Line of the Day: 2013-09-13

I realize my lack of ruthlessness goes to the heart of the liberal dilemma.
    -- Roy Edroso

Dilemmas are hard.

Maybe this'll just confirm your liberal biases ...

... but Rick Perlstein's Baffler piece from a few months ago, "The Long Con: Mail-order conservatism" is an enjoyable read, in a faintly horrifying way.

Lotta money to be made out there, if only you didn't have a conscience.

(h/t: Julian Sanchez)

Can't make this stuff up

Ah, the obliviousness of wingnuts. Glibertarians, especially.

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— FreeRepublic.txt (@FreeRepublicTXT) December 12, 2012

(h/t: @vacuumslayer)

Bubble? What bubble?

Let me introduce you to my red state friends.

49% of GOP voters nationally say they think that ACORN stole the election for President Obama. We found that 52% of Republicans thought that ACORN stole the 2008 election for Obama, so this is a modest decline, but perhaps smaller than might have been expected given that ACORN doesn't exist anymore.

The exact question (PDF), in case you were wondering if these people were somehow tricked:

Q8 Do you think that Barack Obama legitimately won the Presidential election this year, or do you think that ACORN stole it for him?

Interestingly enough, 2% of those who voted for Obama also believe ACORN stole the election for him. (Don't tell Willard. It will just make him sadder.)

(h/t: Jack, via email | pic. source: plognark)

And yet, they keep voting Republican

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Go figure.

Grownups in Charge (State Edition)

New York has had no Lieutenant Governor since March 2008, when Eliot Spitzer resigned because that's how point guards who are so blessed to lead in THIS life when there are too many dead fish going WITH the flow as they are not wired to operate under the same old "politics as usual," which harms the Troops also.

The guy who was then LG, David Paterson, became Governor. There was no immediate news about who would become the next LG, and it pretty much wasn't treated as a big deal until the recent coup in the State Senate, which, when the dust cleared, left the Senate deadlocked, needing a tie-breaking vote from … you guessed it, the Lieutenant Governor. So David Paterson named somebody. Today. Better late than never, right? Or not.

I didn't know this:

… the governor’s move is sure to be highly debated. Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, the state’s top legal officer, said this week that such a step would be unconstitutional and would entangle “the governor in a political ploy that would wind through the courts for many months.”

There is no provision in the New York State Constitution that provides for filling the office in the event of a vacancy …

Double you tee eff.

How is such a thing even possible? Hasn't New York been a state since, like, even longer than John McCain has been alive? No one ever thought, say, after that car guy wowed 'em back in '73, "I got an idea, fellas, let's do what the feds just did -- governor nominates a lieutenant, legislature approves or not, shouldn't need to add more than three sentences to the constitution, what's next?"

Sorry, Doghouse, I'm gonna have to violate your trademark.

We Are All Junior High Schoolers Now

Adam Serwer and Josh Marshall made fun of Jake Tapper, 'cause he was like obsessing about Obama's joke? I mean he would not shut up about it? So Jake like totally blocked them from following him on Twitter! DougJ told me! And Amanda made fun of Jake and said he was blocking more people, too! And now like everyone who's anyone is twittering about it!

Also, Michelle Malkkkin blocked TBogg from following her!!! For nothing!

But, hah! You can't stop someone from looking at your twitties! See??? See??? And I'm not even following them, and neither are you! But we can see what they're saying! So like, how lame are Jake and Michelle? LOL!!!

And then Jake wimped out and unblocked everybody! (But Michelle is still mad, last I heard!)

Also, Stephen Colbert was all talking about Twitter and made it into a bad word! On TV! And made that lady almost say the same thing! ROFL! They are so busted!

And here I am, blogging about it.

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Seen on one of the computer security blogs I regularly read:

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Cheap laughs aside, the security flaw in Adobe Reader and Acrobat sounds worrisome. There is no patch for it yet. There is a minor band-aid type thing you can do until an update is made available -- follow the link for details.

A better option: use the free FoxIt Reader instead -- smaller, faster, and according to Brian Krebs, believed not to be suffering the same vulnerability.

Because It's Always Fun To Say This Line

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

My Ongoing Efforts ...

... to enter incorrect data about myself into every online database possible appears to be paying off. Shown at left is an ad that just appeared on my Facebook home page, custom-tailored and narrowly target to … well, certainly not me.

News Flash!

Anne Applebaum apparently just awoke after a 20-year coma.

No word yet on whether her next article will declare the leisure suit out of fashion.