The Other McCain

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

Trump Titanium
Testicle Territory
Treads Triumphantly

by Smitty Having lived on the edge of the Beltway Singularity nearly two decades, there is a unique perspective that one can bring. Around the 2006 election that put Princess Pelosi in as Screecher of the House, there was a growing concern about whether there was something Really, Truly Wrong in the U.S. I saw […]

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty Look at the young “family”. “We frome Venezuela,” says the “father”, haggard. Woman carrying one baby and with a small, thin waif clinging to a leg. Shove off the wall, walk toward the large sedan. Rooftop lookout signals safety with the laser pointer. Open the door, in they go. Guy’d been a Department […]

Fire Bogus Idiots
Fomenting Blatant, Irredeemable,
Flagrant Betrayals–Immediately!

by Smitty Have we had enough rectal sunsine yet? Mollie Hemingway offers a relatively calm depiction of the kidney-load down the back that the Deep State would have us believe is merely a summer drizzle. Oh, did I say “Deep State”? We’ve still got those who are incapable of seeing the forest for the trees: […]

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty They walked down the path toward her favorite spot. Roger could not understand why, the closer they got, the slower dad walked, the more heavy his sighs became, the more freely his tears flowed. Somehow he felt guilty. “I’m so sorry, daddy.” Daddy was sobbing by the time they got to the tree […]

Tyler O’Neil Strives To Paint Corey Stewart As A White *YAWN* Supremacist

by Smitty Another primary, another strident nominee, another round of Seals & Crofts fans rushing to denounce the Terrifying Specter of a Republican Candidate with a Backbone. Crimes: 1. “The candidate took an uncompromisingly positive position about symbols of the Confederacy during last year’s campaign.” The statues had been there for generations. While communities should […]

“I Said: ‘Cut Back On The Tariffs. Your Economies May Do Better Than Keith Richards Trying To Sell Face Cream.'”

by Smitty "…and then she gave me the Full Jessup." pic.twitter.com/1bEDzCZbrN — I Came; I Saw; I Got Over Macho Grande [K?] (@smitty_one_each) June 10, 2018 Who's gonna do it? You? You, Donald Trump? We have a greater responsibility to the Elite than you could possibly fathom. — I Came; I Saw; I Got Over […]

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty He looked at the youthful photo his sister had taken. He recalled staring into the lamp at dusk, prayerfully pondering Providence. * * * The recruiter had come swiftly, taking him off to join the military. War; carnage; promotion followed. Decades later, nominally the same but radically altered, he stood in that field, […]

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty He turned with his camera and snapped the picture. Previewing it on the screen, he saw that she’d brought the Looney Tunes float, swallowed, and managed a teary chuckle at her triumph. Their last trip to Chincoteague had been seven years ago, when their son Brian was a laughing toddler, full of joy, […]

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