The Other McCain

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

‘Climb Back Into That Academic Vagina’

“Because if we were good at life, we wouldn’t need more school.” See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. (Via Snaggletoothie, who posted this video the day before he suffered a fatal seizure last week. R.I.P., Chris Monson.) UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers! By the way, an earlier installment in this video series appears […]

A Reverse Piven Strategy?

by Smitty Tyler Cowen’s little book, “The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better” is interesting, but I’m nonplussed by this notion: Right-wing ideas, in their least viable forms, have become more popular in this political environment. From the American right, tax cuts […]

Education Bubble Reaches Egypt?

“I have to pay 150 pounds a day to bribe police officers to let me sell on this pavement. How can I be this educated and not find proper work?” — Ramadan Mohamed, Law graduate selling sunglasses on Cairo street

Chris Matthews: ‘Blame Bush!’

Don’t try this at home, kids. It takes a special kind of stupid: “Leading off tonight: Unrest in Egypt. Proving the Iraq war wasn`t needed, these protests in Egypt, as well as in Yemen and Tunisia, are all aimed at dictators supported by the U.S. The demonstrations have not yet turned anti-American, but they could. […]

FMJRA 2.0: Fresh Pond Parkway Edition

Olbermann Out at MSNBC DaTechguy Nice Deb The Minority Report The Daley Gator Scared Monkeys Charles G. Hill Dustbury The Word Is ‘Reprehensible’ PJ Tatler Conserrvative Wanderer The (Perhaps Slightly Less) Lonely Conservative Ed Driscoll The Rio Norte Line The Frugal Cafe ‘Whose Bright Idea Was It to Send Joe Biden Out to Talk About […]

Egyptian Uprising: Latest Updates

An Associated Press video report on Saturday’s developments: The New York Times: As street battles between protesters and the security police flared for a fifth day, Mr. Mubarak named a new government filled with military figures, signaling the pivotal role the military might play in shaping the outcome of the unrest. He appointed Omar Suleiman, […]

‘In the Name of Tolerance’

“I’m not being rightwing. The people who believe themselves to be on the left, and who defend the agents of Islam in the name of tolerance and culture, are being rightwing. Not just rightwing. Extreme rightwing. I don’t understand how you can be so upset about the Christian right and just ignore the Islamic right.” […]

Like Egypt, Charlie Sheen’s Problems Have Finally Reached Crisis Stage

His hookers-and-blow lifestyle has at last become too much even for Charlie. The Hosni Mubarak of Hollywood bad boys has entered rehab and CBS says Two-and-a-Half Men is “on hiatus.” Anyone familiar with bipolar disorder would recognize Sheen’s symptoms: He cut a $30,000 check to a porn star Wednesday as a sort of down payment […]

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