{"id":6267,"date":"2012-02-02T13:28:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T19:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=6267"},"modified":"2012-02-15T08:23:39","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T14:23:39","slug":"quis-custodiet-ipsos-custodes-and-other-random-notes-for-february-2-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=6267","title":{"rendered":"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? and other random notes for February 2, 2012."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obit watch: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/obituaries\/la-me-angelo-dundee-20120202,0,4132315.story\">Angelo Dundee<\/a>, Muhammad Ali&#8217;s corner man.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/obituaries\/la-me-mike-kelley-20120202,0,4769297,full.story\">Mike Kelley<\/a>, L.A. based visual artist. There&#8217;s also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/artist-and-musician-mike-kelley-dead-of-apparent-s,68699\/\">a well-done appreciation of his work at the A\/V Club website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m a little late on this, but wanted to note it anyway: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/rip-ian-abercrombie-seinfelds-mr-pitt,68541\/\">Ian Abercrombie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, the fun never stops with the Harris County District Attorney&#8217;s office. I missed the actual report (I can&#8217;t get Houston&#8217;s Channel 13 in Austin), but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloghouston.net\/item\/8891\">BlogHouston<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/harriscountycriminaljustice.blogspot.com\/2012\/02\/investigating-investigation.html\">The Hon. Murray Newman<\/a> have links. In brief, DA Lykos basically admitted that, yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/ktrk\/story?section=news\/local&amp;id=8527809\">she ordered investigators in her office to &#8220;research&#8221; (as she puts it; other people use the word &#8220;investigate&#8221;) members of the 185th Grand Jury, as well as the special prosecutors and the judges involved with the grand jury<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I am overstating things to suggest that the HCDA&#8217;s office is starting to look positively Nixonian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obit watch: Angelo Dundee, Muhammad Ali&#8217;s corner man. Mike Kelley, L.A. based visual artist. There&#8217;s also a well-done appreciation of his work at the A\/V Club website. And I&#8217;m a little late on this, but wanted to note it anyway: Ian Abercrombie. In other news, the fun never stops with the Harris County District Attorney&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,14,120,23,57,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-clippings","category-hcda","category-law","category-nixon","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6368,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267\/revisions\/6368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}