NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Miami
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Minnesota
Carolina
Seattle
St. Louis
Also, the Astros now sit at 53-100.
Your loser update: week 2, 2011.
September 20th, 2011Shame! Come back, shame!
September 19th, 2011I forgot to stick this in the loser update update, but it may merit a separate post anyway.
Someone (I forget who; it may have been the bloggers at Jimbo’s old site) alerted me to Taylor Branch’s “The Shame of College Sports” in the October issue of The Atlantic.
I think this is worth your attention, even though it is long. I’m still digesting the article, but there’s quite a bit of interesting material in it about the NCAA’s past (and current) legal battles; the information Branch brings out makes me more convinced that we’ll see the end of the NCAA in the next decade.
Loser update update.
September 19th, 2011The Monday night game is between two 0-2 0-1 teams, so look for the loser update tomorrow.
In other news, the Astros hit the 100 loss mark, but not 101, over the weekend. They’re currently at 52-100, which means 110 losses is still in play: if they lose all ten of their remaining games.
I started to blog the 100th loss over the weekend, but Reno (and some other things) had me too upset and distracted to be able to blog. Sorry.
God bless our troops. Especially our snipers.
September 15th, 2011Dakota Meyer has been awarded the Medal of Honor.
Meyer is credited with killing at least eight attackers despite being wounded in his arm by shrapnel.
By the way:
Meyer also recovered the bodies of four friends killed in action.
At the time of his actions, Meyer was a corporal. He
(Post title borrowed from LaRue Tactical.)
Obit watch: September 15, 2011.
September 15th, 2011Bill Muehlberger, longtime geology professor at UT, and the man who trained the NASA astronauts.
Back in 2009, WCD linked to the Statesman‘s profile of Professor Muehlberger. The Statesman website is acting hinky at the moment, and we’re not sure the original piece is still up. If we find a link, we’ll update this post.
What China needs…
September 15th, 2011(Apologies to Weer’d for stepping into his territory.)
Nasty, big, pointy teeth!
September 14th, 2011Worst. Team. Ever.
September 14th, 2011To be clear, that’s worst Astros team ever, not worst baseball team in general.
TMQ Watch watch.
September 14th, 2011Last December, TMQ Watch responded to TMQ’s assertion that “Favre’s 297-game streak will never be broken”, offering Peyton Manning as an example, and stating
TMQ never contacted us to agree on terms. However, we are honorable people, and we clearly lost that bet. Accordingly, in lieu of paying TMQ $5 directly, we are making a donation to A Call To Men, an organization TMQ praised in that same column.
Leadership Secrets of Non-Fictional Characters (part 7 of a series).
September 14th, 2011Ranger Up is one of my preferred clothing vendors. (As I may have noted previously, I am partial to my “Mr. Grenade” shirt, since that phrase gets a lot of use around the office.)
Anyway, I was poking around the site this morning (looking at the new MAC-V SOG shirt) and ran across Nick’s Rules on Leadership. I think these are linkworthy. There is a lot of overlap with other entries in the leadership series, but this is the kind of thing that’s good to have in one place, maybe so you can print it out and drop it on someone’s desk.
(I would like to note, for the record, that I do not currently feel any need to print this out and drop it on someone’s desk. I note this because certain someones have mentioned that they read this blog. This is also one of the reasons I do not talk very much about my work life.)
(I would also like to note, for the record, that I haven’t abandoned the leadership series, even if there haven’t been any recent updates. I post stuff when I find it, and when I think it is worth posting.)
Holy cow, this is the most hilarious thing I’ve seen in weeks.
September 13th, 2011The Atlantic‘s Vladimir Putin photo gallery.
See:
- Putin on a horse!
- Putin and the tiger!
- Putin’s personal photographer, Yana Lapikova, who’s really kind of cute!
- Putin on a boat!
- Putin cuddling a dog!
- Putin shirtless on a horse in Tuva!
- Putin shooting a whale with a crossbow!
- Putin playing the piano!
- Putin feeding a baby moose!
- And more!
Someone should have told this man, “Look. “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension” was not a documentary. And you’re not Peter Weller. Okay?”
TMQ Watch: September 13, 2011.
September 13th, 2011This week in TMQ: the Chronic-what-les of Narnia?
No, we’re not kidding. And we’re not going to call Gregg Easterbrook Aaron Burr, either. After the jump…
Noted without (much) comment.
September 13th, 2011Special non-sports firings watch.
September 13th, 2011Back in March, we noted that the Miami PD had shot a bunch of folks, and some people were upset over this.
Miami Police Chief Miguel Exposito was fired on Monday. The reason for his firing does not appear to involve shootings:
The City Commission voted 3-2 in favor of firing Chief Exposito, and is calling for amendments to the city charter. But don’t cry for the Chief:
Art, damn it, art! watch. (#24 in a series)
September 13th, 2011Alex Schaefer is a painter.
Alex Schaefer likes to paint banks.
Alex Schaefer likes to paint banks on fire.
Alex Schaefer was questioned by the LAPD because, supposedly, someone “felt threatened” by Mr. Schaefer standing in front of a Chase bank branch and painting it on fire.
Alex Schaefer just sold that painting to a guy in Germany for $25,000. Mr. Schaefer sold another painting of a burning Bank of America branch on eBay for $3,600.
The LAT does not mention where Mr. Schaefer has his accounts.