The Other McCain

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

Inigo Montoya, Economist At Large

by Smitty (KisP) Hope’n’Change cartoons has produced a keeper:

Lesbian Elena Kagan Will Be Nominated by Obama; Gayest SCOTUS Evah!

Tonight, I’m reaping the Google traffic bonanza from “How Gay Is Elena Kagan?” (Short answer: Gayer than Rosie O’Donnell guest-hosting the Ellen DeGeneres show.) Now everybody’s Googling for America’s most famous stealth lesbian: Kagan, 50, served as the Dean of Harvard Law Lesbian School from 2003 to 2009. Obama nominated her to serve in her current […]

Second Half of a ‘W’-Shaped Recession?

The obverse of “irrational exuberance” is unwarranted pessimism, and market bears run the risk of discrediting themselves by continually warning of a meltdown. Excuse me if you’ve already seen this video of the online stock-market seminar guy who got ridiculously excited about that temporary 1,000-point Dow drop last week: OK, so that guy was pathetic. However, […]

Lawrence Taylor, a $300 Jailbait Hooker and a Pimp Named ‘Rasheed’ Walk Into a Tabloid Scandal . . .

OK, I probably should have continued to ignore the statutory rape prosecution of NFL legend Lawrence Taylor, but I just happened to see this story at the New York Post: The teenage hooker allegedly raped by Lawrence Taylor in a sleazy Rockland County hotel room told The Post yesterday about how her alleged pimp brutally […]

Congratulations To Cassy!

by Smitty Cassy Fiano got married. Matt will now enter into the happy life of a blog-widower! UPDATE (RSM): Smitty, how could you miss such an excellent chance to celebrate the final day of National Offend a Feminist Week? Cassy Fiano Betrays the Sisterhood, Sacrifices Autonomy and Is Cruelly Subjugated by Patriarchal Oppression.

Truth Will Out

by Smitty (via Miss Cellania) Our New York blogging sweat shop stands exposed. *sigh*. There may be a slight downturn in posting while we find another target-rich environment with lots of people who are reasonably good English speakers but have nothing better to do.

Skepticism and Independence: Bad!

That’s the essential thrust of Mark Lilla’s lengthy essay in the New York Review of Books: [W]e need to see [the Tea Party movement] as a manifestation of deeper social and even psychological changes that the country has undergone in the past half-century. Quite apart from the movement’s effect on the balance of party power, […]

What Will We Do With Census Workers To Keep Unemployment Down?

by Smitty (via Digg) After the Census is taken, the job numbers would be likely to tank. Would be, that is, if Hugo Chavez wasn’t leading the way: Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela, who only recently signed up to Twitter, has rapidly risen up the rankings to become the top tweeter in the country, despite […]

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