The Other McCain

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

Little Miss Attila: Blogging Guidelines

by Smitty LMA has an excellent start on a list of guidelines for blogging. Absolutely nothing technical here; this is the etiquette piece that is sadly lacking. It is also not a practical traffic guide, like Stacy’s How To Get A Million Hits piece. One thing I’d add is to hold before yourself the bandwidth […]

If You Don’t Like Avatar and Anderson Cooper, You’re a Kook

That’s the basic message of Jonathan Kay’s Newsweek column: Like all populists, tea partiers are suspicious of power and influence, and anyone who wields them. Their villain list includes the big banks; bailed-out corporations; James Cameron, whose Avatar is seen as a veiled denunciation of the U.S. military; Republican Party institutional figures they feel ignored […]

Celebrate the Revolution: No Gmail In Iran

According to TechCrunch. That’s has ominous red-over-green tones to it.

Financial Autarch Chooses To Share Thoughts

by Smitty CNSNews summarizes Ben Bernanke’s latest proclamation: Under the threat of a major snowstorm, the panel postponed its hearing scheduled for Wednesday. The hearing was intended to review the Fed’s plans for withdrawing its emergency supports. Bernanke chose to release the prepared testimony, given the interest of investors and others. Deciding when and how […]

Thoughts On Tancredo’s Speech

by Smitty One very minor kerfuffle associated with the Tea Party Convention was the Tancredo speech, about which Media Matters and the sinistrosphere blew a gasket. Media Matters has the clip, plus Tancredo’s utterly incendiary calls for…something or other. For example: People who could not even spell the word “vote,” or say it in English, […]

Why Wait For Green Police: Fashion Police Already Here

by Smitty The wardrobe imbroglios of the 2008 campaign were insufficient. Now we must regulate all of Governor Palin’s body markings and accessories. Professor Jacobson points to some classless ponce, Yale Graduate School student Eric Robinson, an Iraq/Afghanistan veteran, and possible miniature John Kerry. Robinson: it’s her son, arm, and metal. For you to say […]

OK, I Found The Moderate Part

by Smitty There is moderation, and I’ve emphasized it.  However, using the word ‘unprecedented’ in the same participle made my shizzle fizzle.  But this is just one post; we should look at a substantial sample space, and let the conclusions form themselves.  This is part of the effort to help these poor folks recall what […]

A Call To Help Moderate
The Moderate Voice

by Smitty Valley of the Shadow has issued a blog-wah (a fatwah against a blog) for The Moderate Voice. VotS feels, to use my own words, that TMV is to ‘moderation’ what Planned Parenthood is to life. VotS holds forth Ann Althouse as an exemplar of moderation, and entreats the Right-o-Sphere to help fisk TMV’s […]

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