Month: July 2012

I need to pick somebody’s brain on tracking down an alternate history story.

It was a short story, based on the premise that Marxism actually worked and set in an alternate, mirror-universe end of the Cold War (so it was written in the 1990s*). It got anthologized, so it was mainstream; and I thought that I knew the title (“Dispatches from the Revolution”), but that’s an entirely different short story.

Help? This is driving me nuts.

Moe Lane

*It held up NYC as NOT being a hellhole (specifically because the City was more socialist than the alternate’s USA), so the story clearly predates Rudy Giulani’s tenure as Mayor (and subsequent repair) of the City.

This is indeed how it looks.

From the outside, at least.

Moe Lane

PS: A technical note? If you are encouraging other people to embed your stuff (as SMBC is doing, which is the only reason why I did it that way), it may not be a bad idea to give them option of adjusting the aspect ratio. Political sites in particular are notorious for having this problem…

I can tell Myq Kaplan PRECISELY what conceptual art is…

…from Kickstarters’ point of view: it’s art you can make a buck off of.  Which Mr. Kaplan’s project is doing for them, right now.  After all, they get a piece of every buck the guy’s raising.

I honestly hope that this doesn’t spoil it for Myq Kaplan: I like a good dose of meta as well as the next pers… wait, no, most people actually aren’t into meta.  I like a good dose of meta.

 

Hookers and bribes over at the Treasury Department!

(Via @davidhauptmann) Ah, marvel at our squeaky-clean, Marvelous New Day, ever-so-ethical executive branch:

Treasury Department officials have been cited for soliciting prostitutes, breaking conflict-of-interest rules and accepting gifts from corporate executives, according to the findings of official government investigations.

The revelations of unethical behavior at Treasury are detailed in little-noticed documents posted this month on governmentattic.org, which publishes agency responses to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

Continue reading Hookers and bribes over at the Treasury Department!

#rsrh Some day, people may learn that @jtrevino is almost DESIGNED…

…to ruin your day via Twitter.

Yesterday was not that day.  And thanks to Storify, you can watch it unfold* at your leisure.

Moe Lane

*Executive summary: Josh snickers at notorious Kremlin shill Russia Today.  Russia Today staffers, stung, respond… unwisely.  Josh tucks a napkin around his neck and digs in.  For several pages.

#rsrh QotD, Not That Obama’s All That Likeable edition.

Well, Obama’s not very likeable to me.  It’s the way that the man keeps lashing out with all those insults masking a profound insecurity and guilty self-awareness that he was not, in point of fact, really prepared to be President of the United States of America.  Or Senator from Illinois.  Heck, there are days when the man must wake up and wonder what the hell he did in the Illinois legislature, because Obama can’t remember any of it.  They just gave him papers to sign, and my god what if one of those papers had bad stuff on it sure the infanticide one didn’t get any play but McCain didn’t like to fight and they’ll bring that up again and maybe there’s other stuff out there that nobody saw the first time…

I can say all of that because I’m not, of course, totally neurotic myself or anything.

So.

Where was I? Continue reading #rsrh QotD, Not That Obama’s All That Likeable edition.