I used to be able to just buy stuff like this.
Yes, it’s a card/tile game where the object is to manipulate the space-time continuum in order to summon a Great Old One… then presumably get consumed, along with the rest of humanity. And when it sells out on Amazon, you can order it directly here.
Yes, I think that we’ve established by now that I’m at least slightly odd. What’s your excuse? – You read this site, after all.
Moe Lane
…and while I agree with Jules Crittenden that the current President will do his best to hog the credit for it, better for both Iraq and America that we actually win there*. And would that the antiwar activist Left had had that reasonably obvious epiphany at any time in the last eighteen years; the USA would have had an easier time of it. Then again, we’re talking about a group that sees no difference between rooting for their country’s victory in war, and rooting for going into debt for a collection of international sporting events – so I suppose that we should be grateful that they’ve had the epiphany of wearing their underwear inside their pants.
Moe Lane
PS: The Tom Friedman piece that Jules went off on is… also ehh. Mostly just there to stop Friedman from having the nightmares every night. Not that I’d presume to play telepath, or anything.
*Not that Jules is disagreeing with that sentiment, either.
Crossposted to RedState.
So I’m watching what will probably be the first of many, many, many, many Bob the Builder
Yes, I know that the mythology has it as him getting it from Cesar Chavez. I wonder how many people who believe that happen to have kids.
Crossposted to RedState.
I finally got around to looking at RFK: Collected Speeches
Guess the next step is to get the Nolan interview from the JFK library: turns out that my local library can request a transcript. Not today, though, as the relevant staff members all happened to have the day off. I’ll let people know how it goes.
Crossposted to RedState.
(Via @magnolia_tree) It’s a marvelous idea, really:
According to the Fox News White House blog:
The White House says that the President has decided to give the approximately $1.4 million prize accompanying his Nobel Prize to charity. They have not made a decision on which charity or charities will receive the money.
Here’s an idea for the President: He could give the 216 low-income kids back the scholarships that his administration took away from them earlier this year.
But if the President was gutsy enough to make that sort of gesture at the teacher’s unions, then those kids wouldn’t have had their program killed by the resegregationists in the first place.
Moe Lane
(H/T: Instapundit) They’re particularly indignant that the President that so many of them supported has decided to let the EPA strangle their state’s core industry via the selective refusal of permits. Which is not surprising, given that this administration’s hatred of the coal industry was not precisely a secret – but still, they’re upset:
West Virginia’s Democratic Gov. Joe Manchin III, who supported Mr. Obama’s candidacy, called the EPA moves part of a stealth campaign to stifle the industry.
“Right now, my belief is that they’re trying to kill off surface mining through regulation what they cannot get done through legislation,” Mr. Manchin told MetroNews Talkline, a West Virginia call-in radio program, earlier this month. In West Virginia, 23 permits are being held up, with other affected states being Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee.
His concern is shared by Sen. Rockefeller (also an Obama supporter) – but may I be blunt? Let me be blunt: nobody cares. Maybe West Virginia Democrats would have gotten a better deal if they had flipped the state. Maybe. But the state went strong for Clinton in the primary, and then went strong for McCain in the general, so they’re pretty much worthless by this administration’s standards.
And, again: this should surprise nobody. The current ruling party’s elites do not want to increase the amount of energy that this country consumes. They want to decrease it, in fact. They are not shy about saying so, either. So there is no excuse for not knowing this all along; and any less at being affronted. Angry, yes – but not affronted.
Moe Lane
PS: It should be noted that the Rep. Nick Rahall from Amanda’s article is happy to defend the administration’s hatred of the coal industry. It should also be noted that Rep. Rahall is a 32-year Member of Congress who represents a R+6 district. And he even has a challenger already: Lee Bias, who looks to be very sensible on energy and healthcare policy.
Crossposted to RedState.
Via Megan McArdle, one of the better papers on explaining the Man of Steel. For those pressed for time: it’s all about the inertia control, folks. The folks at DC should look at this one, actually; it suggests some new storylines, and helps explain why Superman
Alas, while the equations are nicely daunting to us non-scientist types, the illustrations… lack a certain something.
…of his paean to the idea that the West should indulge in voluntary extinction:
The worst thing that you or I can do for the planet is to have children.
To use the Internet slang phrase: There. FIFY.
Via Mark Steyn, who properly eviscerates this nonsense so that I don’t have to. I’ll just be highly rude and point out that Renton himself has more than one kid, or at least plans to; which makes the aforementioned first sentence a rather unfortunate admission on his part…
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
OK, I knew that, ecologically speaking, Australia is this demented paradise of mutant, bizarre, and dangerous biota that follows no sane rules of natural development (at least, according to the Australians, who seem to take a perverse pride in saying so). That being said:
…what the hell are they feeding their seagulls? Gojira
Via Pawnation.
I refuse to screenshot this xkcd front page for posterity, too. Posterity doesn’t need to know about this.
