Moe Lane

My God, it’s like they took every single cliche from 1980s music videos and put them onscreen. I cannot believe that I have never seen this before; they must have locked in a vault until the stars were no longer right.

Word Up, Cameo

And yes, that’s apparently Levar Burton in there. No doubt praying that nobody would ever notice him afterward. Which is a reasonable prayer; the man’s best known role had him wearing a headband over his eyes.

Now, I know what you’re saying. You’re saying, “So what? The Autobiography of Mark Twain has been out for almost a century.”

No no no no no. That was something they cobbled together out of a bunch of manuscript pages. This is the whole thing, which Mark Twain supposedly insisted not be published until he’d been dead for a hundred years. If you’ve read Twain’s later works and know a little something about his later life, you may understand why we might have something a bit… controversial here.

Moe Lane

Good God but this hurts my head:

If you can’t watch that video, it’s of the San Francisco protest against Obama… which had freaking everybody. And I mean everybody: they had the full protest spectrum out*. You haven’t lived until you’ve heard conservatives chant “Hey hey ho ho: Barbara Boxer’s got to go.” At least, I think that’s what they were chanting.

Fausta also links to Zombie, who has more pictures of the protest. The very, very surreal protest.

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I was thinking over this entire “How do we admit that we offered Sestak a job in exchange for him dropping out of PA-SEN WITHOUT having a member of the White House staff copping to a felony?” problem that the Obama administration finds itself in -

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Pretty good site, and he’s as exasperated with the South Carolinian nonsense as I am.  Check him out.

And now, some Led Zeppelin. Because I feel like it.

Actually, knowing this administration, I wonder if somebody got fired for it:

It was a remarkable moment in President Barack Obama’s press conference Thursday: just hours before, the head of the Minerals Management Service had left the top post at the agency that oversees offshore oil drilling.

And yet, the president said he didn’t know whether Liz Birnbaum had resigned or been fired.

If he or she didn’t get fired… well, the First Commandment of the White House Staff has always been Thou Shalt Not Make The President Look Like A Blithering Idiot* In Public.  It would be positively uncivil of me to try to encourage the executive branch of government to regularly transgress said commandment, at least until we get a President from my party in the Oval Office again.

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On the perils of allowing yourself too much identification with NPCs:

It’s a dangerous game to love that which has stats and therefore can be killed.

Actually, that last panel of FFN has another good line, too.  It’s one of the better webcomics out there; a shame that it’s just once a week.

Anonymously, of course.  The next Democratic staffer who has the guts to attack a conservative woman to her face will be the first.

The DNC, the political wing of a president who launched his campaign decrying slash-and-burn campaign tactics, is highlighting new stories about a sex scandal rocking a GOP primary.

[snip]

“We don’t see a thing wrong pointing out when a politician of the other party lies to voters which the story in question shows here,” the spokesman said.

So, how do you know she’s lying, again, Mr. Anonymous Hero? Or was this just covering up for the fact that your staffers can’t tell an internal email list from a external one?

Moe Lane

PS: Your sabotage of the President’s own soaring rhetoric on the need to transcend petty politics is duly noted.

Crossposted to RedState.

The Final Countdown, Europe

You know, I’ve been putting up videos like these since I started the blog, and I still don’t understand the hair.

On why Alexi Giannoulias (D CAND, IL-SEN) still hasn’t managed to release his income tax statements for 2009:

The Giannoulias camp notes that the candidates finances have become increasingly complex because of the failure of Broadway Bank, owned by his family.

I imagine that they would be. After all: obviously, taking a hit of $20M on bad loans to pimps and bookies would be a loss; but what kind of loss? I’m not a tax attorney, so I’m not up on that kind of arcana.

Moe Lane

PS: Mark Kirk for Senate. Because Republicans aren’t allowed to muck about with their tax returns.

Stupid, stupid allergies.

Air conditioning is the bane of my existence.

In context, I believe that it refers to ‘male nudity,’ which is apparently merely one of the things* that one can encounter in Dante’s Inferno… and wasn’t there a version of this available for the PC? Not that I could play it right now anyway.
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