The Other McCain

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

Ace of Spades Smacks Charles Johnson in a Post Every New* Blogger Should Read

* And by “new,” I mean if you haven’t been at it since Ace started with a Blogspot site in 2003. When trying to explain the principle of reciprocal linkage (Rule 2), I’ve often wanted to quote a post Ace of Spades wrote about three years ago, in which he explained how you link somebody so as […]

‘Obama Derangement Syndrome’ Symptoms Include Ironic Flashbacks

People who live in deranged houses should not throw crazy stones, as Tim Blair shatters Charles Johnson’s delusions of normalcy: Born-again leftoid Charles Johnson denounces the “tidal wave of right wing nuttiness directed at Barack Obama”. Fair enough, in several cases; that birther obsession, for one, is downright crazy. But it’s a little rich for flippy Charlie to […]

‘Irrational Anti-Science Lunatics . . .’

‘. . . like Tim Blair.’ Can you guess who said that about Australia’s most popular blogger? Maybe you need some clues: “[T]he Husky Blogger told me it’s always tea-bagging, racist, homophobic, right-wing extremists who commit such acts.” “Classless, clueless, ranting douchebag . . .” Inspiration for “Race Detective” comics. “[N]othing will dismantle a decent […]

Another ‘Anti-Government Right Wing Extremist of the Ron Paulian Persuasion’

No, not Pentagon shooter Patrick Bedell — as described by Charles Johnson — I’m talking about that other 9/11 Truther: Two days before his official trip to Afghanistan, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, a “big lie” intended to pave the way for the invasion of a war-torn nation, […]

Why Do Charles Johnson’s Beliefs Keep Turning Out to Be Delusional?

Professor Glenn Reynolds has linked my essay about narcissism, scapegoating and paranoia. Speaking of paranoid narcissists, remember when Charles Johnson called the Pentagon shooter an “anti-government right wing extremist of the Ron Paulian persuasion”?  Wrong again, Chuckles. John Patrick Bedell was a dopehead peacenik loser of the “No Blood for Oil” persuasion who slowly descended into paranoid psychosis: Bedell . . . had vigorously […]

Quit Smoking Dope or You’ll Go on a Psycho Rampage, You Libertarian Freaks

Young people who smoke cannabis or marijuana for six years or more are twice as likely to have psychotic episodes, hallucinations or delusions than people who have never used the drug, scientists said on Monday. — Reuters, March 1 Pinto: I won’t go schizo, will I? Jennings: It’s a distinct possibility. — National Lampoon’s Animal […]

Dennis Prager, Charles Johnson and Understanding the Left’s Smear Tactics

While I responded jocularly when Dennis Prager’s column was first published, a reader e-mailed today to suggest that maybe Prager would actually like to discuss this at greater length, so I sent this e-mail to Prager’s producer, Allen Estrin: Dear Mr. Estrin: In his Jan. 26 syndicated column, Dennis Prager responded to Charles Johnson (Little […]

Evolution, Anthropogenic Global Warming and Other Non-Falsifiable Theories

Michael Walsh at Big Journalism takes on MSNBC’s bizarre claim that the D.C. blizzard proves that climate-change skeptics are wrong: MSNBC apparently borrowed their talking points from the New York Times which, as Walsh notes, invoked the authority of “most climate scientists” for the assertion that climate change caused the massive snowstorm. Even before we learned of the […]

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