I have no joke here, I just like saying “competitive pole dancing“.
In case you were wondering, the sanctioning organization appears to be the US Pole Dancing Federation.
Lawrence pointed me to Bill Simmons’ recent column about the NBA playoffs. I don’t care much about the NBA, but I loves me a good “The Wire” quote fest. Shame that Simmons couldn’t find a way to work what’s recently become my own personal favorite quote, but what can you do?
Good thing we didn’t pass that concealed carry on campus bill, eh?
We have been covering the ongoing struggle between Officer Leonardo Quintana and the Austin Police Department: the APD kept firing Officer Quintana, and Officer Quintana kept being reinstated by arbitrators.
The verdict is now in on Officer Quintana’s latest appeal. Officer Quintana is now ex-Officer Quintana.
Link goes to the LAT obit, but I want to highlight this obit from the Onion AV Club. I think Sean O’Neal does a very good job of summarizing Cooper’s work and explaining why his passing matters, without the usual condescending idiocy that characterizes much of the AV Club’s work.