Moe Lane

Background here and here and here. AFTER THE FOLD you will find the video… which is gloriously insane, as one would expect of a Weird Al parody of a Lady Gaga song.  But I don’t like causing SAN loss without a warning; hence, the after-the-fold.

Also, I need to pick up Alpocalypse at some point.  Maybe with some of that extra ad revenue from this month… (more…)

Dear God, but I have saved a ridiculous number of pages to tabs. This may end up being a RedState banning video: haven’t decided yet.

[*Doug Stewart in comments came up with a much better title.]

This has apparently been a problem for some time.

Health Canada is once again reminding Canadians of the health risks of buying and using “fresh” semen donations, this time pointing out the risks of obtaining the semen through the Internet.

Did I mention that people apparently want to make sure that I see the weirdest stuff? Including stuff that I would have been just as happy not to know about? – Not that this is particularly squicky, or anything; it’s just… well, it’s the shadowy, underground, world of illicit sperm transactions, and I didn’t really expect to be typing out those words when I woke up this morning.

I’m not sure why.

Kickstarter: Oh My God! There’s An Axe In My Head – The Board Game

They’re almost at their target goal, with about two weeks to go.

The universe is hereby forbidden to do anything sufficiently outrageous or noteworthy that I absolutely have to cover it: it’s the last Tuesday in August, for crying out loud.  Surely Fate, Karma, and/or Destiny can slack off one day.

No, I mean it.  Go watch Nosferatu or something (yeah, YouTube’s trying to get into the instant movie business).

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PS: Shadow of the Vampire was an excellent take on this flick, by the way.

I really didn’t do this one already?

White & Nerdy, Weird Al Yankovic

Really?

“Getting a new item pack for your Dragon Age 2 characters” is pretty much semantically equivalent to “buying new dresses for your dolls,” isn’t it?

I know, I know: they’re not dolls, they’re action figures.

…and I don’t know where that quote comes from.  Toy Story? Small Soldiers?

This is, of course, the special election called for NY-09; the seat was vacated after incumbent Democrat Anthony Weiner got caught showing his to his Twitter followers.  There was supposed to be a debate tonight, but it’s been canceled at the last second.  Bob Turner‘s (the Republican candidate) campaign is calling said cancellation ‘hiding‘ – which is what I’d call it, myself.

Weprin is blaming Hurricane Tropical Storm Irene for the cancellation (I’ll let New Yorkers on the scene decide whether that’s a legitimate excuse), but there’s widespread suspicion that the real reason that Weprin is dodging the debate is because there’s only one real answer to the question “Why did you think that the national debt’s only four trillion, Davey?” – and that’s “Because David Weprin thinks that the universe started on January 20, 2009*.” (more…)

Well, that was shockingly useful of it.

I mention this because I go off on this thing often enough that I need to credit it when the iPad2 saves my butt on something. Which the GPS just did.

- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

Looks like that might happen.  Only ‘temporarily,’ of course.

Astronauts may need to temporarily withdraw from the International Space Station before the end of this year if Russia is unable to resume manned flights of its Soyuz rocket after a failed cargo launch last week, according to the NASA official in charge of the outpost.

Mind you, ‘temporarily’ in bureaucrat-speak means ‘a unit of time ranging from the sound of the beep [beep!] to five minutes before the end of time…’

Via Glenn Reynolds.

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PS: Hey, do you know what 787 billion dollars could have bought us in 2009?  A functional manned space program!  Then we and the ISS wouldn’t be dependent on the Russians’ ability to launch rockets that don’t blow up!  No, wait, forgot: Texas, Alabama, and Florida won’t be voting Democratic in the next Presidential election.  Never mind…

“Tweet of the Day,” obviously.

“Where in Hades did Apple get designer sandbags for their NY store?”

…Yup, they had ‘em.  I’ll avoid writing the first three snide things that popped in my head.

Via Ashley’s Blog.

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…with dhimmi self-beclowners… including one spectacular reductio ad Huntsmanian argument.  If you don’t feel like clicking the link, it goes like this: if you’re going to decide that sufficient levels of hanging with Grover Norquist is a troubling sign of dhimmitude, then – due to the influence of ATR – you’re going to inevitably end up supporting… Jon Huntsman, who is the only Republican candidate of the bunch who won’t sign Grover’s tax pledge*.

I suspect that this would generally be considered a suboptimal result by the target demographic in question.

Anyway, there are times when I enjoy posting stuff, and there are times when I feel wearily obligated to post stuff.  The latter applies in this case; honestly, Ace has better things to do than this, and frankly so do I.  Which is why this is going in RedHot in RS, despite the fact that Ace wrote a crackerjack post here…

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*Link goes to Ace because Crooks & Liars doesn’t deserve the traffic.  By the way: if C&L loves you as a candidate, then you’ve done something horribly, horribly wrong.