Why wait 20 years, Glenn?

When it comes to Twilight-themed tattoos, ‘lame’ will work perfectly as well as a descriptor, whether it be today or twenty years from now.

H/T: Instapundit, naturally. And note that I don’t really have anything against Twilight, per se: I neither watch nor read it and I’m apparently not part of the target demographic.  I will admit to a certain jaundiced attitude towards the assumptions, but then I watched Buffy The Vampire Slayer more or less (if you’ll pardon the semi-pun) religiously.

I certainly hope that none of *my* tax money…

…was used by NPR to fund homophobic hate speech.  WARNING: the geniuses at NPR haven’t learned how to put up flash videos that don’t autoload, so don’t click on the link unless you feel like regaling your workspace with a condescending, yet ponderous, primer that relies on the Left’s favorite word to describe people who don’t like health care rationing.

God, but these people are insecure.

Moe Lane

See also Athens Runaway and Riehl World View.
Crossposted to RedState

Revisiting Sifry and the OfA Withering.

Micah Sifry wrote a follow-up to his post on the withering of Obama Organizing for America, and it’s just as interesting as the first one was. More practically useful, in its way: anybody involved with building/maintaining a local Tea Party group, or other local conservative/libertarian/Republican grassroots organization should read it.  But – again – there’s one particular passage that I want to address:

…[A]nd heck, doesn’t the Democratic party want more local chapters[?]…

Not in the sense that Micah means, no.  They want their current local chapters filled with people who show up, swell the ranks, pay their dues, and perform whatever tasks the local chapter leadership expects of them.  Which, for most local chapters, involves maintaining the status quo.  Actually letting those wild-eyed activists do anything would give said local chapter leadership the galloping staggers.

Anyway, read the whole thing, particularly if you’re a Right-grassroots organizer.  But if you’re a progressive: read this, and tell yourself that nothing’s wrong, really.

Moe Lane

PS: What?  No, the GOP has a different problem in that regard, which I have no intention at all of discussing in even a semi-public forum.

Crossposted to RedState.

Aim to misbehave.

I have a mantra for you.  Every single day, remind yourself:

‘Aim to misbehave.’

I had a lot of self-conscious twaddle after that, but I deleted it for being self-conscious twaddle.  It’s a new year and a new election cycle.  Celebrate it by being a merry counter to our current ruling party: if those dullards* hate anything, it’s being laughed at.

So laugh.

Moe Lane

*The most fun kind of dullards, in fact: the kind that tragically think that they’re actually quite stylish and edgy.

Crossposted to RedState.

‘Zounds! I largely agree with a MSNBC article!

…thankfully, it’s just their Top 10 ‘geek’ movie list for the last decade.

Although not completely: I’d swap out Casino Royale for Iron Man – or, more accurately, replace Gladiator with it. Oh, and remove Wall-E and replace it with All Those Goddamn Spectacular Pixar Films. The others are dealer’s choice, and not worth fussing over, as long as you see them.  It’s a good list, in other words; one way that you can tell is that I watched all but one of those films, at least half of them in theaters – and liked all the ones that I saw*.

Moe Lane

*With the partial exception of Gladiator.  But that was because the first five minutes made me realize that what I really, really wanted to watch was an epic movie about Roman legionary warfare.  Not quite the movie’s fault, and such is life.

The progressive populist, and other inane myths.

I would whale upon this Matt Bai column, except that at the end it’d just boil down to two thoughts:

  1. Only a graduate of Tufts and Columbia Universities could even seriously entertain the notion that a graduate of Columbia and Harvard Universities would ever be accurately described as being a ‘populist’;
  2. And only a progressive journalist would think that being compared to Woodrow Wilson was complimentary.

Via Hot Air Headlines.

Moe Lane

PS: Well, why not? This video still gets me hate mail, so I figure it still stings.

Crossposted to RedState.

Ah, former Governor Palin?

Time to start the waltz, methinks.

A few days ago Sissy Willis asked a very interesting question: Will Sarah Palin endorse Scott Brown?  I’ve been thinking about it a bit; and while I can see the arguments both pro and con, I think that it’s time that Sarah Palin did.  You have to speculate to accumulate, after all.

So let’s light this candle.

Moe Lane

PS: Scott Brown for US Senate.

Crossposted to RedState.

Some VERY IMPORTANT news: The Hobbit casting call.

As reported here and here and here.  Be prepared to live in New Zealand for a while if they take you.

Also, they’re splitting the party book into two parts.  I’m… not entirely certain that’s a good idea, but I am entirely certain that Peter Jackson wouldn’t be able to hear me over all that money and all those Academy Awards.