The Other McCain

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

Racist Wine Connoisseurs?

Perhaps the quote of the day: Nigel Coleman, who is black, leads the Danville TEA Party Patriots in southern Virginia. He said the fact that the movement is predominantly white doesn’t mean it is inherently racist. “I went to a wine festival yesterday,” he said. “Weren’t too many black people there, either. Nobody called them […]

Lindsay Beyerstein’s Gay Rage

Lindsay Beyerstein tells us that she is “an award-winning investigative journalist,” but she’ll win no awards for this: By definition, bigots are people with unshakable baseless prejudices. There is absolutely no reason, besides blind prejudice, to deny same sex couples the right to civil marriage. According to Beyerstein, then, “blind prejudice” has defined human society since […]

First They Came For The Ocean

by Smitty (h/t KIsP) . . . but I was not the ocean: Then they came for the trees, but I was not a tree: Then they came for Britney, but I was not Britney, at least, not without a pile of cash and some heavy props: By the time they came for me, I […]

Round Up the Usual Memes!

A quick list of Stuff That’s On the Internet: Jules Crittenden corrals all the finger-pointing on Faisal the Tea-Bagging Right-Winger from Glennbeckistan. Allahpundit previews the blame-Bush angle on Faisal the Oppressed Victim of Neocon Imperialism. Ben Smith is all over the Dave Weigel bigotry beat. We await Weigel’s take on the Miami “rent boy” scandal. […]

Why the Washington Post Sucks

Matt Lewis quotes their policy statement: “Post journalists must refrain from writing, tweeting or posting anything — including photographs or video — that could be perceived as reflecting political, racial, sexist, religious or other bias or favoritism that could be used to tarnish our journalistic credibility.” Which is hogwash, of course. As long as you […]

Election 2010: Senate Primaries in Indiana, Ohio and North Carolina

10:45 p.m. ET: It’s all over for progressive Jennifer Brunner, who got electorally date-raped by the Democratic Party good ol’ boy establishment: Fisher outperformed Brunner in fundraising, had the support of Gov. Ted Strickland (D) and was the preferred candidate of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. . . . One of Fisher’s top priorities is […]

Your ‘Ferris Bueller’ Theory Sucks

Professor Ann Althouse loves the “meta” suggestion that Ferris is just a fantasy figure of Cameron’s imagination, a theory that doesn’t work unless Ferris is also imagined by his sister, his parents, etc. Ferris is the fortunate extrovert whose exploits take on a larger-than-life significance to luckless introverts who admire and/or envy his lack of social inhibition. The careless ease with […]

David Brooks Column Doesn’t Suck; DJIA Loses 225 Points: Coincidence?

As a general rule, when Matthew Yglesia leaps to your defense, that’s an ironclad guarantee that you’re wrong, but this latest Brooks column is actually quite good.  I figure Brooks is sandbagging, setting us up for his next column, which will exceed every imaginable dimension of suckiness. So the market impact of that Greek debt crisis is […]

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