The Other McCain

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

‘Chief Investigative Reporter’ for Tina Brown’s Daily Beast Resigns After Plagiarism Scandal

At least he wasn’t just making up stuff: Amid additional allegations of plagiarism, journalist and South Beach resident Gerald Posner announced via his blog and Twitter that he has resigned from The Daily Beast, the year-old Internet news publication co-founded by Tina Brown. Posner wrote that his boss, Daily Beast Executive Editor Edward Felsenthal, called […]

Poll Question: Gays in the Military

“A new CBS News/ New York Times poll finds that the wording of the question is key when it comes to determining whether Americans support allowing gays to serve in the military.” — Kevin Hechtkopf, CBS News Q. How would you feel if you turned on the TV and saw a Navy admiral flouncing down […]

Democrats Accuse My Alma Mater of Conservative Political Bias

How awesome is this? Alabama state Democratic Party officials are calling for the resignation of Jacksonville State University Government Relations Director Don Killingsworth after what they called “a blatant display of partisanship on what Killingsworth himself termed a ‘no electioneering’ campus.” In a statement released Tuesday, party officials accused Killingsworth and the university of showing […]

Anne Hathaway Quits Catholic Church After Pope Condemns Sideboob Display

Wait, no — that’s not exactly the reason: Anne grew up wanting to become a nun but shunned Catholicism when she learned her older brother, Michael, was gay. “The whole family converted to Episcopalianism after my elder brother came out,” she tells the magazine. “Why should I support an organization that has a limited view […]

Alabama Attorney General Troy King Continues to Defend Casino Gambling

While I was in Alabama, the front pages of newspapers were dominated by reports of the state task force attempting to raid illegal electronic bingo operations. And the man being blamed for the confusion — which has sparked political and legal turmoil in the state — is Alabama’s Republican attorney general, Troy King. On the […]

It’s Who You Know

Alexandra Penney calls herself an artist:  I take pictures of blowup dolls, and I use them as ciphers to comment on society, about sex and consumerism, to comment about artifice and superficiality. Alexandra Penney used to be editor of Self magazine. She is the author of How to Make Love to a Man. (Apparently, some people […]

Blogging Is Re-Blogging

Smitty has already mentioned Little Miss Attila’s blogging guidelines, from which I noticed this: After you’ve posted something, editing should be limited to fixing typos, smoothing out the grammar, and modifying an egregious word choice. Be careful in doing this: once someone quotes your entry somewhere, you’re going to look like an idiot if you’ve […]

Heady Complements Indeed

by Smitty Valley of the Shadow puts this blog in company with Instapudit, Gateway Pundit, and Atlas Shrugs in “The Four Horsemen of the Ablogalypse: 2010 Version”. It would be tedious to say anything other than “thank you”. However, it would be silly not to note that you need a micrometer to measure the distance […]

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