The Other McCain

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

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty I got accused of “hot mom privilege” today by Timmy today. He’s a year older than me. Last week Billy stayed over and we were up all night playing Halo Wars 2 and mom came down in the basement in her nightgown to tell us to turn the game off and get some […]

Somebody Give Breathless Conor Friedersdorf’s Breathlessness A Breath

by Smitty It’s an easy play if a deadline looms in the age of Trump, I suppose: get all literal about some Eminence Orange utterance. Trump’s non-command of the Progressive Era definition of stateman–buries your liberty in legislation, but uses mellifluous tones while doing so–makes targeting him trivial. Which brings us to young Conor of […]

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty Crazy Uncle Eddy stared at the room full of fuming relatives from the portrait. “Screw him and his stupid scarf! I just want my share of the inheritance!” railed John Wentworth. “He used to sit and knit and mutter ‘String literals, or literal strings?’” said John’s brother Tim. And Greg knew. It was […]

“Conservatives and Fundamentalists are Noticing Progressive Christians.”

by Smitty Today in folly: Buttigieg is a symbol for a rising Christian left The mail on this was answered early: Mat 7:21-23 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say […]

Joan of Argghh! on Equality

by Smitty Joan posts a fine little poem about poetry over at her blog. It seems related to a new (to me) social media site called Minds.com, which uses crypto to pay people for social media posts. I guess that might be a good thing. Does anybody know what Twitter’s “Promote Mode” thingy does? I’m […]

Got It Covered Like Jimmy’s Hat

by Smitty Ménage à twerp. https://t.co/oPtZeTZoae — No Getting Over Macho Grande Or BREXIT For Theresa (@smitty_one_each) April 2, 2019

Operation ‘Unplanned’ Maintenance

by Smitty Conservative Twitter was aflame on Sunday with people wondering why the follower count for UnplannedMovie was all over the place. Quick notes: I do Amazon Web Services work by day I ain’t an apologist for @jack I have no insight into the specifics of Twitter’s architecture. My points: Old-style relational databases strove for […]

Jim, Jim and John Get Zany Mail

by Smitty

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