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You know, I probably watched this show at precisely the wrong psychological moment for my emotional/aesthetic development.

Now ask me if I care.  Go ahead.  Ask. (more…)

I REPEAT, THE MCRIB HAS BEEN SIGHTED IN THE BALTIMORE/DC AREA.

I will report into the McRib Locator once I have confirmed this.

[UPDATE] I HAVE PARTAKEN OF THE MCRIB, AND IT WAS GOOD.

And Vice President Joe Biden should be grateful that I respect the office he’s currently occupying too much to respond to this as it deserves:

Biden 2016? VP Says “I’ll Make Up My Mind On That Later”

In point of fact: it’ll be the voters who decide that – and at the rate things are going, by 2016 current White House staffers are going to be falsifying their resumes in order to make it look like they were doing something more respectable for the period between 2009-2013.  I recommend the traditional ‘playing piano in a whorehouse,’ if for no other reason than that they’ll find it surprisingly easy to recycle their war stories…

Via AoSHQ Headlines:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIQipl42FLA (no embed)

As God is my witness, I am not attempting to deny this man his right (well, it’d be his right in the USA) to own and operate an absurdly large hand-cannon that looks like that it came out of a Western-themed MMORPG, and that apparently requires a tripod in order to get at least the first shot off in a reasonably accurate fashion. I am not.  But I am sorry: that gun is kind of silly*.  It is my fond hope that the owner finds it just as silly, and is in fact only firing it in an ironic, post-modern sort of way.

Yes.  Hipster gun owners.  The mind reels at the thought…

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*I suspect that it also resembles the Demon Hand-Gun found in most gun-grabbers’ fevered nightmares.  Only it’s not as large.

…hasty response, abandonment, Sunni – Shi’ite conflict, Republicans cleaning up Democratic messes, Clintonian, short-sighted, parallels to 1990s, abandonment, Cassandra, flawed counter-terrorism policy, Iran, People’s Republic of China, Russia, Uzbekistan, resurgence of Chinese expansionism, resurgence of Russian expansionism, Kurds, Third Gulf War, Fourth Gulf War, Israel, Middle East Conflict, origins of the current crisis, Hi folks: sorry that we messed up things for you a decade or two down the line – but in my personal defense I voted for the other guy in 2008.

Link.

(Via Instapundit) It does not in fact surprise me that a person’s enthusiasm for Communism is usually [directly] proportional to how long it’s been since he or she had to live under it*:

[Estonian finance minister] Parts is vigorous, blonde, and athletic, but seems tired. He tries to conceal a yawn, explaining that he and his wife have just had their fourth child and nights have been short. “Comparisons are always difficult,” he says. “But when [Estonia] finally escaped from Soviet socialism, we were sick and tired of government centralism. We wanted precisely the opposite in all respects: We wanted a transparent state. A country that isn’t constantly intervening, nationalizing businesses, placing a bureaucracy above everything and imposing rules on people in every respect.”

But that’s because I know that Marxism is intellectualism for stupid people. (more…)

Yoda, Weird Al Yankovic

It was on my iPod.  Which is starting to give up the ghost, alas… and damned if I know which one of these iPods I should be unrealistically be ogling.

I have somehow managed to get into a glitch that is more or less impossible to revert, thus stranding me on Nar Shaddaa.  This displeases me, because I was just really starting to get into the game again.

Arrgh.  Guess Deus Ex: Human Revolution is coming off of the to-play pile a little bit early.

You make the call*!

Via Sense of Events, via Instapundit.

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PS: The 911 call that you’re thinking of is this one (language warning):

I believe that this one was fake, at least.

*My wife swears that she’s heard this joke before.

I am in shock. I am in veritable shock. Somebody put together a parody of Simon & Garfunkel’s “Cecelia…”

…that actually scans.

Meanwhile, in other news: it’s just come out that Solyndra made a last minute lobbying effort to influence Congress’s investigation of the company.  Didn’t work, of course – the Republican-led House is in no mood for shenanigans, particularly when they’re shenanigans that started during the Bad Scary Time – but I suppose that they had to try.  But don’t worry: no taxpayer money (provided by a Democratic-led House) was actually paid out to try to influence a Republican-led House.  Solyndra stiffed the lobbyists on the bill, you see.

Well, full points for consistency, at least.

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I swear to God, it’s like the paper remembers that one, perfect high that it got from torpedoing then-Senator George Allen’s re-election run in 2006, and has been chasing the dragon ever since:

• 2009: You all remember the McDonnell/Deeds gubernatorial contest, yes?  You also remember how the WaPo went so all-in on pushing an absurd story that Jim Geraghty started calling it the Washington Bob McDonnell’s Thesis.
• 2011:  The Rick Perry nonsense with regard to the name of a ranch that his family rented hunting rights to.  Notice how that didn’t blow up after all?

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Title chosen with malice aforethought.  The OWS is not exactly known for liking the Gipper.

You gotta wonder whether Governor Moonbeam (known mundanely as Jerry Brown) is going to intervene in the current situation in Oakland. Short version: the city of Oakland is tired of the rat-infested squatting being done by the Occupiers, and wants them gone.  Well, the city wants them to stop camping overnight.  This is a fairly reasonable request, which means that I expect that the Occupiers are going to fight it, tooth and dirty nail.  Possibly literally: you just don’t know how that crowd is going to react, once they realize that they’re spinning their wheels and the movement gets distilled down to the fanatics.

The reason that I wonder whether Gov. Brown is going to intervene is that he used to be the mayor of Oakland.  And do you know how he dealt with rioters, back in the day? (more…)