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 Some are known to history, Some by neighbors known, Some fall prey to gluttony, Of food and things they own. Youth is spent in pleasure’s chase, While flesh can still support it, And life can feel a treadmill race, By pressure so distorted. Love matures the youthful heart, Binding the sympathizer, Through trials […]

Happy Talk On Congressional Reform From The Federalist

by Smitty Via The Federalist: 4. We should ratify a balanced budget amendment establishing a firm cap on spending. It couldn’t simply be lifted like a debt ceiling with a majority in Congress. This would give constitutional preeminence to balanced budgeting and at a minimum prevent new deficits. 5. There should also be a constitutional […]

VD Hanson’s “The Case For Trump” Part 1

by Smitty On the short list of academics/intellectuals worthy of the title, Victor Davis Hanson looms large. His new outing, “The Case for Trump” is on my phone in the Kindle app, and I’ll be trying to read through a chapter a day and post about it. Of course, I can’t claim to have foreseen […]

The Binary Intersectional Tyrannical Cis-Hetero Slave Lord Anti-woke Patriarchy (BITCHSLAP) Mourns @TitaniaMcGrath

by Smitty Many far wiser than I have long since abandoned the Twitter necropolis. But there are still some accounts that really bring the fun, including Poe’s Law All-Star Titania McGrath: Race is a social construct. It is surely no coincidence that it is only ever privileged white people who dispute this. — Titania McGrath […]

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty The Association was composed of off-the-net greasepits and cars that people could still “work” on. He’d fetch the strongbox cached securely within the engine compartment, extract the optical media, mount it on the creaky old laptop (running some Slackware release that hadn’t been updated or rebooted in a decade–up the network!) and un-tar […]

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty The 34th floor apartment adjacent the utility shaft, so power entering and heat exiting could be masked, waited. At the proper moment, connectivity in the area was gone: the Cthulhu Taking Humanity Under Logical Hostage Ultimatum (CTHULHU) project went live. Overwhelming global DNS servers in NOVA, Amazon us-east-1 region, Azure resources, and government […]

George Will: Apologist For Tyranny?

by Smitty I remember reading Will back in the day and feeling edified. He has wandered far in his dotage, first embracing Her Majesty against Trump, and now coming out against Brexit. A June 2016 referendum endorsed (52 percent to 48 percent) exiting the EU. Implementing this has, however, become messier than anyone, especially voters, […]

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty “Haven’t been across Grandpa Eddy’s Bridge in 40 years,” I say, looking at young Tim, angry at being peeled off of his iPad for a walk with his grandfather, “I heard they’d renovated it last year.” “This is stupid,” decides Tim with a 7 year old’s vehemence. We make the right turn, head […]

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