The Smallest Minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. – Ayn Rand
Somebody once said:
I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face.
I think this guy gets it (seen on the streets of Tucson):
The man is a national treasure who should have his own monument on the D.C. Mall.
The Empress of Snark does it again as only she can:
Meanwhile, we have Michael Tomasky, whose entire career arc has been one long angry atonement for the sin of having to move to Manhattan instead of being born there…
Were there any justice in the world, Tam’s snark would leave scars.
So the lefty publication The New Republic is…having problems.
Instapundit brings us the very best take on the issue:
UPDATE: Borepatch has something relevant to say on the topic.
Got this in an email last night. I’m sure others have seen it before, but it was new to me:
If we have to live in a Stephen King novel, why did it have to be The Stand?
Seen on Facebook.
I’m actually considering the latest Transformers film. Howard Tayler, author of the webcomic Schlock Mercenary, says it “…fails to clear the Threshold of Disappointment.”
But that’s not the QotD. This, from the Road & Track magazine review of the film is:
The Wahlberg/Pelz/Reynor triangle, incidentally, is an exact clone of the Bruce Willis/Liv Tyler/Ben Affleck relationship from Bay’s Armageddon. He makes it work. At no point did I actively root for any of them to die as I did through three Shia LaBeouf Transformer movies.
Given that glowing recommendation, I think I may go see it!
Apparently, the leading cause of hard drive failures is subpoenas. – David Burge
This would have made his former paymasters at the Los Angeles Times apoplectic:
But it’s absolutely bang-on-the-money accurate.
That should leave a SCAR.