The Other McCain

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

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 […]

Dan Riehl and the Zero Hour

 He now averages more than a quarter-million visitors per month, but when he started out blogging in 2004 . . . eh, not so much: I remember trying to deduct my own visits from my sitemeter one day, figuring I had had about 17 actual visitors for 24 hrs. Having the persistence to stick with it […]

Am I the Only One Who Remembers . . .

. . . how often we were told that the Catholic Church sex scandals had nothing to do with homosexuality? Yeah, there was an endless parade of former altar boys coming forward to say they’d been molested by priests, but this was in no way related to the accused priests being gay, you see, and anyone who dared suggest […]

Lisa Murkowski’s Palin Problem

Joe Miller is the Republican primary challenger to Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who was rated No. 5 on the Human Events list of “Top 10 Senate RINOs” (and that was when Arlen Specter was still a Republican). The Aug. 24 Alaska primary is the subject of my latest American Spectator column:  Any disinterested political observer would be tempted […]

‘I’ll Have What He’s Having’

OK, I poached the headline from Ace of Spades HQ and, since this video has already gotten more than 600,000 views, you may have seen it already. For those of you who haven’t, the summary: California hippie dude who calls himself “Yosemite Bear” gets insanely joyful at the sight of a double rainbow: “What does this mean?” […]

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