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 “It’s wet,” he mumbled, working with a patient fury. Innocuous. Guards scowled. The forty prisoners in the castle bailey were to work on pottery for their own use, and for Geneva Convention reasons of fair treament, they were told. They knew a trace element in the clay was killing them. He shaped his […]

Ode To Overlingering

by Smitty Sometimes no matter what you do, You find yourself an unfortunate tree, Whose decades, though more than a few, Will end both soon and a-brupt-ly. When sprout you did, all was so good, Weather fair and danger far, None to say that flee you should, As danger was a distant star. Closer it […]

I’m Pretty Sure That InfoWars And Gab Aren’t Signs Of A Crackdown

by Smitty First, the recent unpleasantness with the redirect appears to have been caused by some Memorandum code that was likely out of date. Maintenance happens. Second, while I’ve been as big a fan of Alex Jones as homosexuality, I’ve never thought that suppressing either was particularly helpful. But the deplatforming of Jones is apparently […]

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty The volcano erupted and slew the loudly weeping forest with fire. Moot was the point that the victim was a rainforest, and featured a lake. The water’s indifference to the inferno on the hill could not have been more placid. That was, until the earthquake. The ravaged trees had their revenge against the […]

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty Riesling. He knew. The dinner was torment. Every word said fraught with double entendre, silent condemnation beneath pleasantness. He was a surf and turf man, washed down with cabernet sauvignon. But for this dinner, in front of parents and children, it was chicken cordon bleu, a below-the-radar reference to her colleague, John Riesling. […]

John Hawkins and Self-Inflicted Wounds

by Smitty Hawkins brings us “5 Ugly Truths About Women That Young Men Need to Recognize“, and the operator is “young”. You should read the whole thing, lads, but focus on growing up ahead of, rather than through, such self-inflicted wounds. Let’s review: 1. Beauty fades It transitions, certainly. but I have seen plenty of […]

Friday Fiction: ‘Ozzysandersous’

by Smitty The wizened old man in a land antique, Sat in the shade before a market ruined. He hailed to me: “Man, what do you seek, In the Fair Trade Bazaar of Xanaxind?” “Some cold water, since English you speak, If one can such in this ancient rubble find. How must the former sights […]

Adolphology for the Godwin-Win

by Smitty Soopermexican was riffing on the Sarah Sanders ejection story. But if you’re going to cross the line on Godwin’s Law, why not broad jump the thing? Twitter teaches us very important things like only Hitler would have tossed someone out of his restaurant and also if you don’t kick someone out of your […]

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