Category: Not-politics

Captain Obvious, President Obama, and our unsustainable debt.

Herself of Maenianum Secundum categorizes her response to President Obama’s recent comments about our ‘unsustainable‘ debt load as ‘Captain Obvious‘:

Solution: Stop spending and then we won’t need to borrow any more money.

You’d think that it would be a Captain Obvious moment, wouldn’t you?  Alas, my own (depressing) experience has shown me that there’s a whole list of things that people should know, but don’t know, because everybody who could have told them had assumed that it was already common knowledge.  So, here goes:

Spending more money than you have is a bad idea.  You will eventually need to find a way to pay it all off, and all of the ways of doing so are deliberately designed to be not fun.

So, don’t do that.

As I said: depressing that this is necessary.

Moe Lane

PS: Honestly, if I had the money I’d send a copy of How Much Is a Million? to every freaking member of Congress and the White House. I suspect that part of the problem is that they don’t conceptualize the money being tossed around.

Crossposted to RedState.

A look from Wikipedia from the inside.

Via Instapundit comes this series of Volokh Conspiracy guest-posts on the topic of Wikipedia by an administrator of Wikipedia – an electronic entity that many if not most of the readers of this site don’t particularly trust*.  The author (one Newyorkbrad) knows this himself, which is why he has been providing TVC with basic explanations of the internal self-monitoring system, what the various levels of access are, and some of the philosophical disputes going on inside the site.  Essentially, he’s trying to demystify the whole thing for people.

If I had been asked for advice on this topic – which I wasn’t – I would have to say that the best way for people to handle perceived flaws in Wikipedia would be roughly similar to what I counseled people to do with the GOP; join up, make yourself useful, then start providing balance to the discussion. They’ll probably be overjoyed to see you and you can finally set the record straight on 18th Century coal mining techniques.

Moe Lane

*This statement is equally accurate for RedState.com & MoeLane.com. The non-political wiki wars can be just as epic.

Crossposted to RedState.

Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus. (With Trailer!)

Starring Deborah Gibson*, damn your eyes. And Lorenzo Lamas**.

I’d like to think that at a certain point at the storyboard meeting, somebody looked at the picture of a giant shark in the act of doing something that was, frankly, an absolutely inappropriate example of shark-like behavior (you’ll know it when you see it in the trailer below), and making an objection. And then there was a pause, and then one of the other people would break that pause by saying, “Bob. The movie is called Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus.”

And so it is.  It comes out direct-to-video on the 19th; the Tribulation is scheduled to begin precisely six hours later.  Please schedule your End Times accordingly.

Moe Lane

*Shame? What’s that?

**I spared you the Playgirl link. Be grateful for my forbearance.
I SAID BE GRATEFUL!