Hooked on Ewwww

“You can’t let the little pricks generation-gap you,” Molly said.              —William Gibson, Neuromancer Then again, sometimes it’s perhaps best to just leave them to it. CNN is reporting on a new fad getting some attention: Meat hook dangling craze mystifies police Law enforcement officials in the Florida Keys are mystified by a bizarre new pastime … Read more

Cheerfully Blitzed…

…cuz the folks at work insisted that I go out with them for once, and the girlfriend’s at a NJ harp festival, and the heffenweitzen was a buck a mug to start, and… well. Flying, I am, and lucky that my typing skills do not completely atrophy when drunk (I won’t admit to just how … Read more

Who was the guy on the xylaphone?

Maybe I am sicker than I thought, because I think that normally I would be outraged. OTOH, my long-suffering girlfriend vetted it, and although she looked dubiously at the Alzheimer’s references she generally jueged it as funny. I report, you decide. Just don’t drink any soda while doing it, one way or the other. (Via … Read more

Time for another installment…

That’s Just Silly. Yes, that fun game where you look the stuff that your own side does and shake your head in disbelief. OK, so it’s sort of the first installment, although we’ve played games like this before. They say that confession’s good for the soul – albeit rarely on public property, these days – so we’re probably overdue for a good bout of painful admissions and confessions.

The rules are simple: go find something done by somebody on your side that’s so goofy it makes you roll your eyes, confess it here (with appropriate links) and walk away feeling better. This is explicitly a game for admitting to silly stuff done by your side, not the Other’s; attempts to score points against political opponents are forbidden in this thread, and will probably be deleted, although the temptation to mockingly edit them is a strong one. Best not to force a decision, there.

So, to show willing, I give you… “W” Ketchup! Ollie North’s crowd came up with this winner* – how shocking, huh – and they’re touting it as an alternative to ‘Democratic’ ketchup. Umm, right. I’m struck now with this image of Ollie North somebody to be determined doing the remake of The Manchurian Candidate, pounding the podium with one hand and holding a Heinz bottle in the other, all the while shouting about the Commies.

Sheesh.

(Via Boi from Troy)

Moe

UPDATE: A call to the charity – which, by the way, seems decent enough – has indicated that they haven’t gotten a donation from these guys yet; they’ll look into it and let me know one way or the other. I still retain the right to mock this as a Right-wing goof, until such time as it’s been shown to be otherwise.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Got an email from the charity; the group making this is an actual company who will be donating to said charity, which argues against a satire site. The mocking of W Ketchup may now resume.

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First Thing We Do, Let’s Not Treat All the Lawyers

I know the costs of malpractice insurance are driving doctors to distraction, but… A doctor’s proposal asking the American Medical Association to endorse refusing care to attorneys involved in medical malpractice cases drew an angry response from colleagues Sunday at the annual meeting of the nation’s largest physicians group. Many doctors stood up to denounce … Read more

Things I meant to blog about #2

Are you looking for cinema reviews- with a twist?

Then pop on down to Maoist International Movement’s Maoist Movie Reviews! Sure, we’ve all wondered what a hardcore totalitarian would think of such classics as Small Soldiers and Gladiator; well, we can wonder no more. These folks will be more than happy to bend, twist, spindle, mutilate, crumple, squeeze and even liquify their target movies into Chairman Mao’s paradigm; the results of this can be best expressed by the fact that they sort of liked Episode Two*.

And they even solicit reviews! Not that I’m encouraging anybody to spoof them, of course. Why on earth anyone would think that I would ever suggest that a bunch of would-be dictators and censors be inundiated with subtly mocking movie reviews is beyond me completely**…

(Via Amygdala)

Moe

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I’m always out of the loop.

Especially on this entire lemur thing from Reuters: Lemurs Aren’t So Dumb After All, Study Finds. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Lemurs, once believed to be cute but basically stupid, show startling intelligence when given a chance to win treats by playing a computer game, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday. Heck, I wasn’t aware that their being … Read more

The More You Know

The Google Terrrorist
It was the lead item on the government’s daily threat matrix one day last April. Don Emilio Fulci described by an FBI tipster as a reclusive but evil millionaire, had formed a terrorist group that was planning chemical attacks against London and Washington, D.C. That day even FBI director Robert Mueller was briefed on the Fulci matter. But as the day went on without incident, a White House staffer had a brainstorm: He Googled Fulci. His findings: Fulci is the crime boss in the popular video game Headhunter. “Stand down,” came the order from embarrassed national security types.

A guest poster would like to make a public service announcement.

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Gimme some of that funky fundagelical link-action, baby.

What, you’ve never heard of fundagelical? Or fundagelism? It’s the latest word, oh my droogies: all the cool bloggers are using it. You can’t click a link without seeing all the hipsters attacking or defending the concept: why, it’s bigger than trackbacking! (pause) At least, that’d be the impression that you’d get from this Guardian … Read more

The Jesurgislac Memorial Silly Thread

…because he’s indicated that he’d like to see some silly news, and frankly so would I. I start this off with a blind leap into Google with the word silly: Molecules with Silly or Unusual Names. Highly lame; enough, in fact, to get laughs out of me. Post your own below. Moe

The Apprentice

Yeah, I’m an addict. And it’s down to Kwame and Bill.

So, before the announcements are made, here’s my choice. Kwame is the only one who I can see running a multi-million dollar company. But the sentimental favorite is Bill Rancic — despite the fact that his quote is “I’m a trained killer – in business.”

Why Bill? Loyola University Chicago, baby: his alma mater is where I went to law school. We protect our own. (And how dare them mean Trump people suggest that LUC don’t give no good edumacation.*)

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Blogs that deserve more traffic

I command you to go read the Fafblog. They’ve just done a redesign, and Fafnir, Giblets, and the dread “Medium Lobster” are on a roll. Be sure not to miss — Fafnir’s Terrorist voting guide: “Ayman al-Zawahiri: STRONGEST CAMPAIGN ISSUES: Tort reform, faith-based initiatives . . . . WOMEN’S RIGHTS: Opposes Roe v Wade on … Read more

Duplex & the City

I have this recurring dream where I find an extra room in my tiny Soho apartment that I sort of always knew was there, but didn’t really utilize. And it dawns on me as I watch it get bigger before my eyes in that zoom-out-reverse-dolly way things do in movies that I could make this … Read more

St. Patrick’s Day. Oh, boy.

Seeing as I’m tapped out for the night otherwise, here’s a little pre-emptive disapproval.

Top Ten Reasons Why Moe Lane can’t stand St. Patrick’s Day:

10). Actually, quite fond of the British these days, thanks. Well, just ask the inhabitants of Northern Ireland if they want to leave the UK? Oh, you did? Well, why don’t the ones that do want to leave bloody well leave, then? Some Irishmen did, you know. Some even came to America to get away from that nonsense…
9). Still working out childhood trauma engendered by sight of a drunken clown brutally singing When Irish Eyes are Smiling, with vomiting on a nun as his encore;
8). Constant subjection to Irish cooking has left a permanent allergic reaction to a mere picture of corned beef;
7). Has nothing against green. Green is a perfectly good color. A happy color, even. But feels contrarily reluctant to give in to the expectation of wearing it;
6). When younger, wrote several scathing letters to the editor condemning the IRA, and now wonders every year if this will be the one that the IRA will try to carve out a bloody revenge;
5). Can’t stand James Joyce. HAH! You hear that?!? I CAN’T STAND JAMES JOYCE! AND I WAS AN ENGLISH MAJOR IN COLLEGE, TOO! I’M FREE, FREE I TELL YOU! FREE!!!!!
4). Ain’t too fond of that damn leprechaun and his double-damned lucky charms, either;
3). No, doesn’t want a Guinness;
2). No, doesn’t care if everybody else in the bar is having one, too. The stuff tastes like roofing tar and the only way that any of these people wearing shamrocks and Kiss Me buttons would actually have any Irish blood would be if I gave them a transfusion. I mean, just look at that guy. Yes, that one wearing the bowler hat and the green suspenders, God help us all. No. NO. You will not start talking about the Pope. You will NOT start talking about the Pope. Damn you, now you’ve started talking about the Pope. No, I will not calm down and drink my roofing tar. Stop laughing at me! This is not an easy day to go through when you’re 15/16th Irish!

And the number one reason why Moe Lane hates St. Patrick’s Day:

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Passing it along, Part II.

I almost want this to pass without comment. Well, no I don’t: A woman charged with causing a fatal car crash in 1999 says that she couldn’t have been behind the wheel because she was performing a sex act on the driver at the time. . . . . Specyalski claims that Esposito was driving, … Read more

Filed my motion . . . .

. . . . and life is goooooood Time to reflect: Seventeen things that I have learned in my thirty years and three days on the Earth . . . . 1. Those who call themselves moderates usually aren’t. (As ObWi’s self-proclaimed “moderate,” perhaps I confess too much.) 2. Money does buy love, or a … Read more

New Blogger

Recent poster Opus over at Tacitus has started her own blog. She’s certainly on the Left side of the spectrum, but she likes Dave Barry and I’ve seen worse scansion coming from the Left*, so what the heck. No such thing as bad publicity, right? UPDATE: Sheesh, on review it would seem that I’m either … Read more

Learning all my holy moves doing some research.

A random comment by Reader praktike reminded me to note that this Monitor-With-Obsessive,-Luskin-Like-Blog-Stalking,-Snarky-Emails-and-Carping-Criticism Adopt-A-Journalist program really does seem to be taking off (timeline here – some other info here). Just note which Democratic candidate you’re voting for with each email you send out, guys, that’s all I ask. Much obliged.

Haiku-a-lypse Now

M.C. Masterchef states: “looks like I need to start commenting more. Gimme another haiku thread to work with and I’ll reach my quota real fast.” Witness, now, the wish and the command becoming one. Cold January Bosses to warmer homes go I’m wearing no pants This is your depressed Haiku open thread.

Threat Level Reduced.

As Atrios informs us, The Department of Homeland Security has reduced the terrorist threat level from Ernie to Bert. This is obviously good news. I don’t know about that scale, though. Cookie Monster and Oscar are kind of threatening and/or grouchy for the lowest threat levels; I think Grover and Kermit might be better choices. … Read more

New Blogger on Tacitus

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

Proxy charity request

Gary Farber of Amygdala is apparently in a bit of a hole financially and could use some help. He’s an all right guy (when he isn’t correcting our grammar) and it is the Christmas season… your call to make; I didn’t begrudge him a twenty. Moe