Author: Moe_Lane

Marcia, Marcia, Marcia…

(Via @CalebHowe) What did you do in a previous lifetime to deserve this, AG Coakley?  Drive a bus full of kittens and baby harp seals off a cliff?

…then you know we have a lot of digging to do, but some work needs to be done and this president’s in the process of doing it and we need to get Marcia Coakley to help him to do that.”

(Curiously, [Rep Patrick] Kennedy [D, RI] mentioned Coakley repeatedly during his remarks to reporters, each time referring to her as “Marcia,” not “Martha.”)

‘Curiously?’  I can think of at least three reasons why it wouldn’t be, and one of them doesn’t even imply a substance abuse problem on Kennedy’s part.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

I am back from Daybreakers.

[UPDATE]: Like Jimmie, Those Who Hunt the Night would make for a good flick.

Assessment: not half bad. It had a 1950s Atomic Horror-style cheerful disregard for basic science – essentially, it waved its hands and chanted ‘classic vampirism is an infectious disease, and never mind all the supernatural elements’ three times while turning widdershins – but that was OK: it’s a horror flick with an action-movie flavor, not District 9.  The costumers did a nice job, as did the people in charge of thinking up all the little details of a world run by vampires for vampires.  Gory as all get-out, but it’s a vampire flick, so, well.

Also: expect sequels if this movie makes enough money.  Actually, the concept would make for a decent weekly television series…

Quote of the Day, Jules Crittenden edition.

Harsh:

Kristol at the Weekly Standard wonders whether [President Obama will] take the high road, and repudiate his party’s rape smear, or let it stand. Judging by his lack of interest in repudiating racism smears except in the mildest and lowest profile terms possible, I’ve gotta go with let it stand. Because Obama of all people understands this isn’t about Scott Brown, it isn’t about Martha Coakley, it isn’t about the Democratic Party, it definitely isn’t about fair play or the people of Massachusetts, and it really isn’t even about health care, either. It’s about him.

…but then, this is the world that we all live in now.

Crossposted to RedState.

Word of the day: ‘Anatine.’

It means ‘like or of a duck.’  This is the result of a discussion between my wife, myself, and the newborn:  we needed to work out what was a more highfalutin word for ‘ducklike’ –

Because ‘Defeat him, my ducklike minions!’ doesn’t have the right sound to it, of course.  This was a conversation between me and my wife, remember?

– and so, we had to reverse-engineer on the spot back from the Latin word for duck (anatis, which we looked up).  As ‘ursus’ (bear) becomes ‘ursine’ (bearlike) and ‘leo’ (lion) becomes ‘leonine’ (lionlike), we assumed that ‘anatis’ would become ‘anatine’ – and lo!  It did.  And if you don’t like it, I shall unlease my new anatine minions upon you.

See?  Much superior.

Moe Lane

PS: ‘Crustacean minions’ is already sufficiently awesome that I don’t really need to come up with an alternative, but I appreciate your input.

Pushback on some pushback rhetoric…

…I hesitate to call it a ‘meme.’ At any rate: somebody – presumably somebody from the other side of the spectrum – attempted to derail Mark Steyn’s observation that Adam Nagourney is sounding a little bereft-of-information these days by rhetorically asking:

You do realize that Democrats have won every single federal-level election since Obama’s election, right? Five.

Err… wrong, actually.  Eight.  And the attempt to eliminate the loss of NJ’s governorship (and pretty much VA as a whole) from consideration is both duly noted, and mocked. Continue reading Pushback on some pushback rhetoric…

I probably don’t really count as an early Brown adopter, Cynthia.

Thanks for the shout-out and everything, but I’m a well-known GOP party hack. Endorsing Scott Brown right out of the gate wasn’t exactly unsurprising for me.

Admittedly, it would have been a no-brainer anyway, but that’s just the serendipity talking.

Crossposted to RedState.