Hard to imagine what could go wrong when a renegade lawman like Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio brings in movie tough guys like Steven Seagal to do raids on people’s houses using tanks and other cool movie hardware. Seems in this case, when Seagal and some of Arpaio’s deputies raided Jesus Sanchez Llovera’s home with a tank, Sanchez’s dog was killed in the subsequent gunfire. As well as 100 roosters. Sanchez is now suing Seagal for $100,000 damages.

Seagal was filming the raid for his reality show Steven Seagal: Lawman.

I say this recognizing the great wreck of society and suffering his rule caused over four decades and the carnage of the last six months. But the one thing that seems clear to me about Muammar Gaddafi today is that his post-Strongmancy is turning out to be even more entertaining than his Strongman period itself.

Yesterday I was catching running updates on the Gaddafi story from the twitter feed of al Arabiya English. At one point Gaddafi’s son Saadi announced that his father had empowered him to negotiate a ‘cease-fire’ with the rebels. Later, Gaddafi himself declared that he now wants to join the new rebel government. (I mean, he’s a lifelong public servant, has a lot of management experience running Libya … so why not?) Both of which — for a man who not only no longer appears to control anything but can’t even be located — are of course awesome. Read More