The Other McCain

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

Is Joyce Carol Oates The Source Of Obama’s Pollyanna Foreign Policy?

by Smitty All we hear of ISIS is puritanical & punitive; is there nothing celebratory & joyous? Or is query naive? — Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) November 22, 2015 Sweetheart, of course there is. When they hear the shriek of a man burning alive, they are overcome with joy. https://t.co/40h78SfWRQ — NeanderthalPrivilege (@Shgamha) November 24, […]

Stand By For A Trump Mulligan

by Smitty The “deal” Trump is likely referring to is his agreement in September to sign a pledge not to run as an independent. He said at the time he was given the “assurance that I would be treated fairly” by RNC chairman Reince Priebus in return for signing the pledge. The Wall Street Journal […]

Quotable Jonah

by Smitty What I find interesting is that many of the same people who clutch their pearls at the mere suggestion that Islamic terrorism has anything to do with — oh, what’s the word again? — oh right: Islam, seem to have no problem making the case that “Christian terrorism” is like a real thing. […]

Taiwanese Animators Own Her Majesty

by Smitty This one just keeps getting better. Bravo zulu, ye mighty animators!

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty “The natives probably had some rituals surrounding the berry harvest.” “You mean your people don’t even use this?” “What for? We shop at the big box store like everyone else.” “Whatever. We’ve already talked about the funky native attire–” “That Chinese supplier says they can deliver by the end of January.” “Excellent. We’ll […]

Barney Frank Channels The Onion

by Smitty Barney Frank epitomizes the basic religious belief in government that has led to the success of large scale endeavors throughout human history such as the Tower of Babel and the United Nations. But there’s another, perhaps deeper reason, one that’s both a cause and an effect of the political dysfunction from which we […]

Brief AZ PSA

by Smitty I’d like to pause the general awe at #OccupyResoluteDesk’s “ISIS containment” prowess. <= This little tidbit was just on my LinkedIn page, and reminds on to encourage the residents of AZ to help un-jack our politics however they can. Dr. Kelli Ward McCain’s Vietnam-era solutions are past their sell-by date

Thought Experiment On Fixing US & ME

by Smitty This story about the Mizzou twits bemoaning the fact that events in The Real World had returned them to their prior media-attention-deprived state. Gives me an idea: Trump is making waves about mass-deportation of illegal aliens. Let’s stipulate that, if they were packing the gear to get themselves here, they’ve already showed more […]

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