The Other McCain

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

Q: ‘How Many Right-Wing Extremists Currently Reside at This Address?’

Really, these Census questions have become so intrusive . . . The lady from the Census Bureau stopped by yesterday, thanks to my personal effort to stimulate employment: Don’t fill out the mail-in form, so they have to send an enumerator to the house. Your tax dollars at work — temporarily, at least. Despite the […]

Despite Re-Tweet by Alyssa Milano, Mickey Kaus Still Senate ‘Long Shot’

Ever since Alyssa re-Tweeted him Oct. 28, Mickey Kaus has been the envy of bloggers everywhere (or at least, bloggers around here). However, that kind of New Media energy — dude, she’s got more than 830,000 followers — has not yet developed into an electoral tsunami: In a year when Tea Party activists and the GOP […]

National Funk Congress Targets Academia

by Smitty The Huffington Post has the scoop on the Atomic Dog and the sudden desire to have an online University of Funk. Political endeavors have provided insufficient entertainment, apparently. For the hygenically challenged, this has nothing to do with extended time periods between showers. Rather, something like this:

PA-12: Burns 48%, Critz 47%

Absolute dead heat in the final pre-election poll by the Democrat-run firm Public Policy Polling. You absolutely couldn’t hope for better news on the verge of Tuesday’s special election in Jack Murtha’s old district. Your money quote: [T]hose planning to vote on Tuesday report having voted for John McCain by 5 points in 2008, compared to […]

Rule 5 Sunday

by Smitty Rule 5 Sunday arrives, somewhat tardy, as I was off galavanting. But this is not why you read this post, in any case. Lena Horne has passed. Frazetta, too, with fewer tributes. Ed Driscoll led off the remembrance. Another Black Conservative was next, with the first “Stormy Weather” embed. Paco Enterprises, sans surprises, […]

Meet a Tory from Bromsgrove

The very phrase “Tory from Bromsgrove” probably calls to mind a portly old chap with a derby, a mustache, a bumbershoot and perhaps a monocle. Say hello to Sajid Javid: When people talk about political demographics as if speaking of inexorable historical forces, they neglect the infinite capacity of the Left to screw things up […]

Foppish Muffinboy Jeered for Ridiculous Asshattery

by Smitty Uncle Jimbo salutes Eric Holder, for ‘steamroller’ values of ‘salute’. To everything there is a season, and Holder’s despicable performance before congress merits the flogging delivered, in my estimation. Also, the blogroll has seen a massive update, adding a dozen or so blogs that had been shamefully absent. Sorry. Fishersville Mike thinks that […]

Almost as Good as ‘Epistemic Closure’

That Atlantic piece about Ricochet has set off a very interesting blog discussion about what it is conservatives should be doing with New Media. All we need now is for Julian Sanchez to weigh in, get Glenn Greenwald and David Frum involved, and we’ll have another pointless month-long time-waster. While we await the onset of Sanchezistic discourse, […]

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