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.
Admittedly, it was edgy when I was eleven.
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One of the funniest things that was in the original GURPS Autoduel
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*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.
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.’
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
(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.
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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.
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*The paradox in that would be both more interesting and kind of tragic, if only I cared.
Crossposted to RedState.
You’d think that he’d have noted dKos’s adoption of Rule 4 (“Make Some Enemies“); after all, the Sundries Shack did.
Perhaps he’s not feeling well.
Crossposted to RedState.
As you can see, I’ve added Conan 
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
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PS: My wife raved about The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril: A Novel
…you could always try the Seabreacher Dolphin Boat.
I saw this on Wreckreation Nation, too – and did you know that individual episodes of that series are on Amazon’s Video on Demand
[UPDATE]: Welcome, Instapundit readers. You might enjoy the tank post. [UPDATE the second]: And welcome again; this time I’m going to suggest that you go buy Rules for Radicals, if only because the visitors from the two Lefty sites visiting here don’t want you to (I’d link, but I’m pretty sure that both sites are pro-torture. Besides, Lefty sites are notorious for their readers not actually clicking through anyway.)
Are any of you wondering why he’s gone Full Metal Moonbat over this (see also Jim Treacher and Hot Air)*?
Nah, me neither.
Moe Lane Continue reading So. Daily Kos and the Pittsburgh shooting.
I don’t need to elaborate, do I? I came across Drive A Tank while visiting my in-laws yesterday (I don’t have cable TV*), and it’s almost perfect. They won’t let you shoot actual rounds at things. Blanks, sure; shells, no. Probably an insurance thing.
But it looks like “driving over a station wagon” is still on the menu:
So there’s that.
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*Surprisingly little, although I tend to gorge on various marathons when they happen to intersect my view. But I have noticed: people watch a lot more television than you might think.
