The Other McCain

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

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 12.20.12

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS House GOP Plans Vote On Fiscal Cliff Plan B Reid already committed to defeat bill in Senate; Obama promises veto Park Geun-Hye Becomes ROK’s First Female President Calls for reconciliation after tight race Obama Names Philly Police Commissioner To Gun Violence Discussion Group Commissioner Ramsey a long-time proponent of […]

#PiersMorganMovies The Fool Monty

by Smitty #PiersMorganMovies The English Impatient — Asin8.5 (D-NOVA) (@smitty_one_each) December 20, 2012 #PiersMorganMovies The Guns of NoMoreCanYouOwn — Asin8.5 (D-NOVA) (@smitty_one_each) December 20, 2012 #PiersMorganMovies Insufferable Pride & Anti-Conservative Prejudice — Asin8.5 (D-NOVA) (@smitty_one_each) December 20, 2012 #PiersMorganMovies Whine-a-town — Asin8.5 (D-NOVA) (@smitty_one_each) December 20, 2012 #PiersMorganMovies Reservoir Progs — Joan Of Argghh! (D) […]

#Metaphor: Academics Sign Their Own Death Warrants by Defending Loomis

It’s a formula: [Thing you’re angry about] [epithet] [Republican you blame] [obscenity] [heinously violent death wish] #metaphor @jimmiebjr — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) December 19, 2012 For example: “Barbara Walters should be eviscerated by machete-wielding crackheads! #metaphor” — bingo, you’re a tenured Ph.D.@jimmiebjr — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) December 19, 2012 Professor Erik “Head on […]

Obama’s Benghazi Fall Guys

It took long enough, but President Gutsy Call finally located three State Department employees who don’t have enough political juice to protect them from getting blamed for the predictable failure of the administration’s Libya policy: The A.P., quoting an unidentified administration official, said Eric Boswell, the assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security, and Charlene […]

University President Repudiates Professor’s Violent Anti-NRA Messages UPDATE: Associated Press Article Whitewashes Loomis Scandal

University of Rhode Island Professor Erik Loomis An assistant history professor whose angry Twitter rants against the National Rifle Association caused an online controvery this week “does not speak on behalf of the University [of Rhode Island],” the institution’s president declared yesterday. Erik Loomis, a progressive blogger who teaches history at URI, was widely criticized […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 12.19.12

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Inquiry Slams State Department Over Benghazi Panel sharply critical of failures at Foggy Bottom Boehner Unveils Plan B As Fiscal Cliff Deadline Looms Can Speaker sell millionaire tax hike to his own caucus? Zuma Wins ANC Leadership Election By Overwhelming Margin 2983-991; vote secures Zuma’s position until 2019 POLITICS […]

He’s a Lumberjack, and He’s OK: The Wobbly Scholarship of Erik Loomis, Ph.D.

(Note: University of Rhode Island Assistant Professor of History Erik Loomis has recently established himself as a famous laughingstock of online political argument, using the excuse “metaphor” to claim that it’s OK to say that the National Rifle Association is a “terrorist organization” and that he wants NRA chief Wayne LaPierre’s “head on a stick,” […]

Herbert Marcuse, Wile E. Coyote and the Auto-Beclownment of Erik Loomis, Ph.D.

Erik Loomis, Ph.D., is to Twitter what Wile E. Coyote is to Acme rocket skates. twitchy.com/2012/12/18/unv… — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) December 19, 2012 The epic saga of University of Rhode Island Assistant Professor of History Erik Loomis shall live long in blogospheric lore. Twitchy is taking a victory lap over the professor’s unfortunate metaphorical […]

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