First Principles

The Wisconsin Legislature is preparing for disaster!  I wonder if they could rent out Dick Cheney’s old Secret Bunker…
The [Wisconsin] Legislature is getting ready to pass a bill that allows lawmakers to designate secret successors.  The bill would allow each legislator to name three to seven successors. They would come into play if an enemy [...]

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As a former sailor, I have to appreciate this line from Instapundit:
Drunken sailors generally spend cash that they’ve already earned themselves, rather than running up debt to be paid by others. If our politicians started spending like drunken sailors, it would in fact represent a dramatic improvement.
I can only imagine the damage we could have [...]

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This E-mail thread is too damn funny not to share.  The short version is that the law firm in question had just won a years-old case defending the Washington Redskins against a claim of “disparagement.”  A partner sent out an E-mail applauding the firm’s win, and a junior junior junior associate decided to offer a [...]

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I don’t know.  But if it does, sign me up.
During his captivity, US marines forced Saddam, who was executed in 2006, to repeatedly watch the movie South Park: Bigger, Longer And Uncut, which shows him as gay, as well as the boyfriend of Satan.
Sweet.

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Oh, perfidious North Carolina, rolling like a ruthless steamroller over all who stand in your way!  Who could have known you’d be so unstoppable after losing in your own conference tournament!?!  I was all set to crow about the brilliance of my Badassiest Mascot method, and you had to go and ruin it!  You, a [...]

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Via Instapundit, this chart is just downright scary.  And it shows how you can tell a multi-billion dollar lie by hiding it in the literal truth.

Barack Obama said again tonight that he intends to half the deficit by the end of his first term, and this chart makes clear that this is the literal truth.
But [...]

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Who is the badassiest of them all?  What team should you pick to beat out your Final Four Pool office mates?  Read on for all the answers, and prepare to be awed by my eerie prescience when the games begin tomorrow!

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The top half of badassity has risen, and those wanting in their awesomeness have fallen by the wayside.  Who will be the Badassiest Mascot of them all?  The Dance and the debate continues!

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It’s time once again for my favorite sporting event of the year, the NCAA Basketball Tournament.  And my favorite part of that (besides all the drinking and gambling) is making my picks based on the badassity of the mascots.
An explanation and history of this tradition can be found preceding last year’s badass picks here.  But [...]

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A friend of mine sent me this:

These communist dictator Obama posters creep me out generally, but this one just made me smile.  Part of it was that Optimus Prime was such a hero to me as a kid, but there was something else about it.  I couldn’t quite put my finger on it until I [...]

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Via Instapundit and a bunch of other people, a Calvin & Hobbes take on the “stimulus”:

Read the whole strip here.

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A few months back I posted this video of hippies crying over a dead tree.  In this video too hilarious not to share, a tree responds:

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Maybe it’s just because I just finished reading the original, but this spoof on Homer’s Odyssey from Iowahawk (via Big Hollywood) is one of the funniest things I’ve read in a long time.
But Obamacles was only momentarily dissuaded from his task,
for he knew the people of Demos longed to return to the White Temple,
where they [...]

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On Deaf Ears investigates a shop dedicated to Obama paraphernalia.
Welcome to Austin–People’s Republic Of.  A city where Obama-mania has run so amok, there is an entire store devoted to selling Obama merchandise, open until Inauguration Day.  Did you think it stopped with commemorative plates?  By no means, my naïve friend. By no means.
What could be [...]

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Instapundit posted a video of Jon Stewart making fun of Obama’s inagural address as sounding very Bushian.  It’s quite funny, and I have to say I’m glad to see Stewart getting the jabs in early.  I worry seriously about the Presidency becoming a worshiped personality cult, and a little cynical humor goes a long way [...]

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This guy was just trying to help all of his fellow ice fisherman get to their shacks.  The fact that he had a shack on the same Minnesota lake had nothing to do with it.
Personally, I think he should sue the oil companies for their role in global warming, without which the ice surely wouldn’t [...]

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From Instapundit, I learned on this wondrous day of the greatest culinary invention in the history of man:  The Turbaconducken.

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Via Instapundit, I discovered a site called Genderanalyzer.  It uses some kind of AI to determine if your blog is written by a man or a woman.  I’m proud to say that First Principles came back 94% Manly.
The funniest thing, though, was when I put in my friend’s site Manlyweb.com, “One Real Damn Manly Site”.  [...]

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This was a fun meeting:

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Heh.

This perfectly encapsulates the problems with the kind of responsibility free world liberals think they can achieve…

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