Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? and other random notes for February 2, 2012.

Obit watch: Angelo Dundee, Muhammad Ali’s corner man.

Mike Kelley, L.A. based visual artist. There’s also a well-done appreciation of his work at the A/V Club website.

And I’m a little late on this, but wanted to note it anyway: Ian Abercrombie.

In other news, the fun never stops with the Harris County District Attorney’s office. I missed the actual report (I can’t get Houston’s Channel 13 in Austin), but BlogHouston and The Hon. Murray Newman have links. In brief, DA Lykos basically admitted that, yes, she ordered investigators in her office to “research” (as she puts it; other people use the word “investigate”) members of the 185th Grand Jury, as well as the special prosecutors and the judges involved with the grand jury.

I don’t think I am overstating things to suggest that the HCDA’s office is starting to look positively Nixonian.

One Response to “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? and other random notes for February 2, 2012.”

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