"This was the voice of moderation until 13 Sept, 2025"
Dan Drezner is guest blogging for Andrew Sullivan. I’ll repeat my advice (that he clearly put his name on each post he writes, because otherwise people will just assume that he’s Andrew Sullivan*) and my wishes of good luck here; I look forward to seeing the results on both your site and Andy’s. Moe *Happened … Read more
…is that even a word? At any rate, I’ve noticed that Calpundit more or less owns our referrer logs today, thanks to the link he threw our way in this post. By the way, Kevin, sorry to hear that you aren’t feeling well; hope you feel better. So. What’s the proper response to somebody enabling … Read more
At least the days get longer from here on out. I’m tapped out here, people.
Because of Amygdala*, I now have to deal with the internal vision of the Head Heeb and his Monopoly fanfic. Well, if we’re going to play, Gary, then all I have to say in response is: Stratego Slashfic. “She was the bomb. No, I meant it.” UPDATE: Moe Lane can’t spell, and one of his … Read more
It’s been a quiet day here – which would make sense, given that it’s the Sunday before Christmas and the middle of Hanukkah. Thankfully my Christmas shopping is essentially done and my travels don’t start for a couple of days – but somehow I get the feeling that I’m fairly unique in that regard. So, … Read more
Non-genius Matt Singer says it better than I can: The American Family Association, an organization I would never let anywhere near my family, has a poll up asking for opinions on gay marriage. They say they’ll submit the results to Congress. It’s an online poll on their own website, so the results are unlikely to … Read more
Okay, can I pre-emptively call a halt to the inevitable use of the new Lord of the Rings movie to prove points about the Iraq war? Andrew Sullivan’s post–which you have to scroll down a bit to get to from that link–is the first example I’ve seen of this for Return of the King, but … Read more
We have the best readers in the whole wide blogosphere. We brag about all y’all all the time to the other new bloggers – the ones that envy us because we sped up the Ecosystem so fast from all you guys linking to us right away. Without your comments we’d be sitting around mordantly typing … Read more
I completely forgot to note that Saturday was our one-month blogoversary. I think that Katherine, von and I have done reasonably well in that time period – aside, of course, from the ongoing failure of my constant schemes and plots to get blogrolled by every other blog in existence. Yes, blogrolls, yess, my precciousss blogrolllesess… … Read more
Okay, we haven’t gotten an entry for our caption contest for a few days now, so I’m going to do some unfair, unbalanced judging. (It’s for our fuzzy little mascot on the top left; I am not competent enough to re-post the full sized picture.)
The winner is….
Moe and I are apparently in good company.
1). According to my esteemed coblogger Katherine, we are now #1 for Google searches for Obsidian Wings! Hurrah! And double hurrah that I’m not the only one who egogoogles this site! 2). Apparently, the interestingly odd site known as Fafblog has been taken over by one of its guest posters and is now claiming this … Read more
I do dislike “hey, look at me” posts, but, well, maybe we better. ‘Cause, we know Katherine leans left. And we know Moe Lane leans right. But how the heck do I lean?
Twenty things to know about von’s politics follows.
I really, really hate them. Left, Right, Democratic, Republican, Green, Libertarian, Single-Taxer, right down the list. Which is why I’m going to be mean to them now.
Yup, I’m going to be blatantly unfair and cruel to books based on their titles and authors and nothing else. So?
Yup, upon rereading the comments I was, like, totally ad-hom and stuff So?
Yup, I didn’t include ISBNs. So?
(pause)
OK, OK, I should have done that, but it’s too late now.
Moe
PS: I’ve probably missed a few: this list was originally taken from here, and there’s a definite Left-bias to the list. Believe me, I’m happy too that right-wing political hacks can’t make the NYT bestseller lists.
PPS: My girlfriend’s response to this entire post was to take a martial arts pose and intone “Fear the inexorable power of the three-toed sloth”. I’m not sure, but I think that this was a somewhat subtle critique of the general utility (more accurately, the lack of same) of this post. Either that, or she was mocking my Useless Forearm Tyrannosaurus Rex Kung Fu. Unfortunately, she’s asleep now, so I can’t ask her.
…obvious Photoshopping, sorry. From Cliche Kitty (I hope that’s enough, right? It’s, like, an open forum and stuff and I couldn’t find any kind of use restriction stuff).
Via Matt Yglesias, I give you the surreal website of Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Husaini Sistani. Okay, fine it’s not quite a blog. It actually reminds me an awful lot of the site my old boss (the one who couldn’t use a mouse and thought google was run by tiny monsters living inside my computer) … Read more
1. Chad Pennington threatens to make a real football fan out of me. This is probably a bad idea in the long run, the Jets being the Jets. 2. I saw two movies over Thanksgiving. “Master and Commander” gets a big thumbs up, despite an expendable subplot or two; I’m now resolved to read those … Read more
I bring this up because, well, remember those resolutions you made back in January? You know the ones that I’m talking about; yeah, those. Not much time left to get them resolved, after all… and there’s no way that you’ll be able to reassign them for next year, remember? Next year’s 2004, and that’s a … Read more
from the Cleveland Plain-Dealer: At a New Hampshire candidates’ forum, he was queried about first ladies,and the Cleveland Democratic congressman didn’t waste his chance to drop the proverbial handkerchief. “As a bachelor, I get a chance to fantasize about my first lady,” the twice-divorced Kucinich replied. “And you know, maybe Fox will want to sponsor … Read more
Or, My God. The Giant Puppet Thing All Makes Sense Now.
By Moe Lane
No, really, it did. I was as shocked as anybody else would have been to have figured it out.
For all you Guided by Voices fans out there (and I know thine numbers to be legion), check out this article in the New York Times (free subscription required). Found via Burke at Swordstyle.