Heh. It's not the 'Super Blow', after all.

(Man Crunch dot com? Seriously? Does Andrew Sullivan own the site ?? )

My God, he's such a dork! D'hurrrr! A face only Sharmuta could love!

Poor guy. No wonder he's socially inept.

HAVE WE NO PITY FOR THE WEAK AND TWISTED SISTERS AMONGST US???

Prayers for Rush's recovery. He is a good man, a strong Conservative voice against the far-left loonies that have taken over the once-proud Democrat party.

Get well soon, my friend. God bless you.

Pretty good stuff! I especially liked the patent data, state-by-state vs. foreign-owned.

I know the Chinese do not respect patents, first hand. I've seen cases where entire electromechanical devices were disassembled and duplicated wholesale (a German firm I represent thought they were close to getting parts manufactured on the cheap in China, and sent the thing over for 'evaluation'). You can't ever trust a still-communist nation; every decision is based on 'the common good' irregardless of private ownership.

Just know your target, Patterico; don't be doing any more late-night boxed-wine-fueled friendly fires.

We'll get along just fine.

Guy's such a goober. He must have great stories to tell; a shame we won't know of them until well after the Obama administration fails and Bianna needs cash from a book deal.

Yeah, I get all the referents. And I've read my "As a color, a shade of purple-grey".

It's a shame that the 'safety at any cost' cocoon conundrum has seemingly ended America's extraterrestrial exploration at this early stage, and, bizarrely, right at a point when our population is at it's greatest. The fact is, we've so many people alive right now that the value of any given single human life is worth less than it's comparative, say, 50 years ago; and worth a fractional percent of a living human a few thousand years ago. We should be throwing people at the planets! Colonizing Mars and mining the asteroids, never mind the all-too-important 'safety' net. We've people to spare. I would leave out tomorrow if the opportunity existed!

I'm thinking China and India will reach out and surpass our (Euroculture's) pathetic explorative boundaries soon enough. Godspeed to them. Cities in flight, and all of that.

I posted all three videos, embedded via code from NBC.

No worries.

David Letterman (among others) is concerned about people who would frame his intent (but it was just a joke, man! The Palin teens are interchangeable! They are all just snowbilly sluts!) in a way that makes him seem hateful. But hateful he is, and very biased to Left.

Letterman's always used his platform to bash Republicans and promote the Left. Remember his remarks concerning John McCain's desire to postpone his appearance on his show to return to the Senate for a vote? Letterman's pushing Obama's agenda; he's never been neutral (remember Obama's remarks on Letterman's show? Lipstick on a pig !).

But, no, we, the RACIST! opposition, can't play the ‘frame intent any way we damn well please’ game, eh, Dave? Steven? And why not?

It’s about time we started replying to these bastards in kind. Saul Alinsky would be proud, and damned if I’ll feel ashamed. We are facing a 24-7 Community Organizer who never stops campaigning. We are losing big time. They are using the Rules of Alinsky, and what should we do? Sit on our fingers and grin and bear it?

If we don’t use and play by the full set of rules our adversaries use, we’ll fail at the game. Can we afford to do that, given the stakes?

Get Letterman. Blood in the water, and all of that.

I guess the Star Wars writers needed some work; you can certainly see their influence in this latest film. And the Con Air writers. But it was good; initially I place Star Trek 2009 at around 3 or 4 on my Trek film scratch list.

Of course I place KAHN! at the top of almost all my SF-flick lists, even above the aforementioned Star Wars IV.

What would be interesting is an Alien vs. Predator sort of takeoff on the Star Trek - Star Wars franchises. Mix the Force vs the Borg or something. Let the Sith Lords join with the Klingons, and come for the Federation.

And it would be interesting to see what this new Kirk could pick up in the Mos Eisley Cantina.