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Your loser update: week 11, 2011.

Monday, November 21st, 2011

NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:

Indianapolis (bye week)

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Hail, Columbia!

Thursday, November 17th, 2011

No, wait, we can’t.

The Columbia marching band won’t be allowed to play for this Saturday’s final game. Apparently, it bothered the administration that the band used alternative lyrics for the Columbia fight song.

Not including one-game seasons in the 1870s, this could be the seventh year Columbia loses all its games and the 11th time Columbia goes 0-7 in the Ivy League.

This, in turn, reminds me of an article I found over the weekend. (I was searching Google to see if a college football team had forfeited a game in recent memory.)

ESPN’s list of the worst college football teams of all time. Columbia (from 1983-1988) is #4. (By the way, the “teams” description is ESPN’s, not mine.)

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Still alive.

Thursday, November 17th, 2011

Just not much to write about, and working on a final project for school.

I feel like I should write something about the Austin F1 race, but I don’t know what to make of the situation at the moment. It feels like a huge scam, but I can’t tell who is scamming who.

I also feel like I should write something about the passage of HR822, but:

Other people said it better.
Okay, so it passed the House. It still has to pass the Senate, and be signed into law. When it becomes law, then I’ll celebrate. But I think there’s still a long road to travel.

I also feel like I should write something about the Astros situation. Not that I care about baseball, but I have covered it before. The problem I have is that almost all of the coverage at this point is speculative; ask me again after today’s meeting, when a final deal is (or is not) made.

Edited to add: Okay, it is now official. Jim Crane is the new owner of the Astros.

As part of the deal, Crane was required to give baseball the power to move the Astros to the American League West. That move is expected to happen in 2013, but won’t be finalized until the sport’s new collective bargaining agreement is in place.

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TMQ Watch: November 15, 2011.

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

We are sure that folks have been wondering: exactly how is TMQ going to deal with the 8,000 pound elephant in the room? Well, now’s our chance to find out in this week’s TMQ…

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Your loser update: week 10, 2011.

Sunday, November 13th, 2011

NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:

Indianapolis

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Let’s do some random stuff, just for the heck of it.

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

Wilson Ramos, catcher for the Washington Nationals, kidnapped in Venezuela.

Gangsters killed and beheaded an Internet blogger Wednesday in Nuevo Laredo, the fourth slaying in the city involving people associated with social media sites since early September.

Floyd Landis has been convicted of “hacking into the computers” of a French drug testing lab, and given a 12 month probated sentence.

(By the way, I know the Jefferson County and landfill stories are on FARK, and I usually don’t throw up links that are already on FARK. In the Jefferson County case, I wanted to link that because I swear I’ve covered Jefferson County here before; but I can’t find that link right now. As far as the landfill goes, that’s one of those stories that I think is too important not to link.)

(And speaking of FARK, does anyone have a take on what’s going on with the FARK moderators and JoePa? There seems to be a lot of criticism in the FARK threads that the mods have been several days late and more than a few dollars short in greenlighting Penn State related threads. I know there are three things in life that FARKers love: beer, the female anatomy, and complaining about the moderators. But even by FARK standards, the criticism has been pointed and sustained.)

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JoePa.

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

After all, it is sportsfirings.com.

(Also hookersnblow.net, hookersnblow.org, and dirtyexchangeshutdown.com.)

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

Wednesday, November 9th, 2011

(Matthew 25:40)

Three senior officials at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, sacred ground for the military and the main entry point for the nation’s war dead, knew they had lost body parts of two service members killed in Afghanistan but did nothing to correct sloppy practices at the base mortuary, the Air Force said Tuesday.

Did you read that? They lost body parts.

(ETA: WP coverage.)

The investigation did not uncover what happened to the body parts, but held out the possibility that they fell out of plastic Ziploc bags while stored in a large refrigerator in the mortuary and ended up in tubs with the remains of another service member or perhaps cremated.

But hey! They manage to account for 99.5% of the body parts! Shouldn’t we give them a pass? After all, it isn’t like they work for Penn State…

Joe Paterno’s tenure as the coach of the Penn State football team will soon be over, perhaps within days or weeks, in the wake of a sexual abuse scandal that has implicated university officials, according to two people briefed on conversations among the university’s top officials.

I haven’t had much to say about the story because….well, I haven’t had much to say about the story. I’ve always had a certain fondness for Penn State (my dad went there for a couple of years, and Penn State was his college football team, to the extent that he followed sports), but what can you say about this?

For once, I’m going to point to a FARK thread, which actually contains some good information and links (in addition to the usual FARK Internet Tough Guy BS).

And remember our friendly Orleans Parish prosecutor’s office? They got their butts handed to them by the Supreme Court in oral arguments.

“There have been serious accusations against the practices of your office, not yours in particular, but prior ones,” Justice Sotomayor said. “It is disconcerting to me that when I asked you the question directly, should this material have been turned over, you gave an absolute no.”

“That’s really troubling,” Justice Sotomayor added.

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