Month: April 2016

Tweet of the Day, @tedcruz Represents On Dirty, Filthy Communism edition.

Damn straight they did.

DAMN straight they did.

The ‘Deus Ex: Mankind Divided’ videogame trailer.

Am I gonna try to get back on this horse?

I just couldn’t get into Deus Ex: Human Evolution when it came out, and I’m not sure why. Could be that I just wasn’t thinking in terms of first-person shooters at the time.  Which would suggest that maybe Mankind Divided would be more rewarding.  Or maybe it won’t…

 

Merrick Garland nomination still stagnating.

The Washington Free Beacon puts it pretty succinctly: “Merrick Garland is no closer to confirmation as the next Supreme Court justice than he was at the beginning of April despite a sustained campaign by President Obama’s personal advocacy group financed by some of the country’s top Democratic donors.” Basically, if it hasn’t been made clear by now: if there’s going to be any movement on this nomination, it’s not going to come from the Democratic side. Particularly if it comes from Organizing for Action, which is apparently better at organizing than it is at action.

…I had more to add, but: suffice it to say that there is currently one person who I would trust to pick our next Supreme Court Justice, and that person is named ‘Ted Cruz.’ It’s in everybody’s best interest that Cruz be doing that pick. From the Oval Office.

I know that I’m supposed to be infuriated by this ‘Snowden’ trailer…

…but Jesus but it looks bad.

I mean, didn’t anybody tell Joseph Gordon-Levitt that he shouldn’t have made it sound like Snowden had recently had a stroke and didn’t quite make it to the hospital before his Golden Hour was up?

Moe Lane

PS: Hey, look, Nick Cage! In an Oliver Stone movie! Yeah, there’s no way that’s gonna go surreal.

Book of the Week: “Hallow Mass.”

An old friend of mine sent over a preview copy of JP Mac’s Hallow Mass to read: I’m in the process of finishing it up now.  Basically: imagine how modern progressive academia would likely respond to an absolutely-real Cthulhu Mythos and you’ll have an idea of how the book goes. It’s coming out in a few days on Kindle; check it out.

And so, adieu to The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts.

Words *can* express how appalling I find this…

…the problem is, some of those words are blistering. And I mean that almost literally; if there was ever a time for an old-school Old Irish satire attack, this would be the time. Below is from a spam mail that I got this afternoon:

snob

Speaking as a very talented writer, this is a horrible thing to do to people.  And it’s not a horrible thing that’s being done to very talented writers: we generally end up doing all right for ourselves. No, targeting the people who aren’t very talented is what’s horrible. Writing is a skill as much as it is an art: and improving that skill takes discipline and a willingness to learn by doing (usually badly, at first). Telling people that they can write crap and it won’t matter anyway does nothing to help those people stop writing crap.

So, for God’s sake: don’t listen to these dudes. Write as well as you can, for as long as you can. Don’t give yourself permission to be second-rate.

Tweet of the Day, Planned Parenthood HATES The Idea of Cruz/Fiorina edition.

You can’t buy this kind of helpful antipathy. It’s practically an in-kind contribution, really. And just in time for Indiana, too.

…Sorry. Up half the night with a coughing kid.

My youngest apparently has inherited the allergies lurking in his mother’s side of the family, which are even worse than the allergies lurking in my side of the family. I don’t want to put him on the take-the-magic-pill-FOREVER regimen that I’m currently on*, but that means the odd sleepless night.  So I’m kind of bleary-eyed right now.

Moe Lane

*God, I love technological progress. The day that they handed me a 24 hour allergy pill that dissolved on my tongue and worked within minutes was the day that I realized that, yes, I had managed to make it all the way to the future. Fewer rockets than I’d like, but the toys are better.

My RedState post on the Manafort/Lewandowski War.

Found here. Short version: yeah, I know that the dude just won a bunch of Northeast primaries by a bunch, but his campaign is still having an internal civil war.  One that’s getting leaked to Politico with great vim and vigor. I am forced to admit that it’s entertaining to see… well, no, I’m not really being forced to admit that, am I?