The Other McCain

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

Iowa Flashback: August 2011

Intersection in a cornfield near Roland, Iowa Paul Ryan is campaigning — and getting heckled — today in Iowa and I don’t know how many readers realize that today is the one-year anniversary of the Iowa GOP Straw Poll at Ames, which I covered under the headline, “Fear and Loathing at the Hilton Coliseum.” In case you’ve […]

Reasons Not to Have Sex

You’re young. You’re sexy. You meet somebody else young and sexy. And next thing you know, you’ve got yourself a nearly incurable case of antibiotic-resistant Super-Clap: Five years ago, the CDC said fluoroquinolones were no longer effective, but oral cephalosporins were still a common/easy treatment. Now injected ceftriaxone is the only recommended effective drug we have left. […]

Memo for Oliver Willis

Your make the intriguing assertion that it’s bad form for the press corps to tell the version of events favored by the campaign: So it appears that the Romney campaign briefed multiple news outlets about the behind the scenes of how they hid Paul Ryan’s selection from the media. I’m not saying this isn’t a […]

Maddow Left Sputtering By ‘L’ Word

by Smitty Say what you want about Rich Lowry, he did a splendid job against Keith Olbermann’s more masculine brother here. It turns out that Maddow just can’t handle the word ‘logic’: I guess that in Maddow-land the selection of Ryan as VP means that Mitt Romney is open to attack for every vote Ryan […]

Paul Ryan in the American Spectator

When you think about qualifications as vice president, the first thing you have to ask is, “Have they written for the American Spectator?” Paul Ryan’s byline first appeared in the American Spectator in July 2009, and today he’s back with a column slamming Obama’s “you didn’t build that” rhetoric: President Obama recently made a stunning remark […]

Sometimes You’re Chesley Sullenberger, Sometimes You’re Brandon Sparrow

by Smitty via (Dan Riehl) Chesley, you’ll recall did something heroic and walked away from it. Brandon Sparrow, not so much: A heroic pilot at the helm of a doomed plane full of skydivers made sure all of his passengers had jumped to safety before deftly crashing the aircraft in a backyard — where no […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.13.12

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Ryan & Obama Face Off In Iowa; Romney Takes The Bus To Florida Ryan to visit State Fair, Obama to wave money under farmers’ noses Egypt’s Mursi Orders Senior Military Commanders Into Retirement Field Marshal Tantawi, armed forces chief of staff, and commanders of air force & navy get […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Outskirts

— compiled by Wombat-socho Standard disclaimer: some of the following links are to photographs liable to cause unfavorable reactions from wives, girlfriends, boyfriends, fellow workers, bosses, Gender Studies majors, and other people in a position to make your life miserable or otherwise pollute your purity of essence. Discretion is advised. We welcome new blogger A […]

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