The Other McCain

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

I’d Never Heard of Amber Heard …

. . . until this morning, when I got a Tweet from King Shamus telling me she will star in the film adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s novel, The Rum Diary, to be released later this year. Other actresses — including Scarlett Johansson — reportedly shied away from the chance to star opposite Johnny Depp […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 1.17.11

TOP NEWS “Baby Doc” Duvalier Returns To Haiti Returns after 25 years of exile to a Haiti in chaos Tunisian Strongman Toppled By Popular Revolution First such revolution in the Arab world Hu Jintao Calls For End To “Zero-Sum Cold War Mentality” However, appreciation of the yuan ain’t happening POLITICS Tucson Remembers Dorwan Stoddard 76-year-old […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Wait, what?

Good heavens! What’s this here, caught in what is clearly a malfunctioning spam filter? Why, it’s Elizabeth Hurley! And Dorothy Malone! Wombat-socho bangs harder on the offending software. My claws and garters! However did Lucy Pinder, Angela Dorian, Petra Verkaik, and these lovely young ladies get trapped in here? To say nothing of Anna Benson, […]

FMJRA 2.0: This Space Intentionally Left Blank

Well, so much for getting this done yesterday. 🙁 ‘That Little Faggot With the Earring and the Makeup’? He’s Now Banned in Canada The Daley Gator Soylent Green That Mr. Guy The (Perhaps Slightly Less) Lonely Conservative DaTechguy Inoperable Terran Moose And Squirrel AmSpecBlog Gay Patriot Uncoverage Obligatory: Video in Which Tucson Killer Jabbers About […]

Jared Loughner’s Zeitgeist Obsession:
‘He Wanted to Watch It All the Time’

Kudos to the Arizona Republic for this follow-up reporting: Loughner began fixating on a documentary: “Zeitgeist: The Movie.” The movie is a bramble of conspiracy theories involving Sept. 11, the international monetary system, and Christianity. “There are people guiding your life and you don’t even know it,” the trailer for the movie intones. “He wanted to […]

Liberals Cheer as Lawyers Attempt to Destroy the Housing Market in Maryland

David Dayen at Firedoglake is doing cartwheels: In a major ruling Friday, a coalition of nonprofit defense lawyers and consumer protection advocates in Maryland successfully got over 10,000 foreclosure cases managed by GMAC Mortgage tossed out, because affidavits in the cases were signed by Jeffrey Stephan, the infamous GMAC “robo-signer” who attested to the authenticity […]

Join the Marines!

Glenn Reynolds has been warning for months about the “higher education bubble.” Too many kids are going to college with the idea that it will automatically lead to higher incomes. Tuition has ballooned, increasing much faster than the overall inflation rate. A major part of the problem is that many students are taking on massive loans […]

Teasing 2.0

The innocence of youth: Two Florida girls are facing cyberstalking charges for allegedly creating a fake Facebook profile in the name of a fellow high school student and placing obscene photos on the page . . . [O]ne of the suspects, Taylor Wynn, 16 . . . admitted creating two fake Facebook pages “as a […]

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