The Other McCain

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

The Savage Young

My hometown friend George Hall occasionally used to say he’d like to start a band called “The Savage Young.” George and I had both been caught up in the second wave of Beatlemania that swept over teenagedom in the middle and late 1970s, years after the Beatles had broken up, and a lot of us […]

Rush: ‘Cut To The Chase,’ a Tea Party Rallying Cry

by Smitty After about a half-hour outage, the network pipe seemed stable enough to grab some tuneage off of Amazon. Rush’s 1993 Counterparts has this essential cut. No matter how deep the rot revealed inside the Beltway, there just isn’t any excuse to give in to despair. You may be right, It’s all a waste […]

$39,978 a Year

That’s the undergraduate tuition at Dartmouth College, where Josh Riddle and David Rufful are students. And here’s their new rap video, “Obama, Reid, Pelosi”: Riddle and Rufful got written up at The Blaze by Emily Esfahani Smith (Dartmouth ’09), who has never once linked my blog. Also, Riddle and Rufful are on the staff of The […]

VIDEO: ‘Libyan Hit Squad’ (1986)

This tune was recorded 25 years ago by my buddy Chris Cassone: (Via I Own The World.) Nice beat, easy to dance to, I’ll give it an 85.

Alyssa Milano Tweeted This

Animated history of the Beatles: BEATLES Rock Band from alberto mielgo on Vimeo. Follow Alyssa Milano on Twitter. Because if you followed her in real life, you’d get arrested, you sick freak.

‘That Little Faggot With the Earring and the Makeup’? He’s Now Banned in Canada

Dire Straits ix now branded a homophobic hate group: It was No. 1 in 1985, but it’s unacceptable for Canadian eyes and ears today. The Dire Straits song “Money for Nothing” was ruled by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council to be “extremely offensive” and thus inappropriate for airing because it uses an anti-gay slur. . . […]

Ignoring Public Outcry for ‘Civility,’ Britney Spears Releases New Single

Can nothing stop her violent aural hate crimes? By the way, because of the need to “tone it down,” you’re inciting violence if you say Britney’s hit is Number One “with a bullet.” And really, it’s more like Number Two. IYKWIMAITYD.

Wait Until Glenn Beck Sees This!

“Spooky Dude” by Chris Cassone. Video by Mr. Pinko of IOwnTheWorld.com. UPDATE: Dude! Re-Tweeted by Glenn Beck! How does this compare to getting Tweeted by Alyssa Milano? Don’t be divisive!

« go back — keep looking »