The Manolo, he has the picture of the oldest shoe in the world.
He also has proof of National Geographic’s EPIC WIN in their article. Which is pretty epic an EPIC WIN, in its way. Then again, if I was writing for National Geographic I’d shamelessly use that to get high-end quotes, too.
…we have this:
The million mummy question: Why are there a million mummies buried near Snefu’s Seila pyramid?
Fark’s holding out for Zombie Apocalypse, but I ain’t grooving to it. For one thing, it’d be a Mummy Apocalypse; and when you think about it, mummies are some of the most laid-back undead out there. I’m not saying that they’re the best of neighbors; but leave them the hell alone and they’ll usually return the favor. Besides, if there was going to be a Mummy Apocalypse it would have happened nine centuries ago, when we started using them as medical supplies.
No. Really.
Why then, this is Hell: nor are they out of it (Via Hot Air Headlines).
“We’re originally from Canada,” the hostess, Danielle Crittenden Frum, declared, throwing her slender arms up in the air. “We still haven’t quite realized that in D.C., garden parties are meant for September, not June.”
That’s from a New York Times article (rather impolitely, and quite wrongly, titled “The Party In Exile”) – and it’s got a guest list that one would expect from a dinner party thrown by the Frums: bitter, elitist opinion-writers and former politicians. Oh, not all of them. To be fair, I’d happily meet Ayaan Hirsi Ali: she’s brave in a context alien to most of the oh-so-persecuted Frum cocktail party attendees. And I’d also happily meet Chris Hitchens: he’s crazy, and shows all the signs of being an excellent drinking companion. But as for the rest of them… well, to quote either Bob Heinlein or Mark Twain: I’d trade most of them for a dog, and then shoot the dog. Continue reading #rsrh Scenes from the class struggle in David Frum’s cocktail party.
Tim is the front-runner in the GOP primary runoff for SC-01, and he took the time to talk with us about the state of the race and why he’s running.
Tim’s site is here: he’s a state representative and former Charleston County official. The runoff is June 22nd. There’s been a good deal of interest among RedState’s readers about this race thus far, and I expect that said interest will continue…
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
Yeah, I know: I’m a sucker for these. I saw Android Karenina
And so, farewell to Small Gods
Long a favorite curse word among such diverse groups as anti-EU agitators and the science fiction community
Belgians were voting Sunday in general elections that are widely seen as a vote on an orderly breakup of this country where 6.5 million Dutch- and 4 million French-speakers are locked in a quarrelsome union.
Polls predicted a solid showing for a mainstream Flemish party whose leader wants Dutch-speaking Flanders to sever its unhappy ties with Francophone Wallonia and, in time, join the European Union as a separate country.
Via @jstrevino. I don’t know: between the Congo Free State, World War II (not WWI), and of course the entire ‘HQ for the EU’ thing, should we just concede that Belgium had its chance, flubbed it, and break it down for scrap parts?
Moe Lane
Silent All These Years
It was a day.
AoSHQ (and Sarah Palin) reminds me of this:
Not the event itself: but the details behind it. It’s a little jarring to realize that there are people who can vote (and soon, drink legally) in this country who don’t have personal memories of the Berlin Wall; or what it represented. I was seventeen when this speech took place; and like the AoSHQ writer I considered Ronnie Raygun to be a fool. Because, you know, maybe the Commies weren’t as powerful as we thought in 1980, but they weren’t going anywhere. Right?
Yeah, seventeen and stupid. Continue reading #rsrh Tear down this wall.
I abjure it, and shake my fist at it.
That is all.
I just noticed that the President kind of likes to use that phrase a bit. I wonder if he realizes that it makes him look like a bit of a narcissist? Particularly since he’s clearly using that phrase in all those occasions to argue that while bad things that happen under his watch are always his responsibility, they’re never his fault. Even the Christmas bombing attack was declared by the President to be ultimately the fault of a pre-Obama watch list system. It’s frankly a far cry from ‘The buck stops here,’ which is at heart an admission that policy decisions flow from the top, and failures in policy are in fact in some way the fault of the people who are ultimately responsible for them. Then again, Barack Obama is also a far cry from being another Harry S Truman.
I look forward to the hate mail that will implicitly validate my argument.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
