The Other McCain

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

Celebrating 6 With 5

by Smitty What would be a good way to chase the 6 MegaHit post? How about a Rule 5 post! Fortunately, M. Joseph Sheppard has done a suitable roundup of refined taste and variety. Thank you very kindly, sir.

From Mountains Jenghis Roamed About

by Smitty This week’s FMJRA is a throwback to a blogging life I distantly remember, trying to come up with a suitable FMJRA backronym for the week. The bad news is that the Wombat is still recovering. The good news is that I happen to have a few spare minutes and bandwidth to pinch-hit for […]

About The Only Unused Obama Comparison Remaining: Elric

by Smitty American Power has a jaunty image of a smiling BHO getting his sports on. The post title mentions ‘a disinterested and semi-retired American superpower’. Now that BHO has his Very Own War, though the notion of the Tomahawk missile as Stormbringer and BHO as Elric of Melniboné comes to mind. From Wikipedia: Elric […]

‘Any Similarity Is Coincidence’

A suspicious similarity between Obama’s speech announcing U.S. strikes against Libya and George W. Bush’s speech announcing the Afghanistan invasion: “The senior White House official said ‘any similarity is coincidence,’ adding that neither Obama nor his speechwriters reviewed Bush’s remarks from Oct. 7, 2001.” I’m thinking “senior White House official” must be a pretty cool […]

If Obama’s Lost Louis Farrakhan …

“I warn my brother do you let these wicked demons move you in a direction that will absolutely ruin your future with your people in Africa and throughout the world. . . . You can’t order [Qaddafi] to step down and get out. Who the hell do you think you are?” — Louis Farrakhan, Friday, […]

OPERATION ODYSSEY DAWN: U.S. Launches Attacks on Targets in Libya

The first Tomahawk cruise missiles hit about 3 p.m. ET today: Military strikes by the U.S. and its allies against targets in Libya Saturday have “severely disabled” Libyan leader’s Muammar al-Qaddafi’s air defenses, a U.S. official confirms to Fox News. . . . The Pentagon says 112 Tomahawk cruise missiles have been launched from U.S. […]

California GOP: Falling Down

“After LA lost the aerospace industry during the Clinton Administration, we lost a half million aerospace workers, voters and donors.” — former California GOP Chairman Shawn Steel That quote reminded me of the 1993 movie Falling Down starring Michael Douglas as a laid-off Los Angeles aerospace engineer trying to make sense of a world falling […]

‘You Pretty Much Call People on the Phone When You Don’t Understand Their E-Mail’

The quote is from a New York Times story about the decreasing use of the telephone for, y’know, talking: “I literally never use the phone,” Jonathan Adler, the interior designer, told me. (Alas, by phone, but it had to be.) “Sometimes I call my mother on the way to work because she’ll be happy to […]

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