The Other McCain

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

Rule 5 Sunday — Part 1

by Smitty Tempers flared. Pitchforks were shouldered. Plowshares beaten to swords. One oldtimer from a farming county had mounted a turreted ballista on a

Allahpundit Demands a Recount!
2009 ‘Beta Male of the Year’ Award

I’m sure the name of the winner at Roissy in DC is merely a coincidence: Conor, the facsimile of a man who allowed a woman to walk all over him, bought a place for her and him, paid all her bills, and upon discovering her cheating responded in the only way an unrepentant beta could: […]

Pudding and Other Sex Scandals

Let’s face it, when Samantha from “Day By Day” joins the AOSHQ Pudding Patrol, a genuinely transformative viral phenomenon has begun. And when Little Miss Attila decides to dip the girls, we could be on the verge of a synergistic online breakthrough. PuddingBalls 2.0! All because of one man with balls. And one man with pudding. […]

Small Victories

From a Blogmocracy commenter: “P.S. Rush has finally removed LGF from his blogroll.” Meanwhile, “We’re gonna need a lot of pudding,” and Mike Hendrix issues an ELEVENTY!!1!1! alert. UPDATE: One of the many victims of Charles Johnson’s libel campaign against conservatives sends this e-mail: You probably already know, he is gonna be profiled in the NY […]

Why Isn’t Everybody Blogging About the Ayla Brown Bikini Photo Scandal?

Yes, that’s right: The “American Idol” daughter of newly-elected Sen. Scott Brown — who posed nude as Cosmo’s 1982 “Sexiest Man” — was once photographed in a bikini with her father and (gasp!) her teenaged sister! What a terrible scandal! How dare those Republicans wear bikinis! What would happen if the formerly bikini-clad Ayla Brown […]

Scott Brown: Taking Sexy Back

Wow, how did I miss this story? Long before he was a politician, the Republican candidate vying for Ted Kennedy’s U.S. Senate seat posed nude for the centerfold of Cosmo. Scott Brown won our “America’s Sexiest Man” contest and appeared in the June 1982 issue. In those days he was a 22-year-old law student at […]

Roger Scruton: ‘Our World Has
Turned Its Back on Beauty . . .’

“. . . and because of that, we find ourselves surrounded by ugliness and alienation.” On our inaugural Rule 5 Sunday of the New Year at the new site, please watch this video and then we’ll talk more about beauty: That’s one of a six-part series of YouTube videos collected in one post by blogger […]

Rule 5 Sunday

by Smitty

Rule 5 Sunday at the new digs. Welcome. Here we take all manner of links that are beautiful/handsome PG-13 or lower in intensity, and package them in the most liesurely fashion possible. Updates to Smitty for inclusion. Put “Rule 5” in the Subject field for easy queueing. To work:

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