• So the rumors were true. Are you ready America?
• Points for honesty, I guess.
• I’m 100 percent behind this idea.
• Ah, the old “buttered popcorn in the Range Rover” trick. Pretty gutsy for a ballboy.
• The good news is that Maricopa County Attorney Andy Thomas has resigned. The bad news is, it’s so he can run for Arizona attorney general. And this is while he’s under federal investigation. Maybe he’ll sue the feds for racketeering, too.
• So you are rooting for Butler, right? I mean, their home stadium is where they filmed the championship game in Hoosiers. And how can you not like a coach who quit his job marketing pharmaceuticals to take a volunteer position on the coaching staff (and took a job at Applebees to pay the rent), then worked his way up to lead a small school into the Final Four? There’s so much to like about this team. It’s like all three of the other teams are Duke.

Prince George’s County, Maryland Sheriff Michael Jackson formally announced his candidacy for county executive this week. I wrote about Jackson’s political ambitions last October. Jackson is the sheriff who oversaw the violent botched drug raid on Berwyn Heights, Maryland Mayor Cheye Calvo, and while he has apologized to the mayor for wrongly raiding him, Jackson has refused to discipline any of the officers involved (in fact, he has praised them), and said if his department had to do the raid over again, he wouldn’t change a thing. Jackson is also trying to delay the release of his department’s internal investigation of the raid until after the election.

Jackson’s nothing if not consistent. Last September, in a lawsuit stemming from another botched raid, a federal jury found that the protocols governing police raids in Jackson’s department are unconstitutional. A year after that raid, Jackson’sdeputies again raided the wrong home, and this time—as they did with Calvo—they killed the innocent family’s pet. Again, no officers were disciplined. And the department didn’t change any of its rules or procedures.

Earlier this month, one of Jackson’s deputies was arrested by Prince George’s County police for suspected drunken driving. The deputy failed a roadside sobriety test, but wasn’t given a blood or alcohol test, nor was he criminally charged. Instead, he was turned over to Jackson’s department for an internal affairs investigation. Three weeks later, the deputy remains on the job, and Jackson won’t comment about the status of the investigation.

In announcing his candidacy this week Jackson touted his “executive-level experience.” I guess it’s true that he does have that experience. It’s what he’s done with it that’s the problem.

When asked by the Washington Post about the incidents above, Jackson replied, “How would it look for me, the leader of an agency, to not give my people the benefit of the doubt?”

A roundup over at Hit & Run.

Tom Waits. “Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis.”

The video is likely one of the first times he performed this live because the crowd laughs in parts, apparently unfamiliar with the sucker punch at the end of the song.

The Washington Post has published a fine remembrance of David Mills, the journalist and Emmy-winning television writer who died this week at the age of 48.

Mills wrote for two of the best dramas ever to appear on television, Homicide and The Wire. He collapsed on the set of Treme at New Orleans’ Cafe Du Monde on Tuesday, dying of a brain aneurysm.

• FDA continues its campaign of banning unhealthy consumables because they taste good.
• Fascinating article on our misconceptions about distance and direction. Doesn’t explain my complete absence of any sense of direction, though. Or how every wrong turn I make seems to land me in Anacostia.
• Indiana cops tase, smack misbehaving 10-year-old.
• Will Wilkinson vs. Ryan Avent on the broken window fallacy. If Avent’s bizarre defense of the government coming in and breaking your stuff has you scratching your head, read the comments to his post. Mind blowing.
• Michael Moynihan on the left’s lame efforts to cast tea partiers as Nazis. The similarities between tea partiers and anti-war protesters during the Bush administration, and their opponents’ reactions to them, are uncanny.
• Just read this.

….is the Washington Post’s annual Peeps diorama competition.

• Someone must make a movie based on this comic book.
• Since when did opposition to a federal law requiring the use of seatbelts become a litmus test for fringe-iness? I’ve heard other lefties attempt the same smear. Seems a good liberal would be in favor of the idea of not giving cops another reason to, say, pull over black people for suspicionless searches. Especially when the infraction in question isn’t harmful to anyone other than the person who commits it.
• Federal judge says Bush administration broke the law with warrantless wiretapping program. Note that the Obama administration fought to keep the program legal.
• Richard Brodie solves the death panel problem.
• A missed flight connection puts a man in jail for four days.
• Online April Fool’s jokes that would be worth the effort.
• Barack Obama looking at awesome things.