The Council Has Spoken!

This week's results for the Watcher's Council vote are in, they've been posted over at Watcher of Weasels.  The winning council entry for the week was "Obama and Henry II; Obama and Martin Niemöller; and Obama and Al Capone" by Bookworm Room, and the winning non-council entry for the week was Zombie's post "Progracists" over at his eponymous blog.  Congrats!

Update: Last week's winners can be found here.

Ace on low information voters

In which Ace laments the voting public's lack of interest in Obama's many failings:

The low information voter barely understands what's happening now, let alone what may happen or the implications of what's happening.  Even if it's a fairly dire threat to democracy-- people agree to peaceful, civil rule only when they believe the power of government is not being used to target them for their beliefs.

But the low-information voter doesn't appreciate this.  He's too busy being Common-Sensical and Independently-Minded to fret any about serious threats undermining the rule of law and the civil order.  And he considers people who think about such things as Why Democracy Endures and Why It So Often Fails to be crazy, hyperideological extremists.

Low-information voters assume that everything's okay and everything will continue being okay because they ignore all warnings about things going off the rails.  Then, when the country is torn apart by a crisis, they go into Demanding Answers mode, angrily asking "Why weren't we warned?"

Ace has some ideas on how we can try to get through to these people.  I suppose it's worth a shot, but at the end of the day it's very difficult to reason someone out of a position that they never reasoned themselves into in the first place.

A Poem for Dzhokhar

You and your brother thought it would be fun to blow up a bunch of innocent people.

You smiled as you placed a bomb right next to an eight-year-old kid.

You really thought you'd get away with it.

You were wrong.

Now your brother is a speed bump and you have a hole in your throat.

Now you get to spend the rest of your life in a cell waiting to die.

How will it end?  With a needle in your arm or a shiv in your thigh?

Your lunatic mother can't save you.

Your idiot groupies can't save you.

I hope your cellmate loves your puppy dog eyes as much as they do.

Don't drop the soap.

Don't drop the soap.

Don't drop the soap.

Don't drop the soap.

Yet another eco-friendly pipe dream

So, some dufus says he invented a car that runs on air:

Yeah, that sounds great, except they never explain how much energy it takes to compress the air in the first place; after all, that energy is what will ultimately power his car, not the air itself.  Sorry, hippies, but there's no such thing as a perpetual motion machine.  The energy has to come from somewhere.  This car was a cute idea, but it takes a lot more than just a cute idea and sharing a birthday with Jules Verne to rewrite the laws of physics.

(By the way, what are the chances that a minor fender bender could cause the car's air tanks to explode?)

The Council Has Spoken!

This week's results for the Watcher's Council vote are in, they've been posted over at Watcher of Weasels.  The winning council entry for the week was "Appomattox: The Fire Is Quenched" by Joshuapundit, and the winning non-council entry for the week was Sarah Palin's post "The Grocer's Daughter" over at National Review Online.  Congrats!

Update:  Last week's winners can be found here.

Happy Easter!

What the hell?

Someone with too much time on their hands made a really disturbing parody of a Japanese Furby ad:

Good lord... I'll never be able to look at a Furby quite the same way again.

Mitt Romney's speech at CPAC 2013

Here's Mitt Romney speaking at CPAC, with an introduction from Nikki Haley:

Except for the part where he praises that worthless piece of crap Chris Christie, I thought it was actually a pretty good speech.  But try telling that to the folks who are still 100% convinced that Obama=Romney and fly into a rage every single time they so much as hear Romney's name being mentioned.  (By the way, where's all the outrage about Donald Trump speaking at CPAC?  Is being a birther all it takes to get called a conservative these days?)

The Council Has Spoken!

This week's results for the Watcher's Council vote are in, they've been posted over at Watcher of Weasels.  The winning council entry for the week was "'Yes We Can' – Al-Qaeda’s English Mag Publishes Wanted Dead or Alive List" by Joshuapundit, and the winning non-council entry for the week was Victor Davis Hanson's post "Why Do Societies Give Up?" over at Private Papers.  Congrats!

Update: Last week's winners can be found here.