The Other McCain

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

We’ve All Gone Crazy

Folie à deux — shared psychosis; a psychiatric syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief are transmitted from one individual to another. Who’s nuts: David Frum or the Republicans who hate him? It’s a very strange experience to have your friends think you’ve gone crazy. Some will tell you so. Others will indulgently humor […]

Smitty Loves His Kindle

While he was in Afghanistan, our beloved Admiral developed a serious addiction to his Kindle, downloading e-books to read when he wasn’t fighting the Taliban fleet. I don’t know if he’s tried the new Kindle Fire, but you can buy one for just $199 this week through our Amazon Associates link and it kicks me […]

Call Sign: ‘Nash One’

You never know where a good story’s going to lead. Sunday morning, I found myself thinking about that Catholic schoolgirl who cussed out Jeff Goldstein in Denver. Where do these kids get their ideas? How can we get through to them? And why do these Occupy protesters get on my very last nerve? What bugged […]

He’s an Expert on ‘Fools and Clowns’

“I have a structural hypothesis here. You have a Republican ideology, which Mitt Romney obviously doesn’t believe in. He just oozes insincerity, that’s just so obvious. But all of the others are fools and clowns. And there is a question here, my hypothesis is that maybe this is an ideology that only fools and clowns […]

A Couple of Great Songs From 1979

This was a jammin’ little funky tune by one-hit wonder Roger Voudouris, but I’d never seen this video before and . . . well, close your eyes and it’s still a jammin’ little funky tune: Just checked Wikipedia and Voudouris, who died in 2003, was not gay, no matter what that video might make you […]

Indoctrination: What the Occupiers Believe and Why They Believe It

NYPD arrest Occupy Wall Street protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge, Oct. 1 “In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the […]

Is This It? Newt Says GOP Choice Will ‘Come Down to Mitt and Me’

Thirty-three months after the first Tea Party rallies, we are presented with a choice between Mr. “It’s His Turn” and Mr. Speaker: A surging Newt Gingrich said he’s bracing for searing political attacks from all sides now that he’s the latest front-runner in the cutthroat Republican bid for president — and he predicted the GOP […]

Today: Da Tech Guy on Da Radio Celebrates Da First Anniversary

Our friend Pete Da Tech Guy has been broadcasting weekly on WCRN 830 AM — a 50,000-watt powerhouse in Worcester, Massachusetts — for a year now. Today’s broadcast at 10 a.m. ET is his first anniversary show, and his guests will include Professor Glenn Reynolds among others. You can call 888-9-FEDORA (888-933-3672) to congratulate Pete […]

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