Author: Moe_Lane

“Australian drunk rides crocodile, gets bitten.”

There isn’t much else to say, except this: I normally have a rule of “If it touches a human, it dies.  And everything that looks like it dies, too, in a mile radius.”  Given that the crocodile was minding his own business in a designated zoo environment, the human blatantly provoked the incident*, and the crocodile let the human go… I favor clemency, just this once.

I am not an unreasonable apex predator, after all.  The crocodile clearly understands the rules, and it wasn’t the one that broke them…

Moe Lane

*Alcohol was involved.

End of the guns/weed argument?

As in, the double standard argument? – because it’s freaking hard to argue with this logic:

Although Brooks argues – fairly convincingly, I think* – that if you’re going to go with a firearm a .22 target pistol is better for zombie-killing.

Moe Lane

*My major problem with Brooks’ general arguments against using high caliber weapons against the living dead is that I don’t think that he takes kinetic impact fully into account when judging their effects.  The same relative lack of internal body fluids that minimize the effects of hydrostatic shock will also provide a zombie’s internal frame with less structural integrity; and, at any rate, Newton’s Third Law still applies.  If a zombie stops a 20 mm bullet moving at a mile per second (I think that the above’s a M61 Vulcan, but this isn’t my field of study) something’s going to happen that will wreck the zombie’s day; I wouldn’t be shocked if the older ones didn’t get shredded on the spot.

I encourage my readers with military experience to correct any errors.  Again, military weaponry is not one of my fields of study.

#rsrh David Obewhatshisname talks about something or other.

The title to this article is “David Obey: I Leave More Discontented Than I Started.”

To which I reply: just as long as you leave, coward.  Admittedly, it’s a convenient cowardice for the country.  While it would have been brave for David Obey to stick around and try and fix the short- and long-term damage that he and his fellow-Democrats have done to the Republic, well, it’s nothing like certain that he would know how.  So… less whining and more packing, David Obey.  The world lusts to forget your name.

Still, Obey did a nice job blaming everybody except himself on his way out the door.  As Stacy McCain noted, Paul Krugman found that really useful: Krugman is clearly itching to start up a good auto-de-fe in the Democratic party in 2011, and Obey’s commentary will be perfect for going after the first marrano…

Moe Lane

#rsrh Things got worse for NBPP apologists.

They may think that things got better, now that there’s apparently this big brouhaha over who is politicizing what in the DoJ/CCR dispute over the way the former let the NBPP walk away from sanctions voter intimidation. Nope! They got worse. Do you know why they got worse? Because now it’s becoming a mess. And do you know how they resolve messes in Dizzy City, particularly when high-ranking members of the opposition party are raising a stink?

Allahpundit knows:

Time for a special prosecutor to resolve the facts, perhaps?

If you didn’t wince, congratulations: you have not been captured by the Beltway yet. If you did, look on the bright side: it’s going to blow up in the Democrats’ faces this time. If you’re unhappy about that, well: kharma. It’s what’s for dinner; and besides, you can always get vicarious revenge in the next Republican administration. That’s how these things invariably go, really.

Moe Lane

PS: If you suspect that all of this means that I think that special prosecutors are a dumb idea in general… yup, I do.  Because they are.

The Apotheosis of Gadget Hackwrench.

No, seriously.  For given values of ‘seriously:’ it’s Russia, after all.  These could be whatever the hell the Russians call otaku, only they know that the person doing the article has no clue about Russia, Russian culture, and probably the Russian language.  Still:

Tiki torches, forsooth.

Via Nodwick.

Moe Lane

PS: Somewhat unrelated, you want this:

Go ahead and lie to me, but not to yourself. You owe the truth to yourself.

Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D, MD) and the imaginary Berwick confirmation hearings.

Wait, what?

I may need to walk back on my scorn of Rep. Jackson-Lee’s praise of the non-existent relationship between the non-existent nations of North and South Vietnam. If this video below is any indication, then there’s a fairly nasty virus going around Capitol Hill that turns Democratic legislators into memory-impaired, babbling zombies.

Yes, even worse than usual.

Yes, you remember correctly: in point of fact Donald Berwick is not getting a confirmation hearing, largely because the President is too scared of what the GOP will say about this particular radical (and by extension, what the GOP will say about the President’s judgment in wanting to hire said radical). That’s one issue; the other is, apparently Senator Mikulski isn’t… really paying attention to her duties these days. It beggars belief that the senior Senator from Maryland is unaware of a top-tier controversy and cause for criticism, but it’s self-evident from the video that she didn’t have a clue and was operating largely on autopilot.

So. Brain fever, you think? It’s certainly a more charitable conclusion than the alternative, which is that she and Jackson-Lee are as about as sharp as a sack of wet mice.

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Cracked.com’s top-ten list on *useful* school topics.

This… is a darn good list.  So good that I suspect that the author started off trying to be lightly snide*, then watched in steadily-increasing horror as he started actually producing something with inherent value for Western civilization.  I mean, it’s not The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress or anything, but it’s definitely useful.

I especially like the chapter headings for #5 (“Health: How to Stop Throwing Your Money Away on Snake Oil”):

I. Pharmaceutical Companies Are Dicks, But at Least They Use Scientists;
II. Why Hippies Have Never Discovered a Single Disease Cure;
III. “Homeopathic” is Another Word for Voodoo Bullshit;
IV. Just Go See a Doctor You Big Baby.

…although somebody will argue those. They always do, really.

Moe Lane

*Not a criticism: Cracked.com does lightly snide very well, and very entertainingly.

Letterman blackmailer gets Emmy nomination.

I guess there’s no reason not to nominate him for it, but it’s still sort of weird:

The former CBS News producer jailed for trying to blackmail David Letterman is up for an Emmy award.

Robert “Joe” Halderman was nominated Thursday for a News and Documentary Emmy award for his participation in an April 2009 “48 Hours” story about an American exchange student charged with murder in Italy. He was one of four producers cited for the story.

Halderman began a six-month jail sentence in May for trying to extort money from Letterman in exchange for not revealing the late-night host’s office affairs.

Via Ed Driscoll, who is not precisely filled with the milk of human kindness when it comes to the journalism industry.  Not that I’m saying that he’s wrong, given that a lot of journalists pretty much hate New Media for a variety of reasons, and the ones who do hate us are rarely shy about making that hatred known.

Moe Lane

PS: Oddly, this is one of those businesses where getting an industry award nomination is sometimes a response to having been thrown in jail, rather than being largely irrelevant to it.

Rasmussen: road to 51 no longer runs through CA/CT.

People are paying a lot of attention to the House right now, but there’s something interesting going on in the Senate. And in some ways it should worry the Democrats more.

Let’s start by taking a look at Rasmussen’s state of the Senate races right now:

U.S. Senate Snapshot:
Held/Solid Democratic 48
Leans Democratic 1
Toss-Up 9
Leans Republican 3
Held/Solid Republican 39

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