I Live in the "South", but I'm Rooting For the "North" in This Civil War, Too . . .

Ed Driscoll points to the brewing Golden State "Civil War" between the tech heavy, entrepreneurial North (aka Silicon Valley) and the old school, labor v management, top down culture of the South (aka Hollywood).

Even though there are as many far left wackos in the Valley as there are down here in LaLa Land, at least their far left wackos are also enamored of dynamism rather than statism and favor laissez-faire regulatory environments over corporate/government pseudo-monopolies.

Again With the Claiming Primacy with Regards to Certain Ideas . . .

Today, Ed Driscoll points to a CNN interview of Dave Chappelle, and Chappelle mentions he wouldn't mind being a White House Press Secretary.

Where have I heard that idea before?

Also, Catholic Archbishop Pius Ncube from Zimbabwe said in London (as a critic of the administration, staying in Zimbabwe would mean certain death) that Mugabe must be destroyed from the outside before reform can begin inside.

Where have I heard that idea before?

(my claim on primacy on this one is weaker, since he's quoted well before I posted, but I only heard of what he said, after, so in my mind I said it first, and the suggestion is a more martial outgrowth of my modest proposal for Bill and Melinda Gates, so in that sense it definitely predates Archbishop Ncube's statement)

UPDATE:

Ed Driscoll was kind enough to link my post from last year, now let's see if the Archbishop admits to reading my modest proposal from awhile back, also . . .

Ed Driscoll On a Roll . . .

Ed Driscoll's been busy today, and nearly every post is something I was thinking of commenting on, but he's already done it, and better than I could have, so I'll just link:

• On the craziness of the media apologist for the crazies in Iran (he links the same Michelle Malkin piece I link below)
• On the relative silence regarding the Chemical Ali trial
• On an interesting quote from Sen. Barack Obama comparing himself to a teenager.
• On the extreme hotness of Tammy Bruce's latest photos up on her website (I know she's not 'in' to my kind, but I can still admire her combination of beauty, brains and firepower)
• On The Intellectual Heavyweight Champion of the World's recent piece comparing the far right crazies of yesteryear to the crazies on the other end today
• On the absurdity of Pinch Sulzberger accusing anybody else of using their media empire to invidiously push a political agenda
• On the related fiscal collapse of the NYT since Pinch has been running things into the ground

Now I don't need to jump on any of those stories, they've been properly jumped for me. Nice when things work out like that. Also, I don't use bullet points often enough, expect many more posts with bullet points, like cowbell, you can never have enough bullet points (until of course you have too many, there's a fine line between clever and stupid . . .)