The Other McCain

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

Levi Lied, Sully Cried

Andrew Sullivan detects a conspiracy to silence the trailer trash hustlers courageous souls who speak the Trig Truth: In Palinland, no one knows what’s really going on. But I wonder if this is a somewhat panicked response to the recent blip upwards in web interest in the Trig question. With all these family members able to speak […]

‘Aggregate Demand! Aggregate Demand!’

“I cry out to boost aggregate demand — by banking policy, by monetary policy, by fiscal policy, by spending increases, by tax cuts, by anything — I don’t care what!” — Brad DeLong The stimulus wasn’t big enough! That’s the sum of DeLong’s argument, which is frustrating to read because, on the one hand, DeLong […]

Nice Work, No Sheeples!

by Smitty Thomas Sowell knows a great deal, but Real Clear Politics should retain No Sheeples Here for that crucial graphic. The Republicans do resemble a Charlie Boehner figure, tricked again and again by Lucy van Pelosi. Sowell asks: Why Republicans join such transparent attempts to rescue the Democrats from the political consequences of their […]

VIDEO: Yosemite Bear Sings!

Well, in the same sense that modern pop stars “sing,” anyway — with the assistance of digital special effects. Once again, I’ve poached this from the headlines at Ace of Spades HQ: PREVIOUSLY: ‘I’ll Have What He’s Having’

Necramericon 5:1-16

by Smitty (inspired by Insty) And after the first year in office, when the political capital had been thoroughly squandered on the ruinous Healthcare Prevention Legislation, Which was passed, despite a late flowering of political vigor on the part of the people, That, yea, even seemed to hint at a possible resurgence of Will to […]

Flog Me Gently With An Oil-Soaked Pelican

by Smitty First, if necessary, review the Talking Heads, working out on either that mid-life crisis classic “Once In A Lifetime”, or, if you’re Stacy McCain, “Every Afternoon Around 3:30”: Having studied up on the reference, so that you’re ready for a primo offering, you may then proceed to what will no doubt compete strongly […]

Andrew Sullivan Gets Punked?

Reacting to a blog report that an LGBT activist in Uganda had been beheaded, Sully headlined it: The Wages Of Christianism And then the blog that ran the original report added this: Updated — Possible Hoax . . . Sources in the U.S. and Uganda now tell me that the young man in question was […]

From Mecca to the Moon!

Astro-dhimmis: [NASA chief Charles] Bolden created a firestorm after telling Al Jazeera last month that President Obama told him before he took the job that he wanted him to do three things: inspire children to learn math and science, expand international relationships and “perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out […]

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