The Other McCain

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

Damn It, Jim, I’m a Blogger!

OK, so Pete Da Tech Guy wrote a post about loyalty, citing the persistence of my gratitude toward Alyssa Milano for an RT in September 2010.  Pete recalled that he had his own celebrity Twitter moment, a Tweet from William Shatner. (Eat your heart out, Jonah Goldberg!) At the end of his post, Pete mentioned […]

Hey, GOP: The IRS Is A Substantial Reform Target

by Smitty Let’s face it: the IRS tax code is still a nightmare. It is too complex, too costly and too unfair. There is something fundamentally wrong when roughly 60 percent of hardworking taxpayers have to hire a professional just to do their taxes. You shouldn’t need an army of lawyers and accountants to understand […]

‘Learning French,’ IYKWIMAITYD

Valérie Allain as Mireille Belleau in French in Action (1987) “Many have criticized the depiction of Mireille as gratuitously sexist. The camera often lingers on the actress’s chest and bare legs. ‘You’re seeing the videotape through a male gaze,’ said one female teaching assistant who asked not to be identified.” — New York Times, March […]

World’s Youngest Blogger:
Yeah, I Own Shakespeare

How mean, green bovine?

FMJRA 2.0: Beautiful World

— compiled by Wombat-socho Obama Promises 2013 Gun-Grab Bill; Warns ‘There Will Be Resistance’ Da Tech Guy The Daley Gator Lower The Boom ConMom Captains’ Journal Stephen McDonald Fiscal-Cliff Kabuki Nears Final Scene UPDATE: House GOP Wants More Spending Cuts Before Final Vote The Rio Norte Line Tree Of Mamre Animal Magnetism Jackie Wellfonder Rick’s […]

The Incident at St. Aloysius: 911 Call in Illinois Raises Questions for Church

Was something kinky happening in the rectory of a Catholic church in Springfield, Illinois? That would seem to be the implication of this story: The pastor of St. Aloysius church on Springfield’s north end has been granted a leave of absence after he called 911 from the rectory and told a dispatcher that he needed […]

If Current TV Was Worth $500 Million, How Is BuzzFeed Worth $200 Million?

There has been a lot of noise in the wake of the sale of Current TV to Qatar-based Al Jazeera, and Ed Driscoll linked damn near all of it today, so there’s no point me re-hashing it here. What intrigues me is the valuation of the product. Was it worth $500 million to essentially buy a […]

Is Public Sector Racism Any More Effective Than The Historical Flavor?

by Smitty Via Insty, Court decisions dating to the 1950s theoretically ended racial segregation of higher education in the United States. But data to be presented today at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association show that the pace of desegregation has slowed over time. And in a finding that could be controversial, the […]

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