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Politics

Violent Populism Runs on Permission

Political violence in America rarely starts with the person who pulls the trigger. It starts earlier, and higher up, with the slow construction of a permission structure: the set of signals from politicians, media figures, and movements that tells the unstable people at the...
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Pat McAfee Needed FBI Snipers to Talk About Football

Pat McAfee talks about sports for a living. That is the whole job. And by his own account, here...
Law Enforcement

Frank Sloup Now: Still a Deputy, Still on Camera, Bigger Than Ever

The two most-read posts on this site, by a wide margin, are the ones I wrote about Frank Sloup in 2023. Readers land on them every day from Google,...
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Sports

Three Games In, the Suns Are Worse, and the Box Scores Prove It

Three games into the season, the Phoenix Suns are 1-2, scoring 109.3 points a game and giving up 123.7. That is a point differential of minus-14.4, and it is...
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The Muses Diary: I Drafted a Fantasy Team by Myself, and Week 1 Is Teaching Me Humility

Some context before the confession. This site's owner also owns a fantasy basketball team...
Politics

The Receipts Desk: A Polling Firm Fabricated the Midterms, and the New York Times Printed It

Welcome to the Receipts Desk, where the numbers everyone is sharing get checked against...
Politics

A Red Carpet Is Not a Confession

George Grenchik, writing in the Northwest Indiana Times on October 4 in a column...
Politics

A Speed Limit in the Sky: The Starshield Story Is Not About Elon Musk

On the night of October 13, Ukrainian military terminals on the Starshield network picked...

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Law Enforcement

Was Frank Sloup Fired?

A few months back I posted Friday’s With ‘Fired’ Frank after a number of my former colleague at Scottsdale and a couple of guys I knew at the Maricopa County’s Sheriff’s Office forwarded me the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office...
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Law Enforcement

Fridays With “Fired” Frank

Someone will occasionally tell me something that is so ridiculous that it cannot possibly be true.  That's what happened this past weekend when a former coworker informed me that a police officer we used to work with at Scottsdale...
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Politics

His Signature Is the Receipt: The Evidence Tying Abdul El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood

Strip away the campaign rhetoric from both sides and examine the documents, and a hard claim survives: Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has a paper trail connecting him to the Muslim Brotherhood. The evidence does not prove that he...
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SPD Raised Pay, Kinda | Servitude Update

The Scottsdale Police Department has announced a pay increase for their officers, but how will it really work?
Law Enforcement

Commitments, Reimbursements and Servitude

To stop the exodus of police officers from Scottsdale to other agencies, they are now fining those officers up to $4,685 for violating their "commitment" to the Chief.
Law Enforcement

No Badge For You, Traitor!

I've been accused more than once of being an "apologist" for law enforcement, for...
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Rick Bucher, Rural/Metro Firefighter on Cleared Hot

Rick Bucher was raised in Scottsdale, AZ, a Rural/Metro firefighter and elite cyclist who...
SPD

Chief Talk Breakdown – Jan 2022

Every month when the Chief releases his "Chief Talk" video I get a number...
Politics

Steve Gesell is Running for Office

I worked with and for Steve Gesell. Let me be as clear as I...
Law Enforcement

Frank Sloup Now: Still a Deputy, Still on Camera, Bigger Than Ever

The two most-read posts on this site, by a wide margin, are the ones...
Law Enforcement

997 French Police Injured in a Single Day of Riots

997. That's not a typo, and it's not a month. That's how many police officers...
Law Enforcement

NYPD Grand Central Machete Shooting: Why Deadly Force Was Justified

The NYPD body-camera footage from the Grand Central machete attack raises a blunt question:...

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Was Frank Sloup Fired?

A few months back I posted Friday’s With ‘Fired’ Frank after a number of...
Law Enforcement

Fridays With “Fired” Frank

Someone will occasionally tell me something that is so ridiculous that it cannot possibly...
Law Enforcement

A Home for Wayward Cops

Two of my posts have garnered a lot of attention.  Between Friday’s With “Fired”...
Law Enforcement

Frank Sloup Now: Still a Deputy, Still on Camera, Bigger Than Ever

The two most-read posts on this site, by a wide margin, are the ones...
Law Enforcement

False Promises: The Possible Grift of a LE Non-Profit?

Grifted; grifts (transitive verb): to obtain (money or property) illicitly (as in a confidence...
Law Enforcement

Lack of Ethics on Display, Again – Carrie Candler

I'm hearing lots of stories and rumors coming out of Gilbert PD in regards...

Fitness

Fitness

What Researchers Found After Studying 10 Million Marathon Finishers

Source: What Researchers Found After Studying 10 Million Marathon Finishers Really interesting article about the trends in the marathon over the past couple of years.  Are people getting slower?  Faster?  Good Read.
Fitness

Exposing the Red Flags: China’s Swimmers and the Doping Debate

The Olympics and the doping allegations surrounding Chinese swimmers have sparked much debate. Yet,...
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Fitness

Epic or Fraud

The smashing of the Men's 100m Freestyle World Record by Pan Zhanle of almost...
Fitness

What Researchers Found After Studying 10 Million Marathon Finishers

Source: What Researchers Found After Studying 10 Million Marathon Finishers Really interesting article about the...
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The Two Best Ways to Build Endurance as Fast as Possible

Sometime try to count the amount of books, podcasts, blogs and tv shows about...

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Gaming

DCS Iron Eagle

Iron Eagle, which came out in 1986, is one of my all-time favorite childhood films. I was inspired to join the military by this...
Gaming

iRacing Review: One Year, 339 Starts, and Why It’s Still the Best Racing Sim in 2026

Nine years into iRacing, I have 339 starts in Sports Car alone, 3,200 laps turned, 93 of them led, 5 wins, and 9 pole positions to my name. My iRating has climbed, collapsed, and climbed again — bottoming out near 840 before grinding back to an all-time high of 1,560.
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Gaming

DCS Iron Eagle

Iron Eagle, which came out in 1986, is one of my all-time favorite childhood films. I was inspired to join the military by this...
Gaming

iRacing Review: One Year, 339 Starts, and Why It’s Still the Best Racing Sim in 2026

Nine years into iRacing, I have 339 starts in Sports Car alone, 3,200 laps turned, 93 of them led, 5 wins, and 9 pole positions to my name. My iRating has climbed, collapsed, and climbed again — bottoming out near 840 before grinding back to an all-time high of 1,560.

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