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 Swings the heavy door shut, turns the key a final time. Mother’s illness has been a second womb. The lengthy second gestation is done. She’d been ancient; he, merely old, wife taken by cancer decades ago, only son taken by war, siblings estranged. Hand lets go of the brass key. He feels liberated. […]

In Praise Of Obama’s Portrait

by Smitty The newly unveiled Presidential portrait of BHO affords this blog a rare opportunity to praise the “fundamental transformation” that His ‘Pretty Sharpness’ wrought:

JP Isn’t JC & The Critics Aren’t Pharisees

by Smitty As was the case a couple thousand years back, the Establishment isn’t keen on being disrupted. Many of Peterson’s haters on the right have been toiling in the fields these long years, equally worried about, writing about, the treatment of men, especially young men; about the erosion of freedoms, etc. Where, they are […]

A Cheaper Date Than Peterson: 12 Rules

by Smitty Riffing on JP and McArdle, here are my dozen: Relax. Don’t take yourself too seriously. Makes you a big, fat, easy target. Integrity is talking about Fight Club when the World would silence you. Take the truth seriously, and guard it jealously against all foolishness. Grow up: stay sober; eschew debt; pursue knowledge […]

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty [Read Darleen first, as this is a continuation. And Happy Valentine’s Day!] “Solved it,” said Steve. “Do tell. What’s that man doing?” Kristy squirmed. “I was in the Navy. If you interpret arm positions in the pictures as semaphore, you get: ‘WYMM’.” Blank stare. “Yeah, maybe.” Steve turned the camera over, revealing a […]

Replying To ESR’s Response

by Smitty First, thank you for a thoughtful and challenging reply to my objections. In re-reading your post, my reaction and “Three kinds of teleology“, it seems that I may have misinterpreted your “Sorry, Ansari” post somewhat. Specifically, on the point of whether you were a) attempting to characterize the societal state, “as-is” or b) […]

Hogwash, ESR

by Smitty Eric S. Raymond’s feedback on the Aziz Ansari comedy of manners-in-the-buff has one of my favorite hobby horses requiring a ride. ESR is far smarter than I, and an avowed libertarian. Hence my amusement at this: “Grace” behaved as she did because she doesn’t have a realistic option to hold out for romance […]

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty The girl (later known as Mindy) blowing by, is the penultimate humiliation. Not the first. That’d been the blind runner, seeming to putz along with his guide, casually passing my struggling flesh. No, the final thing was the arch cramp, reducing me to a limping skip for the final miles. But by the […]

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