I’ve got to wrangle the eldest kid to the doctor’s this afternoon – ‘wellness check;’ there’s nothing wrong – and I’m trying to front-load some content, and getting frazzled, and then here comes this post (via Ed Driscoll/Instapundit) on blogger burnout, and I said Shoot, just take a day off if it’s so bad; those 10K readers won’t notice a day.
Which is excellent advice, so I’m going to take a couple hours off and not worry about daily free ice cream levels for a change.
I think that this is what the heavy metal bands in Changeling: The Dreaming sound like.
I think I saw this in comments to a webcomic, or something. Interesting, huh?
Huh. Maybe Osama was shot in the back of the head.
“The bullet either went in the ear and out the eyeball or in the eyeball and out the ear,” [Senator Jim Inhofe] said.
I speculated earlier that a scenario consistent with the former bullet trajectory may have sparked the decision by the White House to keep the pictures under wraps: this suggests that I may have been right.
Moe Lane
PS: I continue to have an utter lack of outrage over the possibility, by the way.
NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman*, on why the federal government needs to subsidize mimes:
“The marketplace shouldn’t be the sole determinant of what is allowed to flourish,” Landesman said, adding that the renowned San Francisco Mime Troupe would likely not be able to survive solely on ticket sales.
Given that the renowned San Francisco Mime Troupe – no, I’ve never heard of them, either – apparently also can’t survive solely on private philanthropy, perhaps the marketplace is merely giving here what we in the agitprop business call a subtle hint.
Via Ace of Spades HQ Headlines.
Moe Lane (crosspost)
*No, I’m not going to make fun of his name.
He’s officially decided to not do any debates with the official Democratic candidate (and actual Republican/Conservative candidate Jane Corwin). The ostensible reason is because – wait for it, wait for it! – Davis is claiming his opponents are liars who won’t play fair. Given Davis’s likely status as a stalking horse for the Democratic party, such a comment would normally score chutzpah points with me. It doesn’t in this case, because I can’t abide cowards running for office; but objectively speaking there’s something almost entertaining about this particular case of projection. Particularly the ‘electronic town hall’ bit, which worked so well for his fellow Democratic cowards in 2010. What’s the definition of insanity, again?
And if you think that I’m being mean-spirited, check out Freedomworks; they’re laying into Davis with all the fury of a successful grassroots organization that sweated blood last year getting real conservatives and Tea Partiers elected. I quote Matt Kibbe:
“The voters in New York’s 26th Congressional District have a serious decision to make concerning who will represent them in the House of Representatives. Out of respect for this decision, the candidates have a responsibility to be honest about their positions on the issues. Considering Jack Davis’ leftist resume, his candidacy as a ‘tea party’ candidate is either a sad attempt to raise his own personal political profile or an underhanded strategy to hand the seat to the Democrat contender. Either way, it’s a slap in the face to New York 26 voters and the larger tea party movement and FreedomWorks PAC will ensure that this message is delivered throughout the district in advance of the May 24th special election.”
Continue reading Jack Davis (FAKE CAND, NY-26) cuts and runs from debates.
Oh, the sticker shock of the movie in 3D was considerable – but what the heck, I got out of the house for a couple of hours. It’s one of those movies that takes full advantage of the fact that you probably know the basic details about the character already; the character arc probably would have been better suited for a television miniseries, but they got away with it.
Loki was suitably complex in his motivations.
The 3D was not obtrusive.
Go ahead and see this one: I liked it. Not as good as Iron Man, but about as good as Iron Man 2. And I liked Iron Man 2.
Instapundit/Michael Totten points to this recommendation by Yaacov Lozowick for the book Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa. I haven’t read the book, but I’m sure that it’s well-written: Michael’s a pretty reliable gatekeeper for that sort of thing.
But… if there’s a place where Hell and Earth can be said to reliably intermix, it’d be the Congo. It’s been like that since the 19th Century and the Congo Free State*, and you probably don’t want to read up on the Belgian Congo when you’re having a good day, just eaten, and/or looking for a reason not to join a Cthulhu Mythos cult. Its history since then has been unmitigated awfulness leavened by the occasional bout of mere misery – and it seems like everybody else on the planet has joined in in making the place worse, and I’m not excluding the USA on this one.
So I don’t know if you really want to read the latest chronicle of frightfulness, really.
Moe Lane
*The owner of which – King Leopold II of Belgium – ended up dying in his bed, more’s the pity. Particularly since the anarchist movement picked the guy with the worst damned aim in Europe to excise the guy.
I’ve gone for a week without knowing that this feature was available, dammit.
Via Instapundit/Ann Althouse.
If you’re wondering what that is, it’s the D/R/I breakdown of the AP poll of adults that ‘shows’ the President at a 60% approval level. Hot Air doesn’t say, but I will: that’s roughly the same ratio that this AP poll was reporting in May of 2009… which is to say, before Barack Obama and the Democrats put on big hob-nailed boots and started jumping up and down on their collective reputation.
In other words: um. No.
Moe Lane (crosspost)
PS: And in the field of ‘burying the lede’… the actual headline of that AP article should have been “Former President George W Bush hits 50% approval rating in ridiculously Dem-heavy poll.” Put another way:
Apparent-ly!
[UPDATE] Heh. Jim Geraghty and I really do think somewhat alike.
