The Other McCain

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

‘My Sister Is Pregnant and We Don’t Know Which of My Brothers is the Father’

The quoted sentence was spoken by a child on a school playground. Overheard by a teacher, this triggered an investigation that exposed a multigenerational horror story in rural Australia: Police raided the Colt family home in rural south-western New South Wales in July 2012 after a teacher alerted authorities to a conversation overheard in the […]

Dilbert Panel Or U.S. Foreign Policy Summary? You Make The Call

by Smitty

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.23.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS 130,000 Syrian Refugees Flee To Turkey Refugee situation exacerbates tension between Ankara and Turkish Kurds Turkey clamps down on Syrian border after Kurdish unrest As masses seek refuge in Turkey, peshmerga rush back to Syria US, partners begin airstrikes in Syria US Rejects Iran’s Offer To Cooperate Against Islamic […]

Another Community Organizer? We Need That Like Additional Cranial Ventilation

by Smitty The Washington Free Beacon continues to demonstrate what a properly functioning media could resemble: “The more I’ve seen of places like Yale Law School and the people who haunt them, the more convinced I am that we have the serious business and joy of much work ahead—if the commitment to a free and […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.22.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS California Burning: King Fire Spreads As Seven Blazes Burn Across State More than 7800 firefighters in action; King Fire only 10% contained Thirty-two structures destroyed by California wildfires Record amount of fire retardant used to fight blazes NASA’s Maven Probe Arrives In Mars Orbit Looking for answer to how […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Levitation

— compiled by Wombat-socho Sleep cycle completely hosed, so no clever intro or cute intro pics this week. Don’t click links in public, and if you do don’t come whining to me. Randy’s Roundtable leads off with Ellie Gonsalves, followed by Goodstuff talking like a pirate, Blackmailers Don’t Shoot stiffing us on the Kaley Cuoco […]

Thoughts on Ideology

Readers will pardon my long blog silence today, which is likely to continue a while as I am (of course) knee-deep into the radical feminist craziness as I prepare the next installment of the “Sex Trouble” series. (Hit the Freaking Tip Jar!) Because feminist ideologues propose theoretical conceptions that are so contrary to basic common-sense […]

The Vichy GOP Thinks Tea Parties Should Just Shut Up & Fall In Line, Or Something

by Smitty One must borrow Her Majesty’s dead horse in response to the Fox News question: Will Tea Party, GOP establishment be ‘mending fences’ to win Senate in November? After a long, unapologetic effort to defeat Tea Party and other so-called “unelectable” candidates in GOP primaries, the Washington establishment will likely need Tea Party voters […]

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