from reading this WSJ article.)

Bad boys, bad boys…

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

…what you gonna do, what you gonna do when your city government runs out of money because corrupt city officials have been pillaging the treasury, and the city decides to disband the police department and outsource to the L.A. County Sherrif’s Department?

(Okay, so I need to work on the scansion a bit.)

Edited to add this bulletin from Captain Obvious:

Members of Bell’s police union said the proposal to disband the police force to help stave off bankruptcy is “a slap in the face” to officers.

Things you may have wondered about. (#2 in a series)

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

What ever happened to Jacqueline Kennedy’s pink suit and matching pillbox hat?

The pink suit, blood-stained and perfectly preserved in a vault in Maryland, is banned from public display for 100 years.

And the hat? Sadly, it did not wind up on top of a cantaloupe honeydew melon in an episode of Penn and Teller’s “Bullshit”. Indeed, nobody knows for sure where the hat is…

The pillbox hat — removed at Parkland Hospital while Mrs. Kennedy waited for doctors to confirm what she already knew — is lost, last known to be in the hands of her personal secretary, who won’t discuss its whereabouts.

(Previously.)