Author: Moe_Lane

#rsrh QotD, It’s all because of the Jews Edition.

Well, not yet – but when you start blaming shadowy conspiracies for your problems (which is what the Left is doing right now), you’re going to eventually end up talking about the Jooooooooooooos.  It’s the tertiary stage of conspiracy thinking, and once you reach that point, there’s more or less no hope for you.

Anyway.  Here’s Michael Gerson, with his quote:

When an ideology stumbles, its adherents can always turn to alcohol – or to conspiracy theories. It is easier to recover from alcohol.

Mostly because very few people actually want alcoholics to stay on the sauce.  But you can always find a group ready and willing to enable conspiracy thinking –  particularly, again, if they can get you on the path of blaming it all on the Joooooooooooooos.

Via somebody or other; there was a conspiracy today to feed me decaf, so I’ve lost track.

Moe Lane

#rsrh The perfect holiday gift.

Via Chequer-Board (RS alumnus Pejman’s new site; check it out) comes a great concept for presents: underwear with metallic-ink lettering so that the message shows up on a TSA pornoscanner.  Right now all they’ve got is the Fourth Amendment, but this is an idea whose time has come, methinks.

Oh, and read the rest of Pej’s article.  Wonder why Opt-Out Day was reported as a bust?  Well read, and wonder no more.

#rsrh Update on the War on Irish Coffee.

Four Loko is flying off of the shelves. The neo-Puritans* against it are either: adamantly insisting that there’s a meaningful difference between mixing caffeine and booze in a factory and mixing it in a bar (Marin Institute); insisting that there’s not a meaningful difference between mixing caffeine and booze in a factory and mixing it in a bar (SADD); or planning to take the next step of trying to ban mixing caffeine and booze in a bar (WCTU).  And we’re about to see the alcoholic equivalent of Two Live Crew be made into a civil rights issue.

God, but I despise the nanny-staters sometimes I couldn’t think of a situation where I don’t.

Moe Lane

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GM thanks taxpayers for forced bailout.

I would have let you collapse, GM. So there’s no need to thank me for your government seizure. My no doubt naive belief in basic capitalism precludes me from fully appreciating said thanks; or, indeed, appreciating them at all. How much of MY tax money went into making this self-congratulatory paean to Italian-style fascism, by the way?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr94zStsk8E&feature=player_embedded

Whatever it was, it was too much.

Moe Lane (crosspost)
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Pornoscan Congress!

(Via Hot Air Headlines) Ann Coulter is not precisely on my Christmas list – and, in the highly unlikely possibility she knows my name, I would not be on hers – but she makes a darn good suggestion here: if we’re going to randomly pornoscan and/or strip-search fliers then we should blipping well do the same to Members of Congress and their staff when they try to enter Federal buildings.  What’s that you say? They’re not likely to be suicide terrorists?

Funny about that: NEITHER AM I.  And these people work for me.

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The Smug is strong in this foodie article.

[UPDATE]: Welcome, Instapundit readers.

Count me in with Glenn Reynolds about the overwhelming smug that covers this oh-so-pensive worry by a foodie over What Food Says About Class in America. Judging from the article, the first thing that it says about class is that people who make a fetish over what they’re having for dinner often come across as utterly lacking any.

Here’s an especially infuriating bit – which comes from a woman who spends twelve grand a year on food:

“This is our charity. This is my giving to the world,” says Alexandra, finally, as she packs lunchboxes—organic peanut butter and jelly on grainy bread, a yogurt, and a clementine—for her two boys. “We contribute a lot.”

No, this is your indulgence, Alexandra. You’re calling it a ‘charity’ because it makes you feel better. And you aren’t contributing; you’re patronizing… well, I was going to add “…a class of specialized vendors who are happy to cater to your own, luxurious needs” to the end of that sentence, but it works just as well if I don’t. Continue reading The Smug is strong in this foodie article.

Hey, remember ‘liberaltarianism?’

Yeah, turns out that it was Newspeak for ‘libertarians can call themselves what they like, as long as they vote for progressives.’  As soon as the 2010 election results came in that was out, and spitting on libertarians was in.

No, really.

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