Great scandal, kid. Don’t get cocky.

Chris Wysocki is bragging on his city council.

I hate to admit it, but my home town’s big political scandal doesn’t quite match up.

Before you ask: yes, I am a little ashamed of myself for posting this.

But I think you’ll forgive me.

Hat tip Doubleplusundead

Levi Johnston is single. Meghan McCain is single.

The question is: if we get these two together, will they shut up? Cancel each other out? Or will the I-Can’t-Stop-My-Mouth effect go exponential?

Hat tip Alarming News

UPDATE - Linked by Tom McMahon and GOP 12. And The Daley Gator.

UPDATE II - Memeorandum thread!

UPDATE III - Pundette links, although she’s got other ideas about Levi. The Sundries Shack agrees with Pundette. Fishersville Mike thinks me and Chuck Woolery should talk. Chris Wysocki…well, I don’t wanna tell you what he’s thinking about.

UPDATE IV - Pat Austin has her doubts. I think she just wants Levi for herself.

UPDATE V - Linked by At The Point Of A Gun, where Dave notices something I missed.

UPDATE VI - Linked at Riehl World View, too. I think this is the most action I’ve ever gotten from a single blog post. Except for “Yuri Fujikawa ‘too beautiful’ to be a politican?” But all the traffic there is from people in Spain and Indonesia.

UPDATE VII - Yes, we have shattered the record for updates on a single post, and that’s without even giving every new link its own update.

Linked at Backyard Conservative. Linked by R.S. McCain, who further suggests that Meghan might…might someday…

…no, it’s too awful. I can’t say it.

Yeah, the target’s gonna be wearing a red uniform shirt.

Somebody tell Jamie Jeffords:

Mythbusters To Test Star Trek’s Gorn Cannon

Gorn Cannon!

In “Arena” Captain Kirk and a Gorn Captain are pulled off their ships by superbeings (the Metrons) and put onto a planet to fight it out old school. Eventually Kirk finds the ingredients for gunpowder (potassium nitrate, sulfur and coal) and uses them to create a makeshift cannon from some kind of bamboo-like plant with diamonds as his projectile.

The event in question:

The plausibility of this scene is certainly up for debate and had been submitted to Mythbusters for a test by a fan. Yesterday Grant Imahara, one of the Mythbusters, reported (on his Twitter page):

…YesssssKirk!!! It’s official. #Gorncannon is a go for next season’s Viewer’s Special. Thanks to all fans 4 your help! :)

Jeffords reviewed the episode in May. Four out of five stars!

In which we take a metaphor about boiling frogs and stretch it. Or, at least, throw in a lobster.

So I saw this headline on Memeorandum and thought: wow, I’m agreeing with Paul Krugman! But of course I wasn’t.

The headline: Boiling the Frog

Is America on its way to becoming a boiled frog?

I’m referring, of course, to the proverbial frog that, placed in a pot of cold water that is gradually heated, never realizes the danger it’s in and is boiled alive. Real frogs will, in fact, jump out of the pot — but never mind. The hypothetical boiled frog is a useful metaphor for a very real problem: the difficulty of responding to disasters that creep up on you a bit at a time.

Hey, I’m hip, what with the deficit and the creeping incrementalism of government dependency and all the expenses – Medicaid, Social Security, etc. – that go along with it. The incrementalism of government authority in our lives. We gotta get out of here before the water starts to bubble!

Oh, wait, it already has.

But he’s not talking about that. He’s talking about a “jobless recovery” that will take place unless we “get another round of fiscal stimulus under way very soon.”

Which seems kind of stupid. Doesn’t it? The “boiling frog” metaphor ends with the frog dead – an irreversible outcome. Recession – even depression – isn’t irreversible.

Plus, to pile another “stimulus” on top of the trillion-dollar “stimulus” that we haven’t even finished spending yet…I’m not a professional economist, nor do I write for the New York Times, but isn’t that a really stupid thing to do? Kind of like the frog jumping from one pot into another, bigger pot, wherein live lobster are about to boil?

Krugman then leaps to global warming/climate change, which at least works from the metaphorical standpoint, even if Krugman is doing exactly what he’s accusing others of doing: ignoring facts and arguments that don’t support his conclusion.

Speaking of Ann Althouse…

…she did some live-blogging of Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings today. Best line:

Man, Franken has quickly adapted to the Senate. He’s doing pompous and leaden as if he’d lumbering along senatorially for decades.

Kate Phillips was also live-blogging at The Caucus. And it was live on CSPAN. Not that there was much to see: just opening statements. No questions. So nothing about her Second Amendment views yet.

Well, okay, but there better be something really good in front of me.

From the oddly ambiguous files, fortune cookie division:

Ann Althouse got three fortunes in one cookie. That’s a good thing, right? Like finding three lucky pennies in a row?

But this was one of them. What does it mean?

UPDATE - from the optical illusion files: does the picture look crooked to anybody else?