The Other McCain

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

Krauthammer for President?

Bloggers aren’t supposed to call attention to their advertisements (i.e., gaming the click-throughs) but the AdSense rotation just featured an ad for a product clever enough to be legitimately newsworthy:  OK, who wants to organize the “Draft Krauthammer Committee”? Even those who don’t agree with Krauthammer must admit he crafts sentences with brutal conciseness: Late last year, Democrats were marveling at how […]

POTUS Ain’t Naked:
He’s Channeling Rick James

by Smitty Kenneth G. Davenport is all exercised about the WSJ editorial that prints Paul Ryan’s devastating review of the Senate healthcare legislation. Trifecta also covered Ryan here. But this is by no means an “emperor’s new clothes” moment. Heck, no. This is a Rick James moment, beeotch. You might have seen this [NSFW] Dave […]

Meghan McCain: Chase Peterson Interviews the Great American Mind

From the Pasadena Patriots.

Après Moi, le Déluge

From the Brown University Spectator, hat tip to reader Philip Primeau.

Who Knew We’d Embed Rick James?

by Smitty (h/t POWIP on Twitter) Knifework has a parody called “That Sheep’s Not Right”, sending up Carli Fiorina’s now semi-infamous Demonsheep ad to the tune of Rick James: For a hint at what a supremely icky sort of life RJ chose to live, check out this NSFW Dave Chappelle show clip on the guy. […]

Conor Friedersdorf Is Not Adolf Eichmann

Let’s just clear up that little misunderstanding right away, OK? To my knowledge, I have never asserted that Friedersdorf was an SS-Obersturmbannführer, nor even that he aspired to such a position. Why Conor is acting so defensive — “Who me? I’m Riccardo Klement, an innocent Argentine technician!” — I’m not quite sure: Suffice it to […]

Global Philosophical Warming: This Kant Be Happenin’

by Smitty (via PuffHo) Bernard-Henri Lévy had some data problems, reports the Telegraph, out flogging another tome, On War in Philosophy, which can’t be linked at Amazon, yet.  His thought seems mildly interesting, as, according to Wikipedia, he has founded an Institute of Levinassian Studies. As with all philosophers, I’m tempted to put him in […]

‘It was certainly the Superbowl equivalent of a Cheap Trick.’

by Smitty (gracious hat tip to No Sheeples Here) So said American Glob of the famous-going-to-infamous Audi advertisement during the Superbowl. Not so fast, says this blog: there be some economic stimulus afoot.

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