The Other McCain

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

Gadsden Phoenix Rises. Detractors Can Kiss Her Ashes.

by Smitty Instapundit liked the tweet last night: At the local Tea Party meeting. For ~70 dead people, these zombies are kinda spun up. — Chris Smith (@smitty_one_each) November 13, 2012   There was some admission of the suckage of the situation, and discussion that we need to get over the fact that (to paraphrase) […]

Rule 5 Sun- er, Tuesday

— compiled by Wombat-socho Ah, what a wretched week this has been. From ecstasy to agony in 24 hours with Romney and Ryan, followed by the landlord telling me it’s time to move on from my burrow. Well, at least we have two things to be grateful for: we’re not living on Staten Island, and […]

Mary-Kate Olsen’s French Boyfriend

Say hello to Olivier Sarkozy, half-brother of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy and managing director of the Carlyle Group’s global financial services division. He’s 42 and Mary-Kate is 26, so they’re both adults but . . . Well, there’s just something very wrong with this picture, isn’t there? This photo of the two lovebirds publicly […]

Apparently, Everybody Involved in the Petraeus Scandal Is a Swinging Sex Freak

Suggested title for Gen. Petraeus’s memoirs: “Dear Penthouse Forum …” minx.cc/?post=334883 — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) November 13, 2012 The CIA chief, his West Point-educated girlfriend, an FBI agent, the “social liaison” at McDill AFB, the top general in Afghanistan — they’re all as freewheeling and frisky as college juniors on Spring Break in Cabo. Gabriel Malor at AOSHQ […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.13.12

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Petraeus Scandal Rolls On As Focus Turns To Senate Inquiry Broadwell’s home searched by FBI, Senate Intel Committee opens probe into FBI investigation Obama Considering John Kerry As New SecDef Did you know he served in Vietnam? Windows Head Steven Sinofsky Leaving Microsoft Sources say he wasn’t a team […]

Let’s Blame Crowder

I mean, why not? Instead of this finger-pointing and blame-gaming and circular firing squad, let’s just grab hold of some random schmoe and make him the designated scapegoat for all our despair, rage, envy and frustration. Stephen Crowder is the new Emmanuel Goldstein!

When You’re Down to Your Last $4 Million, Hallucinogens May Seem Fun

Anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee once had what is colloquially known as “f–k you money,” but suffered a reversal of fortune: John McAfee, an entrepreneur who founded the antivirus software company that bears his name, is now worth about $4 million, from a peak of more than $100 million. Mr. McAfee will soon auction off […]

Ace of Spades: Eric Holder Is Obviously Lying About the Petraeus Affair

The logic is impeccable: Holder’s FBI discovers the CIA chief is dangerously compromised and doesn’t tell the President? Bovine excrement! Therefore, the alternative hypothesis that Holder was negligent in not telling the President is merely an interesting counterfactual along the lines of, “What if Lee’s army had AK-47s at Gettysburg?” We know Holder is lying. The […]

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