Moe Lane

…I don’t know. I’m a sucker for movies evocative of the Golden Age of Atomic Horror Movies, but I don’t know. Must ponder.

Via the Anchoress, what I was about to post when it got interrupted by the previous post:

No attempts to go for the filthy lucre. This one is strictly for nice.

Meet the Child-Whoring Pimp Assistance 7*.

I would like to have all of you read something that came to the MoeLane.com mailbag a few days ago, in response to this post.  I normally don’t bother posting these – I just pass around the funnier examples – but I decided that I’d save this one.

Author : Goou (IP: 67.159.54.26 , 67.159.54.26)
E-mail : goou@goou.com
URL    :
Whois  : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=67.159.54.26
Comment:
Just reminding you that you’re a piece of sh*t. No one cares about Acorn.

Ahem. Hot Air reports:

Senator Mike Johanns (R-NE) introduced an amendment to the HUD and Transportation appropriation bill to strip ACORN of all federal funding.  A week ago, Johanns wouldn’t have gotten the amendment to the floor.  Today, however, after three straight days of BigGovernment.com’s video exposés of ACORN offices in Washington DC, New York City, and Baltimore offering assistance to pimping, tax evasion, and trafficking in underage Salvadorean girls, Johanns not only got his vote — but he got an impressive bipartisan showing.  The Senate passed the Johanns amendment 83-7.

The nay votes? (more…)

As one of my colleagues (who should get a personal site, so that I may not be able to steal stuff like this) notes, the nice thing about the Internet is that you can have a new Greatest. Thing. EVAR. every day.

A-Team, Star Trek

If there is a way to make this combination more synergistically awesome, it is not readily apparent to modern science.

Moe Lane

Wait, what?

(via @BrianFaughnan) Contra the New York Times, there are no racial overtones to this challenge. It’s pretty much the melody line:

The black candidate, former Mayor Willie W. Herenton of Memphis, has argued that Tennessee needs a black voice in its currently all-white delegation. He is running a blistering campaign against Representative Steve Cohen, a fellow Democrat with a precarious hold on the majority black district.

“To know Steve Cohen is to know that he really does not think very much of African-Americans,” Mr. Herenton said in a recent radio interview on KWAM. “He’s played the black community well.”

[snip]

“This seat was set aside for people who look like me,” said Mr. Herenton’s campaign manager, Sidney Chism, a black county commissioner. “It wasn’t set aside for a Jew or a Christian. It was set aside so that blacks could have representation.”

TN-09 being a D+23 district, the Democratic primary race is going to be of special interest – and this is… well. It’s not so much the sentiments as it is the utterly unselfconscious way that they’re being presented. Remember that full and frank discussion of race we were promised? – because I suspect that this is not what people had in mind.

Moe Lane

PS: And one last thing: Steve Cohen did not “consider joining” the Congressional Black Caucus; he was told that he couldn’t join because of his skin color. They’re doing the same thing to Rep. Joseph Cao (R, LA-02), too – although I suspect that changing the ‘R’ to ‘D’ there might have caused them to reconsider.

Crossposted to RedState.

Transterrestrial Musings gives two different ways to measure the crowd; the first one estimates between 240K-320K for the marchers and the second estimates between 330K-500K at the Capitol itself.  Either way: use this as your baseline for what an actual populist, grassroots protest looks like.  I mention this mostly for the Other Side, who seem highly incensed that we’re making this sort of thing look easy.

Which it is, actually: you just have to be on the side of righteousness, that’s all.

Moe Lane

PS: More via Instapundit.

Crossposted to RedState.

(Via @JTlol)This time, it’s Brooklyn. Which, as Big Government gleefully points out, is part of New York, which is one of the places that ACORN claims that the producers tried this sting and failed.

Second part of the video at the site: your call if they failed or not. (more…)

That’s from somebody called @katyperry – look, I’m freaking counter-culture, remember?  I’m also not 23 – and Simon Scowl of Deceiver.com is right; it perfectly captures the moment.  I didn’t think that I would be posting this again, but apparently there are a lot of political bloggers out there – cross-spectrum – who are enjoying mightily the site of Kanye West imploding his career, and I’m not proud:

Taylor Swift.

So load yourself up.

Moe Lane

PS: Deceiver also reported that “Later in the show, Beyonce won another award and invited Swift onstage to finish her hijacked acceptance speech.” That was a decent thing for her to do.

(Via Texans for Sarah Palin) But it’s tax hikes for the wealthy (540 billion over 10 years), so that’s all right, right? At least, it’s tax hikes for the wealthy today. And what gets redefined as ‘wealthy’…

Key House Democrats decided Friday to raise taxes on the wealthy to help pay for health care legislation, capping an up-and-down week for President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority.

[snip]

Democrats on the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee agreed to a new surtax that would start with households making $350,000 a year and begin in 2011, said the committee’s chairman, Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y.

…well, that’s up to Charlie Rangel.

Have a nice morning!

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

I could comment on the Kanye West / Taylor Swift thing, except that my only real contribution is to repeat the Robin Williams quote that cocaine is God’s way of telling you that you’re making too much f*cking money.

So: Tori Amos owning Curt Cobain.

Smells Like Teen Spirit, Tori Amos

It’s not available until April, but what the heck: I’ve always been fond of Diane Duane’s work, particularly her YA So You Want To be a Wizard series. And besides, if I excluded people who more-or-less vaguely hate people like me from these sorts of lists I’d have a very short list with which to work with. As long as I can’t guess at, or be reminded of, the politics from the first fifty pages everything’s golden*.

So, we replace with The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun with A Wizard of Mars, and go on with this lovely Sunday night.

*The besettling sin of the Still Life With Fascists series, alas. The idea is to discuss Why You Think It Would Have Sucked To Have Hitler Have A Peace Treaty With England, not Why The Bush Administration Made So Angry, You Wanted To Strangle A Manatee In The Nude**.

**Bloom County reference.

Take today’s little quick examination of evil, and how our various definitions of it and its origins is going to run into the thorny problem of created sapience like a sports car running into a brick wall, and how this entire conversation drives practical men mad – since they want to know the answer, yet don’t want to listen to the implications of the question…

Well. It’s Howard Tayler. That Hugo nomination was for a reason.