"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler
by Smitty
Rule 5 Sunday at the new digs. Welcome. Here we take all manner of links that are beautiful/handsome PG-13 or lower in intensity, and package them in the most leisurely fashion possible. Updates to Smitty for inclusion. Put “Rule 5” in the Subject field for easy queueing. To work: Continue reading Rule 5 Sunday →
Fight on, fight on for ole Jax State
We’re proud that we’re from Alabama . . .
The lyrics of the fight song at my alma mater, Jacksonville (Ala.) State University, would almost certainly result in immediate banishment from Little Green Footballs.
“Proud that we’re from Alabama“? It would be worse than down-dinging a comment by Sharmuta.
The latest Johnsonoid insanity at LGF escaped my notice because of the new site launch. But we got linked by one of the commenters at an Ace of Spades thread discussing Charles Johnson’s latest madness. CJ accuses Jim Hoft of “a textbook case of libel” for a Gateway Pundit post that describes Johnson “Supporting Child Porn in Classrooms.”
This is another of those “Bwaaahahaha Heard ‘Round the World” moments of unintentional irony. Johnson, who called Pamela Geller a “poster girl for Eurofascists,” suddenly decides that he is the victim of defamation?
Tonight, Johnsonoia is all over Memeorandum — American Power, iOwnTheWorld, Weasel Zippers, JustOneMinute, Snooper Report, Big Government and Conservatives for Palin — and I feel like I’m not doing enough to drive CJ nuts nuttier. When even Patterico is joining the LGF beatdown, if I’m not in on the action, it could erode my Right Wing Crazy-Hater street cred. So tonight I Twittered this:
Yeah. I’m considering posting something neo-Confederate just to distract CJ from Jim and Patterico ;=)
Hmmmm. It took me about two seconds to think to myself: Who do I know that plays a really fine version of “Dixie”? If you click “read more,” brace yourself for the finest sound on the planet. Ladies and gentlemen, the Jacksonville State University Marching Southerners!
Continue reading Band at JSU Banned at LGF:
Time for a Neo-Confederate Music Fest! →
by Smitty
Now and then a tune comes to mind, and you find yourself YouTubing. For starters, there is Tracy Chapman doing “Give Me One Reason” Continue reading Some Blues →
Well, maybe not your printer, but my printer is clearly spying on me. Over dinner today, my 20-year-old daughter had a suggestion that inspired me to design a thank-you note to send to our tip-jar hitters. When I went to do a test printing, however, the machine printed only half the card.
Hmmm. Try again, same result. So I looked at the half-printed page, and there was a URL for a Web site, RulesForUse.org, where I read this:
Every country has legal restrictions on the reproduction of banknote images. The counterfeiting of currency is a crime, and while restrictions vary from country to country, in some countries, any reproduction of banknote images — even for artistic or advertising uses — is strictly forbidden. . . Continue reading Your Printer Is a Narc →
by Smitty
I think that Alan Colmes implicitly raises one of the greatest questions a society can ask of itself: what information is passed from one generation to another?
In a mature nation, President Obama could go on TV and say, “Listen, we’re doing the best we can, but some terrorists are bound to get through.” But this is apparently a country that must be spoken to in childish ways.
by Smitty
Many have asked just exactly what Stacy and I have done with all of the Federal grant money we got. Sure there were lots of prototypes, materials, parties, kickbacks, payoffs to law enforcement, &c, but that’s all so much chad clinging to the side of the bit bucket via static electricity.
What we can show you is our final product:
(h/t Make)
An excellent post deserving a full read. But I’d like to offer one bit of feedback, emphasis mine:
So how did we get here again? The short answer is that we got lazy. Quite simply, Americans don’t understand what it’s like to not be free. Continue reading Tabitha Hale Proclaims the Year of the Citizen →
by Smitty
New year. New URL. The FMJRA tradition rolls on. Things have been hectic, dealing with Stacy’s outburst of left-leaning posts, the stress of restraining his desires to re-code the entire site from scratch. Yes, Stacy, we can post executable scripts to the Silver Logic service provider. No, that’s not a good idea. Sheesh. Give a kid a toy…
Our readers have been the soul of graciousness and charm. Without further fondue, Continue reading Freshly Moved, Judiciously Rewarding Associates →