The Other McCain

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

LIVE AT FIVE – 12.06.10

TOP NEWS Wikileaks Founder Threatens To Taunt U.S. A Second Time Claims to have 1.3 GB of unredacted files ready to be released Tax Deal Could Have Something For Everyone Reduced tax rates for all taxpayers likely to be extended in return for more unemployment funding Prop 8 Goes Back To Court Today Ninth Circuit […]

VIDEO: ‘Merry Christmas, Everybody!’

From our family to yours: That sweet little girl? Her name is Reagan and as of today — Monday, Dec. 6 — she is 8 years old. Yeah, it’s her birthday. If that doesn’t inspire you to hit the tip jar, I don’t know what ever will. Perhaps the threat of a lawsuit?

Smell the Glove, America!

Professor Glenn Reynolds nails it: Nigel Tufnel, many will remember, was the fictitious heavy metal guitarist in the fictional “rockumentary” “This Is Spinal Tap.” In a classic scene, he displays his guitar collection and his special amplifier that — unlike all other amplifiers in existence — has knobs that go all the way up to […]

FMJRA 2.0: Wobbling Down The Road

Okay…got a little fancy this week and did a crude sort by post popularity. Maybe next week I can actually subdue the cold/flu/plague/whatever and get this done on Saturday. Meanwhile, enjoy. She’s Certainly Making the Right Enemies DaTechguy Republican Redefined Hillbuzz Adelie Manchot The Sundries Shack TrogloPundit Memo for Meghan McCain Outside the Beltway Fausta’s […]

Barrett Brown’s Lawyer Sends Me an Email Threatening ‘Legal Proceedings’

Yesterday, I noted that Barrett Brown had threatened a libel suit in response to my post, “Narcissism, Isolation and Trolls.” The first thing to remember about such a situation is that the threat of a lawsuit is just that — a threat. And this is true even after someone gets a lawyer to send you […]

Helen Thomas: Blood on Her Hands

Yesterday I joked about Helen Thomas’s latest expedition into Jew-baiting paranoia. Yet, ridiculous as it is, what Thomas is telling the Arab world is what too many people — Arab and non-Arab alike — are all too eager to believe: That American foreign policy vis-a-vis the Middle East is controlled by a conspiracy of wealthy Jews. Thomas cannot […]

Rule 5 Sunday – Cancun Edition

First out of the gate this Sunday (or first into my in-box, whatever) is Soylent Green, with a fine collection of reasons to drop by Cancun that has nothing to do with wealth redistribution and everything to do with global warmening. Next, Left Coast Rebel presents us with the bootylicious J-Lo, the 2011 TSA pinup […]

Everything You Need to Know
About ‘Tax Cuts for the Rich’ . . .

. . . was written more than 200 years ago: “The characteristic essence of property, formed out of the combined principles of acquisition and conservation, is to be unequal. The great masses therefore which excite envy, and tempt rapacity, must be put out of the possibility of danger. Then they form a natural rampart about […]

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