Tag: 2012

Movie of the Week: District 9.

District 9 was gratifying not least because I didn’t have to get worked up about having the stereotypical Evil Corporation In League With The Government being the main villain; it wasn’t my country’s Evil Corporation or my country’s Government, after all. Besides, it was a good movie.

And so, goodbye to 2012. Without a qualm.

Everything you need to know about the 2012 movie.

From The New Republic:

The conceit this time out–not that it matters in the slightest–is that a series of escalating solar flares has produced a “mutated” form of neutrinos, which are penetrating the Earth’s crust and heating up its core. The ancient Mayans somehow foretold that this solar calamity would take place in 2012, but the movie makes no effort to explain how they knew: Emmerich’s in this for the earthquakes and super-volcanoes; leave the geo- and metaphysics to someone who cares.

Wow. To quote a physicist friend of mine, that’s not even wrong.

‘Boring’ sounds like a wonderful quality for a 2012 candidate.

To evoke Terry Pratchett, what I’m going to be looking for is a candidate who I think will actively try to ensure that tomorrow is going to be pretty much like today.

Liz Cheney (via Gateway Pundit) has some thoughts about whatever person we stick with the 2012 cleanup job is in for:

I’m personally not all that interested in talking 2012 until we’re done with 2010, but if I had to make a decision right now I’m going to take the position that ‘boring’ would be a nice default quality to have in our next candidate. So does ‘dull:’ it’s been just over a year since we started to live in interesting times, and I’m pretty much done with the sensation, thanks.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

I’m starting to think that ‘restrained’ and ‘2012’…

…are simply two concepts that are not going to ever intersect. Watch the ‘exclusive content’…

..also found here, and you come to the conclusion that maybe, just maybe, this…

…will be more subdued than the actual movie.

Moe Lane

PS: I’ll decide whether or not to see it once I see the reviews. I won’t be looking for good reviews. I’ll be looking for a certain flavor of bad ones.

Today is a chronological oddity.

In about two hours it will be 12:34:56 on 07/08/09.  Jules Crittenden predicts either the end of the world, or nothing in particular.  Given that said end of the world will probably look like this*:

…I’m hoping for nothing in particular. But believe me, the 2012 cottage industry is starting up already.  You’d think that if the Mayans were so good at predicting societal collapse, they would have predicted the one that they ended up having in the 9th century**…

Moe Lane

*Probably not.

**Apocalypto is actually from a later period. Sort of.

Moe Lane gets something wrong.

Hey, I’m honest enough to admit when I’m wrong about something – and although I could weasel out of this, I won’t: it is clear from context here that my expectations were that the Democratic party would redesign their Presidential primary system (to prevent someone doing unto the President as he did unto Clinton) at some point in 2010.  Well, that was flat-out wrong of me, and I’m sorry that I called it so badly.  It wasn’t going to start within a year at all.

It was actually going to start within three days. Continue reading Moe Lane gets something wrong.

My cynical prediction about the Democratic primary process.

Some time in the next year or so, the rules will be quietly changed so as to ensure that the power gaming techniques used by the current President to win the Democratic nomination in 2008 cannot be used against him in 2012. It’ll be straight primaries, winner take all, no more convoluted delegate allocation methods.

Second prediction: it will be touted as a ‘reform.’

Moe Lane

PS: If this comes true, feel free to reward me as a prophet by hitting the tip jar. Heck, hit it anyway.



Crossposted to RedState.

Will Obama remain a cynic?

Free Frank Warner is hopeful that President Obama’s days as one are numbered:

As the cynic, Obama could argue that Saddam Hussein was just another ruler, and that it was better to leave him alone. As president, he’ll find that the democracies are infinitely more cooperative and less dangerous than dictatorships, and that nine-tenths of the world’s deaths from war, famine and genocide are due to the abuses of despotic regimes. Continue reading Will Obama remain a cynic?