Dr. Denton Cooley, former UT basketball player and one of the greatest surgeons ever.
Obit watch: November 19, 2016.
November 19th, 2016Obit watch: November 18, 2016.
November 18th, 2016Howard Ruff, author and “conservative” economist.
I had a copy of How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years when I was a boy. The young me thought Ruff made a lot of sense, but I really wasn’t in a position as a lad to take any action on his recommendations. In retrospect, it doesn’t seem like much of what he predicted ever came true, so maybe that was for the better.
I would like to see an objective analysis of how his recommendations performed against the market, but I don’t have the time or data to do that. Maybe someone else will.
Important safety tip (#20 in a series)
November 17th, 2016For the love of God, don’t go swimming in a Yellowstone hot spring.
First of all, it will kill you.
Second of all, those springs are acid, and will dissolve your dead body.
We haven’t had a musical interlude in a while. Let’s fix that. Besides, this is a rather catchy little ditty,
Art (Acevedo), damn it! watch. (#AC of a series)
November 17th, 2016I don’t think this is going to be the last one, but we may be nearing the end.
I have reservations, given that this is so far just “a source” said and there’s been no official announcement. Also, if he is taking the Houston job, I may want to continue the Art watch: it isn’t like he’s going to be on the other side of the world…
If this does become official, I’ll throw an update in.
Edited to add: The HouChron is quoting Mayor Adler as making it official.
Yeah. I had a theory (which was poo-pooed by others) that if Clinton won, he’d be moving to some sort of government position in homeland security. I guess I wasn’t too far off after all.
Edited to add 2: official statement by the Chief. (Hattip: RoadRich.)
Consumer advisory.
November 15th, 2016Remember The Jerk?
Some of the good folks who read this blog might be interested to know that the Standard Catalog of Smith & Wesson 4th Edition is available in print and Kindle editions.
My print copy is on the way, but not here yet. The one person who had copies in Tulsa had already sold out of them when we got to his table. And I do plan to order the digital edition, but not right away: I’m not complaining, but the price of the new digital edition is about double what I paid for the digital version of the 3rd Edition, and just slightly under what the 528 page print edition goes for.
(Why both? Because the digital edition is a lot easier to carry around than the phone book sized print version. But sometimes, I just want print.)
Miles and miles…
November 13th, 2016Trent Miles out as head coach of Georgia State.
2-8 this season, 9-38 overall. The AJC article is worth reading, if you’re curious: apparently Georgia State has only had a football program since 2010, and maybe they really shouldn’t have one at all.
Obit watch II: Electric Boogaloo.
November 11th, 2016Your NFL loser update: week 10, 2016
November 11th, 2016NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Cleveland
NBA teams that still have a chance to go 0-82:
Philadelphia
Obit watch: November 11, 2016.
November 11th, 2016Leonard Cohen. NYT. A/V Club to come. LAT. WP.
So much for that Nobel Prize in Literature.
More seriously: I was not one of those people who worshipped Mr. Cohen and his work. But I do like quite a bit of it, some of it in covers by other people (for example, “Closing Time” as covered by the Fairport Convention), some of it on his own. He had that kind of gravelly voice that worked really well for some things.
This is one of my favorite songs, period. Sorry I can’t embed, but that doesn’t seem to work on mobile.
Not an obit watch.
November 10th, 2016The Leonard Cohen obit will probably go up some time tomorrow. The news is breaking and I want to give it time to settle.
You’re going down in flames, you tax-fattened hyena! (#34 in a series)
November 10th, 2016Still on the road (somewhere between Oklahoma City and Tulsa) but I wanted to get this up:
It’s the usual story: the money went to things like seeing da Bears, remodeling, and a 2015 Tahoe. The only thing that really distinguishes it for me is that the crooked Illinois politician (is that redundant?) is a Republican this time.
Gonna see what them racket boys can do…
November 10th, 2016As much as I gripe about phone blogging, this is amazing technology. I’m currently riding right seat in an Audi somewhere outside of Hamilton, Texas, with Mike the Musicologist at the wheel. As I said previously, I expect to be busy over the next few days, but I wanted to note this story:
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Hey, I don’t much like Chris Christie (and I think I’ve made that clear) but: “your city could be next”? If your city is half a billion dollars in debt and depending on a dying industry, maybe it should be next.
Random notes: November 9, 2016.
November 9th, 2016Look, I’m not the person you should be coming to for your day-after analysis. I’m not a political pundit: there are smarter, better people (many of whom don’t work for the mass media) who can give you a more serious take on all this.
I also haven’t had time to figure out what all this means for gun politics, and if it is a net win or loss for the 2nd Amendment. I did see that California’s ballot initiative passed, which didn’t surprise me, but I haven’t been able to find results for other states. I don’t think we’ll see an attempted assault weapons ban, or an attempt to end-run the PLCAA, and I do think we will get a friendly Supreme Court justice. But again, look to other people for their takes, because I haven’t thought this all the way through.
(Edited to add: Looks like background checks passed in Nevada, too.)
(Quick ETA2: According to Weer’d, Bloomberg’s background checks lost in Maine.)
(My big thought right now: “Hmmmm. I think I can wait until National Buy an AK Day to get that AK-47, instead of trying to pick one up this weekend.” This gives me some room to maybe, possibly, pick up something less serious and more fun.)
The first part of this week has been busy, and the remainder is going to be even more so. Posts will be as time and events permit. I notice Cleveland is playing on Thursday night this week, so I’ll try to have the loser update up sometime on Friday.
I’ve been somewhat negligent on TMQ Watch updates, but part of that has been hesitation to write about TMQ and Easterbrook. At this point, it appears Easterbrook has given up on TMQ for 2016, but is hoping to return in 2017, per his Twitter feed.
The reason I’ve been hesitant to write about this is that, also according to some things he’s said on Twitter, Easterbrook has been hospitalized for a while. While we tend to give TMQ a hard time about some things, Gregg Easterbrook is not on our short list of people we wish ill to: we send him our best wishes.
I will be updating the city council/county commissioners/state reps lists, but probably not until the new people take office and have contact information posted. i think it will be January before this happens.
Obit watch: November 7, 2016.
November 7th, 2016For the historical record: Janet Reno.
Your NFL loser update: week 9, 2016
November 7th, 2016NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Cleveland
Maybe there’s something to be said for the theory that rising baseball fortunes are tied to falling football fortunes and vice versa.
Lawrence suggested that I also do an NBA loser update, now that the season has started. My response: “The season has started?”
Okay, okay. NBA teams that still have a chance to go 0-82:
Philadelphia
New Orleans
Also: all gambling debts have been paid, in front of witnesses. There’s even photo documentation, which may be posted later.
Edited to add: Photographic proof.
