Month: August 2015

Q. How do you turn junk into treasure?

A. Bury it in the desert:

A cache of Atari game cartridges, including copies of one of the worst video games ever made, have sold for more then $100,000 after being discovered in a landfill site in the desert.

The ‘one of the worst video games ever made’ thing, of course, refers to E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. A landfill copy sold for $1,535 – which is weird, because if you click on that lin you’ll see that you can get in on Amazon for around eighty bucks.  Not that you should spend eighty bucks on that game either, by all accounts…

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Seattle Uber users can still get a Mad Max car to pick them up.

The promotion lasts until tomorrow.

The new MAD MAX video game is coming out on September 1st and we’re working with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment to give you an adventure like no other! Buckle up, hunker down, and prepare to live life as a Wasteland Warrior.

WHEN AND WHERE

Friday, August 28th through Monday, August 31st from 10am-6pm in downtown Seattle

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Doug Schoen’s off-tune whistling through the graveyard of Hillary Clinton’s electoral hopes.

If this is literally all that the Democrats have to work with, then they’re in trouble:

Democrats have won the popular vote in five of the last six national elections and with 17 Republican candidates, and the specter of Donald trump looming above it all, it’s hard to believe that even a weakened Clinton would be unelectable.

Continue reading Doug Schoen’s off-tune whistling through the graveyard of Hillary Clinton’s electoral hopes.

Larry Kudlow contemplates running against Richard Blumenthal in CT-SEN.

Interesting: “Conservative economist and media figure Larry Kudlow says he’s talked to national Republicans about running for Senate in Connecticut.” I mean, I don’t know if Larry Kudlow would win. But the mere fact that Senator Richard Blumenthal is generating this kind of anger over his looming vote for the Iran deal is pretty significant on its own. I’m starting to think that the Democrats don’t really realize how little the rest of the country wants to treat the Iran situation as Business As Usual.

:murmuring: Such a pity.

Via

Mt. McKinley: political Cialis for Barack Obama.

I know, I know: I’m supposed to be outraged that Barack Obama is unilaterally changing the name of our tallest mountain from Mt. McKinley back* to Denali. But I can’t. I well and truly can’t.

electile dysfunction barack obama

Electile dysfunction is no joke.

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*I presume. For all we know the actual name was something like That Big-Ass Mountain Over There. Heck, apparently Alaskans themselves want the new name.

‘Welcome To New York.’

I could make an AWESOME post-apocalypse video using this song.  Well, except for the minor problem that I don’t know the first thing about shooting a movie. Also, this is as close to a non-distorted version as you’re likely to find online.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWlRWoGjYC4

Hey, I own the album. Apparently a goodly number of getting-to-be-old-farts-like-me do.

Welcome To New York, Taylor Swift

DNC trying to insulate itself from Iran disaster. Or maybe just Debbie Wasserman Schultz is.

Well, this is interesting: “Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz blocked consideration of a resolution at the party’s summer meeting that would have praised President Obama and backed the his nuclear deal with Iran, The Washington Post reported Saturday, citing unnamed sources.” Probably irrelevant, but still interesting. It makes one wonder how the Iran deal is doing in the Democrats’ internal polling, at the very least. Continue reading DNC trying to insulate itself from Iran disaster. Or maybe just Debbie Wasserman Schultz is.

The ‘Risen’ trailer.

So apparently somebody in Hollywood stopped dead in his tracks recently and said Hey. Evangelical Christians have money, right? Think they’d go see a gritty flick about a Roman Tribune sent to track down the body of Jesus Christ? Just gotta make sure it’s, you know, respectful and [expletive deleted]*. 

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A PSA for anybody reading this Daily Beast article on Hillary Clinton and guns.

Found here [H/T: Hot Air Headlines, sorry]. Anyway, the article neglects to mention that:

  • The expiration of the so-called ‘assault weapons ban’ had no effect on gun violence in the United States;
  • Gun violence has been steadily declining in the United States for the last twenty years anyway;
  • And Hillary Clinton – like pretty much every other gun control activist out there – has yet to come up with a plan to limit guns that will only target people who break laws.

They also neglect to mention that Vermont has virtually no gun crime, despite the fact that it’s full of hippies with guns, but that’s probably just regular old cognitive dissonance, there.

Tweet of the Day, Here Is Today’s Lesson In Physics, Class edition.

(Via @EdDriscoll) Newton’s Third Law: For every action there is an equal, and opposite reaction.

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