He’ll be five fairly soon, so I need to make a tough choice: obviously, the boy requires an Optimus Prime. But I am having difficulty deciding which Optimus Prime to get him; many of the newer ones look craptastic, and the older ones are insanely high priced. I need a happy medium.
Moe Lane
PS: I want to buy him a toy, not a wall hanging. Toys get played with and scuffed up. They just do.
…yeah, it’s a miracle that anybody leaves that site before they fall unconscious from lack of food/sleep; anyway, I came across this as part of the “Video Game Caring Potential” page:
Picking the Colonist backstory in Mass Effect results in a sidequest where you find a character who was from the same colony as you, but who was captured and enslaved and became severely messed up. She was rescued, but grabbed a weapon away and hid. She talks about herself in the third person, and you can either rush in and jab her with a sedative or talk to her, approaching slowly, and administer it without spooking her. On the way you can learn some of the details about what happened and tell her it’s not her fault. If you play it right, you can convince her to take the sedative herself, then, as she falls asleep in your arms, whisper the following to her:
- Shepard: You’ll dream of a warm place. And when you wake up, you’ll be in it.
Yup. Dragon Age got me looking at Bioware games; Mass Effect got me hooked on them, and it was with stuff like this.
Because, honestly, things like The Collected Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs are more or less what the Kindle is for. I’m embarrassed with myself that I didn’t buy this sucker thirty seconds after I got a Kindle.
And so, farewell to How to Lie with Statistics. Gone, but it had better not be forgotten…
Moe Lane
I get that; I truly do. Because so do I; and I have not been too thrilled at the prospect of having to pick one of the three* candidates left. So I’ve decided not to pick one of them, after all. You see, Rick Perry’s on the Maryland ballot, so I’m going to vote for him… not as a protest vote, but as a this-will-get-me-to-the-polling-place vote.
I recommend this strategy generally for three reasons: Continue reading #rsrh So, you hate your choices in the GOP primary.
Tuesday, the news came out: Rep. Bill Cassidy (R, LA) has hired Timmy Teepell for his 2012 re-election campaign. If you’re wondering why I’m telling you this, this is why: Cassidy is a two-term Congressman who won almost 2/3rds of the vote in the last election (and did not get hurt by this round of redistricting) and Teepell is the guy behind Bobby Jindal’s 2011 re-election… well, ‘campaign’ is not exactly the right word. ‘Kinetic strike from orbit‘ would be a good deal more accurate. In other words, Teepell is not exactly needed for Cassidy’s 2012 race.
One of my colleagues – somebody who is much more knowledgeable about Louisiana politics than I am – concludes from all of this that this means that Gov. Bobby Jindal will not be running for the 2014 Senate seat against embattled incumbent Mary Landrieu, and that Rep. Cassidy will. Hard to argue with the logic; snapping up Teepell early and giving him a chance to get used to Cassidy’s existing campaign team in what should be a pretty easy election campaign sounds like a good idea. And it’s certainly true that Landrieu’s Senate seat – one of the last remaining bastions of Democratic power in Louisiana – is a glittering prize. But it does leave one question: if Bobby Jindal doesn’t want to go from Governor to Senator, then where does he want to go?
Because let’s not pretend: Bobby Jindal’s a good guy and a good governor, but he’s also a politician… which means that he’s ambitious.
Moe Lane (crosspost)
You need to get the rights to use this song, Rick Santorum. Strike while the iron is hot.
…endorsing Rick Santorum, I would have been all in Rick’s face about it. Because [expletive deleted] Metallica. They’re overrated.
Megadeth’s all right, though. So good get there, Rick. Get them to play your events.
So, let me tell you of the wickedness of the world… or, more accurately, of the abject stupidity of the anti-Scott Walker forces in Wisconsin. Which is really not the same thing, but it at least sounds good. Or at least jovial.
Anyway, here’s the background: the Wisconsin Left, having managed to allegedly get enough signatures to force a recall election against a governor enjoying a 51% approval rating (and this, after several years of nigh-relentless demonization) is now trying to figure out how to actually win a recall election with the schlubs, has-beens, never-weres and other political detritus that would make up their, and I use the term loosely, ‘talent pool.’ In this particular case, it doesn’t help that there’s an important fault line within the Left being revealed by events. One the one hand, you’ve got the public sector union leadership, who are even now starting to feel the first signs of withdrawal from not being able to directly mainline mandatory union dues into their veins; on the other, there’s the actual Democratic party leadership, who are still hooked in with their source of ‘free’ money, and so are able to think more clearly. Continue reading Update on the Scott Walker recall shenanigans.
Here’s an important pro-tip for aspiring doctrinaire liberal politicians deciding to demagogue on the White House’s recent attack on freedom of conscience: know your territory. Yes, Massachusetts is a Blue State. It’s also a very Catholic one (somewhere around 44%, in fact). And – because of simple self interest, really* – Scott Brown has long been a champion of conscience exemptions for Catholic hospitals. Why, in 2009 he explicitly wrote to the Pope himself to avow that “I believe in a conscience protection for Catholics in the health care field and will continue to advocate for it…”
Oh, wait, no, that was Ted Kennedy. Brilliant move on Elizabeth Warren’s part, there: by calling Brown’s identical position ‘extreme’ she’s just managed to urinate on the memory of the man who her own party considers to be the patron saint of Obamacare. No wonder she couldn’t get confirmed: it’s entirely possible that the woman wasn’t even sure which part of the Capitol building she was supposed to testify in…
Moe Lane
PS: Another pro-tip: if Martha Coakley thought that something was a winning strategy, it’s probably… not.
*Any pro-choice Republican that wants any kind of support from the national party at all had better be for a conscience exemption.
Ace of AoSHQ, on Alan Derschowitz’s public breaking with Democrats if they continue to work with Media Matters for America (if?):
Let me get Alan Derschowitz prepared for something:
It’s called a paradigm shift. It’s going to seem a little weird and scary at first, but it will also be thrilling and ultimately liberating.
A lot of things that have bothered you for sixty years — which haven’t seemed to make sense to you, because your brain was screening the truth from you — are suddenly going to make a lot of sense indeed. And you’re going to be kicking yourself for not seeing it sooner, like an optical illusion that suddenly changes from a lady’s face to a candle.
