The Other McCain

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

For the 13th Consecutive Year . . .

. . . I’m not on the guest list for the annual White House Correspondents Dinner. Ask anyone who’s ever been at a party with me: Who’s really missing out on the fun?

Bad Food As A Legislative Metaphor

by Smitty It always starts rather innocently, doesn’t it? Somewhere around “There oughta be a law” or “I have a cunning plan”. And then what happens? Some jacknut sees that mitigated disaster of an idea and says “What the world needs right now is an unmitigated disaster” Now, while it’s a good thing that the […]

Steven Hawking: Scaredy Cat

The world-famous astrophysicist warns that, while intelligent life probably exists elsewhere in the universe, we’d do best to avoid contacting them. But who will warn the aliens to avoid Arizona? Even a professor of Space Law won’t be able to help those aliens if Sheriff Joe Arpaio locks ’em up.

Goldman Sachs Investigation Update

Breaking news from the Washington Post: Behind closed doors, the two Republican members of the Securities and Exchange Commission sharply questioned senior investigators last week about whether the evidence they had assembled was strong enough to file a fraud case against Goldman Sachs, according to current and former SEC officials familiar with the matter. The […]

Your Tax Dollars at Work Wank

SEC staffers watched porn as economy crashed Senior staffers at the Securities and Exchange Commission spent hours surfing pornographic websites on government-issued computers while they were being paid to police the financial system, an agency watchdog says. The SEC’s inspector general conducted 33 probes of employees looking at explicit images in the past five years, […]

Is Glenn Reynolds Fatwa-Worthy?

The professor mocks the Religion of Peace: Comedy Central cowers in the face of a murder threat/warning against “South Park” creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker. Obviously, Christians — and Sarah Palin fans, and lovers of My Mother The Car — should take heed of this incentive system our modern media is creating. Don’t want […]

What Kind of Totalitarian A–hole Would Object to ‘Downfall’ YouTube Parodies?

If you guessed “Hitler,” you’re a winner: Tim Cavanaugh at Reason‘s Hit & Run: The thousand-year reich of Downfall parodies has ended in ruins. Constantin Films, the German producer of the 2004 film Der Untergang, has compelled YouTube to start taking down the popular Hitler-rants-about-funny-thing-X clips. . . . The 4.3 million-view original, in which […]

How to Get Re-Tweeted by Alyssa Milano

No, I still haven’t succeeded in my seven-month-long crusade to get re-Tweeted by Alyssa Milano (she’s got nearly 800,000 followers), but I continue studying her Twitter habits, like a lion watching a gazelle beside a watering hole on the Kalahari plain. And it appears that celebrity sleaze-merchant Perez Hilton has broken the Milano Code. Evidently, one way […]

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