Month: January 2012

Breaking: judge rules Perry, et al to remain off of the VA GOP ballot.

That’s all the information that we have now; no doubt the full details will be available later. Judging from current time constraints involving absentee ballots, I don’t particularly expect much likelihood of a successful appeal.  Ach, well: as I noted Tuesday, this remained a possibility.

(This is a placeholder post: as soon as I have the full details and a chance to read the ruling, I’ll be updating.) Continue reading Breaking: judge rules Perry, et al to remain off of the VA GOP ballot.

#rsrh “Romney and the Right.”

That’s the title of this National Journal article – executive summary: the latter is very suspicious of the former, and isn’t exactly getting ready to stop being so – which you can read, after my gripe.  Which is… sheesh, National Journal, if you’re going to refer to my primary site as “the influential RedState” then the least you can do is toss us a link.  Like so:

RedState.

Was that so hard? Continue reading #rsrh “Romney and the Right.”

…You know, I might actually go to see this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mUwl91RZyY&feature=related

 

I mean, I liked Tangled.  It Did Not Suck and it did not take itself too seriously.  And, obviously enough, Disney agrees with me that the sequel might be worth taking a chance on; the Mouse is hardly shy about direct to videoing its follow-up movies…

Froma Harrop attempts to commit professional suicide on the Daily Show.

And I say that despite the fact that I think that there’s no way that this can be real: this has to be an elaborate prank on Froma Harrop’s part.

Continue reading Froma Harrop attempts to commit professional suicide on the Daily Show.

You know, this is not a point-to-point correspondence…

…to how one measures success in the political blogosphere: but it comes danged close.  And it’s based on something that most trolls never really grok, bless their hearts.  To wit: as somebody or other once noted, the opposite of love is not hate, but indifference.  That’s why so many folks in the ‘sphere informally use their hate mail to keep score.

Which is one major reason why I avoid hating my enemies*.  Why give them the satisfaction? Continue reading You know, this is not a point-to-point correspondence…

My friend Caleb Howe wrote a good post… (NSFW)

…on Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s (INDEPENDENT.  Not Republican.  INDEPENDENT) abortive attempt to start going after NYC’s booze…

God.  The thought of a Manhattan without alcohol is… chilling.  Wrong.  It’d be like Gotham City without Batman. Continue reading My friend Caleb Howe wrote a good post… (NSFW)