The Other McCain

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

With Appropriate Detachment, I Will Reveal The Secret Of Today’s Missile

by Smitty The truth is so powerful, and perhaps NSFW, that you’ll have to go to Effingconservatives for the priapismic truth: Missing Missile Missive.

Bleg: Shakespeare On Kindle

by Smitty Since the election is over, and the toothpaste is out of the frying pan and into the metaphorical blender concerning my non-approach to vacationing, I need some help. I’ve purchased a Kindle 3G to support the deployment to A-stan, and I want to load it to the gills with Good Stuff. In particular, […]

Shocking: Gangs of Minnesota Lutherans Charged in Child Sex-Trafficking Ring

Because you know how those Minnesota Lutherans are: MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Twenty-nine people have been indicted in a sex trafficking ring in which Somali Lutheran gangs in Minneapolis and St. Paul allegedly forced girls under age 14 into prostitution in Minnesota, Tennessee and Ohio, according to an indictment unsealed Monday. . . . The indictment […]

What the Left Thinks of You

Verum Serum gives some tasty excerpts of these deep thoughts from a leading “progressive” thinker: Christian fundamentalists, the millennial end-of-theworlders obsessed with the Left Behind series about the End Times, neo-Nazi racists, rural black-helicopter Michigan Militia types cut from the same inbred cloth as Timothy McVeigh, allied with “mainstream” gun nuts and right-wing Republicans, have been […]

5,000,000 Hits!

About 9 a.m. today, we passed the 5-million mark, riding the wave of last night’s Instalanche. Our joy at this achievement is tempered by the knowledge that loyal sidekick Smitty will soon be deployed to an Undisclosed Location, where Uncle Sam has decided that his astonishing powers of IT geekery are required to intimidate the […]

Gonzo, Vindicated

Maetenloch at AOSHQ linked this list of the Best Magazine Articles Ever, and I noticed that Hunter S. Thompson was named twice in the top 10, for “The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved” (where Thompson first displayed his famous “Gonzo” style) and “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” (originally syndicated in Rolling Stone). Actually, we ought […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 11.09.10

TOP NEWS Obama Agrees – India Belongs On UNSC Wins applause, skepticism from Indians Netanyahu: Nuclear Iran Greatest Threat To World Calls for military action; Clinton, Gates disagree Peruvian Court Paroles Lori Berenson For Second Time Served 15 years of 20-year sentence for aiding terrorists; most Peruvians unhappy with parole decision POLITICS Palin Criticizes Fed […]

Whitetail Jihad Bags BAMBI Killer

by Smitty (h/t Theo) The Brotherhood of Alaskan Mujahedeen Bark Ingesters (BAMBI) report a glorious victory in the endless struggle against the Killer Invasive Americans (KIA), as they term the two-legged, four wheeled invaders decimating their ranks. This particular specimen of vehicular evil has been vanquished, but not before he led BAMBI on a merry […]

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