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I just used the video in the process of excising a troll in comments here (for those not clicking through, it’s a reaction to Think Progress’ rather tawdry public hate-masturbation over dead people in Alabama*).  For those without video, it’s one from 2008 where former DNC chair Don Fowler has himself a good laugh about how the possibility of another devastating hurricane in New Orleans was great news for his political faction.

Just a reminder that it’s amazing what Democrats will say in public. The good news? Never having to worry about being raked over the coals for everything that you say rots IQ points like nobody’s business.

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*Because global warming did it (and never mind FEMA), so this was some sort of rough justice. I’d say that this is unique: but, well, Michael Moore and his complaint to al-Qaeda that they targeted buildings in cities that voted for Gore.  So, well, no.

You no doubt remember the brouhaha last week when several activists at a San Francisco embarrassed themselves and the President by (badly) singing a whining complaint about the administration’s treatment of Bradley Manning. At the time, it was widely assumed that the White House would simply shrug off said whining complaint: after all (and as the singers themselves had made clear), the President could still count on the protesters’ money, time, energy, and votes. In fact, given the general triviality of the situation, President Obama would need to have a very, very, very thin skin indeed in order to make plausible a scenario where he lashed out at somebody for the embarrassment.

Yes. About that. (more…)

…and I don’t much care about all that much, sorry.  Not a bad don’t much care; more like I’m trying to calculate the best way to score a cold drink and a nap.

All I Want Is You, U2

If you want a definition of adulthood, here you go: it’s the process by which heartfelt ballads of adolescent, inchoate desire become lullabies sung to your children in order to get them back to sleep.

It’s annoying how much that process doesn’t, in point of fact, suck.

[UPDATE: CORRECTION! CORRECTION! CORRECTION! AN ALERT READER POINTS OUT THAT GLENN REYNOLDS HAD IN POINT OF FACT SPECIFIED "EVIL NINJAS!"  I THUS APOLOGIZE TO GLENN REYNOLDS FOR THE ERROR, AND WILL NOW EXPIATE MY SHAME BY GETTING THE COFFEEPOT* READY FOR TOMORROW. - ML]

Surely Glenn Reynolds knows that ninja have historically been familiar with firearms for centuries; so clearly any good, patriotic American ninja would see no problem in belonging to the National Rifle Association – particularly since doing so would also help a ninja guarantee his Second Amendment rights.  Not to mention Concealed Carry… and, honestly: if you can’t trust a ninja to be responsible and careful about the weapons that he bears, then who can you trust?

I will readily admit that evil ninja would be well-advised to avoid the NRA, but that’s a different story altogether.

Honestly, I don’t know what Glenn was thinking, there.

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*[Because I have none.]

…Wait.  What?

Pub singer arrested for racism after Chinese passers-by hear him perform Kung Fu Fighting

…and that’s pretty much the article, right there.  Jimmie Bise (who is on Hot Air duty this week) approves on aesthetic grounds (the guy who got arrested is a keytar player*), but not on freedom of expression ones.  Personally, I’m happy to have a written Constitution with a reasonably rock-solid freedom-of-speech clause… yes, yes, I’m sure that you have seven billion outrageously outraged (to quote Hot Air again) examples otherwise.  Still, I can put this up:

…without worrying about a knock on the door.

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*I believe that it’s been long-established that I have no shame.

Monkeytail beards.

Because someone will go into a bar wearing one of those, and somebody else will be drunk – as is often the case with bars – and that someone else will attempt to rip off the obviously-fake beard off of the somebody, and that’s when people start smashing up beer bottles and grabbing pool cues.

Mark my words.

Via @anthropocon.

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Ralph Nader: “Barack Obama will win a second term!”

Me: “Dude.  Sex with pandas.”

See?  That is what an ad hominem attack looks like.  All you people out there who can’t tell one from merely being directly insulted should take note.

I was going to hit this Political Punch post about the President ‘telling an untruth’ about why he finally released his long-form birth certificate, and I was going to point out this Ace of Spades HQ post noting that the network that obsesses most about Birthers was MSNBC – only Jim Geraghty hit this in his Morning Briefing, so read that instead.

But I’ll note this: if President Obama’s getting all of his information from MSNBC, it would explain handily why he thinks that the media was obsessing over his birth certificate; the people at MSNBC were, and it was warping their coverage of the President (something like 9.2% of MSNBC’s total coverage last week was on birthers).  I recommend that if the President would like to get a better idea of what people are talking about, then maybe Obama should try a less biased, and more mainstream, news source.

Like, say, Fox News.

(Via Instapundit) EconStories has another one of their extremely good Keynes v. Hayek videos up:

My only issue with this series is that it’s fairly obvious that the creators are fundamentally on Hayek’s side… and while they do (I think) a credible job of being fair to Keynes it would be helpful for the economic debate if there was somebody who was ready to as passionately, entertainingly, and creatively argue Keynesian theory on its own merits.  Of course, there is some argument whether Keynes himself would be comfortable with some of the stuff done in his name these days…

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Most of that is from Alabama, which was hit hard by the storms – but most of the rest of the southeastern part of the country has been hit by the storms, so if you were planning to contribute to the American Red Cross this Christmas, well, they could probably use the help a little sooner than that.

My prayers and good wishes for everyone hurt by this tragedy.  And remember: always keep a supply of fresh water, batteries, and other disaster relief supplies handy! You may not live in a tornado zone, but there’s always something.

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Paradise By The Dashboard Light, Meat Loaf

This song has a strange and eldritch power over those of my generation.  And we don’t know why.