Ever watch one of those short flies where everyone converges, then stand around looking at one another as the ball drops neatly between them?

So you’ll excuse the thinn of today’s Links. Speed and necessity overcame quality.

This was a total bummer to see. Heap is, by all accounts, a fine human and was a great player, proving that the two are not mutually exclusive.

Let’s assume arguendo that there exists an attorney who has never disproved swirling rumors about his relationships with farm animals, but instead used the civil court system to bully people who offended him. This is totally hypothetical and is not meant to represent any real person, living or dead. Let’s also assume that such a hypothetical attorney weighed in on the Outrage du Jour. Let’s further assume that his analysis looks solid. I would guess that if such a hypothetical were true, the analysis might look something like this.

I am generally not in favor of important diplomatic posts being filled by appointments totally driven by politics, but sometimes you gotta make an exception.

I forgot: the custom is now to have a music link, and this one is a fuck you to sloopy.