Quote of the Day, Well, When You Put It THAT Way edition.

Seriously, was this a case where nobody actually said a version of the next sentence aloud until quite recently? “Actor Will Ferrell has backed out of a movie that would have made light of President Ronald Reagan‘s battle with Alzheimer’s after the premise received condemnation.”  …Seriously, what did Ferrell think was going to happen? The American people largely have decided that Reagan was awesome and Alzheimer’s sucks; whose bright idea was it to use the latter to make jokes about the former?

Note that I’m not even angry – Will Ferrell has no chance at permanently changing people’s minds about, well, anyone or anything –  just disapproving and bemused. It seemed a… poor career choice for the man. I mean, Anchorman can buy only a finite amount of goodwill…

Can’t get Powergramo to work with Skype again.

Powergramo is what I use to record interviews on Skype.  Currently, Powergramo loads up, shows me the window that suggests that it’s creating a file of the call, but it won’t record calls – or maybe it won’t save them. I’m been fiddling with it for a couple hours and I’m done now, thanks. Anybody have any thoughts? I’m willing to accept ‘get something else besides Powergramo to record your Skype calls,’ if it’s not too dear.

The OTHER Tweet of the Day, Stupid Venezuelan Socialists edition.

I don’t often say this, but: damn, but I wish I had written that.

I mean, that’s just a beautiful line. It’s almost perfect. I’d sit for a few minutes and just beam at the screen if I ever wrote anything like that.

Tweet of the Day, Carly Fiorina Has An Excellent Backhand edition.

And, really: what the heck is Donald Trump gonna be able to say in response?

So my kid got the NERF Vortex PRAXIS Blaster for his birthday…

…thanks to an indulgent grandparent, and I’m pretty impressed by it.

Easy cocking/firing action for a kid, pretty accurate with the disks, and the quick-release magazine is actually, you know, a quick-release magazine. The NERF state of the art continues to impress me. Now all I have to do is make my son understand that, no, this is not an ‘AK-47.’ …Yesm I know: it looks nothing like one. Didn’t I just say that I have to work on that?

Apparently, Andrea Tantaros has been fired.

I’ll be honest: all I know about her is that she’s a Trump supporter on Fox who starts fights with people on Twitter. Oh, and that the other day Neal Dewing did a dramatic reading of excerpts from her latest book that had half my timeline in stitches. And that apparently she’s blaming National Review Online for her fall from Fox:

I don’t think that I could ever get anybody fired. I mean, I’m not even sure that I’d know where to begin. Besides, what would I do if the person I was delivering the ‘fire this person’ ultimatum says ‘no’?

Senator Mike Lee is a bad person to make your enemy.

I’ve met him and interviewed him a couple of times, so I can say this from experience: Senator Mike Lee is a good guy. He’s also likely to be in the Senate for as long as he cares to be, and he plans to do things while he’s there. Listening to Senator Lee get good and steamed in this Mark Levin interview should make a careful man thoughtful. Because this issue ain’t going away any time soon, election or no election.

This legal brief defending the right to use the Klingon language…

…is everything that you dreamed it would be. EVERYTHING. I’m perhaps prejudiced by my upbringing and inclinations, but: I don’t think Paramount has a great case, here. I don’t know that they don’t have a case at all, because I’m not a lawyer – but I don’t know what they expect to get out of it, either.

Via Popehat.

Moe Lane

PS: No, I’m not going to make any puns in Klingon. I don’t speak it.