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"In the old days of pre-fracking, the U.S. Navy had to hold the Straits of Hormuz open. Now it only has to be able to close them."

-Glenn Reynolds

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"As long as the press is mindlessly partisan and bereft of self-discipline, capitalizing on that is just good politics."

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For the federal government, one lesson is that really important stuff shouldn't be put online at all. Paper documents have their problems, but at least they can't be hacked and stolen en masse.

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“Perhaps the reason why people at the New York Times, and in the Obama White House, think that American society is rife with sexism is because that’s how things are — at the New York Times, and in the Obama White House.”

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Spinal Tap, Obama and Glenn Reynolds

by the Left Coast Rebel

I have a confession and I hate to admit it, oh I really do (and Proof's gonna kill me for admitting this).

--- I've never seen the movie "Spinal Tap."

Mind you, I've seen parts of it and certainly appreciate the humor therein. I just have never sat down with friends or otherwise - and watched the whole thing (at least that I can recall).

Glenn Reynolds (aka the "BlogFather" or Instapundit) has definitely seen the flick, which doesn't surprise me as I can recall an interview with him that I read a while back where he admitted being strange, or a dork, or something (I remember this because I could relate at the time). And didn't he start blogging as an experiment, related to music too?

Regardless, Reynolds sees Nigel Tufnel's amplifier in Dear Leader:

But I have a different character in mind. The more I watch this administration at work, the more I think we're seeing the first Nigel Tufnel presidency.

Nigel Tufnel, many will remember, was the fictitious heavy metal guitarist in the fictional "rockumentary" "This Is Spinal Tap." In a classic scene, he displays his guitar collection and his special amplifier that -- unlike all other amplifiers in existence -- has knobs that go all the way up to 11, instead of just 10.

The rest is really good stuff and solidly in the "why didn't I think of that" category (other than that I couldn't have, because I haven't seen the movie).

Read Glenn Reynolds "Spinal Tap" piece here.

Almost forgot - here's the clip from "This Is Spinal Tap" where Nigel shows Marty his equipment and comments on his amplifier that "goes up to eleven".

X-posted to LCR.