The GaffeMeister

I knew after the election that Biden would provide a lot of laughs.

In that he does not disappoint. Roger Simon agrees:

Joseph Biden is frankly a comic character and we are lucky to have him. Things are just too grim these days – what with the putative swine flu catastrophe, the economic decline and Islamopsychos on the rise in Iraq again. We need a little Biden in our life. Kinda takes the edge off, listening to him bluster non sequiturs about the coming (or not) pandemic, telling us his family won’t be taking any public transportation at the same time he insists we shouldn’t close the border.

Funny stuff.

Will Scalia and Thomas Get Credit?

Not from the Left, for sure. But they made the right decision.

Enjoy it. Once The Messiah starts appointing Supreme Court Justices we won’t see much rationality there, much less constitutionality.

Speaking of Pirates

Update:

The Evil Party vs. the Stupid Party

Boy, what with the Democrats embracing social/marx/fasc/ism at full throttle (Evil Party) and the Republicans getting taken over by Flat-Earth Creationists (Stupid Party) where can one turn? Not to the “I’d rather win an argument than an election” Libertarians (Irrelevant Party).

I like to think I can’t be the only rational conservative with libertarian inclinations out there, but the other two guys are keeping a low profile.

Update:

The Loonie Fringe of the Republican party is just as idiotic as the Democrats’ moonbats. Barton, former vice chairman of the Texas Republican Party, is a self-styled “historian” without any formal training in the field. He argues that separation of church and state is a “myth” and that the nation’s laws should be based on Scripture. He says, for example, that the Bible forbids taxes on income and capital gains. Yet even such groups as Texas Baptists Committed and the Baptist Joint Committee have sharply criticized Barton’s interpretations of the Constitution and history.

Don’t take too much comfort in knowing they’re the fringe: The Democrats were completely taken over by their extreme fringe.  I worry that the disarray among the Republicans is creating a vacuum that attracts nutcases ike this. Oh, and by the way: Bobbie Jindahl also pals around with Barton.

NB: Yes, I understand that the “constitutional separation of church and state” is a myth, but it’s not the kind of myth Barton thinks. If he thinks the laws should be based on his “holy book” then he’s just as wrong and dangerous as the Jihadist cretins who want to impose Sharia based on the Koran. Your religion is your business, but as soon as you try to make it my government it is not a valid religion anymore and deserves no constitutional protection at all.

Four Legs Good!

Two Legs Better!

So “Swagga” beats “Swagger”.

Flecktones in Spain

What Victor Wooten can do with a bass is not only physically impossible, but likely illegal in several states.

The Real Culture War Is Over Capitalism

Good reading from Mr. Brooks (the good one, not the NYT one).

Still, the tea parties are not based on the cold wonkery of budget data. They are based on an “ethical populism.” The protesters are homeowners who didn’t walk away from their mortgages, small business owners who don’t want corporate welfare and bankers who kept their heads during the frenzy and don’t need bailouts. They were the people who were doing the important things right — and who are now watching elected politicians reward those who did the important things wrong.

Voices in the media, academia, and the government will dismiss this ethical populism as a fringe movement — maybe even dangerous extremism. In truth, free markets, limited government, and entrepreneurship are still a majoritarian taste. In March 2009, the Pew Research Center asked people if we are better off “in a free market economy even though there may be severe ups and downs from time to time.” Fully 70% agreed, versus 20% who disagreed.

Free enterprise is culturally mainstream, for the moment. Asked in a Rasmussen poll conducted this month to choose the better system between capitalism and socialism, 13% of respondents over 40 chose socialism. For those under 30, this percentage rose to 33%. (Republicans were 11 times more likely to prefer capitalism than socialism; Democrats were almost evenly split between the two systems.)

The way I put it is that “capitalism” is merely the economic term of art for “freedom”.

H1N1 Map

There’s a Google Maps mashup for everything, including tracking the swine flu.

And maybe future outbreaks will be spotted by search engines.

Meanwhile, maybe I named this post wrong. Just waiting for the Obamapromter to rename it the “Overseas Contingency Flu”.

Get A Room

Putting the “syc” in sycophant.

When Obama answers a question, you don’t slap your forehead and moan, “Oh, brother!” He is, as guest expert David Gergen noted on CNN after the news conference, not only “up to speed” on the pressing issues of our time but also articulate about addressing them in a friendly, accessible way. He’s not the student who wears a button that says, “Smartest kid in class,” but clearly he is, at least when surrounded by the White House press corps.

I don’t think Shales even got his own joke in that last sentence.