NRA Can't Catch a Break

Douglas Hamlin, who was appointed to lead the NRA this summer in the wake of a long-running corruption scandal at the gun rights group, was involved decades ago in the sadistic killing of a fraternity house cat named BK, according to several local media reports at the time.

I'm not going to discuss my thoughts about the sort of people who could do what was done to poor BK.

But man, if you're hiring for a company or organization that has a large public presence, do a deep dive on the web when you're vetting people. If you don't know how to do that, then drag your dead ass to your local university and hire a kid from computer sciences or library sciences to do it for you. A hell of a lot of newspapers have digitized their archives and dollars to doughnuts that searching those resources would have unearthed this story.

And if you're a candidate for such a job and you have some dirt like this in your past, then consider what will happen when someone digs it up. Even if the archives aren't searchable online, somebody out there will remember it and contact a reporter. So now, while few people may have know of it, now millions know about Doug the Cat-Burner