Moe Lane

We Belong, Pat Benatar

…You know, I still think that the green gloves represent a reference to forbidden – and possibly unsavory – Tibetan mystical traditions.

My friend and colleague Baseball Crank wrote a very good piece on Bruce Springsteen, and why conservatives still love him in spite of his unfortunate political opinions. I agree with the article, but it was kind of redundant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3J-JGO24bo

I mean, really. It’s the Boss. He’s just that good.

Moe Lane

PS: The best part of that video starts at about 1:11. There’s something about a crowd of 100K happily laughing at their inability to sing along with each other.

Just watched Inception for the first time, actually.

(pause)

Dude.

And so good-bye to Die Hard.  Yeah, I know, took me long enough.

[UPDATE] Welcome, Instapundit and Hot Air readers.

I have a rule of thumb: if I write a post on a topic, and I get either hate mail or hate posts about it, then I’m onto something. Well, yesterday I wrote a post on Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik’s rather strange tactical decision to imply that the Chinese were behind Jared Loughner’s attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords*, and I got both.  Apparently, the Left was not too happy at my suggestion that Sheriff Dupnik’s re-election chances have taken a fatal hit; which was perhaps a bit surprising, because I’ve had Arizona political mavens tell me that Dupnik’s typically seen as being fairly safe.

Well, about that: perhaps Dupnik’s not all that safe after all.  You see, reportedly Loughner had a history of making public death threats that been ignored by the Pima County Sheriff’s Department.

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…here.  Basically a look at the way British female conductors dressed back in the beginning of the Twentieth Century (specifically, their boots – it’s the Manolo, which means shoe-blogging), with an added comparison with the frankly monstrous uniform that they make Amtrak employees wear.

I had an interesting conversation with my wife about this, actually: she feels that the Amtrak uniform may just have been a particularly bad example.  Personally, from my experience riding the rails it was pretty representative, but that was years ago.  More to the point, there’s a question: obviously we don’t want people being sexually harassed at work, but is there some other option in fighting that besides having women dress in ill-fitting and aesthetically displeasing clothing?

I don’t actually have an answer, sorry.

…and the (NSFW) is all you need, huh?  I’m being serious about that tag, by the way: much of the stuff that progressive activists have drawn, written, sculpted, filmed, and said over the years are the sort of things that really should have earned their drawers, writers, sculptors, filmers, and speakers a routine talk with the US Secret Service.  Because you never know when a Ted Rall or a Jill Greenberg might morph into a Jared Loughner…

(H/T: Hot Air)

Well… OK, it’d be called ‘Redneck Jedi’ – which I don’t want to call it, because people would be using ‘redneck’ as a pejorative, and that’s not cool.  But by GOD I would happily play a lightsaber video game that had a soundtrack like this:

The problem would be in finding somebody like Pat McManus to write the storyline.  Although… you could actually get Pat McManus to write the storyline, then have somebody tart it up with the obsessive attention to detail that is a hallmark of the Star Wars universe.

There seems to be a little confusion – to be charitable about it – about precisely why the Republican party insisted on reading the Constitution out at the beginning of the 112th Congress. It’s not actually that complicated, really. It was because of idiots like this from the 111th Congress:

That’s Phil Hare from Illinois. If you can’t see the video: this fellow was so clueless about the US Constitution that he couldn’t tell where it ended and the Declaration of Independence began.  Which is embarrassing enough, but as Glenn Reynolds noted in passing elsewhere there were a lot of idiots in Congress who were demonstrating a similar lack of elementary understanding of the actually rather straightforward document that they were operating under.  And it wasn’t just legislators: the Volokh Conspiracy discovered this gem by Dana Milbank where Milbank quite relentlessly demonstrated that he knows less about the history of the suffrage movement than the people he’s sneering at. (more…)

Hey, new year and all that.

One Thing, Finger Eleven

Via Ace of Spades and Mediate, here’s Tuscon Sheriff Dupnik’s… sub-optimal… interview with Megyn Kelly. Pay close attention to his commentary at about 5:15, where he implicitly blames the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Giffords on the Chinese. (more…)

For those who missed it – or forgot about it, given yesterday’s events – the State Department had decided to replace Mother/Father on passport applications and other documents with Parent One/Parent Two.  Leaving aside the question of why I’m supposed to care if somebody’s offended by the old description…

No, seriously: why am I supposed to care? That I even ask that question will get some people huffy, but you know something?  I think a level of sufficient triviality has been reached at this point that I’m not feeling obligated to feel bad that somebody else feels bad about this.  The universe is notoriously unfair.  Be grateful if State Department paperwork language is the most outrageous thing in your life.

…anyway, leaving aside my essential indifference to the ‘suffering’ implied herein, quick question: which parent gets to be Parent One, and which one is stuck with being Parent Two? (more…)

(Via Big Government) The Pogues’ version is good, but I like Erick Bogle’s better.