The Other McCain

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

Gold Tops $1,500 Per Ounce: Now Don’t You Wish You’d Listened to Glenn Beck?

A little less than a year ago — on May 20, 2010, to be exact — I first took notice of Democrat Rep. Anthony Weiner’s attack on Glenn Beck for encouraging people to buy gold. The headline of my post: Everybody Should Buy Gold, Even If Glenn Beck Gets Paid to Tell You So Weiner […]

If De Niro Were A Bigger Hen,
His Name Would Be Penn,
Or He’d Work For CNN

by Smitty De Niro: let us enjoy your movies. Let not your brand be watered down by inane piffle, emphasis mine: “I think of the possibility of the government being shut down, and I say, ‘How did we get to this point?’” he said, according to Movieline. “I remember it happened years ago. And I […]

‘His Typical Silly-Bitch Passive-Aggressive Gay-Gossip Insinuation Act’

Andrew Sullivan gets a memorable beatdown from Ace of Spades, after Sully returned to old habits in reaction to Justin Elliott’s debunking of Trig-Trutherism at Salon. A couple days ago, I was interviewed by a reporter who is working on a story about Trig-Trutherism and other anti-Palin memes that have circulated over the past two-and-half years.

Steven Crowder and Susannah Fleetwood on Making Fun of Retarded People

And by “retarded people,” of course, we mean . . . Wonkette: That’s the best work by Crowder I’ve seen yet, and Susannah Fleetwood has an excellent post: “3 Reasons Why Wonkette Self-destructed by Publishing a Hit Piece on Trig Palin.” Let’s face it, folks: When it comes to exposing liberal media bias, Trig Palin […]

‘Snowbilly Grifter’? And Incest Jokes?

Decent Americans recoil in shock at the latest eruption of Palin Derangment Syndrome in which Wonkette’s Jack Steuf wrote: Today is the day we come together to celebrate the snowbilly grifter’s magical journey from Texas to Alaska to deliver to the America the great gentleman scholar Trig Palin. Is Palin his true mother? Or was […]

Charlie Sheen Agrees With Smitty

“I would disband the Fed, like now. Shut that motherf****r down now, and send the I.R.S. to prison.” — Charlie Sheen, in his “Violent Torpedo of Truth” show Tuesday in Washington, D.C. While I’d have a hard time picturing Smitty banging seven-gram rocks of cocaine and cohabiting with two porn “goddesses,” when it comes to […]

Royalists for Social Justice?

After yesterday’s post about the royal wedding, I decided to develop the theme into a column for The American Spectator: Conservatives, predisposed to defend all things traditional and hierarchical, might naturally be expected to admire the British monarchy. But the remarkable fact is that most of the Americans obsessed by the royal wedding (and the […]

Anti-Monarchist Christopher Hitchens Stubbornly Resists Royal Wedding Mania

Give him credit at least for consistency: Convinced republican that I am, and foe of the prince [i.e., Charles] who talks to plants and wants to be crowned “head of all faiths” as well as the etiolated Church of England, I find myself pierced by a pang of sympathy. Not much of a life, is […]

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