I think I’m beginning to recover from Daylight Savings Time-Lag. This morning I found myself 5 minutes ahead of schedule getting dressed and breakfasted, and I still don’t know what part of my morning routine I forgot to do (and yes, I had put on my pants, thank you very much).

Today is the day of the Great Snowstorm. Well, it’s great up where Roy Jacobsen lives (or so I understand), but down here it’s a storm without enthusiasm, an ambivalent storm where the snowflakes come down still uncertain whether they want to be snow or rain, and opt for rain once they hit the pavement. It’s cooling down now, so I suppose we’ll get some accumulation, but I’m not counting on a snow day off from work tomorrow.

I meant to do a second post last night, but the idea I’d been working on all day flew out of my mind entirely (blame Daylight Savings Time). Let’s try this again:



Over at The American Spectator, Daniel Oliver posted a column yesterday about a few common political quotations which weren’t (or can’t be proven to have been) said by the people who generally get credit for them. Apparently nobody said them.

Wait. Somebody must have said them. Continue reading You may quote me, whether I said it or not →

The Prowler wrote last month:

The House Energy and Commerce Committee is also looking at how it can put in place policies that would allow it greater oversight of the Internet. “Internet radio is becoming a big deal, and we’re seeing that some web sites are able to control traffic and information, while other sites that may be of interest or use to citizens get limited traffic because of the way the people search and look for information,” says on committee staffer. “We’re at very early stages on this, but the chairman has made it clear that oversight of the Internet is one of his top priorities.”

Many commentators are watching the anti-choice crowd, currently in power in our federal and many state governements, for bills to make the semblance of ideological diversity a legal requirement. Liberal views don’t get enough play on the air or apparently on your blog, you filthy capitalist, so liberals must administer the airways and Internet in order to get their views into your head. I heard on the news several days ago that while Senator Jim DeMint proposed and saw passed an amendment to reject The Fairness Doctrine from the FCC, another amendment passed the Senate to allow the FCC to enforce ethnic diversity in media ownership. If there aren’t enough of the right people running media outlets in a particular area, the Feds will insist that someone sell their company to one of those select people. It’s another reason we call them the anti-choice crowd. If we don’t make the choices they want us to make, they will use legal force to choose for us.

So the current word on the street is that The Fairness Doctrine may be dead, but it’s spirit will live on in many other laws.

In related news, David Limbaugh writes about “The Orwellian Presidential Bully Pulpit.”

According to this report, Hillary Clinton “dropped a brick” (as the English say) when she met with her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov. She’d had her crack staff put together a joke red button that was supposed to have the word “Reset” printed on it in Russian.

Instead, the word inscribed on the item by the Best and Brightest was one that means “overloaded.”

OK, I’ll cop to it. It’s all my fault.

In their zeal for equal opportunity, the State Department chose not to hire an actual Russian interpreter for this translating exercise, because Russian speakers have an unfair and undemocratic lock on such jobs.

Instead, in a bold affirmative action move, they broke the glass ceiling by hiring a Norwegian translator instead. And that translator was me.

My bad.

The little video Phil posted below advertises a fantasy game set in a sort of imaginary Viking world.

One thing that caught my attention was that the hero wears one of those over-the-shoulder back scabbards.

Allow me to rant about those for a moment. Continue reading Bad buttons and shabby sheaths →

I doubt history plays much into this storyline, and since no character will really die if he gets stabs, the animated violence is pretty thick. Skarin is the hero’s name. That’s Swedish, I believe, but is it Norse?