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Steampunk Ghostbusters homage…

h/t: BoingBoing

Mr. Rooney’s Day Off

He’s an unrighteous dude.

“Ferris Bueller” actor Jeffrey Jones was charged Wednesday with failing to update his sex offender registration status, authorities said.

Jones, 63, failed to update his information with California officials after his birthday in September, Los Angeles county district attorney spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said.

Jail records show he was arrested [...]

Shock Threatment

Lawrence? Lawrence what? Lawrence of Arabia? That name sounds like royality, are you royalty?

H/T BlackFive

Slippery Slopes, Unintended Consequences, etc.

Cracked has done it again… in my ever expanding — and quixotic — crusade to get State legislatures and Congress and executive agencies to slash and burn law codes… yeah its bad for lawyers, but what’s bad for lawyers is usually good for liberty, so I’m willing to take one for the team. Anyway… Cracked [...]

Hitchens has cancer

I have been advised by my physician that I must undergo a course of chemotherapy on my esophagus. This advice seems persuasive to me. I regret having had to cancel so many engagements at such short notice.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!

http://www.usedbin.com/kevin_gilbert.htm

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The hypocrisy of Journolist

As Dave Weigel licks his wounds while starting new gigs at MSNBC and The Huffington Post (apparently showing yourself as a partisan employed as an objective journalist is good for your career, as long as you are the right type of partisan), James Taranto pointed out some of the problems in Weigel’s Journolist postings and [...]

We Are Not Worthy!

I try to avoid linking to Steyn because everything the guy writes is more brilliant than anything anyone else is writing.  After awhile, the brilliance becomes mundane, but…

  Loony ‘troon   [Mark Steyn]

Readers may recall Ann Coulter’s visit to the University of Ottawa a couple of months back. The Provost, François Houle, had [...]

Classic Pick O’ the Day: July 1

The Heiress (1949) A plain young woman’s money makes her prey to fortune hunters. Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins Dir: William Wyler BW-115 mins, TV-PG. 6:00 PM EDT. TCM

Great and unappreciated William Wyler film here. Everyone, especially de Havilland is in top form here — an old story [...]

Amateurish Prose

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton…. some of you may know who this man was…. ALL of us have been affected by his “greatest creation”… I quote to you from the opening paragraph of his greatest work (emphasis mine) — the 1830 novel Paul Clifford:

“It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents–except at [...]

Wednesday Open Thread

Happy Birthday to the Corvette! This day in 1953 the first Corvette rolled off the line.

Joe Louis is the greatest boxer who ever lived ...

… and Neil Peart plays a mean set of drums (and more drums). Also really dug that Rush documentary JohnFN mentioned yesterday (this morning?). Still, for me, percussion gets no better than this song (and killer accompanying soundtrack). Love that “And if sometimes I can’t seem to talk, you’ll know this blackboard lacks a piece [...]

There’s a Helen Keller Joke Here Somewhere

The payoff is within the first 30 some-odd seconds

Iowahawk Nails It

Here’s Iowahawk’s bid to collect $100,000 from Andrew Breitbart for the e-mail list and transcript for Ezra Klein’s junior high journalist (aka Liberal) media listserv aka JournoList. There’s more description at the second link. From Iowahawk:

EZRA KLEIN has entered the room. MATTHEW YGLESIAS has entered the room. ERIC BOEHLERT has entered the room. JOSH [...]

Shift rift

This past Sunday I posted an item where Michael Oren, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. was reported to have made private comments to colleagues that there were “tectonic rifts” and maybe irreparably so in relations with the U.S. Amabassador Oren, as reported in The Jerusalem Post has since denied making those remarks:

According to [...]

Radioheadski

Or at least podcastheadski anyway. The American Petroleum Institute was looking for an expert to talk about air quality stuff for one of their podcasts. Unable to find anyone suitable, they settled on yours truly. You can listen to almost half an hour of America’s foremost – best looking – smartest – most Polish [...]

Cat Lassie

h/t: Jonah Goldberg at The Corner

Macro Economics 101

Since Floyd has copped to listening to NPR I suppose it’s safe for me to come out of the closet.  Ira Glass has one of the most annoying voices to ever earn a living on radio.  He can pack more condescension and superiority into a simple, “Good Morning” than Shakespearean trained Lionel Barrymore’s, “You’re [...]

Tool, not the band

Oh, Vince, when will you ever learn? To paraphrase the dearly departed Sam Kinison, “Hello, I’m a rock star who got arrested for drunk driving. Don’t be like me. Don’t get caught, or they’ll make you do lame community service ads like this.”

Neil said last week that he was sober and that there [...]