From the headline “Growing Pains Actor Missing”:

Police and worried loved ones are searching for actor Andrew Koenig, best known for playing “Boner” on ‘Growing Pains,’ who went missing in Vancouver a week ago.

Koenig, 42, was last seen on Feb. 14 and missed his flight out of the Olympic host city two days later, according to a statement from TV host Dave Holmes on MaximumFun.org. Authorities are searching for the actor, who has recently been working as a camera operator on the comedy podcast, ‘Never Not Funny.’

Andrew’s father is Walter Koenig, who played Chekov in the ‘Star Trek’ series and films.

I don’t love New York the way people are supposed to love New York, but it does have its highlights. The Pig sends me two links. The first is to a bar called the Gotham City Lounge, which takes the real Gotham as its model. Second is shop called Superhero Supplies which sells exactly what you’d think: invisible planes, chaos in a bottle, matter transformers, stately mansions, etc.

Awesome.

Mickey Kaus has a real hard-on for Ezra Klein. Here he is poking at Klein’s latest bit of analysis:

Obama’s compromise health care plan is out, and “the impact on the politics will be tremendous,” gushes WaPo’s health care cheerleader Ezra Klein. “The release of this plan marks the end of the Scott Brown election and the resumption of the health-care process.” It enables the Democrats to “take back control of the media’s narrative,” just as they did when they waited out the Tea Parties last August, then “used the president’s big speech to pivot to the release and subsequent passage of the Senate Finance Committee’s bill.” …Remember the stunning success of the president’s speech? It’s right here on this graph–if you squint hard you can see the temporary pause in the seemingly ineluctable rise in public opposition to Obama’s health care reform right around the beginning of September. It lasted a couple of weeks. Then opposition started rising again. Now it’s over 50%, with support ten points lower. … The Dems must have lost “control of the media’s narrative”!

Does Klein really believe this stuff? I don’t know which answer would be more embarrassing.

Wait a minute–I actually know the answer to this one!

What would be more embarrassing is: publicly admitting that you just figured out where one of the most famous lines of dialogue in the history of cinema comes from.

Update: Santino piles on. In a good way.

The thing I always wondered about the European Union–and which no one was ever to explain to me–is what the mechanism for secession is.

If a country wanted to leave the E.U., or did something to merit being kicked out, how would that work? I assume the planners in Brussels had some contingency for this, however unlikely. After all, it’s not hard to think of a few doomsday scenarios under which it becomes advantageous either to the Union or to individual member states for the two to part ways.

Maybe it’s just as simple as dropping the euro and reverting to your own sovereign currency?

No, really: “I don’t care about the labels and generalities. I voted for Obama the Pragmatist, not Obama the Ideologue or Obama the Lefty.”

All due respect to Althouse, I’m not sure how you can seriously make the argument that “Obama the Pragmatist” ever existed. Here’s Obama in New Hampshire in 2008:

I]n my own life, I’ve discovered that if you really know what you stand for, if you know what you believe in, if you know who you are fighting for, if you know what you care about and cannot be compromised–then you can afford to reach out across the aisle. You can talk to people who don’t agree with you. And you do so not just because you think that you’re always going to persuade them, but because people out in America, outside of Washington, are listening.

And they want to see that we can–that we don’t have to agree on everything to work on something. That we can disagree without being disagreeable. That’s how we can attract independents [to the] change agenda. That’s how we can attract some Republicans. That’s how we build a working majority for change. .??.??. And you can afford to be courteous. And you can say, “Yes, sir.” And “No, sir.” “Yes, ma’am.” “No, ma’am.” But if you’re going to be in the way of change, get out of the way–we’re pushing you aside. Very politely of course. That’s how we win elections.

Boy, those Canadians sure did talk big.

But hey, they’re totally owning the Koreans.

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Quite possibly. (Hey, they shoe-horned in Jack!)

Other contenders: Double Dragon and Street Fighter. Both of which make Mortal Kombat look like Citizen Kane.

Bonus: How bad was Double Dragon? Sure, it had Robert Patrick, Scott Wolf, and Alyssa Milano. But pull up the trailer, freeze fame it at the 1:22 mark, and check out the giant boom mic looming across the top of the frame.

I think this is all pretty obvious: The operation has Treadstone written all over it.

These guys, they don’t make mistakes. They don’t do random. There’s always an objective. Always a target.

Update: All kidding aside, two things occur to me, aside from how awesome it is that some countries still have functional wet-works divisions.

(1) The really crazy thing about a complicated op like this is that it makes you wonder how often these scenarios occur. One assumes that the logistics involved don’t simply pop into place overnight, that the operatives aren’t simply pulled in from other divisions, and that planning and expertise is the product of neither luck nor improvisation.

(2) To get back to Bourne: “Kill Wombosi? We can do that anytime we want. I can send Nicky to do that, for Christ’s sake.”

For such a sophisticated op, wouldn’t the real goal be to kill Mahmoud al-Mabhouh and have his death appear to be either accident/unexplained, or the result of some third party?