The Other McCain

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

Higher Ed: A Bubble About To Burst

special guest post by Meika Jensen [I was approached via email by the author with a request to post on the higher education bubble. Give her constructive feedback, you scalawags. —Smitty] In economic terms, a pricing bubble occurs whenever a commodity is traded in high volumes for prices that are far greater than the products […]

MA-4 Blogger Call With Sean Bielat

by Smitty How do you not support a candidate with a battleship on his masthead, I ask you? I took notes, and kibitzed way too much for somebody not even in Massachusetts. The following is an unofficial, qualitative account of the call. I took the liberty of re-arranging the Q&A sequence for better flow. Sean […]

Check Your Water Wings

by Smitty The National Debt Road Trip is about to get underway, in the nautical sense: Update: linked at

You’d Think A Supreme Court Justice Would Know This

by Smitty Somebody pointed me to the New England Journal of Medicine, with an interesting Elena Kagan quote from last week’s oral argument, emphasis mine: Roberts also noted a mismatch between covered benefits and each person’s potential need. Speaking to the government’s lawyer, he said, “[T]he policies that you’re requiring people to purchase involve . […]

Mean RNC Pokes Fun At BHO’s Sincere Efforts To Save Gaia

by Smitty Our future hangs in the balance. The sun is riding so low, it could get stuck on Mount Everest while making its nightly lap about the planet.* What’s a President to do? Recycle his speeches. And yet, here is the mean ol’ RNC, serving up the President’s careful re-use of speech material as […]

Is Allen West Predicting A Total #OccupyResoluteDesk Meltdown?

by Smitty Usually when he’s taking fire from FaceBook, it’s Sarah Palin. This time, Rep. Alan West lights up BHO: President Obama’s recent rhetorical rants over the past two days are not indicative of a confident incumbent President. His actions and words more so resemble the flailing of a drowning person caught in a rip […]

Jesus Knew Fear?

by Smitty Seriously, Mr. President: what in the eternal location of Karl Marx are you talking about: “Like us, Jesus knew doubt. Like us, Jesus knew fear.” Contrast Matthew 27:46 with Psalm 22 very carefully before contending that Jesus really doubted, or, even at the end, really knew fear. Maybe He did. But to argue […]

Dear 5th Circuit …

by Smitty So, like, this is a response to your way totally uptight letter dated April III, MMXII. Noting that it was dated, you know, April III, we figured that this was three times an April Fool’s joke, or something. And so we’re including with this little memo your three single-spaced pages. Yeah, you might […]

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