Early Soundboard: Cheer the Fuck Up Edition

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Alaska

Entirely too much doom-n-gloom circulating among my favorite gunbloggers these days. First Kevin closes shop, then Barron follows suit, Breda’s muttering threats of packing up, ai yi yi!

I’m gonna have a mini-megapost up tomorrow or Friday (aw hell, this weekend sometime, sorry) tentatively titled “Symbols,” about why recent events aren’t quite the harbingers of inevitable doom as some, including me, have painted them at first glance. Good stuff’s happening, neighbors.

Until then, have some good music! Deriving meaning from the sequence of song titles is an exercise for the listener.

Avicii’s Malo:

Daft Punk’s End of Line:

…and Avicii’s Freedom.

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Google “Rick Perry’s Boots” (Bumped)

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Alaska

Just for fun. Here’s a link for the lazy.

Also there’s this close-up. I said “Fuck Yeah!” How ’bout you?

I’m reading his book Fed Up! now, and it’s got stump speech written all over it, especially the last chapter.

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Feed Me, Seymour!

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Alaska

Good find, Cap’n.

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If there’s an ELLE Bulgaria, of all places, can there really be a world depression?

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Alaska

Not knocking Bulgaria. Just sayin.’ Elle don’t sell cheap stuff.

The wife and I like the elfin Inna, Romanian dance-pop ingenue. She has a catchy stable of tunes, like the ones below, but I must admit the very cool “10 Minutes” and current hit “Club Rocker,” reveal that she really really needs a better lyricist.

(I suspect the first seconds of “Club Rocker,” above also indicate she might be an autotune user. Just a thought. Still love her songs.)

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Calling out the hypocrisy

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Oscar Gordon

Good editorial in the WSJ on Voter ID laws

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Mondays aren’t as bad as people say

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Phil Kadath

Look what happened this last Monday

Monday’s ruling dismissed a lawsuit brought by Righthaven, a Las Vegas-based copyright litigation factory jointly owned with newspaper publisher Stephens Media. The venture’s litigation tactics and ethics are being questioned by several judges and attorneys, a factor that also weighed in on U.S. District Judge Philip Pro’s decision Monday.

Righthaven has sued more than 200 websites, bloggers and commenters for copyright infringement. More than 100 have settled out of court.

They court OK’d the republishing of an entire article as “Fair Use”. I assume that proper attribution was made by the republisher, mostly because Righthaven didn’t sue for plagarism.

Anyway, good on Mr. Wayne Hoehn for standing up to Righthaven.

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Exit Interview

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Phil Kadath

My very last writing assignment in my Social Sciences English course from last quarter was to write a “Self Assessment” paper stating what I had like/disliked/learned/discovered/etc. in the class.

I couldn’t really deal with any more writing at the time, so I kept it short and bitter. And very honest, because I already had my grade for my final paper.

Below the fold you’ll find this Self Assessment. Surprisingly, the Professor gave me a 3.75 out of 4.0. I’m pretty sure it was my criticism of Peer Reviews. He didn’t like that he had to make them part of the class either.

Btw: The week mentioned in the last paragraph was Boomershoot. Had to fib a bit. But I made it up in long nights of catch-up writing before leaving and after getting home.

Continue reading →

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Things that make you go Hrmmmm…

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Oscar Gordon

I’ve been told by more than one librarian that one of the top items for theft in a library are the study guides for police exams.

I wonder if Breda has an opinion on that

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Stalking Horse Redux?

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Alaska

Last Presidential election, I suckered myself into supporting Fred Thompson. I even donated $500 to him.

Of course, increasingly horrifying stories of Thompson’s utter disdain for basic fundamentals of presidential campaigning, like fundraisers (at one, he infamously wandered off into a back bedroom to watch a ball game) led many folks to say he was just phoning it in.

I’m now convinced he was a classic conservative stalking horse for his buddy John McCain.

Okay, I’m a big boy, I can admit my mistakes. I can learn from ’em too.

Is it just me, or does the fact that Newt authored the intro to Rick Perry’s Fed Up! in August 2010 point to the idea that he might have been intended as a RINO stalking horse for a Perry campaign?

Just sayin.’

(I say “intended” because Gingrich certainly wasn’t very effective either as a candidate or as a stalking horse, to be sure.)

(Incidentally, I just downloaded the Kindle edition of Fed Up! to my iPhone and it’s really good.)

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Heart of the A10

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Alaska

Cool.

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