The Other McCain

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

Celebrating The Crowd At CPAC, iii
The Sentiments and Morality of Crowds

by Smitty Writing in the late 1800’s, and looking back to the French Revolution, Le Bon sees a spontaneous crowd as a truly dumb beast: The creation of the legends which so easily obtain circulation in crowds is not solely the consequence of their extreme credulity. It is also the result of the prodigious perversions […]

First Daniel Hannan Pic!

by Smitty I won CPAC, albeit rather early: And that’s without even making the Blogger Bash, which I skipped for the World’s Youngest Blogger:

Celebrating The Crowd At CPAC, ii
General Characteristics of Crowds

by Smitty Le Bon, emphasis original: The sentiments and ideas of all the persons in the gathering take on the same direction, and their conscious personality vanishes. A collective mind is formed, doubtless transitory, but presenting clearly defined characteristics. The gathering has thus become what, in the absence of a better expression, I will call […]

Stacy’s CPAC Tour

by Smitty Stacy and the BarbieCam in near-real time:

Celebrating The Crowd At CPAC, i

by Smitty Gustav Le Bon’s 1895 book The Crowd heavily informed Ann Coulter’s book Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America. Thanks to Ann for the hat tip. Rather than take her route of showing the specific evil effects of the Democrat party, and then quoting Le Bon, it seems needful to go back […]

Stacy’s Future Is Grim

by Smitty Scenes from Stacy’s future: We sat there in the casino and burned a stogie when Kevin, Stacy and I went to Vegas. For all I don’t mind the very occasional stogie, the thought of being so chained to any habit that I’m going through ritual abuse over it is worse than withdrawal. Also […]

Separated At Birth, Robert Reich Edition

by Smitty It takes a special kind of gasbag to arrive at the conclusion that “Obama Has Handed The Election Over To The Super Rich” What, did #OccupyResoluteDesk somehow disenfranchise us all by playing along with the SuperPAC game? “Good ends don’t justify corrupt means,” whines Reich. Which of Obama’s ends was the good one? […]

CPAC Is Already Happening

by Smitty I made it up to the Marriott Wardman Park to get the conference package for CPAC12. The blogger lounge was the same room as two years ago, but they have cut down on the actual seating. This will make it harder to sit down and blog, but might make the bandwidth more reasonable […]

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