The Other McCain

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

Epic Rant by Jeff Motherf–g G.

Borrowing the Hammer’s “new tone” motif for a minute, because it’s beautiful when Jeff G. gets his rant on: Here’s what these idiot Madison “protesters” — along with their intellectually bankrupt fellow travelers playing Solidarnosc on f***ing facebook as if this is just another cause celebre the world has ginned up to keep hipsters feeling […]

This May Be Nothing, Or It Might Be Worth an Instalanche

OK, there were a million things I wanted to blog about today, but didn’t get around to yet, and now I’m once again sidetracked by a cryptic Twitter message from Sissy Willis: @rsmccain Basic idea, the importance of being noticed (Darwinian status seeking)=huge=ur theme of my blog http://bit.ly/i2hNQv Given the 140-character limit, perhaps there’s some missing context […]

I Don’t Hate Trains

“What, exactly, do Republicans, conservatives, and libertarians have against trains? Seriously, what?” — David Weigel, Slate Few things — not even the threat of a coffee shortage — bother me quite so much as what I call the Existential Theory of Liberalism: Everything that exists must be subsidized by the federal government; ergo, to argue […]

SWAC Girl Does Not Understand Hope’n’Change Economics

by Smitty Now, SWAC Girl is a great blogger: After voting for nearly $1 trillion in ‘stimulus’ spending, casting the deciding vote for $2 trillion in spending for ObamaCare, Mark Warner has finally realized that the federal government has a serious financial problem. But it’s not enough of a problem for him to support a […]

A Gastric Pacemaker

by Smitty Insty’s link invites the question: to what lengths will we go to evade maturity and self-discipline? At a cost of around $21,000 for the device and surgery, Abiliti is slightly more expensive than a stomach bypass and nearly twice the price of a gastric band, says Sarela. However, it should have none of […]

You Don’t Need To Be Cynical, You Need To Be Clear

by Smitty Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF): If you haven’t told me what we’re doing to eradicate Fannie and Freddie, you haven’t told me much. Dan at POWIP chides Stacy for insufficient cynicism. Shag all that. Let us be perfectly clear: individual housing is not, nor has it ever been, a proper federal task. The […]

Has Barrett Brown Scammed NBC News?

In-freaking-credible! Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Barrett Brown is either, as Michael Isikoff reports, “an underground commander in a new kind of warfare” — a member of a criminal conspiracy who should be under arrest — or else he’s one of the most successful hoaxers in recent memory. […]

Proposed ObamaCare Solution

by Smitty Noting in a lot of blogs, most recently Cubachi, that the number of ObamaCare waivers (would the scolds frown less if we called it JehovaCare? Or am I only making it worse?) has topped a full thousand, I have an idea: Have Speaker Boehner propose a one-liner bill: All Americans are exempted from […]

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