The Other McCain

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

Can Dylan Ratigan Join The Coffee Party, Please?

by Smitty It’s fairly viral now that Dylan Ratigan is a ass, a jackass, and a king among jackasses. Greg Gutfeld on Red Eye organizes Ratigan in a delightful manner: “I guess it sucks doing Rachel Maddow’s laundry.” Gateway Pundit was on local TV in a clip concerning the Coffee Party. An independent, homeschooling activist […]

She Just Digs Those New Media Guys

A minor uproar erupted Friday on Twitter when I sent this message: #FF Everyone should follow Steven Crowder @scrowder if only because his girlfriend is totally HAAAWWWTT! #FollowFriday The aforesaid girlfriend’s friend, Alyssa Cordova of the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, took umbrage: @rsmccain #degrading Requiring me to offer the following defense: @LyssCordova I met Hillary […]

News From Southern Appalachia

When Instapundit featured the headline, “Knoxville girl wins regional spelling bee,” I sort of figured the Knoxville girl in question might be named Reynolds. But in fact the winner was Ameena Iqbal, a fifth-grader at Blue Grass Elementary School in West Knoxville, who edged out Nithya Kanagasegar, an eighth-grader at Homestead Elementary School in Crossville. […]

TMI Twitter from Kim Kardashian

She was already in trouble for outing a federal air marshal on Twitter, now there is this bit of alarming indiscretion: “I pretty much laser my whole body … I’m like a little hairless Chihuahua.” This particular cosmetic trend — I’ve dubbed it the Deforestation of the Pubic Delta — is really a byproduct of the […]

Reinhold Neibuhr Was a Subversive Pinko (and Other Conservative Insights)

One of the more amusing tendencies of certain “conservative intellectuals” — the scare-quotes are necessaary, if you know the type of people I have in mind — is their habit of name-checking famous (dead) conservatives in pursuit of arguments about the unworthiness of famous (living) conservatives. Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter will say something that […]

Rule 5k ft.

by Smitty (h/t Drudge) A passenger boards in Philly for Frisco.  He goes nutty, and the plane has to divert to Pittsburgh: Why? The guy’s making a total ass of himself. Time for Rule 5 at 5,000 feet. The guy ends up being humiliated by a stewardess. Now, if it’s legal, fine. If the dope […]

Patton: A Real American Hero

CubaChi on Twitter: Alright! @MarkLevinShow is playing the Patton music now! You know this is going to be good! Great taste in music, ma’am! This is super-cool — Francis Ford Coppola describes how he got fired for writing the Oscar-winning screenplay: The original theatrical trailer: Here’s another version of the trailer: My cousin Mark and […]

Jill: No Compassion

by Smitty Jill Brooke at PuffHo asks: “Where Is the Compassion for Men Who Get Saddled With Kids They Didn’t Want?” Wikipedia elaborates on this idea of compassion: Compassion is a human emotion prompted by the pain of others. More vigorous than empathy, the feeling commonly gives rise to an active desire to alleviate another’s […]

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