Month: December 2010

Drabble – The Vampire.

When the team finally breached the last defense of the complex entombing the heretic vampire, the goal was not rescue. After all, it had been two weeks - and the same group that had entombed the vampire had also entombed...

Drabble – The Vampire.

When the team finally breached the last defense of the complex entombing the heretic vampire, the goal was not rescue. After all, it had been two weeks - and the same group that had entombed the vampire had also entombed...

Stockholm jihadist autodarwinates*.

The bad news is that he managed to injure two innocent people in the process of blowing himself up; the good news was that the injuries were reportedly minor.  The first bomb (blew up a car) took place shortly before the second one; it’s unclear whether the second explosion was a suicide vest gone blessedly right (i.e., it was a suicide vest, not a homicide one) or whether the would-be jihadi screwed up placing a charge.

It’s reported that Swedish media received the usual crowing-about-murdering-for-Shaitan** garbage that accompanies this sort of thing; the ostensible reason for their attack was supposedly Sweden’s 500 troop presence in Afghanistan. Or perhaps it was about Swedish cartoons. Either way, the nihilistic boast made by this person or persons was fortunately not quite true this time:

“Our acts will speak for themselves,” TT quoted the message as saying. “Now your children, your daughters and your sisters will die as our brothers, our sisters and our children are dying.”

This time.

Moe Lane Continue reading Stockholm jihadist autodarwinates*.

“The Lego Antikythera Mechanism.”

I’m stealing the title from @bdomenech, but only because it’s a perfect description of the video:

…although I have to wonder why the ancient Greeks needed to predict solar eclipses so precisely that they actually built a machine to calculate the next one. It’s not like they’re all that common, or have any physical result on the landscape… Continue reading “The Lego Antikythera Mechanism.”

#rsrh 3 things about the ‘Eff the President’ slur.

In case you weren’t informed, a nameless Democrat muttered that imprecation last Thursday at a caucus meeting, in response to the President’s admonition to said Democrats that it rubs the lotion on its skin or it gets the hose fall into line on the tax compromise deal.  Three things lunge out about the Democrats from that episode:

  1. Racists*.
  2. Shelley Berkley should be grateful for the D after her name; it’s protecting her from having to name the racist* in 1.
  3. I understand that the Members of Congress were chanting ‘Just Say No!’ throughout their extended tantrum.  And people thought that nobody was paying attention to Nancy Reagan…

Moe Lane

*They created the rhetorical rules; I’m just making sure that both sides get equally discommoded by them.  Don’t like it?  Change the rules back to something more sensible.

Bill Watterson Vintage Political Cartoon.

Yes. The Bill Watterson. This is from a collection of his rarer cartoons (via GeekPress). I suspect that he was upset about the message found in this particular cartoon of Reagan, Ted Kennedy, and Carter…

…but the creator of Calvin & Hobbes can be forgiven much. Besides, Bill hit this one right on the head…

Open thread.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

PS: We all miss you, Bill.  If it was something that we said or did, we’re sorry.

…Christmas stuff, actually.

You know: get the tree assembled, go buy the wreath, have the kids melt down, go out shopping and hide in the basement level of the slightly pretentious pub in the highly pretentious arts-and-crafts retail center*.  Christmas is in two weeks, after all: gotta get some of this stuff done**.  Quite a bit left to do, in fact.

Moe Lane

*Because, slightly pretentious or no, the beer was both local and tasty.

**Yes.  You should go do some shopping.

#rsrh QotD, Hot Air edition.

Allahpundit, on the, ah, surprising press conference today – and how it was a bit of a surprise to the White House staff, too:

Say what you will about Axe, Gibbsy, and the rest of the crew, but I’d like to think they have the basic political common sense to avoid photo ops where the president has to skip out after a minute or two to go eat gingerbread cookies.

I should also like to note for the record that while it is certainly possible that Obama is playing 13th-dimensional chess here, it is also certainly possible that he’s merely flailing about both ineffectually, and amusingly.  Given that I’ve never been particularly impressed with the President’s ability to lead people who weren’t inclined to follow him blindly, you can guess which possibility I’m going with.