Moe Lane

I am a bad, bad person.

Livin’ La Vida Loca, Ricky Martin

That was just mean, on several different levels.

Awww:

The famous Hollywood sign has been saved from being spoiled by property development by a last-minute donation from Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner.

The soft-porn magnate gave $900,000 (£580,000) to the fund which was set up to stop the site being developed.

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It never faced demolition, but campaigners were worried the famous vista would be ruined by the sight of properties towering over the four-storey high letters.

Of course, all three O’s now have to pose in the September issue and the consonants will all be made Editors.

Moe Lane

PS: Personally, I think that they should have stuck a nice, big Baptist church there.  And a military base.  Maybe add a nuclear power plant; that way you’d get a symbolic trifecta of everything Hollywood hates.

Yup, philistine.  It was a freaking real estate ad, people.

Clearly, the world is dedicated to amuso-annoying me today (yeah, I just made up that word), so here’s the TV Tropes page on Flame Wars.  Honestly, just because it made me laugh for five minutes.

Eugene Robinson is very aggrieved about the new Arizona law:

Legal immigrants will be required to carry papers proving that they have a right to be in the United States.

So aggrieved, in fact, that he’s apparently mixing up his tenses.  It is already federal law for legal immigrants / visitors to carry their green cards and/or other relevant immigration information with them at all times.  It’s been that way for years. [UPDATE: See also here.]

Mr. Robinson, if you don’t even know the basics of what is legally required and what is not, please keep out of the conversation until you’ve caught up with the rest of us.  I ask this as somebody who favors immigration reform: you’re making my life more difficult.

So stop that.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

So, let us review the sequence of events leading up to this confirmation: (more…)

What I’m about to say is not really directed towards Glenn Reynolds, Matt Welch, and/or Stacy McCain, as I’m guessing that they already know this. But for anybody who’s missed this particular memo: what the SPLC produces is not political science, or policy positions. It’s pornography.

And while I don’t quite mean that literally, I am uncomfortably aware that by doing so I might have been just a little too charitable to the people that consume what the SPLC produces.

What I tell you three times is true: get a camera. Get a camera. GET A CAMERA:

For those without video, the above (courtesy of Andrew Breitbart) shows an alternate view of Rep. Andre Carson and Rep. John Lewis’ infamous walk out of the Cannon Building, on the day that the two Congressmen claimed to have been taunted with racial slurs. As Andrew put it: (more…)

And they should have done this, too.

Gallup just published a poll on voter enthusiasm, broken down by age. The main point – younger voters are showing fairly typical enthusiasm levels towards the 2010 elections (i.e., low ones) – is interesting (and entertaining), but there’s another important bit that did not get particularly addressed. And it’s an even more entertaining point. (more…)

Don’t do drugs, kids.

Are You Experienced?, Jimi Hendrix

Seriously. We lost about twenty, thirty years’ worth of top-shelf material there.

He’s running against Maurice Hinchey; George actually outraised him last quarter. This is pretty significant: Democrats really, really, really don’t want to be in an environment where they have to fund normally untouchable Members of Congress like Hinchey.

George’s website is here.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

In the course of noting that former Murtha crony Mark Critz received 52% of his first-quarter contributions from “[d]efense contractors, local business officers and lobbyists that relied on earmarked federal contracts from Murtha” the Washington Post notes this interesting little detail:

Four former lobbyists of the PMA Group, a once-powerful lobbying shop, also chipped in to elect Critz. Murtha arranged for his spending panel to steer hundreds of millions of earmarked contracts to PMA clients. The firm shut its doors amid a criminal investigation scrutinizing more than $1 million dollars in campaign contributions it gave to Murtha and other subcommittee members. Critz’s money came as well from top officers of companies that were longtime beneficiaries of Murtha’s largess in doling out military contracts: Argon ST, Progeny Systems, Concurrent Technologies Corporation, Advanced Acoustic Concepts and Mountaintop Technologies.

Ah, PMA.  Did you know that they got $117 million in earmarks from the Democrats in the last ten years?  Impressive, in its way.

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“Please.  I can always do science to it.”

- Guilded Age: an RPG webcomic which is almost certainly going to pass its probationary period with flying colors.  Which means that I’m going to have to eliminate one already on my list…