Moe Lane

O-Kay, Then.

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Not that I’m the sort to agree with Max Sawicky on much (although I do try to be nice about disagreeing with him), but I can certainly see why he decided to title his post about the WaPo article on Norquist the way he did. Norquist’s kind of intensity is just a tad unnerving, and … Read more

Just to add to my bitterness*…

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…Argus is obviously much more on top of Uzbekistani affairs than I am right now. Go check him out. Moe *This is synthetic bitterness for comic effect. No actual bitter was used in the making of this post.

Guess it’s over, then.

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Fafblog endorsed Dean. I’ll call up Bush and tell him the bad news; somebody else call the other eight Democratic candidates, ‘kay? I can’t trust myself to not crank call Kuchinich out of spite. (pause) On the bright side, the Ninja googlebomb lives on. UPDATE: mc_masterchef asks for haiku’s warp and woof – Let us … Read more

A New Category

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In an attempt to get the blogrolls under control, I have instituted the Commentator category, representing the blogs of those who regularly post to the threads here. I’ve moved some and added a couple, including Catsy’s and praktike’s; feel free to use this thread to point out if I haven’t moved your blog to this … Read more

Not all one thing. Never all one thing.

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OxBlog brings to our attention a Thomas Friedman Op-Ed about Turkey that should be read by anybody who walks around assuming that Islam itself is the enemy of the West, rather than fanatical elements inside of it. A significant portion of the text: I happened to be in Istanbul when the street outside one of … Read more

Well, they found something…

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AP and Reuters are both reporting the discovery of mortar shells that may – repeat, may – contain blister gas. They’re being tested now to determine whether or not that they are, in point of fact, chemical weapons; the shells appear to have been buried for at least a decade, and are probably left over … Read more

My Favorite Marxists…

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…are waxing philosophical about blogging: Accordingly, we suspect that news and commentary alike, whether in the newspapers, on television or on blogs, can never be as objective, or as rational, as we all like to pretend they can be. We’re not saying that trying to be objective and rational is a waste of time; just … Read more

Actually, it will…

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… but your concerns have been noted. Sorry: I’m making a joke about this Signifying Nothing post title (The Center Will Not Hold), which links to this Peaktalk article (The Disappearing Center). Generally speaking, the latter talks about Canadian and Dutch politics, noting that the latter has recently exhibited a polarization of its political parties … Read more

Cancer and Saddam Hussein

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It may very well be that the past reports of Saddam Hussein’s cancer are correct. If true it’s nothing that I’d wish on another human being (lymph cancer is a nasty disease), but it’s hard to call it a, well, tragedy in this particular case. I’m just grateful that we had this confirmed after regime … Read more

I dig old sweet long lanky non-stop Abe.

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That smooth cat von was talking and jiving, funning and sunning, smiling and nodding himself down a suave path of song and dance about the music that established his zone of jive, so I’m gonna lay down the rap on my new pride and joy. I want to talk to you about my man, my most righteous of brothers, my guy rolling a spliff right now from the Nazz’s own personal crop and showing the Werewolf and the Man in Black just how you jive and scat to Gabby when she’s feeling like making that trumpet she totes howl, oh yes, my cats and kitties, howling all the way to Judgement Mother Day.

Yes. His Lordship himself. I found him out in the wilderness (shown the way by the righteous stud Lincoln Cat, who will be grooving down in my own righteous blogstash with the rest of the mad, lyrical cats as soon as I can mixel the pixel with the trixel, connect the dot on the screen free and clean, Jean) and he’s gonna talk to us about my boy. The biggest mother cat of the Gee Oh Mother Pee. The one that brought it all in and made it sing. But my gums can stop flapping any time now.

Oh, if you were worrying about the length of the quote – the righteous cats and kitties in the know, Joe, have declared the square:

All cats and kitties who are blown away by this material are encouraged to perform it, share it, download it, post it, make it known to the not-yet-hip, but hungry, masses.

Dig.

Moe

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Followup on Horse Trading

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In responses to this post (where, among other things, I mentioned in passing to not expect a nonbrokered convention and to expect horsetrading) I was asked by reader praktile,

Moe, what kind of horse trading do you think would happen? Do you have any insight as to how those behind-the-scenes discussions happen?

Fair questions, both of them.

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Koufax Awards…

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Wampum is holding them again. We’re up for one: Best Non-liberal blog – which is odd, considering that I’m the only Righty posting here. I was hoping that von and Katherine would get a nomination or something… still, check ’em out. Dwight Meredith’s just got a permanent gig there, and he’s got the Blogger’s Touch. … Read more

Ain’t No Fun

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By now all y’all have probably seen Bush’s immigration proposals. I want to see the concrete plan first, but I’m generally in favor of an amnesty for illegal immigrants, so I’m always ready to at least consider policy changes that might make that more likely.

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Meanwhile, back at the Ranch…

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… Wesley Clark gives his campaign manager heartburn, ulcers and a coronary. Clark: Abortion decision is the mom’s alone

Democrat Wesley Clark said yesterday he would never appoint a pro-life judge to the federal bench because the judge’s anti-abortion views would render him unable to follow the established judicial precedent of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

The Presidential candidate also told The Union Leader that until the moment of birth, the government has no right to influence a mother’s decision on whether to have an abortion.

“Life,” he said, “begins with the mother’s decision.”

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New Blogger on Tacitus

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Tac has given Wild, Wild Lefty commenter Trickster guestblogging privileges: I’m aware that most of you folks read that site anyway, but let’s welcome him/her all the same. Plenty of time for brickbats later. Moe

Alas…

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…while Fables of the Reconstruction has a link up to Bally’s Pain in the Butt (extremely mild) BDSM workout program (yes, kids, you too can combine alternative sexuality and improved cardiovascular activity!*), the Quicktime video won’t load properly on my site – making me actually interested now in seeing said video. Which is kind of … Read more

Googlebombing Ninjas… (And an endorsement)

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Seeing as I have been told that googlebombing is benign, I have decided to start one of my very own. From now on, Senator Joseph Lieberman will only be spoken of here by me as the Ninja*, mostly because a less Ninja-like person is hard to contemplate. Besides, it’s quirky, not ideological, so maybe people will actually do it or something.

In other news, The New Republic is endorsing the Ninja for President, with a predictable reaction.

UPDATE: Rastenfracken Howard Dean gets into everything. He’s worse than ferrets, let me tell you.

ANOTHER UPDATE: BAH! and FIE! People are linking to this (which, by the way, is my secret weakness), so let it be a night of a million billion Ninja!!!!!

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Two points on the Junior Senator from NY.

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1) Slantpost, while in the process of hammering away at the entire Hitler-in-discourse thing, helpfully points out that said Senator gets slammed with this kind of crap all the fragging time. Just a reminder to people on both sides: it is not particularly consistent to condemn Bush being equated to Hitler and favor Hillary Clinton … Read more

Busy Day Today

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And I’m just testing the system to see whether those automatic pings to blo.gs and weblogs.com are going to work and all, so don’t mind me.

My Prediction for ’08

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Matthew Stinson had the unmitigated gall to read my mind about why a Democrat is likely to win the Presidency in 2008 and put it in the comments section of a post not even about said election:

JKC, I think the GOP is likely to run out of steam by 2008 for two reasons: first, there is no heir apparent to Bush in the party. Many of the high-profile GOP governors from last decade wound up taking low-profile cabinet positions in the current Bush administration; once exception would be Jeb Bush but I can’t see the public electing Bushes back-to-back. The second reason I expect a Democratic win in 2008 is the likelihood that the public will have the kind of domestic priorities that favor Democrats by that time — while the war on terror and containment of rogue regimes won’t be over by a long shot, the distance from 9/11 will be sufficiently great that doubts about Democrats and national security will probably be diminished.

I shall thus be forced to instead expound on these two thoughts.

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Katherine’s Blogroll At War!

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Well, two denizens of it, at least: Dan Drezner and Brad DeLong, over – who else? – Dan’s comments about Paul Krugman. Great, now I’m going to have to separate the two: I should have never have put them right next to each other on the blogroll… (pause) What, you want a substantive comment? Sorry, … Read more

My Own David Brooks Post

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Now, of course, I would never compare the clever* Katherine to Donald Luskin, obsessed fellow that he is. And I myself find it amusing that Brook’s Op-Ed is guilty of the same mass generalizations that he’s complaining about. But I do want to note something he said that may get lost in the shouting:

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Equal Time For Slapdowns.

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I’ve been waiting for Katherine to blog this (she’s the one of our triumvirate who found it first, after all), but I guess that she isn’t and I’m already starting to see grumblings that the Right isn’t jumping on this one en masse, so we might as well get going: Godwinization is Godwinization, folks. Ralph … Read more

Terror. Fear. Horror.

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Ed Schultz, proud knight of [insert nonjudgemental noun meaning “less conservative than Moe” here]ism, has gone national today in his quest to defeat the awful dragon of Right Wing Talk Radio: Longtime listeners, first-time players: Dems find radio voice (Registration requires an email but is otherwise free: go here for the guy’s website). No doubt … Read more

Ah, So That’s Why Zell’s Considered An Apostate.

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I have to admit, if I were a Democrat and I woke up this morning to discover that a sitting Democratic Senator had written an article for the Wall Street Journal that had the title Memo To Terry McAwful (registration required, but free), I’d be pretty pissed off, too. Miller’s retiring, sure, but that’s still just plain rude (not exactly dignified, either) – especially when the article’s supposedly trying to give advice to Miller’s nominal party. I suspect that it’s going to become a good deal more nominal, assuming that it hasn’t hit negative numbers yet.

Which is a shame, because there was something very interesting (and not particularly offensive) about one of his comments about Dean.

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Forty-Foot Jesus In Tulsa! Watch

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That’s the category that I’ve decided to file dumb-ass statements by religious types who should know better under. In this case statements like Pat Robertson’s that God is most assuredly letting him know that George W Bush is going to be re-elected by wide margins in November. It’d be worth a close election (as long … Read more

Jessica’s Well Gives A Topic for Discussion:

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Resolved: This House (OK, this Blog) believes that the collective knowledge of the blogosphere is greater than the collective knowledge of professional journalists regardless of the subject. For my own part, I noted that I was pretty much in agreement with what poster Al said in comments, but I should note here that I don’t … Read more

They decided to change those names…

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… in that Muslim football tournament. For the record, I never particularly cared one way or the other if young people want to call their sports teams “Soldiers of Allah” or “Moujahideen” (in much the same way that I don’t particularly care if they wanted to call a team, say, the “Crusaders”); “Intifada” bothered me … Read more