Other Places

I think so:

So if this little beer bash accomplished anything -- besides boosting the market share of Bud Light, Bucklers, Sam Adams, and Blue Moon beers -- it may get the cop and the prof in other places like Toledo or Albuquerque or Miami to sit down and talk.

Southern Issues

Um, South, could you do something about this?

Beaked Squid

Digby writes about all the slack-jawed coverage of BeerFest 2009:

Hasn't a shark bitten someone lately? I know there have been giant beaked squid in San Diego. Would that do? Please?

Cut Out

I love those guys over at Blogs For Victory (formerly Blogs For Bush). No one really leans into it quite like they do.

It’s nice to see Americans waking up to Obama’s partisanship and lack of leadership. He claimed to be a uniter, but has proven to be more divisive than any of his predecessors.

Just goes to show you that anyone can read off a teleprompter… but some people just aren’t cut out to be president. And Barack Obama has shown that he is really just an Illinois state senator playing a president on TV… and a really bad one at that.

Don't forget to pick yourself up a nice "HOPE for Terrorists" banner ad while you're there!

One Leader

Republican House minority whip Eric Cantor:

At last count, there were at least 32 active czars that we knew of, meaning the current administration has more czars than Imperial Russia.

Matthew Yglesias:

The thing about Imperial Russia is that as a centralized autocracy it only had one czar. Having multiple people in positions of authority makes a political system less, rather than more, autocratic. Consider, “under Hitler, Germany had only one Fuhrer, but in the contemporary United States there are dozens of important political leaders.” Do you find that idea alarming? Are we worse than the Nazis? Of course not.

Pieces

What happens when your stories get mixed up? You just assert that everything's fine.

Michael Warren, a Collegiate Network intern at National Review, writes:

Blue Moon has an unwarranted reputation for being less manly than your average brew, but leave it to Crowley, the tough cop, to blast that stigma to pieces.

Um, okay?

The Country Awaits Obama's Shopping Trip

How surreal is this?



From a tweet by Mark Knoller:

Here's the scene in the Kroger's (near deli counter) of Obama event. (Photo by CBS' Susan Harmon.)

guntotinglibertarian

After Glenn Beck called the President a "racist" yesterday morning, Bill Shine, SVP of Programming told TVNewser, "During Fox & Friends this morning, Glenn Beck expressed a personal opinion which represented his own views, not those of the Fox News Channel. And as with all commentators in the cable news arena, he is given the freedom to express his opinions."

This was posted over at conservative blog Hot Air, where the comments are just horrifying. For example:

Go, Glenn

The truth is what it is.

Ogabe hates white America.

guntotinglibertarian on July 28, 2009 at 10:36 PM

Or:

The Precedent wants to exact revenge on whites, the successful, and the West. It’s all very obvious and it would be nice if people stopped acting as if they didn’t see it and started talking about the reality we are living with.

progressoverpeace on July 28, 2009 at 11:07 PM

Some serious violent undertones going on here.

Again, you can't blame the blog for this, but, as Pam notes, the race-stoking is getting out of control across the board of the remnants of the so-called conservative movement.

Ten Times

Ladies and gentlemen...



Bill O'Reilly!

Bill O'Reilly: Here are the letters. Peter Gillies, Victoria, Canada: "Has anyone noticed that life expectancy in Canada under our health system is higher than the USA?" Well, that's to be expected, Peter, because we have ten times as many people as you do. That translates to ten times as many accidents, crimes, down the line.

Teaching the people!

(via)

Drow vs Mind Flayer

If you don't know what a Mind Flayer is, you may skip this post. If you do, read on...

Although I'm not very active in it, I am a whole-life fan of most all things D&D and fantasy. I've often gotten a kick out of Jon Schindette's blog. Jon is the Senior Art Director for Dungeons & Dragons (with Wizards of the Coast), and he posts often about the world of fantasy and game art, how to be a part of the business, what he looks for, etc, etc.

Today he has posted the submissions from challenge he set up last week.

The topic: Drow vs. Mind Flayer.

Lots of fun candidates (and certainly some clunkers). Many where I loved one character but not the other. This one, #14 (he posted the submissions with just numbers, not names), is my favorite overall:



Artists were also required to submit their entries with a book template overlay.


Check out the whole gallery!

Electronic Jesus

I really hated when Dan Lyons had his whiny little personal blog for a year, but he's been back for a bit as Fake Steve and, truly, this is his calling:

We told you we didn't care about the netbook market, so you went ahead with your plans, but now we're about to put you out of business -- iTablet is in the final stages, which means Apple will be taking over the market you created and then reinventing it in such a way that it immediately becomes 10 times bigger than it used to be, and all the money goes to Apple.

Honestly, Apple faithful, I feel like Jesus coming down from Mount Zion with those stone tablets. Except my tablet is electronic, which Katie says makes me Electronic Jesus.

War Pron

The "WHERES AR PATRIOTZ??!" talk continues at NRO with this from Maggie Gallagher:

The best evidence for the bias of Hollywood is the absence of films that encourage and reward patriotism.  I don't mind the presence of lefty anti-war films. They just make me mad because they remind me of the huge, gaping absence of films celebrating the heroism of men at war.

Where are my generation's World War II films? 

People are hungry for heroism.  Why is this market niche so persistently never filled, or diverted into comic book characters?

It's very hard to explain.

What happened to our feel-good war movies?

Very True

I wrote earlier today about Jonah Goldberg complaining that GI Joe wasn't going to be USA USA PATRIOTIC!!! enough for his taste, and joked that he probably liked True Lies, a fucking racist pile of shit.

And...along comes his co-NRO'er, Stephen Spruiell, holding that movie up like it's some kind of wingnut manifesto. Perhaps it's more important to them than Red Dawn?

Iron Man made strides in terms of Hollywood's ability, post True Lies, to depict Islamic jihadists as unambiguously bad guys and not would-be goatherders radicalized by Bush's refusal to sign Kyoto. But don't forget that the main bad guy in that movie was still a corporate fat cat. It's like they're trying really hard — but not quite getting there.

Above: Bad Guy

No!

Of course it was Bachmann.

Inhofe Says Fuck It

Why do we even bother anymore?

Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe says that oil and gas usage doesn’t create any pollution.

Proud, OK?

Edroso Explores The Depths For You

I highly recommend Roy Edroso's regular column "Exploring The Right Wing." His latest, Rightbloggers Will Tell You Who The Real Racists Are in the Henry Louis Gates Case, is full of gems like these:

At American Spectator, William Tucker recalled being unfairly challenged by a transit cop for bringing his bike on the New York subway; though this is perfectly legal, Tucker meekly acceded to "the gun and the legal authority" of the cop. This demonstrates to Tucker that "Gates is an egotist" who probably wanted to be arrested.

Intellectual Conservative finally offered what we may take as the definitive rightblogger legal analysis: "Being a 'black man in America' does not grant you the right to be obnoxious."

All this bodes ill for the Resistance if Obama uses the police to implement his liberal fascist agenda in America. Maybe they'll find a way to resist politely enough to evade arrest.

American Power attacked Gates from a sociological angle. In the disordered mind of Gates, he said, "'The Man' is always getting down on the black dude. But those dudes commit the most crimes, and profiling is perfectly legitimate as a crimefighting tool when the odds are that a certain demographic is prone to particular types of criminal activity." He offered further evidence: "I frankly can understand the fears of people flying cross-continental airliners when they see Middle Eastern and Muslim passengers on board." You see the connection: Maybe the officer mistook Gates' bronchitic rasp for a call to jihad.

Slate's Mickey Kaus pioneered what became a popular theme: that contrary to Gates' claim of police discrimination on account of his race, it was actually Gates who "has stereotypes" about policemen. "Isn't it pretty clear that Gates had a narrative in his head too?" he said. "...Again, from his own words it looks like he rushes a bit to the conclusion that a white man in a similar situation would have been treated differently." One wonders where Professor Gates got such an idea. Maybe as a Professor of African American Studies, he read it somewhere. (Patterico seconded: "The Officer Didn't Stereotype Henry Louis Gates -- Henry Louis Gates Stereotyped the Officer.")

The original contains the links to each of these posts.

All We Need Is Him

Jonah thinks that he's a hero that just needs to stand up and say "hey, you guys, you'd better start making our heroes SUPER-PATRIOTS again, you hear me??"

I bet he loves True Lies.

Jonah's "Profound" Protest

Jonah Goldberg gets an email from a reader thanking him for his courage:

I just want to thank you, belatedly, for the inspiration (courage?) you gave me a few years back, to simply use a paper towel to open a bathroom door and to leave the paper towel on the floor if no wastebasket is provided.  At my law firm’s office building, and many other buildings that I frequent (and in which I’ve left paper towels on the floor), wastebaskets have been provided next to the bathroom doors within a few weeks of my first paper-towel drop.  And the group dynamic is fascinating.  At my office building, I had never seen a paper towel on the floor before I first dropped one there.  But in the few weeks between my first “drop,” and management’s placement of a wastebasket, there were probably 15 or so paper towels a day dropped next to the door.

I doubt you started the practice. But many San Diegans who now enjoy wastebaskets by the bathroom door in buildings across the city are unknowingly indebted to your publicity of this simple, yet profound, form of protest against unsanitary property-management practices.

So, thank you, thank you, thank you.

Beware the "Don't Litter" Fascists!

Clearly the best way to request a trash can for your building's public bathroom is to drop a dirty paper towel on the ground.

When do we get to give these people their own state to run as they see fit?

"Purchased"

I agree with Tristero:

Merely promising to give up control is not enough. It must be impossible to alter the content of a book, magazine, newspaper, etc once a user has purchased it, for any reason whatsoever.

Oops

As we say on the internetz, hawwwesome!

A database update from AVG over the weekend made the Windows antivirus software attack users' iTunes installations, mistakenly viewing the application's library files as a Trojan virus and placing them in quarantine.