The Other McCain

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

LIVE AT FIVE – 03.11.11

TOP NEWS Walker Wins His Battle With Unions On Collective Bargaining Saunders of AFSCME: “It’s not over…we are in this for the long haul.” King Hearing On Islamic Radicalism Gets Emotional Rep. Ellison whines, leaves in tears White House Libya Strategy Politically Risky DNI Clapper’s prediction of ultimate victory by Qadhafi provokes calls in Senate […]

Epic Rant by Jeff Motherf–g G.

Borrowing the Hammer’s “new tone” motif for a minute, because it’s beautiful when Jeff G. gets his rant on: Here’s what these idiot Madison “protesters” — along with their intellectually bankrupt fellow travelers playing Solidarnosc on f***ing facebook as if this is just another cause celebre the world has ginned up to keep hipsters feeling […]

This May Be Nothing, Or It Might Be Worth an Instalanche

OK, there were a million things I wanted to blog about today, but didn’t get around to yet, and now I’m once again sidetracked by a cryptic Twitter message from Sissy Willis: @rsmccain Basic idea, the importance of being noticed (Darwinian status seeking)=huge=ur theme of my blog http://bit.ly/i2hNQv Given the 140-character limit, perhaps there’s some missing context […]

I Don’t Hate Trains

“What, exactly, do Republicans, conservatives, and libertarians have against trains? Seriously, what?” — David Weigel, Slate Few things — not even the threat of a coffee shortage — bother me quite so much as what I call the Existential Theory of Liberalism: Everything that exists must be subsidized by the federal government; ergo, to argue […]

David Brooks, Brutally Spanked

My apologies for neglecting my regular “David Brooks Fisking Day” duties for several months. Perhaps I’ll have to start outsourcing this task. The NYT’s house “conservative” has published a pretentious new book, The Social Animal, which gets completely dismantled by Will Wilkinson at Forbes: Brooks supplies neither drama, high emotion, nor the mindbending metaphysics of aging without […]

UPDATE: The Girl Scouts Sex Scandal

My post Saturday about the March 2010 Girl Scouts scandal — involving a Planned Parenthood “Healthy, Happy and Hot” pamphlet made available at a United Nations conference event — drew some blowback from commenter Paul Katz: The whole thing was a far-religious right slander campaign against the Girl Scouts. . . . Anyone or any blog reposting […]

SWAC Girl Does Not Understand Hope’n’Change Economics

by Smitty Now, SWAC Girl is a great blogger: After voting for nearly $1 trillion in ‘stimulus’ spending, casting the deciding vote for $2 trillion in spending for ObamaCare, Mark Warner has finally realized that the federal government has a serious financial problem. But it’s not enough of a problem for him to support a […]

Stacy McCain Must Not See This Post

by Smitty (via Volokh) The world’s coffee supply could be threatened. Strongly recommend clearing a five mile radius around Stacy McCain when he finds out. The head ‘splosion shan’t be pretty.

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