A Stitch in Haste http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/ A collection of real-world libertarian, individualist and laissez-faire rants on policy, culture and other current events by an average, everyday lawyer & investment banker and part-time pop scholar. en-us 2008-06-28T11:06+00:00 Sunday CuteTuber™ http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1214132251.shtml Why are you reading this here and not at the new site?---... Kip 2008-06-22T10:06+00:00 Why are you reading this here and not at the new site?---

I suppose it was inappropriate to have a Father's Day video last week without ever having posted a Mother's Day video.

Allow me to make amends for that:



Take up supricky06's challenge and tell us why your mother is the Best Mom Ever™.

Sunday CuteTuber™ FAQ]]> Sunday CuteTuber™ http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1213458623.shtml Happy Father's Day to all those with standing to celebrate it.... Kip 2008-06-15T10:06+00:00

Padgham is hoping to be featured by YouTube today. Go help him out with ratings and such.

For Discussion: I'm strictly a four-in-hand guy — you? I also read once that you should apply cologne on your wet hair rather than your skin, since it will last longer that way. Thoughts?

Sunday CuteTuber™ FAQ]]> Sunday CuteTuber™ http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1212919444.shtml This is complicated, so try to pay attention.... Kip 2008-06-08T10:06+00:00
Three previous Sunday CuteTubers™ -- tyleroakley, greyk2 and StevieProductions -- along with two other YouTubers formed a collaborative channel called 5awesomegays (inspired by the hyper-popular UK collaborative channel fiveawesomeguys).

After some drama, one of the two "Others" quit 5awesomegays in a huff, and the other four chose another previous CuteTuber™, disneykid1, to replace him.

So, net-net, four of the five current 5awesomegays have been featured as Sunday CuteTubers™. So how can I not feature the fifth?


With logic like that, Nanooboy has a bright future in politics.]]> Sunday CuteTuber™ http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1211712007.shtml I'm spending this long weekend finally going through years' worth of old travel and family photos and videotapes to get them onto digital media for my parents.... Kip 2008-05-25T10:05+00:00
The transferring process is of course trivially easy. It's the editing that's laborious. Just ask someone who knows:


I don't know the technical term, but splicing yourself into a scene (i.e., talking to yourself in the same room) seems to be an editorial rite of passage for compulsive YouTubers. This effort by MysteryGuitarMan was one of the better examples I've seen.

Sunday CuteTuber FAQ]]> Kip Clip #11 / Sunday CuteTuber™ http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1211039525.shtml Remember the scene early in Superman: The Movie where Marlon Brando retorts to Trevor Howard: "You would accuse me of insurrection?"... Kip 2008-05-18T10:05+00:00 Superman: The Movie where Marlon Brando retorts to Trevor Howard: "You would accuse me of insurrection?"

That's how I felt, in this context of this recent post calling out an idiot who threw M&Ms at a police officer investigating a hit and run, when another commenter called me a "cop sucker" —
"Kip" is the kind of guy I think of when I think of Mencken's remark that Americans get the government they deserve, and they deserve to get it good and hard. Should Kip someday find himself under the jackboots of America's "finest," I sure hope there is no one around to squander any sympathy on his behalf.
The point, of course, if not whether I "ever find myself under the jackboot of 'America's finest,'" but whether I do so because I illegally hurled M&Ms at them. It scares me that some libertarians don't seem to comprehend the difference.

In any case, an adolescent comment like that deserves an adolescent* Kip Clip:


Another isolated incident.

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*Matt Dallas, who played a teenager in this program, was actually 25. So he qualifies for designation as a Sunday CuteTuber™.

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]]> Sunday CuteTuber™ http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1210505431.shtml John McCain recently gave a speech in which he promised, unsurprisingly, to appoint "conservative" judges who would refrain from engaging in "judicial activism."... Kip 2008-05-11T11:05+00:00 promised, unsurprisingly, to appoint "conservative" judges who would refrain from engaging in "judicial activism."

Of course, "judicial activism" often means protecting the inherent rights of politically disadvantaged insular minorities from the tyranny of the majority. To radical majoritarians like McCain, "judicial activism" is somehow a bad thing.

And, as some of us know, it really is hard being part of a politically disadvantaged insular minority:


Of course, VanFresh is Canadian, and Canada is often better at protecting minorities than the U.S. So he'll probably be fine.

Sunday CuteTuber™ FAQ]]> Sunday CuteTuber™ http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1209899650.shtml As the presidential campaign switches focus from the Iraq War to the economy, the candidates increasingly remind us about the importance of the availability, not just of jobs, but of "good... Kip 2008-05-04T11:05+00:00
And, when it comes to jobs, the country is certainly suffering:


Given his demographic and his circumstances, I wonder for which candidate MattPyrch will make-a-da-vote.

Sunday CuteTuber™ FAQ]]> Sunday CuteTuber™ http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1209296793.shtml It's been quite a while since we had any dancing here on Sunday CuteTuber™. And after such an intense post last Sunday (not to mention yesterday), I think we... Kip 2008-04-27T11:04+00:00 last Sunday (not to mention yesterday), I think we could use some lightheartness.

Fortunately, the Internet has an endless supply:



I broke a sweat just watching that routine by poolerubgy.

Serious blogging will resume as soon as is humanly possible.

Sunday CuteTuber™ FAQ]]> Sunday CuteTuber™ http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1208660662.shtml I've been accused, yet again, of having an inordinate fondness for Catholic-bashing.... Kip 2008-04-20T11:04+00:00 accused, yet again, of having an inordinate fondness for Catholic-bashing.

I can't imagine why...



I wonder how many Catholics, when the plate reaches them each Sunday, drop in not a twenty-dollar bill but a note demanding that the Vatican abandon its primitive, cruel and thoroughly un-Christian policies regarding gays.

For an American lay Catholic to disagree with the Pope's bilious blather but do nothing about it is, um, to do nothing about it. And I, like nicklansley, will not apologize for having an inordinate fondness for pointing that out.

More thoughts today from a previous CuteTuber™, thorthewhore.

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(For those who don't get the reference.)]]> Sunday CuteTuber™ http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1208064643.shtml One of Hillary Clinton's "million ideas that the country can't afford" comes from her silly ode to nanny-statism, It Takes a Village (with emphasis on "nanny"):... Kip 2008-04-13T05:04+00:00 It Takes a Village (with emphasis on "nanny"):
Videos with scenes of commonsense baby care -- how to burp an infant, what to do when soap gets in his eyes, how to make a baby with an earache comfortable -- could be running continuously in doctors' offices, clinics, hospitals, motor vehicle offices, or any other place where people gather and have to wait.
The only idea that could possibly be worse would be to outsource the nanny-videos to the British:


On second thought, maybe ominpresent YouTube videos from jimmy0010 wouldn't be such a bad idea.

Sunday CuteTuber™ FAQ]]> Sunday CuteTuber™ http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1207455880.shtml Following up from last week, what should a guy who fears that he is "undesirable, undatable, unhappy, and uncool" do to help improve his social life?... Kip 2008-04-06T04:04+00:00 last week, what should a guy who fears that he is "undesirable, undatable, unhappy, and uncool" do to help improve his social life?

Go to a dance club, of course:



Maybe StevieProductions should write a FaceBook app to match up guys and clubs.

(A Sunday CuteTuber™ flashback: BenLoka shares his dance club adventures, including his own exchange with a restroom porter.)

Sunday CuteTuber™ FAQ]]> Sunday CuteTuber™ http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1206800884.shtml I had planned to run this recent Dilbert panel as a Sidebar Sidetrack, but never got around to it:... Kip 2008-03-30T10:03+00:00 recent Dilbert panel as a Sidebar Sidetrack, but never got around to it:


(Click to see full strip.)

One of my favorite YouTubers can commiserate:


I would have tried to cheer up disneykid1 and tell him that he is indeed desirable, datable, happy and cool. But then I remembered that I'm probably one of the "less than 20% of 23,336,016" people whom he outranks, so what's the point?

Sunday CuteTuber™ FAQ]]> Sunday CuteTuber™ http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1206245545.shtml What better way to acknowledge the solemnity of Easter Sunday than with junk food?... Kip 2008-03-23T07:03+00:00


More cooking and Easter videos at martinflevill's YouTube page.

For Discussion: Would you use Rice Krispies in the mix or Corn Flakes?

Sunday CuteTuber™ FAQ]]> Sunday CuteTuber™ http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1205668379.shtml In recogntion of St. Patrick's Day, let's learn about Ireland from a real Irish guy:... Kip 2008-03-16T11:03+00:00

Additional episodes of "Ask a Real irish Guy" available at miniPhil's YouTube page.

Sunday CuteTuber™ FAQ]]> Sunday CuteTuber™ http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1205066016.shtml Let's stick with the "magic" theme for at least another week:... Kip 2008-03-09T12:03+00:00


What did Kruschev say about "selling us the rope to hang ourselves"?

(Posted by, but not recorded by, DX0755.)

Sunday CuteTuber™ FAQ]]> Sunday CuteTuber™ http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1204428540.shtml With all the talk nowadays about economic slowdowns, housing bubbles, subprime crises and such, I thought I would pay homage to those more radical libertarians who insist that we should return... Kip 2008-03-02T12:03+00:00
They may be on to something:


I suppose Supersmooth007 would make a good central banker.

I'm tempted to designate March as "Magic Month" here at Sunday CuteTuber™, but there are other considerations, most notably St. Patrick's Day. I'm ambivalent. Check in next week to see what I've decided.

Sunday CuteTuber™ FAQ]]> Sunday CuteTuber™ http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1203814483.shtml When I said that February was Coming Out Month here at Sunday CuteTuber™, I didn't necessarily mean "coming out" as gay:... Kip 2008-02-24T07:02+00:00

Hopefully anythingannoying won't face too much bigotry from those who object to his alternative lifestyle.

Sunday CuteTuber™ FAQ]]> Sunday CuteTuber™ http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1203177650.shtml It's Coming Out Month here at Sunday CuteTuber™.... Kip 2008-02-17T11:02+00:00
Last week's CuteTuber™ was a Mormon describing the challenges gays in that faith face.

But as we all know, the Mormons have some competition in the race for cruelest to their gay congregants:


How sad that mrbook7 seems able only to think in terms of "Christian" — as opposed to "Baptist" or "Catholic" or whatever sect he happens to be. Not all Christians are anti-gay, and if you cannot live a god-free life, then at least find a god that doesn't demand that you shred your soul to win his favor.


Sunday CuteTuber™ FAQ.]]> Sunday CuteTuber™ http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1202647356.shtml It's Coming Out Month here at Sunday CuteTuber™.... Kip 2008-02-10T12:02+00:00
As I mentioned last week, the problem with coming out videos is that they all seem to be very long. (They make it sound as if coming out as gay is complicated or something. Go figure.)

At least this week, you'll get a Broadway show tune at the end. (Gee, no stereotyping there, right?)

This week's selection is a late entry motivated by news yesterday that Affirmation, the leading organization of gay Mormons, is seeking a meeting with the new President of the LDS Church.

To which my response is, "Yeah right, good luck with that." That's simply not how change will come to the secretive secretariat that is the Mormon church.

This is how it's going to come:


When enough parents of enough gay Mormons react like BFarnsey's parents did, when they start realizing how untenable (not to mention how cruel) their church's teachings about homosexuality are, when they start rising to positions of leadership with the Mormon bureaucracy, when enough threaten to withhold their tithing -- maybe then change will occur. Not before.

Sunday CuteTuber™ FAQ.]]> Sunday CuteTuber™ http://kipesquire.powerblogs.com/posts/1201986807.shtml A challenge I face all too rarely is when I find a YouTuber to feature, but can't decide on a video (i.e., because he's made more than one that I'd like... Kip 2008-02-03T12:02+00:00
I was having exactly this problem with a young man from Idaho (Larry Craig country) named Jared. He had several fun videos posted, any one of which would be a good CuteTuber™ entry.

Then last week he posted this and there was no longer any room for debate:


I'll reiterate that PickThisCar invited any viewers struggling with their sexuality or with coming out to contact him. I of course extend the same invitation.

Meanwhile, I'm tempted to designate February as "Coming Out Month" here at Sunday CuteTuber™, but the problem is that such videos (of which there are many) tend to be very long. I'll of course decide by next week.

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