The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

A Net-Based Sarah Palin Write-In?

by Smitty Muir at Day by Day is provocative, but I find the idea fraught with peril. Just as Congress doesn’t call a vote without a fairly deterministic outcome, the likelihood of a Sarah Palin write-in going pear shaped and resulting in Obama II: What Haven’t I Fracked Yet? is far too high for comfort. In [...]

Day By Day Speaks Truth To Overlords

by Smitty An excellent play by Muir. This prompts me to drop in a bit of Chickenfoot:

Who Said It? July 14: ‘I No Longer See a Path to Victory for Herman Cain’

“Herman Cain has bottomed out, but still can’t find momentum to get in the air again. … “If Cain cannot do well in Iowa, he is finished. And with six months to go, Iowa caucus goers are referring to him as a ‘supernova;’ i.e. a great flash of brightness soon to go dark. There are [...]

You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught

“One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.” – George Orwell, “Notes on Nationalism” “In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . . . but is altogether positive that he [...]

Day By Day And The Righteous Allusion

by Smitty Day By Day makes a great historical allusion that merits mention. As a part of the Battle of the Bulge, the Siege of Bastogne had the fascists pinning down the 101st Airborne for a week. “When confronted with a written request from German General Luttwitz for surrender of Bastogne, [Brigadier General McAuliffe] replied [...]

Pudding and Other Sex Scandals

Let’s face it, when Samantha from “Day By Day” joins the AOSHQ Pudding Patrol, a genuinely transformative viral phenomenon has begun. And when Little Miss Attila decides to dip the girls, we could be on the verge of a synergistic online breakthrough. PuddingBalls 2.0! All because of one man with balls. And one man with pudding. [...]

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