The Other McCain

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

My Bagpipe Teacher Would Not Approve

by Smitty (h/t Kottke) As someone who occasionally gets some time on the instrument, I can appreciate the playing here, to a degree: The fingering is articulate at ludicrous speed, and the peel-offs are way beyond my own meager skill. However, one is officially required to assume a reactionary stance about any non-traditional pieces on […]

Note on Juke-Joint Etiquette

ABINGDON, Va. — Thursday night, in pursuit of the inside story of the VA-9 congressional campaign, I met with Republican sources at a saloon on State Street in Bristol. When we walked in, the jukebox was playing some toneless heavy metal noise that was getting on my road-frayed nerves. “Obviously,” I told my companions, “these […]

New Meme: Gimme A Breather

by Smitty Here is mine: Show me your apolitical goods, people. Update: Props to Cubachi on Twitter, who points to Static Cycle, with Bristol Palin in their video.

Klavan Explains Our Political Situation. A Byzantine Möbius Strip Drawn By Escher, If You Will

by Smitty Of course, Klavan was really re-iterating material explored by Dan Riehl back in his relatively slender pop days:

‘Synthetic Teenage Pervert’

You knew their was something creepy about Justin Bieber: Justin Bieber Found To Be Cleverly Disguised 51-Year-Old Pedophile (Via Ace of Spades HQ headlines.)

Ava Aston: ‘I Carry You With Me’

Her Web site is here. She sent this to me via Twitter.

White Hipster Beaten by Black Teen: ‘Shouldn’t Be Listening to Rap Music’

Cultural criticism in Broward County, Florida: Declaring that white people “shouldn’t be listening to rap music,” a 14-year-old Florida boy allegedly assaulted a man Monday night in what police say was a racially-motivated attack. The teenager was arrested after he allegedly struck the 22-year-old victim, who is white, in the face. According to a Palm […]

‘When I Was Younger, So Much Younger Than Today . . .’

On this date in 1965, the second Beatles movie, Help! premiered in London: Of course, I found out about this on Twitter.  Something else I saw on Twitter was this article by my young friend Chris Moody: With the turn of a phrase, Minnesota Rep. Michelle Bachmann seemed to sum up last weekend’s RightOnline conference, an […]

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