The Other McCain

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

Winners and Losers

Right Wing News polled conservative bloggers: 1) Out of the following people and groups, which do you think was the most valuable player in the election cycle? Jim DeMint: 10.6% (7 votes) The NRCC: 16.7% (11 votes) The NRSC: 0.0% (0 votes) Sarah Palin: 62.1% (41 votes) The RGA: 9.1% (6 votes) The RNC: 1.5% […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 11.11.10

TOP NEWS Iraqis Agree On Unity Government Shiite Maliki To Remain PM, Kurd Talalbani Remains President, Secular Allawi’s Role As Yet Undefined; May Head New Security Council. G-20 Leaders Gather Amid Currency, Trade Tensions A quick primer from the WSJ Crippled Cruise Liner To Reach San Diego Later Today Left powerless after a fire in […]

VIDEO: Zombie Six Flags

Brief explanation: Six Flags New Orleans, which closed as Hurricane Katrina approached in 2005 and has never reopened. The sign outside the park still announces that it’s “CLOSED FOR STORM.” The theme park was in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward, one of the hardest hit areas during Katrina and the flooding after the storm. Though many […]

Demi Lovato’s Downward Spiral

Once you get dumped by Joe Jonas, you need something for the pain: She was doing line after line [of cocaine] like a pro — and she was 17 at the time. Let’s see: Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Demi Lovato . . . Is there an ex-Disney child star who hasn’t turned into a celebrity basket […]

Semi-Literate Man Writes Book ‘Appealing to the Better Nature of Pedosexuals’

He’s just a disinterested advocate for child safety: Thousands of people on the Internet may be protesting Amazon’s decision to continue sales of a self-published book on pedophilia, but at least one person stands by its decision: the author. Philip R. Greaves II, author of the electronic book, “The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: […]

‘Keith [Olbermann] Tended to Wear Out His Welcome at Stations and Networks’

So says Pat Sajak, who played midwife in the Rosemary’s Baby tale of Olbermann’s career by giving him his first network TV appearance in 1989:

Yglesias: Asking NIH to Get By On 95.7% of Its Current Budget? The Sky Is Falling!

“Dire consequences,” the Harvardian at Think Progress says, echoing predictions of “devastating” results from . . . uh, the director of the agency whose budget might get cut by 4.3%. No matter how serious the deficit, there will always be intellectuals who tell us that any proposal to reduce federal spending — even by a measly […]

Grow or Die

There is no end to innovation, and those who fall behind the curve are doomed to decline, as witness the eclipse of Slate: It was born in 1996, which is not just pre-Twitter, but pre-Google, a time when people got online by opening the CDs AOL sent them in the mail. . . . [Slate […]

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