The Chris Moeller Archives

Winning the planet

Here’s a recipe for creating a well-populated and thriving terrorist organization. Step 1: Topple a tinpot dictator under fictitious charges and with nary a whiff of a plan for the government that will succeed him. Step 2: Engage in a decade-long bombing campaign using flying robots, employing zero regard for the innocent civilians residing at your targets, even re-categorizing the civilian dead officially as “enemy combatants.” Step 3 (and this one’s just as important as the others): Deny relocation and opportunity to refugees of the battered region, falsely declaring that the problems from which they are fleeing are nothing of your doing.

---

The acting performance of a generation came down on FX’s Fargo last night, an episode called “Rhinoceros.” The actor in question was Nick Offerman. He plays an opinionated liberty-loving small town drunken chatterbox named Karl Weathers whose story arc was unclear until last night’s sixth episode of the series’ second season. Trust in me that Offerman will win the Emmy next fall for Best Supporting Actor in a Dramatic Series, hundreds of hopeful actors will soon begin reading his monologues from the "Rhinoceros” script in casting auditions, and they will be talking about this one for years to come.

---

I watched the Rams in St. Louis on Sunday-- for the last time, but I had missed this story about the team's owner, E. Stanley Kroenke, a.k.a. Toupee Fiasco, in Minneapolis a week earlier. It's little wonder he's building a football stadium of his very own in Los Angeles.

posted by CM @ 7:11 PM