The Other McCain

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

Zilla On A Stand-Alone Site

by Smitty Out of the Blogger ghetto, and onto the web proper. Go, Zilla!

A Fine Week In Blogs

by Smitty Stephen Green does what he does so well: I hope the overall silliness will hits its crescendo in November, and we can opt for something more rational down the road. Optimistic, I know.

Meanwhile, Down At The Intersection Of Orwell And Kabuki. . .

by Smitty Last night I went to a new ‘salon’ (I think it may be a snooty bar or something) called Empire Unplugged, for their inaugural talking head fest on the Federal Reserve. The video is kind of lousy, and still pulling in to Final Cut Pro X for what I hope will be a […]

Only Roseanne Barr Can Save Us From The Chinese Pollution Menace!

by Smitty Never mind that she doesn’t appear to have a campaign website, we’ve got to support Roseanne Barr for POTUS. Bill Quick, in the link, is casting all kinds of skeptical eye upon the news that Chinese pollution is visible from space. Forget that noise. We’ve got to behind Barr’s candidacy: Barr used the […]

Lying With Numbers: How Obama Has Corrupted the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Tyler Durden digs down and discovers that the BLS understates the labor force by 5 million people, so it can report an 8.3 percent unemployment rate instead of the actual 11.5 percent rate. Furthermore — do they really think we’re this stupid? — the BLS reported that the labor force decreased by 1.2 million people […]

Allen West’s Enemy: Mike Haridopolos?

“America is threatened by many crises, ranging from economic recession to international terrorism, but none of these threats are quite so immediate or so fundamentally hostile to our democratic form of government as the existential menace of Florida.” — Robert Stacy McCain, Sept. 30, 2011 Florida Republican politics is a Byzantine web of intrigue and […]

I’m Not A Newt Fan, But This Ad Should Give You Pause

by Smitty via HillBuzz Similar Mitt ‘cheerleading’ at The Corner.

First, They Came for the Reese’s Pieces …

When I worked at The Washington Times, there was a place in the office called the “discard table” where the book review editors — or anybody else — would leave the books they got for free from publishers but didn’t want to keep. My library has scores of volumes rescued from the discard table, among them […]

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