The Other McCain

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

Just a Coincidence, I’m Sure

Recent headlines: Heidi Klum Ends 10-Year Run as Victoria Secret Model Nearly One in 10 Americans Depressed, Study Reveals You may have already seen this one: Research Confirms: Stacy McCain Sucks Not exactly news, but . . .

LIVE AT FIVE10.2.10

TOP NEWS Schwartzenegger, Legislative Leaders Announce Budget Deal No details announced Unidentified Pakistani Gunmen Torch Fuel Trucks  Wellesley Professor Discovers Evidence Of 1940s STD Experiments in Guatemala Unlike Tuskegee experiments, subjects were deliberately infected CNN Fires Rick Sanchez For Bigoted Remarks He’ll probably blame the Jews for this too POLITICS Immigration Lawyers Say Whitman Within […]

One Bright Ray Amid the Gloom

Regular readers are by now aware that (a) my friends got invited to speak at Smart Girl Summit while I did not, and (b) the blog went kablooey today. Things have been going from bad to worse ever since that deer killed my car, and the situation now seems so impossibly hopeless that all I can […]

The Site Is Screwed Up

In case you didn’t notice, The Other McCain was offline for about two hours in the middle of the day today. It is now back online. We are grateful to the gnomes and elves at the Enchanted Forest of Service Providers for their use of pixie-dust and other magical charms to repair the Rube Goldberg contraption that […]

Shame in a Shameless Culture

The tragedy of Tyler Clementi’s suicide has drawn much commentary. We are not surprised that Pam Spaulding seizes the opportunity to lecture us about “homophobia” — the scare-quotes necessitated, as I always note, by the pseudo-diagnostic nature of the term. Stipulate that such a phenomenon as “homophobia” exists, that there are people who have an irrational […]

Moral Vacuum Strangely Empty Of Moral Understanding

by Smitty Ned Resnikoff at Salon trolls beautifully: “The non-existent moral case for tax cuts” Sure, the right will rend their garments over the Laffer curve and supply-side economics, but there’s a much simpler argument hiding behind the line graphs. It goes like this: We earned this money. We deserve it. It is therefore immoral […]

Noted Economist Rev. Jesse Jackson Declares Depression

by Smitty (h/t Lucianne) It’s hard to tell whether to be cheered or saddened. Rev. Jackson, at least as credible as Paul Krugman on economics, in Detroit declared depression: “The middle class is under attack,” Jackson told the Free Press on Wednesday. “Detroit, Michigan is ground zero.” Compared with unemployment and foreclosure rates nationwide, Detroit […]

VA-9: Obama Loves This Democrat!

Dumb Democrat Week continues as we highlight Rick Boucher, the Virginia Democrat who voted for cap-and-trade. Incumbent Problem #1: Boucher represents an Appalachian region of rural southwest Virginia where coal mining is a vital industry and thousands of local jobs would be lost if cap-and-trade becomes law. Incumbent Problem #2: When the House adjourned without voting to extend tax […]

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