The Other McCain

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Thanks for Answered Prayers, and Guess Who’s Going to New Hampshire?

OK, let’s start by saying that I’m waaaay behind on thank-you e-mails to those who’ve hit my tip jar in the past month. I’m going to catch up, I promise, but first, Da Tech Guy has an excellent point about answered prayers: So do not worry and say, ‘What are we to eat?’ or ‘What […]

A: He Couldn’t Lead Two Nuns In One Minute Of Silent Prayer?

by Smitty Da Tech Guy poses the question: So how can we account for the president[‘s] poor polling within the military when the single most loyal group of supporters (Black Americans) are over-represented by almost 60% vs the general population?

Herman Cain on Janeane Garofalo: ‘I Wanted to Send Her a Thank You Note’

Left-wing actress Janeane Garofalo told Keith Olberman last week that she thinks someone in the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy — she named Karl Rove, Grover Norquist and the Koch brothers as likely suspects — must be secretly paying Herman Cain to run for president. At the opening of Cain’s new campaign headquarters in Manchester, N.H., Da […]

BLACK FRIDAY? Betting Market Reaction to Failure of Boehner’s Debt-Ceiling Bill

Drudge Report headlines: Boehner Delays Vote on Debt… Limbaugh: We’ve Been Played… GALLUP: Obama Rates Higher Than Boehner, Reid on Debt Situation! Ron Paul: ‘Default Is Coming’… Treasury Contingency Plan on Debt Gives Priority to Bondholders… Carney: If We Have No Other Alternative We Will ‘Take Action’… Obama faces legal bind if time runs out… […]

‘Notification of Donation Received’

One of the great joys of blogging is when people hit the tip jar and, when I send them a thank-you e-mail, they write back. A certain tip-jar hitter wrote back today to say he would have given me more, except he’s saving up to buy that 7-carat diamond ring from Amazon. That there’s funny, […]

Possible T-Shirt Slogan?

When I Tweeted that out this afternoon, I’d just done a minor rattle of the tip jar in my Oslo update, which brought responses from three readers: Mike in Ardmore, Stephen in Texas and Richard in Missouri. That’s three Good People, out of more than 9,000 visits Saturday. Of course, many others have hit the tip jar at least […]

VIDEO: @DaTechGuyBlog Talks #Weinergate in Boston TV Interview

The fedora and Sicilian hand gestures are classic in this interview from Wednesday morning. The FOX-25 host credits Pete’s Tuesday New York Post column with helping prompt the press-conference meltdown by making the basic facts understandable to the average reader: Congressman attacked by Twitter?: MyFoxBOSTON.com If you’ll look closely, you’ll see the rosary around his […]

Da Tech Guy, Da Columnist
UPDATE: While Praying Pete Is Lifted Up, Guess Who’s Still Falling Down?

Peter Ingemi, a.k.a. Da Tech Guy, has a column in the New York Post explaining why #WeinerGate can be understood in 140 characters or less. UPDATE: The contrast could not be more remarkable. Pete’s column is linked nearly everwhere — Instalanched, linked by Donald Douglas and Dan Collins, his very own Memeorandum thread — and meanwhile, […]

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