Iowa Republican Caucus goers turned out in record number (but dwarved by the record numbers who turned out on the Dem side), and picked a populist-rhetoric spewer with a heavy dose of conservative Christianity as their favorite candidate. Not the first time they've done such, Pat Robertson got 25% of their vote in '88 (but didn't win), and Pat Buchanan got 23% of their vote (but didn't win).
If Huckabee were to attempt to govern as he is running, he'd be dangerous for this country. But it was only about 40,000 folks who showed up to vote for him, which was a plurality of Republican caucus goers, but rather than Huckabee "winning" 34.29% of the vote I'd rather think of this as 65.71% of Iowa Republican caucus goers who rejected his brand of populism.
As far as the Democrats go, I don't hate Obama nearly as much as I hate Huckabee, he'd be less awful for the country as President. All the Dems run on populism, too, on the populist rhetoric front, he's far less crazy than Edwards, and on par with Clinton. I doubt he'd govern like he's run, but there's a long time till November, and he managed a pretty good victory in a state that wouldn't seem to be a natural fit for his campaign. Iowa Democrats don't believe in releasing the number of folks who vote for each candidate, instead releasing delegate numbers, by that measure Sen. Obama garnered 37.58% of state delegates selected. The total turn out was 227,000 people, smashing last year's record attendance, largely attributable to Independents showing up to vote for Obama, and folks under the age of 29 showing up in unprecedented numbers. But again at most Obama energized 80,000 people to vote for him, which means there were 140,000 Iowa Democratic caucus goers who weren't impressed with Sen. Obama.
Also, his "I AM THE DREAM" speech rankled (at least me). To paraphrase his victory speech, Obama basically claimed that what Martin Luther King, Jr. saw up on that hill when he peered into the future and saw racial equanimity and inclusiveness, that it was Sen. Obama's smiling visage beaming back at him. Talk about audaciousness. I don't know that this sort of audacity will sell well as the campaign goes on. It sold well with its target audience. Today, many liberals (just watch any random 3 hour stretch of CNN or MSNBC) are suffering from dislocated shoulders from patting themselves on the back so hard for their willingness to overcome racial prejudice and vote for Sen. Obama in Iowa. For some reason, they are not punishing themselves equally for their disgusting show of rank prejudice in their rejection of Sen. Clinton and how that clearly shows the continued unlevel playing field faced by women in our horribly gender-biased culture.
In summary, there were two winners in Iowa, Obama and Huckabee, and four losers.
Sen. Clinton's defeat in Iowa was a huge chink in her armor, and destroyed her, 'I'm the inevitable candidate' strategy. The next biggest loser was Gov. Romney, he spent $7million and received around 30,000 votes. That's $233 per vote cast. That's a lousy return on his investment. The third biggest losers were the race-hustling "black leadership" establishment. The Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons of the world just saw their hold over white liberals smashed forever. White liberals can now point to Obama as proof that they are no longer prejudice, so they don't need to kowtow to these race pimps. Sharpton was on Kimmel last night (and crossing a picket line to do it), and he didn't seem at all happy, and was claiming he may jump into the campaign. The fourth biggest losers were unions. They split their support between Edwards and Clinton, and saw both those candidates do poorly.
Sen. Obama has the potential to win the Democratic nomination without having to pander to two of the groups that Democrats have traditionally pandered to, the unions and the race-hustlers. That gives him a great opportunity to change the kind of issues that a viable Democratic candidate can tackle. He could attack school unions, support vouchers. He could praise welfare reform, and push even stronger entitlement reforms. He could begin tacking towards the middle if he does very well in South Carolina. If he doesn't, then he'll have to stick to his mix of lefty rhetoric leavened with talk of hope, inclusiveness, and working across the aisle (but no specifics).
Nothing's been decided yet, there's a lot of campaigning left, but Obama and Huckabee have strengthened, Romney and Clinton have been wounded, Thompson may have helped himself quite a bit by coming in a narrow third, and Giuliani may still end up looking very smart by ignoring Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
04 January 2008
03 January 2008
Innuendo Overload
From Boing Boing (via bldgblog), a BBC article about a building built by Mitsubishi in Japan that's nothing but 567ft of rock hard shaft.
I'm as Sick of Blogging About This Topic as You Are Reading About It, but One More Thing . . .
More WGA related nonsense here. It beats writing about the Iowa Caucus, anyway.
So WGA members think they've got Jay Leno in trouble since he admitted to writing jokes to give in his monologue.
Ohhh! The Horror! The Horror!
Clearly, the WGA rules do state that a WGA member can't write, even material they perform themselves, if they choose to perform during the strike, they can only do so from scripts prepared before the strike, or only material such as anecdotes or extempraneous interviews and observations.
Jay Leno admitted to violating this when he said he discussed the jokes he was going to tell with his wife, just like he always does. Somehow the WGA is going to try and convince the public that a working comic doing his own material on his own show is doing something awful by wanting to actually be entertaining while fulfilling his contractual obligations to the studio that employs him.
I've got news for the WGA, you'll look like a bunch of major league asses if you push this issue. If you go on, do your best, that's what the public expects, outside of the public sector, most people work non-union jobs and don't care if their late night comedy comes with the union label or not, they just want funny (which doesn't really explain why Leno continues to be so highly rated, but whatever).
Reminds me of the RIAA (Pastor Jeff has a good post on this mess, here), they think just cause a badly written law is on their side, that when they push the issue, folks will change their behavior and fall in line.
So WGA members think they've got Jay Leno in trouble since he admitted to writing jokes to give in his monologue.
Ohhh! The Horror! The Horror!
Clearly, the WGA rules do state that a WGA member can't write, even material they perform themselves, if they choose to perform during the strike, they can only do so from scripts prepared before the strike, or only material such as anecdotes or extempraneous interviews and observations.
Jay Leno admitted to violating this when he said he discussed the jokes he was going to tell with his wife, just like he always does. Somehow the WGA is going to try and convince the public that a working comic doing his own material on his own show is doing something awful by wanting to actually be entertaining while fulfilling his contractual obligations to the studio that employs him.
I've got news for the WGA, you'll look like a bunch of major league asses if you push this issue. If you go on, do your best, that's what the public expects, outside of the public sector, most people work non-union jobs and don't care if their late night comedy comes with the union label or not, they just want funny (which doesn't really explain why Leno continues to be so highly rated, but whatever).
Reminds me of the RIAA (Pastor Jeff has a good post on this mess, here), they think just cause a badly written law is on their side, that when they push the issue, folks will change their behavior and fall in line.
Statute of Limitations on Deeds
I propose a statute of limitations on deeds, both good and bad. Just because a movement may have done some modicum of good at the turn of the last century, doesn't mean that the folks who claim they are part of the same tradition have some greater moral authority than those that oppose them.
Likewise, if people who share a faith, or creed, or political affiliation with a group that may have expressed itself in really bad ways decades ago, doesn't mean that folks within those organizations now are cupable for past foulness.
To be more specific, the WGA strike supporters tend to fall back on the tired old line, 'but you'd still be working 70 hours a week and making 50 cents a day if it weren't for the good and glorious unions' (just peruse this comment section for example). First, that's a load of crock, and besides, given my proposed statue of limitations, even if what the union supporters claim is true (a point that I am unwilling to concede), so what? The WGA has nothing to do with Eugene Debs (not that his authoritarian anti-free market populism was anything to strive towards), comfortable overpaid scribes in a pampered, wasteful, and well compensated industry aren't going to starve if they remain locked out, have options out their lazy butts even if they could never write again (folks like to say LA is a 'company town' but that's far from the truth), and can thank the expansive and varied global economy for all the wealth and prosperity that's available to them for the asking.
Meanwhile, some folks demand that Mitt Romney answer for some of the past whackiness of his chosen faith. Latter Day Saints have made peace with their past, and changed with the times, anybody who uses doctrine from decades ago for their own political purposes are jerks (and I'm no fan of Romney in general, but I get tired of all that guilt by association business).
Likewise, if people who share a faith, or creed, or political affiliation with a group that may have expressed itself in really bad ways decades ago, doesn't mean that folks within those organizations now are cupable for past foulness.
To be more specific, the WGA strike supporters tend to fall back on the tired old line, 'but you'd still be working 70 hours a week and making 50 cents a day if it weren't for the good and glorious unions' (just peruse this comment section for example). First, that's a load of crock, and besides, given my proposed statue of limitations, even if what the union supporters claim is true (a point that I am unwilling to concede), so what? The WGA has nothing to do with Eugene Debs (not that his authoritarian anti-free market populism was anything to strive towards), comfortable overpaid scribes in a pampered, wasteful, and well compensated industry aren't going to starve if they remain locked out, have options out their lazy butts even if they could never write again (folks like to say LA is a 'company town' but that's far from the truth), and can thank the expansive and varied global economy for all the wealth and prosperity that's available to them for the asking.
Meanwhile, some folks demand that Mitt Romney answer for some of the past whackiness of his chosen faith. Latter Day Saints have made peace with their past, and changed with the times, anybody who uses doctrine from decades ago for their own political purposes are jerks (and I'm no fan of Romney in general, but I get tired of all that guilt by association business).
The Thing About Las Vegas, NV . . .
Las Vegas, ersatz, kitschy, and ridiculous, that's what that place is. And if you hate Las Vegas, then you hate the United States of America, free market capitalism, the rest of the free world, and humanity in general.
I'm pretty sure Lileks loves all those things, and Vegas, too.
(which reminds me, been awhile since I've been, might be a roadtrip with illustrations in my future)
I'm pretty sure Lileks loves all those things, and Vegas, too.
(which reminds me, been awhile since I've been, might be a roadtrip with illustrations in my future)
Late Night Shows: The Returnination Part I (Jimmy Kimmel)
For really detailed WGA strike stuff, Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily has been a popular site. She's put up a breakdown of all the shows and how they handled their return. But just cause someone else did this bigger and better, doesn't mean I won't subject you to my ramblings.
Watching Kimmel. He's been low-key, no stand-up monologue at the top of the show. He did pretty much call the writers a bunch of brats for picketing Leno and Conan given that they've been paying their writers and staff from their own pocket for many weeks (Kimmel wasn't picketed, the WGA is planning on hitting him Thursday or Friday night, probably figuring they can make news twice this week, and again when they hit the return of Stewart and Colbert next week).
Kimmel didn't tell too many jokes, just sort of told some anecdotes, and did the usual kidding with the security staff.
A shockingly sober Andy Dick talked about being sober and other stuff, not the best segment ever, but really no different from most other "star" chats with host moments.
Race car driver Helio Castroneves (and current Dancing With the Stars champion) is the 2nd guest. Kimmel continues to seem really interested in Dancing With the Stars. He and Helio take a moment to drool over his dance partner, nineteen year old Julianne Hough for a bit. Again, this part of the show is essentially unchanged.
And now we are at the commercial break before the musical guest, Kid Rock, comes out. This is where I check out, there are somethings I'm willing to do for this blog, but watch Kid Rock perform isn't one of them. His time was quite a few years ago, he ain't my bag, as the kiddies would say (or at least they will say when they pick up beatnik/hippie lingo again sometime in the near future).
Watching Kimmel. He's been low-key, no stand-up monologue at the top of the show. He did pretty much call the writers a bunch of brats for picketing Leno and Conan given that they've been paying their writers and staff from their own pocket for many weeks (Kimmel wasn't picketed, the WGA is planning on hitting him Thursday or Friday night, probably figuring they can make news twice this week, and again when they hit the return of Stewart and Colbert next week).
Kimmel didn't tell too many jokes, just sort of told some anecdotes, and did the usual kidding with the security staff.
A shockingly sober Andy Dick talked about being sober and other stuff, not the best segment ever, but really no different from most other "star" chats with host moments.
Race car driver Helio Castroneves (and current Dancing With the Stars champion) is the 2nd guest. Kimmel continues to seem really interested in Dancing With the Stars. He and Helio take a moment to drool over his dance partner, nineteen year old Julianne Hough for a bit. Again, this part of the show is essentially unchanged.
And now we are at the commercial break before the musical guest, Kid Rock, comes out. This is where I check out, there are somethings I'm willing to do for this blog, but watch Kid Rock perform isn't one of them. His time was quite a few years ago, he ain't my bag, as the kiddies would say (or at least they will say when they pick up beatnik/hippie lingo again sometime in the near future).
02 January 2008
Your Definition of Calm May Vary . . .
A "relatively calm" New Years across France this year.
(only 372 cars torched, down from 397 in the previous New Year's celebration)
(via Tim Blair via Murph)
And as always, no mention of which ethnic and religious group the vast majority (or more likely all) the vandals belong, it was merely more "angry youths".
(only 372 cars torched, down from 397 in the previous New Year's celebration)
(via Tim Blair via Murph)
And as always, no mention of which ethnic and religious group the vast majority (or more likely all) the vandals belong, it was merely more "angry youths".
Random Suggestions for Random Corporations (Activision and Harmonix in this Case)
I bought Guitar Hero III Legends of Rock for the Wii, have enjoyed it, beat it on easy, got tired of trying to beat it on medium (I know, I suck), and haven't picked it up for a few weeks.
While all the crunchy guitar oriented Southern Rock, and Metal makes a lot of sense for a title called "Legends of Rock", there's a lot of music out there, and a lot of music fans that aren't particular keen on listening to Lynyrd Skynrd or Metallica over and over again.
Here's what I want to see released shortly, a funktastic bass heavy release aimed at a seriously underserved audience. Imagine thumping out bass lines along with Bootsy to One Nation Under a Groove, or getting irie with Bob Marley and I Shot the Sheriff. Even straight up instrumental jazz like Miles Davis' So What, or Herbie Hancock's Cantaloupe Island have some tasty bass licks with which plenty of players would enjoy mimicking.
Rock Band especially needs to broaden their selections, given that they are pursuing a strong downloadable content sales strategy for the PS3 and XBox360, it would make a lot of sense to offer musical experiences that are lacking from the main game.
In other words Harmonix and Activision, your games are great, their fun, and they have a great deal of appeal, but they are blindingly, lily white, and that ain't right. Add a little soul to the mix, it won't hurt, and it may just tap into a whole other audience of music fans that are just itching to live their Rock Star dreams while belting out a James Brown, Jackie Wilson or Funkadelic tune.
Videogame players cross many demographic boundaries, so should your music selections.
While all the crunchy guitar oriented Southern Rock, and Metal makes a lot of sense for a title called "Legends of Rock", there's a lot of music out there, and a lot of music fans that aren't particular keen on listening to Lynyrd Skynrd or Metallica over and over again.
Here's what I want to see released shortly, a funktastic bass heavy release aimed at a seriously underserved audience. Imagine thumping out bass lines along with Bootsy to One Nation Under a Groove, or getting irie with Bob Marley and I Shot the Sheriff. Even straight up instrumental jazz like Miles Davis' So What, or Herbie Hancock's Cantaloupe Island have some tasty bass licks with which plenty of players would enjoy mimicking.
Rock Band especially needs to broaden their selections, given that they are pursuing a strong downloadable content sales strategy for the PS3 and XBox360, it would make a lot of sense to offer musical experiences that are lacking from the main game.
In other words Harmonix and Activision, your games are great, their fun, and they have a great deal of appeal, but they are blindingly, lily white, and that ain't right. Add a little soul to the mix, it won't hurt, and it may just tap into a whole other audience of music fans that are just itching to live their Rock Star dreams while belting out a James Brown, Jackie Wilson or Funkadelic tune.
Videogame players cross many demographic boundaries, so should your music selections.
No Offense Meant (honest) . . .
. . . but I'm seriously sick of Iowa.
It's not your fault Iowans, it's just your status as first in the nation Caucus in the most over-analyzed election in world history.
Are you looking forward to being forgotten again for 3.5 years?
It's not your fault Iowans, it's just your status as first in the nation Caucus in the most over-analyzed election in world history.
Are you looking forward to being forgotten again for 3.5 years?
Your Morbid Thoughts for the Day . . .
From Daniel Finkelstein at the Comment Central blog at the Times of London, he's posted a list of ten folks you probably thought were dead, but aren't (how he left Abe Vigoda off the list, I'll never know).
Speaking of morbid thoughts, while watching a picture on TCM, they mentioned a particular character actor was the last surviving cast member of the film Maltese Falcon. This got me to thinking about something related.
What's the most recent studio or big independent picture where all the credited actors are dead?
The Misfits (1961) looked promising, small cast (with credits), and two of the main actors died before the film was released I think, but turns out both Eli Wallach and Kevin McCarthy are still with us.
The Conqueror (1956) comes close. An urban myth about exposure to fallout from nuclear testing causing cancer in all the cast has sprung around this picture, as many of the actors died in the 70s, but those actors were in their 60s and 70s by then, heavy smokers, and that isn't exactly an early or unusual death. Even this picture has one credited actor out of thirteen (and many uncredited ones) still kicking, Peter Mamakos.
This would be a difficult thing to research, but surely there are film geeks out there who could figure out how to search the imdb database more efficiently to figure this out, or happen to know trivia about some famed cursed production where every is dead and can rattle off all the bizarre ways the various actors met their fate.
Speaking of morbid thoughts, while watching a picture on TCM, they mentioned a particular character actor was the last surviving cast member of the film Maltese Falcon. This got me to thinking about something related.
What's the most recent studio or big independent picture where all the credited actors are dead?
The Misfits (1961) looked promising, small cast (with credits), and two of the main actors died before the film was released I think, but turns out both Eli Wallach and Kevin McCarthy are still with us.
The Conqueror (1956) comes close. An urban myth about exposure to fallout from nuclear testing causing cancer in all the cast has sprung around this picture, as many of the actors died in the 70s, but those actors were in their 60s and 70s by then, heavy smokers, and that isn't exactly an early or unusual death. Even this picture has one credited actor out of thirteen (and many uncredited ones) still kicking, Peter Mamakos.
This would be a difficult thing to research, but surely there are film geeks out there who could figure out how to search the imdb database more efficiently to figure this out, or happen to know trivia about some famed cursed production where every is dead and can rattle off all the bizarre ways the various actors met their fate.
Random Wiki Article of the Day . . .
OK, it's random in the sense that I hit the "Random Article" link on Wiki, but it's not random in the sense that I kept hitting the random link until I came across something that seemed interesting.
Georges Ferdinand Bigot sounds potentially interesting. A French artist, born in 1860, died in 1927. He lived in Japan from 1882 to 1900, during a time of great upheaval in Japanese society. If he has a diary, or if there's more biographical detail about him, it could make for an interesting 'stranger in a strange land' sort of picture.
It would be nice to make a picture like that which instead of making the Asians out to be the exotic freaks (even in their own country), that the weird exotic one is the European foreigner.
That's probably too much to ask.
Digging around just a bit on Google, doesn't look like there's much more about him, and peeking at the Japanese Wiki page, it has much more info, but it's all Greek (or Japanese) to me.
Georges Ferdinand Bigot sounds potentially interesting. A French artist, born in 1860, died in 1927. He lived in Japan from 1882 to 1900, during a time of great upheaval in Japanese society. If he has a diary, or if there's more biographical detail about him, it could make for an interesting 'stranger in a strange land' sort of picture.
It would be nice to make a picture like that which instead of making the Asians out to be the exotic freaks (even in their own country), that the weird exotic one is the European foreigner.
That's probably too much to ask.
Digging around just a bit on Google, doesn't look like there's much more about him, and peeking at the Japanese Wiki page, it has much more info, but it's all Greek (or Japanese) to me.
I Am Incapable of Expressing How Loathesome I'm Likely to Find This Upcoming Film . . .
. . . normally I can express my disdain pretty well, but my eloquence fails when faced with the prospect of this project.
Boomer Nostalgia-ism, check.
Radical Chic-ism, check.
Spielbergian Moral Relatvism, double check.
Sacha Baron Cohen in a serious role, Wawaweeee.
Maybe I'm wrong and it won't be hagiography, instead it will attack the Chicago 7/8 for the jerks they were, but given that Spielberg has already compared the tone of this picture to his awful piece of Munich, I think we can expect to get exactly what it appears to be, another picture that 'sticks it to the man' and glories in yippie radicalism.
Uggghhh.
The reanimated corpses of hippies will never die, it seems. Their pungent odor will waft throughout history (or at least till Boomers start dying in droves sometime in the 30s and 40s)
Boomer Nostalgia-ism, check.
Radical Chic-ism, check.
Spielbergian Moral Relatvism, double check.
Sacha Baron Cohen in a serious role, Wawaweeee.
Maybe I'm wrong and it won't be hagiography, instead it will attack the Chicago 7/8 for the jerks they were, but given that Spielberg has already compared the tone of this picture to his awful piece of Munich, I think we can expect to get exactly what it appears to be, another picture that 'sticks it to the man' and glories in yippie radicalism.
Uggghhh.
The reanimated corpses of hippies will never die, it seems. Their pungent odor will waft throughout history (or at least till Boomers start dying in droves sometime in the 30s and 40s)
NBC Is SCABTASTIC!!!
Letterman is back on CBS tonight (Ferguson tomorrow) with a WGA approved contract while Leno and Conan on NBC and Jimmy Kimmel on ABC are back and are going to wing it without (supposedly) written material.
Kimmel leads off with Andy Dick, Helio Castroneves and Kid Rock. Leno has a big booking with Gov. Mike Huckabee (which may not sit well with Iowa Caucus goers that he's flying out to LA the day before the vote), Letterman is leading off with Robin Williams (?) and Hillary Clinton (showing how she's full of solidarity, or something), and Conan will wiggle around and make goofy faces for the entire timeslot (OK, that may or may not be true).
Should make for interesting viewing.
Jimmy should do the best, Letterman had checked out of his show long ago, and his writers will be too obsessed with taking digs at the AMPTP to actually bother and create funny material. Ferguson might be lively, though. Guests over the next few weeks will lavish praise upon Letterman for caving into the WGA's demands (which given that Letterman doesn't own the internet rights he gave away, was making a pretty empty gesture).
I plan on watching all the shows tonight, thanks to the miracle of having two tuners in my computer (I'll record CBS and NBC, watch ABC).
The producers are prepared to hold out until the SAG contract comes up, and if the public doesn't shun NBC and ABC in favor of the union approved CBS content, then that will be a big blow to solidarity. Booking will be difficult at NBC and ABC, but the producers will put all sorts of pressure on celebrities to show up and cross the picket lines. I expect some resistance to begin with, but as the strike drags on, the promo machine will march on like the strike wasn't on.
It should get interesting next week, also, with Stewart and Colbert going back to work, and given their lefty darling status, it will be difficult to square their picket line crossing with their "progressive" credentials.
UPDATE:
AP has an article up (via Drudge), here's some details as to the picketing, and the politicking surrounding the late night shows. The article is slantedly pro-union, but that's to be expected.
Kimmel leads off with Andy Dick, Helio Castroneves and Kid Rock. Leno has a big booking with Gov. Mike Huckabee (which may not sit well with Iowa Caucus goers that he's flying out to LA the day before the vote), Letterman is leading off with Robin Williams (?) and Hillary Clinton (showing how she's full of solidarity, or something), and Conan will wiggle around and make goofy faces for the entire timeslot (OK, that may or may not be true).
Should make for interesting viewing.
Jimmy should do the best, Letterman had checked out of his show long ago, and his writers will be too obsessed with taking digs at the AMPTP to actually bother and create funny material. Ferguson might be lively, though. Guests over the next few weeks will lavish praise upon Letterman for caving into the WGA's demands (which given that Letterman doesn't own the internet rights he gave away, was making a pretty empty gesture).
I plan on watching all the shows tonight, thanks to the miracle of having two tuners in my computer (I'll record CBS and NBC, watch ABC).
The producers are prepared to hold out until the SAG contract comes up, and if the public doesn't shun NBC and ABC in favor of the union approved CBS content, then that will be a big blow to solidarity. Booking will be difficult at NBC and ABC, but the producers will put all sorts of pressure on celebrities to show up and cross the picket lines. I expect some resistance to begin with, but as the strike drags on, the promo machine will march on like the strike wasn't on.
It should get interesting next week, also, with Stewart and Colbert going back to work, and given their lefty darling status, it will be difficult to square their picket line crossing with their "progressive" credentials.
UPDATE:
AP has an article up (via Drudge), here's some details as to the picketing, and the politicking surrounding the late night shows. The article is slantedly pro-union, but that's to be expected.
01 January 2008
Comment of the Year
Well, given the year is one day old, it's really just comment of they day so far, but that doesn't mean it's not a good one:
It's in reference to this post (via the usual) by Wretchard at Belmont Club comparing the behavior of the Canadian Human Rights establishment with regards to Mark Steyn's continued refusal to ignore the problems presented by Islamists, and the San Francisco Zoo and their past knowledge of the serious problems with their tiger enclosure.
I think the open secret phenomenon is the only explanation for why a fully-operation, planet-destroying Death Star could possibly have such an obvious design flaw that would allow a single shot to cause a chain reaction that would destroy the entire Death Star. I'm sure some contractors knew it was a problem but were afraid to go to Darth and tell him. But they definitely talked about it around the water cooler.
It's in reference to this post (via the usual) by Wretchard at Belmont Club comparing the behavior of the Canadian Human Rights establishment with regards to Mark Steyn's continued refusal to ignore the problems presented by Islamists, and the San Francisco Zoo and their past knowledge of the serious problems with their tiger enclosure.
This is the Post Where I Attempt to Understand and Process the Labyrinthine Maundering of Glenn Greenwald and Only Come Up with A Single Utterance
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