The Other McCain

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

It’s CPAC Time!

From my column today in the American Spectator: Lisa De Pasquale was preparing Tuesday morning to depart her office in Northern Virginia to set up operations at Washington’s Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, and she wasn’t the only one planning such a trip. Across the country, thousands of conservative activists are making their way to the […]

David Brooks Advocates the Total Wussification of American Men

Revenge of the wuss: The gap between the male and female unemployment rates has reached its highest level since the government began keeping such records. . . . [L]ast November nearly a fifth of all men between 25 and 54 did not have jobs, the highest figure since the labor bureau began counting in 1948. […]

The Protocols of the Elders of CTHULHU: IX. Re-education

by Smitty (INTRODUCTION) Retainers whisked the dozen to a long, narrow meeting room with a glass side facing Lake Totenkopf with a low table. The squid in the fish bowl surveyed the room, making thoughtful rippling motions. No one wanted to pay attention to it, so they sat on their various torture chairs and paid […]

Stimulus Jobs: ‘Saved or Created’ or Imagined?

We’re paying them to pretend they’re creating jobs: Though unemployment is at 9.7 percent, and just six percent of Americans think the government has created jobs, President Barack Obama will hold a White House reception on Wednesday to mark the one-year anniversary of signing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, better known as the economic […]

Is Fabius Maximus a Congressman?

by Smitty Fabius Maximus has always been a blog to trigger thought. I suspect it’s a gang blog, with a group of academics driving the posting. The blog has been an equal opportunity offender, handing out well-researched drubbings in every direction. This post raises a speculation about the author, emphasis mine: So the recovery must […]

Who Knew We’d Embed Rick James?

by Smitty (h/t POWIP on Twitter) Knifework has a parody called “That Sheep’s Not Right”, sending up Carli Fiorina’s now semi-infamous Demonsheep ad to the tune of Rick James: For a hint at what a supremely icky sort of life RJ chose to live, check out this NSFW Dave Chappelle show clip on the guy. […]

Isn’t It Time for a Charles Johnson Global-Warming Downfall Video?

Lake Erie frozen over for the first time in 14 years. So much of this ClimateGate stuff for comic fodder. Surely the geniuses who put together all those YouTube videos a working on a new Hitler-in-the-bunker Little Green Footballs script even as we speak. UPDATE: Via Cynthia Yockey and Bookworm Room, this is pretty close:

Movie Star Robert Pattinson Is a Horrible Hatemongering Vaginaphobe

OK, so Details magazine arranges a photo shoot (NSFW) of the Twilight star surrounded by naked fashion models. His reaction? “I really hate vaginas. I’m allergic to vagina. But I can’t say I had no idea, because it was a 12-hour shoot, so you kind of get the picture that these women are going to […]

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