…I am being *remarkably* cynical and crotchety tonight on Twitter.

You can’t tell, because I’m deleting those Tweets unsent – but it’s remarkable just how awful I’m inclined to be towards people who are simply just wrong on the Internet.  Especially since I’m not actually fuming; I’m feeling downright chipper as I contemplate all the Ye Liveliest Awfulness going around. I’m going to surround myself with nice for a while, I think. Continue reading …I am being *remarkably* cynical and crotchety tonight on Twitter.

#rsrh A lot of little news today.

More or less.  The most interesting thing that I found was this bit about three Oakland Occupiers (Michael Davis, 32, Nneka Crawford, 23, and Randolph Wilkins, 24) allegedly branching out into robbing a woman and… making “derogatory remarks about [their victim’s] perceived sexuality.”  Seriously, circumlocutions like that merely raise interest, not douse it: and while I understand that the newspapers want to have something juicy to print the cops probably would be better off baldly reporting what was said and being done with it.

Not much else to say, except to note that it all allegedly started when the woman told these winners to stop trying to start a riot in her neighborhood.  And that part of the evidence against said winners is a video of the incident, which was apparently filmed by other Occupiers.  Note that none of them actually stepped in to stop the robbery in the first place…

#rsrh Friends don’t let friends invoke Reagan badly.

Gotta love* these kids and their crazy Reagan talk.  It’s the usual classic cargo-cult thinking, coupled with an equally-classic why-won’t-these-conservatives-in-real-life-act-like-the-conservatives-living-in-my-head?  For the slow of brain (which is to say, the online progressive movement), let me deign to explain why invoking the Gipper should only be done by experts. Continue reading #rsrh Friends don’t let friends invoke Reagan badly.

Fascinating column there, Maureen. Who did you steal it from? #rsrh

(H/T: Hot Air Headlines) This is an assumption on my part, of course: better for all concerned that you revisited old habits and lifted something from the netroots than the idea that both you and your editor thought that this deserved a wider audience.  I mean, as is it reads as half-convenient opportunity for projection (Dowd’s apparently highly upset that Obama couldn’t keep the MA seat in the hands of the Democrats), and half-immediate aftermath of a stroke.  Given a choice between believing plagiarism and facing the specter of there being people in the journalism industry who don’t facepalm at the sight of  this sort of thing, I’d pick plagiarism every time.

I mean, really: “What are you going to do about it, Hussein? Mirandize me?”  Maureen, it’s not our fault that you decided to follow The God That Failed.

Moe Lane

PS: By the way, blimps were safe after the Hindenburg.  Blimps are non-rigid airships; dirigibles (such as the Hindenburg) are rigid airships.  For that matter, the reason why the Hindenburg burned up was because the company couldn’t get any helium (it being considered war material by the USA).  Ever hear of Wikipedia?