Res Ipsa Loquitur

Hunter sums up our times in a single paragraph:

It's so painful, it burns. Perhaps "leaders of any group will turn out to be liberals" is indeed true, and perhaps there are a hundred perfect reasons for it to be true that are not part of an insidious secret plot by All Those That Oppose Us. Jesus McCracker McBain, it has been shown time and time again that liberalism is directly correlated to knowledge. I'm going to tattoo it onto my forehead, or paint it on my car: It's not a conspiracy, you're just stupid.

The Thing Speaks For Itself.
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(/) Roland X
Go read the whole thing. Seriously.

Promoting Linse's Law

This meme is sheer genius, so I thought I'd share:

As a corollary to Godwin's Law, I propose "Linse's Law":

As a debate between pro-war and anti-war pundits grows longer, the probability of the pro-war side accusing the anti-war side of being unpatriotic becomes 1.

I heartily recommend the rest of the post, particularly the quiz: do you know the difference between patriotism and jingoism? Well, sure, you do, but I have to wonder: do they?
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(/) Roland X
jin·go·ism n. c.f. Republican Party.

Pegging the Hypocrisy Meter...Again

You know, I think I've finally figured out what Duby'a true talent is: reaching new heights of sheer, unadulterated hypocrisy.

"The stakes in the global war on terror are too high and the national interest is too important for politicians to throw out false charges," the president said in his combative Veterans Day speech.

Yeah, no kidding, Dubya. Imagine starting a war with the wrong friggin' country based on exaggerations and outright lies. A war that virtually eliminated our ability to fight terrorists in their real centers of power and allowed enemies who have openly stated their hate and fear of America to build nuclear weapons. A war in which our leaders then compromised our moral authority (when they realized how badly they screwed up) by encouraging and possibly ordering the torture of POWs, most of whom are innocent civilians caught in poorly conducted sweeps run mostly by teenagers who don't speak Arabic. Oh, and throw melting children with phosphorous on top, and covering it up for a year.

Yeah, I think the national interest is kind of important to be letting that kind of crap happen.

Mmmaybe Bush shouldn't be talking about the stakes of a conflict he's all but conceding to the enemies who, you know, actually want to kill us.
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(/) Roland X
Okay, this time Res Ipsa didn't quite Loquitur. Even I still need to rant about these nutjobs sometimes.

Politburo Leader Frist Backs Gulags

Bill Frist (R - Siberia): objectively pro-gulag:

Bill Frist on the existence of overseas "black sites" where the Bush administration secretly holds detainees in the war on terror:

I am not concerned about what goes on and I'm not going to comment about the nature of that.

Well okay then.
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(/) Roland X
Once again, Res Ipsa Loquitur.

Governor Girlie-Man

Yeah, America's moral authority is in the toilet and the focus from the good news is rightly on our victory in Virginia. Still, I want to take a moment to do the happy dance here:

To call California a disaster for Arnold is the biggest understatement of the year. Schwarzenegger spent $50 million of taxpayer money in an election in which every single ballot initiative failed, and failed handily (the closest prop, the parental notification one, failed by over 5 percent).

Pwn3d.

The Governator now has to decide whether to follow his brain or his ego in leaving Sacramento. He can do the smart thing, declare "mission accomplished," and go back to his movie career, or he can run for reelection and be totally spanked and humiliated by whichever otherwise-unknown Democratic apparatchik ends up winning the nomination.

Either way, I'm looking forward to '06. ;-)
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(/) Roland X
Pwn3d: to be beaten, dominated, or made a fool of in any contest, especially in a Net-related context. *eg*