Moe Lane

(Original tip-off Don Surber)

They are not happy, big fuzzy goofballs that drink Coke with penguins and submit to being ridden by large-breasted Germanic women with eyepatches. They are a half-ton, carnivorous apex predator species that have never had burned into their very DNA the concept that human beings don’t taste good. Polar bears exist solely because we really didn’t start dealing with them on a regular basis until after we invented environmentalism; if the Arctic Circle had had easily accessible iron deposits we’d have wiped out the species thousands of years ago.

DO NOT GO SWIMMING WITH THEM.

EVER.

Let me put it this way: you might as well read Instapundit, because he’s doing a better job covering this than the New Way Forward people are.  At least he has pictures – although that’s not really great news for the NWF, given the way that Glenn is cheerfully contrasting them with the various pre-Tax Day Tea Parties also scheduled today (which are pretty much destroying the NWF protests in terms of attendence).  When one group is getting more people in Lincoln, Nebraska than the other is getting in Chicago, Illinois, there’s a problem.  For the latter, at least.

That being said, this report of the Washington DC NWF is worth special consideration (and not to mention, mockery):

I’d promise to personally check every person in the crowd on Wednesday’s DC Tax Day Tea Party to find out if they work for Fox News, except that there’s no way that I’d get to even a tenth of the attendees by the time that the Tea Party was over.

Moe Lane.

Crossposted to RedState.

This sort of thing happens to me all the time.

Woody Harrelson claims he mistook photographer for zombie

CNN) — Woody Harrelson defended his clash with a photographer at a New York airport Wednesday night as a case of mistaken identity — he says he mistook the cameraman for a zombie.

The TMZ photographer filed a complaint with police claiming the actor damaged his camera and pushed him in the face at La Guardia Airport, according to an airport spokesman.

Although I have to criticize the technique. Even if you’re wearing gloves: never, ever, ever push a zombie in the face. That’s just an invitation to having your hand gnawed, which will of course lead to infection, death, and reanimation as one of the walking dead. I know that people say that cutting off the extremity in time can prevent that, but that’s a million-to-one shot, and it’s such an avoidable mistake.

Clearly Mr. Harrelson needs to catch up on his technical reading.

…(not that there’s anything wrong with that), avoid this:

From comments of this Hot Air post about an industrial safety video that itself has to be seen to be believed.

I am curious about how many times this administration plans to insult the Roman Catholic Church:

Vatican blocks Caroline Kennedy appointment as US ambassador

The Vatican has blocked the appointment of Caroline Kennedy as US ambassador, according to reports.

Vatican sources told Il Giornale that their support for abortion disqualified Ms Kennedy and other Roman Catholics President Barack Obama had been seeking to appoint.

You would think that after the Vatican made it so clear that Kmiec was unacceptable that he never even made it on the list the White House would take the hint and find a pro-life Democratic Catholic for the job; apparently not. You would also think that this language was clear: (more…)

I was looking for quotes from this highly enjoyable Vanity Fair article (via AoSHQ & And Still I Persist) that would illustrate the haplessness of Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. (“He is a lifelong New Yorker, but there is no trace whatsoever of region or ethnicity in his speech” was a good example*) – or at least complement the vicious, yet accurate analysis that the picture above represents – but these two paragraphs blew me away completely.  Particularly the second one:

Some at the Times anticipated this tectonic shift years ago, but Arthur wasn’t listening. Despite lip service about change, he presides over a slow-moving beast. Diane Baker, who was regarded as an energetic and forceful outsider, ran up against this in her years as C.F.O. When she took the job, in 1995, she was shocked to discover that the company was still doing all its accounting by hand. “They literally did not have the ability to produce spreadsheets,” she says. “They had not invested in the software you need to analyze data. It is a company run by journalists. The Sulzbergers are journalists at their core, not businessmen.”

Her biggest disappointment came when she crafted a potentially lucrative partnership with Amazon.com**, already the biggest bookseller on the Internet. The Times would link all the titles reviewed in the paper’s prestigious Sunday Book Review section, ordinarily a money drain, to the online bookseller and receive a percentage on every book sold. “We could have made the Book Review into a big source of revenue,” she recalls. Baker knew that Amazon.com planned to eventually sell everything under the sun, to become the first digital supermarket. Not only would the deal have produced revenue from book sales, it would also have cemented a partnership with a tremendous future. She envisioned the newspaper as a virtual merchandising machine. Instead of the old carpet-bombing model of advertising, it would in effect target ads to readers of specific stories. “You know what they said?,” Baker recalls. “They said, We can’t do it, because Barnes & Noble is a big advertiser.”

If you felt any sorrow for the New York Times‘ travails, stop right now.  Never mind that it’s a liberal-leaning paper that doesn’t want to admit it (the first part of that is no big deal, the second part of it is); never mind that it’s being run as essentially a vanity press (on an epic scale not seen elsewhere, to be sure); never even mind that the publisher’s so self-evidently a schlub that not even Vanity Fair could hide it.  All of these things are survivable. (more…)

The Beatles – Let it Be

Let It Be

Apparently, Lennon hated this song.

Tsk, tsk.

(Via AoSHQ) These free cutouts (click to get the pdf) are, in point of fact, nigh-epically cool; I shall have to make certain that my children print them out and cut them up when they’re old enough.

Moe Lane

PS: While looking for Xtranormal in order to do a movie for the above, I found this.

AARP will easily get away with it, too.

In fact, I do believe that there’s a threat here:

As publishers of the world’s largest magazine and the preeminent online destination for individuals 50+, we understand the desire to pursue advertising revenue. Additionally, no one is immune from our current economic crisis and we can appreciate your plea for increased ad revenue. That said, we also strongly honor the integrity of our journalists and writers/editors/content developers. AARP would never allow advertisers to dictate our editorial content based on the amount of ad space purchased, and we would be hesitant to buy ads with any media that suggested it might act otherwise.

Bolding mine, and via Instapundit.  (more…)

Miss him, yet?

“You make your decisions based on principles, he said. And you never worry about popularity or polls.”

Well, give it time.

Crossposted to RedState.

Umm, no.

Just… no.

Crossposted to RedState.

I should probably be glad that I don’t have a computer that can handle this:

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Especially since apparently they got the voice actors from Batman: The Animated Series.  It isn’t coming out until June 2009, anyway…

Moe Lane

Guess the Wii is finally getting enough of a production run so as to remove the Amazon restrictions.  But you’ll notice that they aren’t giving a discount…