The Other McCain

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

Leaders Are People With Followers

by Smitty So the House GOP broke on Plan B. This is telling, emphasis mine: Upstairs by the House floor, which was now closed after Boehner’s announcement, a handful of senior members discussed the whip count. They decided to go out for drinks near Union Station, in order to avoid their colleagues who’d be hanging […]

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 12.21.12

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Boehner Cancels Plan B Vote In Face Of Conservative Revolt NYT misses opportunity to blame Norquist, Tea Party for this Putin Defends Russian Syria Policy Condemns US for toppling Qaddafi and leaving Libya in chaos Cory Booker Explores 2014 Senate Run Not eager to tangle with popular Christie for […]

Again, Cassone, On Newtown

by Smitty We need a word for that awkward point, When one enounters art, And says, “Da best in da flippin’ joint! Tell, me: How’d it start?” The artist’s face, it then grows dark, And with a lowered eye, Replies, “Blood down in the park, That deserved not so to die.” Oh that we could […]

Viral Video Idea, Only Minor Damage To Robert Stacy McCain Required

by Smitty Via Slashdot, we have a review of the new Windows: Based upon that review (lengthy, but consistently good throughout), if we set up a camera, gave RSM a writing deadline, and a computer running Windows 8, my gut is that the resulting meltdown would be one for the ages. I guess if they wanted […]

A Constitutional Right to Donkey Sex?

Lisa Graas remembers how Rick Santorum was ridiculed for saying that the same logic that justifies gay marriage as a “right” could also justify legalized bestiality. Many at the time mocked Santorum as a bigoted yahoo. Yet the Republican presidential hopeful was merely expressing what Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had warned of when, in dissenting from the court’s […]

The Creepy Little Weirdo’s Mom

The Washington Post notices that most folks in Newtown, Connecticut, don’t see the murderer’s mother as a victim worth mourning: Police said that before he attacked the schoolhouse, [the creepy little weirdo] pumped four bullets into his mother’s head as she lay in bed. . . . “I am feeling that there is more anger toward the […]

‘Candyass Blogger’ Update: Free Speech Absolutists Who Banned Mr. Althouse UPDATE: ‘These Are Historical Dildos’

The defense of Professor Erik “I’m a Lumberjack and I’m OK” Loomis is becoming somewhat of a cause célèbre for the progressive community online and in academia. I’m actually working on a much longer piece about this ongoing controversy, based on my own vast experience in saying stupidly offensive stuff that pisses people off. Meanwhile […]

Unexpectedly, Last Year’s Super Committee Is This Year’s Coal In The Stocking

by Smitty Grand Old Partisan, aka Michael Zak, was pointing out on Twitter a post of his from September of last year: Republicans may assume that the role of the Joint Committee will be limited and subordinate to Congress as a whole, but Democrats are planning otherwise. In her press conference yesterday, Nancy Pelosi gave […]

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