Author: Moe_Lane

Deceiver Madness face-off!

Al Gore vs. PETA, and that’s one time where you root for injuries, huh?

They also have a contest, with the winner getting a set of prizes lovingly designed to seriously piss off whoever wins Deceiver Madness. I’d get in on that, but it also requires me to figure out the final score of an actual basketball game, and I don’t even know who’s winning that. Or who was participating in the first place…

Why we’re kicking back on the copkiller thing.

Like the DaTechguy, I’m actually not outraged over Kos’s Pittsburgh comments, and for the same reason: this is who the Online Left are, this is what they set out to become, and now they’re there and have to deal with the consequences of eating, drinking, and breathing hate for eight years.  So, no surprise, and you need surprise to sustain outrage.

Fully justified contempt, on the other hand, is still easily achievable.  And quite fun.  I can’t wait to start asking Democratic Congressional candidates if they too believe that Republicans are copkillers, and neither can anybody else on this side of the spectrum.

Personally, I like “Treachery.”

Jim Treacher is thinking about a name change for his blog – I’m personally fine with his current one, but then I’ve been doing this since 2003 or so; I’m accustomed to in-jokes and whimsical names.  On the other hand, I didn’t exactly go with either when I picked the name for this blog.  On the gripping hand, it’s not my call anyway.

Jim’s been doing fun stuff with Twitter – that really does sound dirty – so check him out.

This was once edgy.

Admittedly, it was edgy when I was eleven.


Centerfold, by J. Geils Band.

One of the funniest things that was in the original GURPS Autoduel was its suggestion that the dystopian future of that world’s 2020s would portray the 1980s as being idyllic (in much the same way that we romanticize both the 1950s and the 1890s).  It’s still funny (nobody gets near-future disaster scenarios wrong like roleplaying games do*), but not because it isn’t increasing true that we do.

Moe Lane

*Which is not the games’ fault, really: if you’re playing in a near-future game, you want it to be different than the current time period, right?  That means “exciting,” and exciting means that something’s probably blown up somewhere.  Or lots of somethings.  Whatever the current worry is, really.

‘Community Service and You: a filmstrip in seventeen parts.’

Does that bring back memories?

Katherine Miller of Vandy Right reacts to the news that the Fairfax County public school system will mandate 40 hours a semester of community service prior to graduation, starting next year:

Now, last week, I actually argued to someone that I was comfortable with individual schools rather than the federal government mandating students complete community service to graduate. Bu, after considering this more, I’m having a Come to Jesus moment: The government, and by extension the schools, need not be in the business of mandating community service. Let me break it down for you.

And she proceeds to do so.  I’ll just give you her bullet points: Katherine explores each one more thoroughly. Continue reading ‘Community Service and You: a filmstrip in seventeen parts.’

The New Book of the Week is… Rules for Radicals.

We’re replacing Bigfoot Observer’s Field Manual: A practical and easy-to-follow step-by-step guide to your very own face-to-face encounter with a legend with Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.

(pause)

Look, I don’t like it any more than you do; but as a practical matter this is widely considered to be one of the how-to books on how to stick it to the Man.  And, honestly?  I do like the idea of getting referral fees from successfully recommending a book of techniques that can be turned against its creators.  That appeals to some deep, 1950’s-horror movie facet of my soul.

But if you simply can’t bear the thought of giving this guy any bread, there’s a summary here.

Moe Lane

Iowahawk publishes the second Journolist thread.

Not to indulge in pop psychology – HA! This is the Internet, baby; the bad psychology is only matched by the bad sociology, with the bad cultural analysis batting cleanup – but you do have to wonder whether this particular parody might be just a little too biting for the recipients’ comfort (H/T IMAO). They’d totally deny it, of course – they would* – but every blogger that I’ve heard of so far that’s been linked to the Journolist has also had an inferiority complex that you could bounce rocks off of (thank you, Terry Pratchett. I think).

I’m not entirely certain what they’re feeling inferior to; possibly neither are they. The mainstream media, for having travel budgets and instant access; us Right-Wing Death Beasts, for daring to laugh and have fun instead of curling up and dying in the face of their superior daily traffic; their looming twentieth year high school reunions, for all I know.Whatever it is, it’s a doozy; it caused them to do one heck of a regress. Such a shame, really.

OK… no, its not. But you’re supposed to say things like that in these situations.

Moe Lane

*The paradox in that would be both more interesting and kind of tragic, if only I cared.

Crossposted to RedState.

Pulp genre – *was* some helpful links, now mostly about that post about the court case.

As you can see, I’ve added Conan to the Wish List, mostly because my wife thinks that we should pick those movies up at some point. My wife happens to be a stone-cold pulp fan, although oddly she’s more a fan of the Conan movies than she is of Robert Howard‘s books (probably because she associates the latter with local TV station weekend afternoon movies).

And while looking up to see whether the Doc Savage stuff was still available online now that they’re reprinting them both in dead-tree and Kindle form I came across this absolutely fascinating post about a court case with Conde Nast.  I still don’t know who won that one.

Moe Lane

PS: My wife raved about The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril: A Novel: I haven’t gotten to it yet.