Archive for September 13th, 2011

Holy cow, this is the most hilarious thing I’ve seen in weeks.

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

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?”

(Hattip: America’s greatest Mac pundit and vodka drinker.)

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TMQ Watch: September 13, 2011.

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

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…

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Noted without (much) comment.

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said her campaign is among those that may have been “wiped out” by a Burbank-based Democratic campaign treasurer who was arrested on federal fraud charges earlier this month.

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Special non-sports firings watch.

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

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:

…[City Manager Johnny] Martinez suspended Exposito for disobeying an order not to demote three high-ranking police officers. The chief chose to reassign and strip the officers of their authority — though not their rank and pay — anyway.

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:

Exposito, who was scheduled to retire in January, leaves the city after stints in the internal affairs and sex crimes divisions. The chief, who earned $196,000 a year, will walk with close to $900,000 in banked pension pay and unused sick and vacation time. He turned 57 on Saturday. When the clock struck midnight at City Hall, he received muted happy birthday wishes.

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Art, damn it, art! watch. (#24 in a series)

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

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.

Schaefer said he explained that the artwork was intended to be a visual metaphor for the havoc that banking practices have caused to the economy.

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.

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Your loser update: week 1, 2011.

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

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

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