John Neville, perhaps best known as Baron Munchausen in Terry Gilliam’s underrated “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen”. (Or perhaps as “The Well-Manicured Man” on “The X-Files”.)
Obit watch: November 22, 2011.
November 22nd, 2011Your loser update: week 11, 2011.
November 21st, 2011NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Indianapolis (bye week)
Things. Explained. For the benefit of other people.
November 21st, 2011This came up in conversation yesterday: here’s your explanation of Desert Bus.
And why did this come up in conversation yesterday? Desert Bus for Hope is running again, that’s why. Won’t you consider donating?
Legal update for November 18, 2011.
November 18th, 2011James Arthur Ray has been sentenced for his negligent manslaughter conviction in the Sedona sweat lodge deaths. (Previously.)
He got two years. That should be enough time to finish a self-help book.
Kirby Brown, Liz Neuman, and James Shore were unavailable for comment.
By the way…
November 17th, 2011…thanks to Jay G. for reminding us that Saturday is National Ammo Day.
I’m thinking about picking up some .45 Long Colt for one of my Smiths.
Saturday is also World Toilet Day.
We recommend you celebrate both holidays in a safe and appropriate fashion.
Hail, Columbia!
November 17th, 2011No, 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.
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.)
Still alive.
November 17th, 2011Just 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.
TMQ Watch: November 15, 2011.
November 15th, 2011We 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…
Your loser update: week 10, 2011.
November 13th, 2011NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Indianapolis
In ancient times…
November 11th, 2011Hundreds of years before the dawn of history
Lived a strange race of people… the Druids
No one knows who they were or what they were doing
But their legacy remains
Hewn into the living rock… Of Stonehenge
Happy Nigel Tufnel Day, everyone.
“The Ones Who Set Off Bombs In The Crowds At Those Festivals in Omelas”
November 10th, 2011John Scalzi needs no help from me, but I wanted to link to his “Omelas State University” entry anyway because:
- I think he pretty much hits it out of the ballpark and into the windshield of a car in the parking lot with this one.
- I have a certain fondness for “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” as an example of an SF story that also touches on ethical questions like Kant’s categorical imperative. I know I probably sound like a member of the freshman philosophy B.S. debate club, but it hasn’t been that long since I took “Ethical Analysis”.
- That said, I also really like the critical comments by John Barnes and Elizabeth Moon on “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”. I remember reading the debate on “The Cold Equations” in NYRSF; if someone did a similar debate on “Omelas” in book form, I’d buy that. And, yes, I’d preorder the John Barnes book, too.
Let’s do some random stuff, just for the heck of it.
November 10th, 2011Wilson Ramos, catcher for the Washington Nationals, kidnapped in Venezuela.
(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.)
This is intended to enrage you. (#2 in a series)
November 10th, 2011Today’s muncipal bankruptcy…
November 10th, 2011JoePa.
November 10th, 2011After all, it is sportsfirings.com.
(Also hookersnblow.net, hookersnblow.org, and dirtyexchangeshutdown.com.)