Archive for January 19th, 2012

Pancho’s Mexican Buffet.

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

The thing I always liked best there were the sopaipillas.

(Wow. They’re still in business.)

But I digress. (Thanks to the Atomic Nerds for the pointer on that.)

Anyway, speaking of SOPA and PIPA, I’ve seen a lot of people today asking the musical question: “If you were opposed to the Citizen’s United decision, then why were you not also opposed to Google changing their logo to signify opposition to SOPA/PIPA?”

But the absolute best asking of the question, and exploration of the issues surrounding it, comes from none other than Ken at Popehat.

It tastes so sweet.

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Terrell Owens has signed with Dallas.

Well, technically, Allen.

The Allen Wranglers, that is, of the Indoor Football League.

In the FARK thread on this, I suggested that the Wranglers should also seek out Tiki Barber. But I’m going to throw it open to you, good people; what other notorious team cancers can the Allen Wranglers sign? And if they sign enough of them, will the suburbs of Dallas collapse into a black hole?

(Scalzi’s Schadenfreude pie.)

A show of support.

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Today is the first anniversary of l’affair TJIC.

“Brad in MA” apparently originated the idea of commemorating this date by going out on and purchasing something Second Amendment related, which we think is excellent. Our great and good friend Borepatch elaborated on this idea some more by suggesting folks patronize TJIC’s company, Smartflix, which rents learning DVDs. We also heartily endorse this idea; Smartflix has an amazing selection of firearms related DVDs for rent.

On this day, I encourage you to consider both options. As for myself, I’ve already set up a Smartflix account, specifically as a response to the illegal and unconstitutional actions of the Arlington, MA police, and look forward to a long and pleasant relationship with the company.

I also wanted to make passing note of this tweet by TJIC about the firing of Boston PD officer David Williams for beating a suspect. As the article notes, Williams was previously fired in 1998, and rehired after winning an appeal in 2005.

As it happens, I am currently reading Dick Lehr’s book The Fence: A Police Cover-up Along Boston’s Racial Divide about the previous case involving Williams. In brief, Williams and a group of other BPD officers beat a black man who they thought was a criminal suspect senseless; then, when it turned out he was actually a fellow BPD officer in plainclothes, more or less successfully covered up their actions. The one BPD officer who was actually convicted of a crime was later found to be telling the truth (that he hadn’t seen the beating) and had his conviction overturned.

I’m not far enough into The Fence to feel confident recommending it, but the story of Michael Cox is appalling and deserves to be better known.

It’s like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black.

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

WCD did not go on strike yesterday because of SOPA and PIPA (though we did call our Congress slime and make our views known).

(By the way, we think the “Congress” app for Android  is pretty spiffy.)

Basically, there just wasn’t much going on yesterday.

Today, we note the NYT‘s article on discussions of doing away with the leap second.

Also noteworthy: Penn State trustees discuss the decision to fire Paterno.

We have no joke here, we ust like saying “feral burros”.