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The one spoken of here.  I was wondering where it was, and now I know.

Dear God, do I know.

THIS GAME NEEDS A BETTER TUTORIAL.

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PS: Other than that, it’s awesome. Once I figured out how to hit things. And pick up things. And find things. And do every other thing that worked perfectly well in The Witcher Enhanced, not that I thought that at the time…

So, this guy thinks that the Smurfs are racists, sexists, and anti-Semites. I dunno, man: they are Belgian, after all… and God knows that the Belgians have pretty much lost any right to the benefit of the doubt when it comes to racial sensitivity issues.  On the other hand, so have post-modernists, although admittedly the pomos have a considerably smaller direct body count.

On the gripping hand, as somebody once said: Charlie don’t smurf, man.

Charlie don’t smurf.

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Via Hot Air Headlines.

Very possibly: the proposed district includes Arlington, which is where Michael Williams lives, and it would certainly help resolve the embarrassment-of-riches problem that Texas conservatives are having with regard to the upcoming Senate race. The key will be whether the proposed congressional maps go through or not… and let us simply say that the new Texas redistricting maps are interesting.

Well, hey, Illinois.

Still: no secret that I – and RedState – like Michael, or that we would all breathe a happy sigh of relief if we didn’t actually have to choose between him and Ted Cruz for TX-SEN.  Michael is a good guy who is pretty strong on energy policy: having him in the House in 2013 would be fantastic, particularly if it’s in conjunction with a Republican Senate and/or White House.  Guess we’ll see how that turns out.

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The Taiwanese Animated Video People have been apprised of the situation.

(pause)

DOOM.

Via the indispensable Ace of Spades HQ.

This is the live feed:

I’ll get a transcript of the speech up when I find it; it’s not yet up on Mitt Romney’s campaign site.

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“Listen up, fellas: Naked man-parts? Not so sexy.”

We polled some women. Really, they would like to see . . .

“I would like a photo of a made bed,” says Kathryn Roberts, who works at a law firm in Washington. “I would take rose petals, but I want them on top of a made bed.” And not that fake kind of made, either, where the comforter is smooth but the sheets are a jumbled mess.

“Or laundry,” adds her friend Andrea Neurohr.

“Folded laundry,” elaborates Roberts. “Maybe in a wicker basket.”

I’ve seen this sentiment in tweets, emails, a call from my wife… which last one hurt, because if there’s any pictures of my junk out there it’s going to be news to me.  Anyway, I think that we can safely assume that this Weinergate thing has hit the mainstream.  Also, that there’s a lot of men out there laboring under the apparent delusion that women want to see their junk.  God, we really are descended from plains apes, huh?

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Surrender, Cheap Trick

Since we’re talking about songs for civic use.

For showing me this.

Wow.

Why The Year at Maple Hill Farm?  Easy: I loved this book as a child, and I had to take a picture of the quilt that my mother made from scratch for my firstborn anyway.

Thus making the choice obvious, or at least nostalgia-laden.  And I mean nostalgia-laden: I was irrationally angry about the fact that somebody over at Amazon gave that book only four stars.

And so, adieu to The Meowmorphosis.  Which, honestly, I’m having difficulty getting into.

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Freshman Republican Jeff Landry (LA), on why he passed up a chance to meet with the President:

“I have respectfully declined the president’s invitation to the White House today,” Rep. Jeff Landry (La.) said in a statement. “I don’t intend to spend my morning being lectured to by a president whose failed policies have put our children and grandchildren in a huge burden of debt.”

Worse, Landry would have been tediously lectured to… although I must admit that President Obama is a bit of an expert on debt.  After all, he’s had plenty of recent hands-on experience in creating it.

And it’s going to be the funniest article you’re going to read all day.  To paraphrase Douglas Adams, she wrote it for the Guardian in order to relentlessly get the record wrong on a couple of key points involving the rising Weinergate scandal, starting with trying to pretend that anyone with a triple digit IQ is taking seriously the conspiracy theory that the whole thing was a fake.  And it only gets better from there, for given values of ‘better’: apparently, reporting on somebody taking a picture of his genitals and sending it to a coed is sexual harassment against women.  Not the picture taking, or the sending of the picture; reporting on it.

Put another way, I’m not asking what color the sky is in Marcotte’s world solely because I already know the answer.  Plaid.  Puke-green, and bronchitis-yellow, plaid.  God help anybody who actually has to rely on the Guardian for his or her information on this issue…

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Pretty cool: and if you’re wondering why we never developed them, it’s apparently because the human operator couldn’t handle the strain of thinking like a four-legged critter.

But, you know: fifty years is a long time when it comes to the state of the art in computer technology.  It might be worth looking at this thing again.