God's Own Crunk

I’ve been listening to AnonDJ on UStream for a long time – he was one of the first people I followed on Twitter, and there is something oddly enjoyable about listening to electronic music with a guy DJng on a webcam with a livechat going on. I rarely even watch the actual cam, I just listen to the music in the background of whatever it is I’m doing.

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Just ‘cuz you’re paranoid don’t mean they ain’t watchin’:

It’s no wonder Media Matters’ head David Brock comes off as an unhinged paranoid in the story. When you stake your career on dirty tricks and smear tactics, you start expecting everyone else is out to do the same to you. As the Caller reports, Media Matters was apparently so obsessed with digging up dirt on Fox News it considered hiring detectives to track its employees. To Brock, the declaration that his organization was at “war with Fox News” wasn’t hyperbole – his personal assistant reportedly carried a Glock to prove it.

via The Nixonian Paranoia of David Brock « Commentary Magazine.

As I’ve chronicled here at z’GOC over the years, z’King knows a thing or two about paranoia. Although Major Depression is my mental syphilis, the oddball paranoia that comes with it is the mental herpes that just never leaves. It’s always right there, and the strangest things can set it off.

David Brock’s paranoia sounds well-deserved – when you spend your career smearing people (Brock came to fame on the right, of course, with his rhetorical guns-blazing assault on Anita Hill, before changing his mind and going left, penning a book Blinded by the Right to atone for being correct) then you no doubt start thinking people are out to get you, in large part because, well, they probably are.

Real paranoia has nothing to do with reality, something that patience (which I don’t have) and time (which I do) usually bear out. My paranoia manifests itself in a number of ways, and although I’m well short of the type of paranoia that gets made into award-winning films or one-act plays, it is remarkable enough to constantly screw with whatever modicum of happiness I find for myself on occasion.

And that doesn’t even get to my interactions with women, which is a whole different level of paranoid teasing. Whatever.

I can only hope that Brock’s paranoia makes him as miserable as mine tends to make me. There is nothing so flabbergasting as the sinking feeling that some one or some thing is actually out to get you – the more irrational it is, the more real it seems, part of its charm.

This headline caught me:

Palin gives a lively, animated performance at CPAC

Perhaps Althouse was trying to be cute, but it smacks of too clever by half.

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I’ve been watching CPAC on and off since Thursday on CSPAN, and I fired off a text to a reader a few minutes ago. The gist of it was that Sarah Palin is giving the keynote today at 1530-CST after the CPAC straw poll, and if I didn’t know this my channel guide would’ve told me. For the 1530-1730 segment of broadcasting, it reads:

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First, I’d advise reading this entire piece – it is the best thing HotAir’s published in ages, and the comments are just as good:

There seems to be a cavernous fissure between the kind of conservative who believes government should be prevented from engaging in social engineering, and the kind of conservative who believes government has a responsibility to protect children/families/society from what the consider “harmful influences”.

via Social conservatism and small government: are they incompatible? « The Greenroom.

I read this piece earlier today, and have been rolling it over in my giant chuckerhead for the last few hours, and have finally put together some thoughts on the subject.

Some very, very scattered thoughts …

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TTAG commentator Greg responded to the National Gun Victims Action Council recent announcement of a Valentine’s Day Starbucks boycott by organizing a BUYcott. Greg’s asking gun owners to reward Starbucks for its firearms policy by buying a beverage or food item with a two dollar bill (representing the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms) on February 14th. Not forgetting to “thank the clerk for Starbucks’ support of the Constitution.”

via Why You Should Spend a $2 Bill at Starbucks on Feb. 14 | The Truth About Guns.

Via Instapundit:

I read EULAs so you don’t have to. I’ve spent years reading end user license agreements, EULAs, looking for little gotchas or just trying to figure out what the agreement allows and doesn’t allow.

I have never seen a EULA as mind-bogglingly greedy and evil as Apple’s EULA for its new ebook authoring program.

via Apple’s mind-bogglingly greedy and evil license agreement | ZDNet.

Apparently, they’d look like two cast-members of Harmony Korine’s Gummo. 

I saw this earlier today, and in all seriousness, the Butthead is quite realistic, but the Beavis looks like a cranked out 40yo woman.