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Fairly impressively: the guy at Tech Support was stumped to a degree that was almost flattering.  I have to get the thing looked at tomorrow at an Apple Store: I figure that the best case scenario is a full memory wipe and reload the apps.

Fun…

…mostly because I cannot tell how much of the ‘cult is a technical term in this context’ explanation/excuse is or is not unmitigated BS: but I do know one thing. When you are an actual conservative who is on Bill Maher’s show and he’s being nice to you, you have effed up somehow.

Particularly when high fives are involved.

It’s been reported that Jon Huntsman has decided to boycott the Nevada CNN debate next Tuesday as part of a larger pushback against Nevada’s moving up its caucus date. I applaud this act of principle, and encourage all other Republican candidates** to follow suit immediately.

In fact… this problematical situation vis a vis the creeping primary dates have gotten so out of hand that the only reasonable thing to do at this point is to have all Republican candidates*** refuse to do any more debates at all until the state GOP parties resolve this issue.

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Via Instapundit comes this set of advice on how to deal with Internet criticism. Personally, I’m a firm believer in mocking and attempting to monetize the trolls; that episode with whatshername, the Wisconsin bigot author, was pretty fun. Particularly since the fairly laughable attempt to ‘go viral’ on me in retribution is just going to be great raw grist for my panel appearance next month at BlogCon ’11.

Yes, there’s somebody out there RIGHT NOW that’s fuming about me cheekily pointing that out. They should just be grateful that it’s hard for me to put up a PayPal link when I’m using my iPad 2. Which I got via egging on the trolls, as the rest of you may remember.

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PS: Speaking of BlogCon ’11 and iPads: I think that I may actually be able to use the latter for recording interviews during the former! This will be very cool, if I can manage it: I’ve wanted to actually use this thing as a tool and not a toy since I got it.

DO NOT WANT.

(pause)

Unless I can have Varric on the squad. Then it’ll be OK.

This post reminds me of something that I should note: while I happen to have my own issues with RightNetwork, none of those issues apply to Dan Collins and Joy McCann of the Conservatory. They did a good job with the old site, and I’m glad to see that they kept up with the new one. Check them out.

It’s the alt-text that does it for me.  Although my favorite types of music are still mostly sold via CD.

Still, I forget who, but somebody once mourned the death of vinyl mostly because it also meant the end of the glory days of album covers…

What charming people.

Just a short while after protesters learned they’d be able to stay in Zuccotti Park indefinitely, violence broke out as a group marched away from it.

Protesters, apparently jubilant over being able to stay in the park after their furious cleanup efforts, took their brooms, flags and signs and started fanning out at around 7:30 a.m.

1010 WINS’ Steve Sandberg reported the protesters were saying things to the effect that now that they’d cleaned up the park, they were going to clean up Wall Street.

Ah, a variation of the old sign trick: “It’s not a club. It’s a broom.”  Nice to see that the old traditions of the bloodthirsty Mob are being updated for the modern age.  One wonders how they’ll find an acceptable substitute for cobblestones…

Via Don Surber, via @laborunionrpt.

Because we know those guys like to do that in public, too.  Particularly when it comes to police cars.

Sorry: this particular bit of mangled vocabulary was from the spokesman for Occupy Boston, who is gamely trying to explain why his group shouldn’t be held responsible for the fact that a couple of people came out of Occupy Boston’s fetid squatters’ city to attack an uniformed Coast Guard member.  Apparently, the Collective is united in all things, except when the Collective does something vicious and stupid, whereupon the Collective abruptly shatters and you should just blame the individuals involved, not the Collective which is even now reforming…

Exit question: why the heck is it that they can never seem to find people to do these things who have an adequate grasp of Standard English?

Second exit question: I just checked Elizabeth Warren’s (rather bland and pedestrian) website, and there is no condemnation of the attack on the Coast Guard member.  Was she going to that anytime soon? – Given her support of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and everything.  I mean, I don’t want to suggest that Warren takes the position that to support a goal means that you support the means to that goal, but silence does imply consent…

I have a bunch of stuff to do to prepare for this weekend.  Nobody in the public eye do anything today, OK?

It’s a They Might Be Giants groove, apparently.

Dead, They Might Be Giants

LITERAL spitting.

[UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers.]

I ask this because back at the beginning of October Ms. Warren seemed to be very much in favor of the entire Occupy Wall Street ‘thing.’ As the Boston Globe noted: “All of the candidates expressed support for the controversial protesters who are part of the “Occupy Boston” movement downtown.”

The question then becomes: does that support include the members of Occupy Boston who went after a Coast Guard woman in uniform today? (more…)