Alanis Morissette – All I Really Want
All I Really Want
Yeah, yeah, but Jagged Little Pill
Month: May 2009
The funny part is, it probably is just a job.
Anything* can get to be that way, after a while.
Via TrogloPundit.
Moe Lane
*I was going to link something along the lines of “Except for blowing stuff up for government safety agencies,” which I understand is a job that is made of awesome; only I got distracted by this.
 Sparkler Bomb Blows Up DryerIf you think sparklers cannot be dangerous watch this video clip. They tape a bunch of sparklers together and use them to blow up an old dryer. |
Passage of the Day: Animal Rights Zealot edition.
I’ve only ever had one proper screaming argument with an animal rights activist. That was a great night. It was at a student party. She told me she believed animal lives to be worth just as much as human lives. I told her she was the most apathetically selfish person I’d ever met.
“Because if that place down the road was selling Kentucky Fried Person,” I explained, “I’d probably firebomb it. Not just sit here whingeing, with a spliff and a can of Skol.”
– Hugo Rifkind, via Tim Worstall*, who is an old-school British blogger who is currently running for the EU Parliament for the UKIP, which is a party dedicated to getting the UK out of the EU Parliament, and indeed the EU, entirely.
This is not actually ironic, although others might find it slightly rude.
Moe Lane
*Via The Corner.
Crossposted to RedState.
From ‘Body Ritual among the Nacirema.’
What charming customs these people have.
In addition to the private mouth-rite, the people seek out a holy-mouth-man once or twice a year. These practitioners have an impressive set of paraphernalia, consisting of a variety of augers, awls, probes, and prods. The use of these objects in the exorcism of the evils of the mouth involves almost unbelievable ritual torture of the client. The holy-mouth-man opens the client’s mouth and, using the above mentioned tools, enlarges any holes which decay may have created in the teeth. Magical materials are put into these holes. If there are no naturally occurring holes in the teeth, large sections of one or more teeth are gouged out so that the supernatural substance can be applied. In the client’s view, the purpose of these ministrations is to arrest decay and to draw friends. The extremely sacred and traditional character of the rite is evident in the fact that the natives return to the holy-mouth-men year after year, despite the fact that their teeth continue to decay.
It is to be hoped that, when a thorough study of the Nacirema is made, there will be careful inquiry into the personality structure of these people. One has but to watch the gleam in the eye of a holy-mouth-man, as he jabs an awl into an exposed nerve, to suspect that a certain amount of sadism is involved. If this can be established, a very interesting pattern emerges, for most of the population shows definite masochistic tendencies. It was to these that Professor Linton referred in discussing a distinctive part of the daily body ritual which is performed only by men. This part of the rite includes scraping and lacerating the surface of the face with a sharp instrument. Special women’s rites are performed only four times during each lunar month, but what they lack in frequency is made up in barbarity. As part of this ceremony, women bake their heads in small ovens for about an hour. The theoretically interesting point is that what seems to be a preponderantly masochistic people have developed sadistic specialists.
Thank goodness we all live somewhere more civilized than… there.
Welcome to the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, Gawker.
Oh, stop squirming. Having the chip put in doesn’t hurt *that* much.
I’m sorry to have to tell you folks at The Gawker this, but it’s over. You’ve been tagged by the guy from the cow college as Outside the Pale, and you’re not coming back from that.
It’s like this: you were fine with this post, for a given value of fine: you took precisely the line that was expected of you with the Mancow narrative. Right-wing shock-jock gets waterboarded, now thinks it’s torture, yadda yadda and the Online Left cheers while it reaches for the tis… well, I’ll be polite. If you had left it there, nothing further would have gone on. But then you made the mistake of actually deciding that the evidence that this was a publicity stunt was actually worth publicizing. So you got yelled at for it, a little; but you just kept pushing. So now you got yelled at, for real – and it doesn’t matter in the slightest that it’s by a rampaging buffoon who believes that Cheney had secret death squads. Or that you actually agree with him that waterboarding really is torture. Or anything else, at this point. Continue reading Welcome to the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, Gawker.
Nazi zombie flick.
Ain’t no tent big enough for Ted Rall.
No, Stacy. Sorry, but no. Ted Rall defines himself by what he hates; when he flips, he’s going to end up in some other internal head-space that’s just as tediously scary and banally ugly as the one that he was in for the last eight years. And when the next President takes office, he’ll hate that office holder, too; and so on, and so on, and so on. So let him rot where he is.
Besides, there’s the entire ‘draws like he’s using a Sharpie stuck in his armpit’ thing – which is actually kind of funny: I completely misremembered where James Lileks suggested Rall inserted his pen.
And, honestly, I like my version better.
Crossposted to RedState.
PA Assassination Ad noticed, yanked, continues to loom over publishers’ heads.
That last part? Deservedly so. I first heard of this story yesterday, via Tapper. While the subject matter itself is easily the most appalling part, I would like to note for the record (like Glenn Reynolds) that it’s not exactly comforting to know that we have historical illiterates running our newspapers.
Personally, I hope that the current President follows in the steps of J.Q. Adams, Van Buren, Hayes, and Taft.
Moe Lane
PS: Welcome to our world. It was a fun eight years, let me tell you. Real knee-slapping, in that special ‘root canal without anesthetic’ sort of way.
Crossposted to RedState.
Obama privileged to be in Las Vegas.
So. Back in February the President went to Elkhart, Indiana and made a speech where, as Deceiver.com helpfully reminds us, he included this part:
You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers’ dime. There’s got to be some accountability and some responsibility, and that’s something that I intend to impose as president of the United States.
Earlier this week, the President took a trip to Las Vegas on the taxpayers’ dime. His privilege. He went there to raise money for the wildly unpopular Senator Harry Reid. Likewise, his privilege. He did this even though the current Governor is quite upset at the President for helping to lose his state about 131 million in revenue so far this year – and upset from afar, because the President didn’t meet with either him or the (Democratic) mayor of Las Vegas. Once again, the President’s privilege – hey, do you know the etymology of the word ‘privilege?’
It’s Latin: it means ‘private law.’
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
New ‘GI JOE’ footage.
Courtesy of Aaron Williams.
And to answer his question… the reason why they bothered getting the licenses to this series and not E-Swat
Was that snide? That may have been snide.