The Other McCain

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

Afghanistan Reflection

by Smitty BAGRAM, AFGHANISTAN This is something I worked on for a while, and presented to my colleagues at Mazar-E-Sharif, as I was enjoying the farewell barbecue: Afghanistan Reflection Vanity of vanities, and what they say about those best laid plans of mice and men. As improvement we’d impose, in such far places as these, […]

President Milquetoast

by Smitty As the hours in the ‘Stan wind down, Twitter is alight with Talk Like a Pirate Day and the Rose Garden gumflap. I’m at the Green Bean by the main PX in Bagram, and they’re jack hammering to remodel the corner. You need something loud to block that, so I reach for Helmet. […]

Day Of Rage. (Machine To Rage Against Not Included. Also, Violence)

by Smitty (via Iowahawkblog) Yeah, “day of non-violent rage”: yeah. Misfit Politics rocks. With them and Zo and Crowder, the Downfall parodies, &c one wonders: is there a conservative humor renaissance afoot?

Arguably The Most Precision Bus Toss Since Bismarck

by Smitty I read Showalter’s tome The Wars of German Unification for a War College class: Taken together, three wars served to unify Germany and fundamentally altered the balance of power in 19th-century Europe: the Schleswig-Holstein conflict of 1864; the “Six Weeks’ War” of 1866; and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. They marked the establishment […]

Talk Like A Pirate Day, Twitter, And The NYT: ‘Tis A Merry Convergence

A Serious Debate About Affirmative Action

by Smitty Althouse, emphasis original: I know very well from long experience that it’s nearly impossible to have a rational, serious debate about affirmative action. But I am trying. I am trying to make this blog a place where we can do that. Let’s start here: racism, and also sexism are mostly DNA-based decision making. […]

Is Harry Wayne Casey A Descendant Of Joseph Lochner?

by Smitty If you’re a reader of Volokh.com, and you should be, then you’ve heard about Rehabilitating Lochner. For some background, see Lochner at Wikipedia. Shorter Lochner: the nanny state is not omnipotent, and privacy of contract exists. Lately, George Will wrote about the resurgence of interest in the Lochner case, and this has led […]

Rule 5,000: Time For The Full Monty

by Smitty This blog strives to appreciate beauty in a workplace safe, family friendly way. We don’t want to be decadent, and give our wives occasion to wield the rolling pin with excess vigor; also, we don’t subscribe to Puritanism or Shari’a. Somewhere in the middle is a pleasant operating point where a healthy, platonic […]

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