‘Sarah, John! Sarah… from the *ID*!’*

(Via Ed Driscoll) Yes.  This is precisely how it comes across.

Oh hi there! I was out shooting caribou on the Arctic Cat and saw your synapse lights on, and so I said to myself, “now, gosh darn it, Sarah, you’ve been living inside this nice person’s cerebral cortex for, what is it, almost two years now? By golly, it’s about time you dropped in at their frontal lobe with a plate of your famous homemade Alaska welcome wagon cookies and introduced yourself.” So anyhoo, I sure hope you like ’em. Don’t want to give out a family recipe, but the secret ingredient is baby seal. I clubbed ’em fresh this morning!

Oh my goodness… you look kind of confused. I get that a lot! You were probably thinking, “hey, I only wanted to move next door to Sarah Palin — now what in the goshdarned heck is she doing inside my brain?” Well ya see, the deal is I’m not Sarah, but boy I gotta tell ya, we sure do get mistaken all the time! No, I’m just a plain ol’ homunculus Sarah Palin that your own id created to sublimate your deep-seated psychosexual neuroses. Or so those egghead books say, anyway. But if you ask me that sure sounds like a lot of elite Anti-America liberal professor gobbledegook! By the way, your id says hi.

As usual, the problem with excerpting Iowahawk is figuring out where to cut, so read the whole thing. I got nothing that can top it, anyway. Continue reading ‘Sarah, John! Sarah… from the *ID*!’*

QotD, Hobgoblin of Little Minds edition.

It comes from Ace of Spades:

They say the Constitution is not a suicide pact. Neither is consistency a suicide pact. If Bush and Obama were competing in the Olympics in the high jump, and the liberals set the bar at 9 feet for Bush, we cannot permit them to set the bar at three feet for Obama.

Nine feet is the mark. I didn’t argue for that high bar for success under Bush, but, the mark having been established, I’ll be damned if I’m going to let it be lowered for King Obama.

And before you start pounding the table and shouting about how we need to be morally superior to a bunch of people who want us all to die in a fire, do the following things: Continue reading QotD, Hobgoblin of Little Minds edition.

Gov. Brewer removes AG Goddard from immigration law defense.

Let me put it a different way: Gov. Jan Brewer (R, AZ-GOV) removes AG Terry Goddard (D-CAND, AZ-GOV) from the defense of the illegal immigration law that the former supports and the latter opposes.

Late Friday night as the Memorial Day weekend began, Arizona’s Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, in effect, suspended the state’s Democratic attorney general from defending the new law in upcoming legal challenges. The measure, known as S.B. 1070, is due to take effect this summer and, among other things, allows local police under federal guidelines to check the immigration status of people they stop.

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The governor’s abrupt action against Terry Goddard, her likely Democratic opponent in this fall’s gubernatorial election, came after months of disputes between the two and at the end of a long day of legal maneuvering in both Arizona and the nation’s capital.

Continue reading Gov. Brewer removes AG Goddard from immigration law defense.

Simultaneous Volcanic Eruptions in Central, South America.

Coincidence?

In Guatemala, the Pacaya volcano began spewing lava, rocks and debris on Thursday, killing at least two people and injuring more than 50 others.

In Ecuador, the Tungurahua volcano forced the evacuation of seven villages and shut the airport and schools in Guayaquil, the country’s largest city.

There is no suggestion the upsurge in volcanic activity is related.

Interestingly, there’s a report that another volcano – this one, in Iceland – is showing signs of a possible eruption. It’s apparently going to be a Year of the Volcanos. Mind you, all of these are on different tectonic plates… which I fully expect to be told doesn’t matter, for various arcane scientific reasons. Ach, well, it saves me the time of spending four hours looking it up for myself.

Moe Lane

#rsrh Giant oily super-hurricanes of DOOM.

(Via AoSHQ) So, CNN wants you to know that SOMETHING COULD HAPPEN:

A predicted busy hurricane season this summer is on a collision course with an unprecedented oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and the results are anyone’s guess, weather experts say.

…and then they proceed to guess the three or four worst-case scenarios, ranging from destruction of the undersea life to and oily super-hurricane of DOOM aimed straight at Haiti. Which, admittedly, is a possible scenario; that it’s also a scenario guaranteed to increase hitcount for CNN is not really addressed.

And, shoot, it worked, didn’t it?

Moe Lane

‘Word Up.’

My God, it’s like they took every single cliche from 1980s music videos and put them onscreen. I cannot believe that I have never seen this before; they must have locked in a vault until the stars were no longer right.


Word Up, Cameo

And yes, that’s apparently Levar Burton in there. No doubt praying that nobody would ever notice him afterward. Which is a reasonable prayer; the man’s best known role had him wearing a headband over his eyes.

Mark Twain’s autobiography to be published.

Now, I know what you’re saying. You’re saying, “So what? The Autobiography of Mark Twain has been out for almost a century.”

No no no no no. That was something they cobbled together out of a bunch of manuscript pages. This is the whole thing, which Mark Twain supposedly insisted not be published until he’d been dead for a hundred years. If you’ve read Twain’s later works and know a little something about his later life, you may understand why we might have something a bit… controversial here.

Moe Lane