The Other McCain

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

Sum Ting Wong At CNN

by Smitty Via Zero Hedge, the CNN clown car is revved up to Full Tilt Boogie: One has to wonder if this is an innocent typo, or a Freudian slip. There seems an interest in projecting violent acts onto conservatives and veterans. This blog doubles down on its hope that #OccupyResoluteDesk dies old, full of […]

To Say the Very Least

Ross Douthat on the Wendy Davis debacle for Texas Democrats: It should be said, and many people are saying it, that Davis and her team ran a poorer-than-expected campaign overall, and that the allegedly-brilliant team running the Democrats’ new Texas ground game were not in fact so brilliant. But the more important issue, surely, is that […]

Signs Of Pending Apocalypse: DewItos

by Smitty “That sounds like part of a balanced meal,” said no nutritionist. Ever. Good Sweet Lord, Pepsi Is Actually Testing A Doritos-Flavored Mountain Dew http://t.co/V33rUsq5G3 pic.twitter.com/X2IKcaAKPy — BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) November 8, 2014

A Little Salt For The Democrat Gash

by Smitty This blog was a huge Christine O’Donnell booster, back when. No regrets. But one can’t let this fact pass un-touted, emphasis mine: The Christine O’Donnell thing really did happen more or less by accident, because she happened to be in the right place at the right time to catch an anti-establishment wave and […]

The Anti-War Movement Isn’t Dead; It’s Just Restin’

by Smitty Almost twenty years ago, when I could not conceive of ever being anything but a leftist, I joined a left-wing online discussion forum. Before that I’d had twenty years of face-to-face participation in leftist politics: marching, organizing, socializing. In this online forum, suddenly my only contact with others was the words those others […]

UPDATE: @AmandaBynes Is Crazy

This isn’t necessarily news to anyone who has followed the (literally) insane misadventures of Miss Ultimate Starlet Meltdown: Amanda Bynes is flat-out admitting it. She was tired and fell asleep on a couch at her local mall, the Beverly Center. It’s the latest step in the Amanda Bynes journey. She tweeted that she slept there […]

Feminists: They’re Not About the ‘D’

How many times do I have to say feminism is a journey to lesbianism before people start waking up to the truth? Liberal guys need to realize their “male feminist” thing is never going to work: A male-led campaign to promote affirmative consent for sex at DePaul University — which is nominally Catholic but runs […]

‘Broken People,’ Cats and Prozac

Rebecca Jane Stokes (@Beeswrite) is a columnist for the feminist site @xojanedotcom and by “feminist site,” I mean digital estrogen. If you want ball-busting radical man-hating, you’ll have to look elsewhere. XOJane is more about pathetic narcissism. Glenn Reynolds’ remark about “broken people” — made in reference to the radical man-hater Kate Millett — came to […]

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