It’s just a broom. That made CNN.
Via Breitbart TV.
I actually like video shorts like this: while they are admittedly taking up resources that CNN might use to report on real news, I’m not precisely impressed with the way that CNN reports on real news. At least this way the Alabama lady maybe gets a few more customers for her shop…
Moe Lane
Lileks, of course. On vacation. A small taste:
I looked in the window, beheld the dash and the seat-cover patterns, and I was a young man again, speeding down I-94, smoking Barclays, doing a madcap 59 MPH. Oh, the 70s.
Hot Hot Hot
Marvel at the sartorial wonders of 1987 – and no, I have no idea whether that was actually Bill Murray in there. It could have been.
It being Sunday, we replace Terry Pratchett’s Unseen Academicals
Well, according to this Twitter entry, they are – so Chinese zoo workers are trying to get them to exercise more. The only confirmation of this that I have had so far is this, which is a year old.
I know that even writing this may violate an unstated taboo, but at some point we may have to ask if giant pandas actually want to avoid extinction. It’s like they keep coming up with ways to provoke natural selection into deselecting them; if they looked like opossums – or even squirrels, which aren’t actually ugly-looking – the panda would have long since left the Circle of Life. So… are we just encouraging more and more self-destructive evolutionary behaviors with our misguided altruism? Have we trapped ourselves in a codependent relationship with a bamboo-chewing species of lazy nihilists? Are we enablers?
Moe Lane
PS: That being said, Suicidal Pandas would be a good name for a band.
Let’s fix that. And no, I won’t spoil the surprise.
Via @allahpundit, who has somehow managed to do the impossible: find an aspect of the Michael Jackson story that I felt compelled to comment on. That took some doing, not to mention SAN loss.
Yeah. Rock music for nerds, as they themselves say. What’s your point?
…although here you go:
Anyway: did Leoncardo DiCaprio stop sucking as an actor while I wasn’t paying attention? He doesn’t normally star in films that I’d watch – Gangs of New York
The latest in reality shows: The Colony: It’s Post-apocalyptic Virus House!
The premise: There’s been a massive plague that’s killed off most of the human population, and these ten survivors, all strangers, have to try to start rebuilding from scratch, using only what they know about the world and what they can find in the warehouse they’ve chosen as their home and the areas around it. There is very little to eat, the water has to be filtered because the main source is the poisonous and sludgy Los Angeles River, which is hardly even a river anymore, so much as it’s a chemical runoff ditch for the whole city.
The excerpts I’ve seen so far here and here are producing a fine level of scorn and derision from my wife the engineer; the bit about ‘controlled experiment’ alone was good for a three-minute rant. Also: biker gangs, and it’s apparently the aftermath of a biological outrbreak – but no zombies. Aside from the unwillingness to go Full Metal Gonzo with the premise, well, everything is better with zombies.
Moe Lane
My only real worry about this movie:
…(based on the non-fiction book of the same name
As to the merits of the programs described in either movie or book: I figure that if we had troops who could kill goats with their minds we’d have heard about it by now. Forget keeping it quiet: the US military would mass-deploy that on a black-box basis just as soon as the results were replicable.
Moe Lane
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