Month: December 2010

Kind of a slow day, today.

Politics-wise.  Oh, they got past that Reid-can’t-read-the-Constitution thing on the Soros food bill and there’s mutterings that START’s going to start up again before the end of the 111th Congress – and thank GOD that this Congress is almost over, huh?  They did everything except jam a fork into an electrical socket.  Anyway, despite all of that it’s been kind of slow today… which I can’t say that I’m too worked up about, but it’s still cutting down on the free ice cream.

Maybe folks should catch up on their movies?

So. Heimdall’s black, huh*?

This would be in the upcoming Thor movie, you understand.  Penny Arcade’s about as concerned as I am (my worries about the movie are concentrating on the levels of suck being threatened by the trailer); in fact, I think that this is pretty Much Ado About Nothing.

See what I did there?  Yeah, I referenced a past Kenneth Branagh that had a traditionally-white dude’s part being played by a black dude – and I did it in a way to maximize my earning potential.  That’s some high-end mercenary blogging there, people; you should be flattered.

Moe Lane

*It’s funny; I first wrote that title out as “Heimdall’s African-American, huh?” – only to realize that there is no possible way that that particular description would be accurate.

#rsrh Snarlin’ Arlen not Matt’s Darlin’.

One gets the feeling that Matt Patterson does not like Arlen Specter:

One of the most ignominious political careers of the modern era will at last sputter to a pitiful end when the 111th Congress finally relinquishes its strangle-hold on the American Republic.

Then again, who does?  I’d like to say that it was a disappointment that Specter lost the primary – it would have been fun to beat him in the general – but, truth be told, it was just as much fun to beat Joe Sestak, and this way we got to drink the Other Side’s pain, too.  The wild hope added a certain piquancy to the mix.

Moe Lane

QotD, excellent advice edition.

From a New Hampshire Union Leader editorial crediting the Tea Party with ensuring that Senate Minority Leader McConnell would refuse to play ball on the Omnibus:

The truth is that without the constant vigilance currently provided by what can loosely be called the Tea Party movement, Republicans would be just as happy as Democrats to squander taxpayer money. They are only acting frugal now because they know they’re being closely watched, so keep watching.

For the rest of your lives, in fact: civic duty never ends.  Just in case nobody’s ever mentioned that.

(H/T: Real Clear Politics)

Moe Lane (crosspost)

I’m cringing from a White Christmas…

The news is so bad that I’m afraid to check it: Jim Geraghty notes – idly! With very little visible dread! – in his Daily Jolt that we might be seeing snow for Christmas down here in MD/DC.

God help us – more accurately, God help me, because I have to deal with everybody else in the area.  Three flakes of FALLING FROZEN SKY-WATER OF DOOM!!!!! and everybody freaks out.  Seriously: last week we got… maybe half an inch of snow.  Not enough to completely cover the grass, which is my usual rule of thumb for serious snow.  In NJ that’s a slight treat for kids – they can get some snowball time in – but otherwise not worth mentioning.  In MD that’s an excuse for a two hour school delayed opening the next day.

It’s bad when a guy from coastal NJ can mock an area for its snow savvy…

#rsrh Wow. The Republicans MUST have won big.

We’re getting calls for civility; you only see those when the Left* suddenly realizes that they’re roughly two weeks away from having to face the consequences of their rhetoric for the last four years.  Personally, I prefer their rhetoric when they’re winning: it’s more… honest.  Blustering and contemptuous, to be sure – but better than passive-aggressive whining any day of the week.

And I’m not even going to get into the appallingly personal aspects of that Matthew Dowd article.

Moe Lane

*Dowd breaks bread with the antiwar movement these days, Cindy Sheehan edition.

#rsrh QotD, Humor us edition.

Doug Ross, on the Democratic leadership’s reaction to being told that from now on they’re going to have to demonstrate a working knowledge of the US Constitution and how it permits their particular bills if they want to introduce said bills into the House:

Say, I wonder if Nancy Pelosi would approve? Oh, wait. I don’t give a crap. The American people kicked her dimpled butt out of the Speaker’s seat and back into Coach.

I am about as unsympathetic as Doug is, myself. Sure, it’s embarrassing to treat grown legislators as if they were not particularly bright children; but not nearly as embarrassing as when said legislators demonstrate that such treatment is warranted.

More to the point: elections have consequences.  And may I say that it is a pleasure to be on the other side of that saying, for a change?

Moe Lane