The Tuesday Morning Quarterback Non-Quarterback Non-Running Back NFL MVP is Creed Humphrey, center for Kansas City.
In other news, welcome to the penultimate TMQ, and the penultimate TMQ Watch. Also, welcome to the most boring week in sports.
After the jump, this week’s Tuesday Morning Quarterback (which you won’t be able to read in its entirety unless you subscribe to “All Predictions Wrong”, which is the actual title of Gregg Easterbrook’s Substack)…
Toby Keith. THR. Tributes. Pitchfork.
No offense to Mr. Keith, who died far too young, but: I kind of like “Beer For My Horses”, the song, for many of the same reasons I like “Make My Day” (the T.G. Sheppard/Clint Eastwood duet). They’re both kind of silly but fun songs with a point about as subtle as a man painted purple dancing naked on a harpsichord singing “Subtle points are here again”.
On the other hand, the video for “Beer For My Horses” is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen.
I am assuming Mr. Keith did not have a lot of input into the video. If he did, I’m sure he was dazzled at the thought of working with Willie and didn’t really think it through. No matter what, his legacy isn’t going to stand or fall on that one video.
Wayne Kramer, of the MC5.
Bob Beckwith, the firefighter who posed with George W. Bush after 9/11. (Hattip: Lawrence.)
Wow. This isn’t just flames, this is a four-alarm fire of political corruption.
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According to the NYPost:
This story is still developing. And all suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
In case you were wondering: according to the Justice Department, this is, indeed, the “largest number of federal bribery charges” issued in one day.
DEFCON 32 is not – repeat, not cancelled.
It sounds like it was a near thing, though.
According to a post on the forums by Dark Tangent, “Caesars abruptly terminated their contract with DEF CON” seven months before the convention, leaving DEFCON with no location.
The current plan seems to be to hold DEFCON at the Las Vegas Convention Center, “with workshops and training at the Sahara Hotel”. If you’re planning to go, it sounds like your best bet on a place to stay is probably a hotel on the monorail route.
There’s a pretty lively discussion, with a lot of speculation, in the Hacker News thread (where I first heard about this).