Last 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.
Ranger 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.)
The Atlantic‘s Vladimir Putin photo gallery.
See:
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?”
This 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…
Back 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:
Alex 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.
The Astros won last night. Now all they have to do is go 15-0 the rest of the season to avoid setting a new record, and .200 to avoid losing 110 games. I’m still pretty confident that they’ll hit 100 losses, but not 110.
But you don’t really care for music baseball, do you?
NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Miami
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Tennessee
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Denver
NY Giants
Dallas
Minnesota
New Orleans
Tampa Bay
Carolina
Atlanta
Seattle
St. Louis
I’ve mentioned previously that one of the courses I’m taking at St. Ed’s this semester is “Constitutional Criminal Procedure”, in which we’ve (so far) spent a lot of time talking about the Fourth Amendment (not the FORTH amendment, but check this out, kids), probable cause, and such like.
One of the things we have to do for this class is write “case briefs”, which are basically one to two page summaries of a major court decision, detailing what the factual elements were, what the main argument was, how the court voted, summarize the majority opinion and concurring opinions, summarize the dissenting opinion and concurring dissents, and (finally!) give our own opinion about the decision.
Anyway, with things being kind of slow, and me not wanting to let a good opportunity for y’all to mock my writing go to waste, I give you my first case brief for Mapp v. Ohio. What makes this case significant is that the Supreme Court held, for the first time, that the exclusionary rule applied to the states as well as to the federal government. The application of the exclusionary rule at the Federal level was established in the case of Weeks v. United States as far back as 1914, but for some odd reason the court didn’t apply this at the state level. As a matter of fact, in Wolf v. Colorado, a 1949 case, the Supreme Court expressly declined to apply the exclusionary rule to the states: Mapp v. Ohio amounted to a complete reversal of that decision.
Beyond the legal aspect, there’s two other things about this case that I find interesting:
Anyway, there you go. Feel free to mock and criticize in the comments to this post.
The BATFE assured Mr. Howard they were going to follow the guns into the hands of Mexican cartels. We all know that didn’t happen.
So why am I linking this?
The NFL loser update will return Tuesday morning.
In the meantime, we wanted to note that the Houston Astros have tied the club record for losses in a single season. 100 losses seems well within reach. But with 97 losses and 16 games left, they only have to win four more games (which would be a .250 winning percentage for the rest of the season; they’re currently at .336) to avoid 110 losses.
Missed posting this yesterday, as I was tied up with other things.
Cliff Robertson, Oscar winning actor and the man who brought down David Begelman.
I generally try to avoid linking to stuff that’s been posted on other blogs more widely read than mine. After all, if someone like Tam’s already written about it, what more can I add?
My excuse in this case is that Tam only covered one very small part of the website in question, and there’s a lot more there that I think is fascinating.
Faded Glory: Dusty Roads of an FBI Era is devoted to the FBI agents of the early 1930s. Quoting:
In addition to Delf Bryce’s employment application, which Tam linked, there’s a lot of other great stuff here. For example:
And all of that is just a small part of what’s on the Faded Glory website. There’s weeks worth of browsing material there. Thanks to Tam for the heads-up.
Na na na na na na na na BAT van!
Okay, context: the Houston Police Department has six special vans for roadside alcohol testing of drunk drivers, called “BAT vans”. But these vans have issues…
Ms. Culbertson used to be an HPD crime lab supervisior…
At least one DWI case involving the BAT vans has been dismissed, and defense attorneys are looking to have more cases thrown out.
In other news, the LAT has an article on the Grateful Dead’s attempt to step up their licensing and merchandising efforts.
The Dead are also releasing a 73 CD boxed set, “Europe ’72: The Complete Recordings