The Other McCain

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

Good News: Dan Rather and Chris Matthews Bummed About Mid-Terms

“Wouldn’t you LOVE to play poker with these people?” Update: (Smitty) Video URL

‘Family Values,’ 2010 Edition

News from Highlands County, Florida:  A Lake Placid man was arrested Thursday on allegations that he had sex more than once with a 13-year-old girl, which led to her getting pregnant. Pedro Valladares Martinez, 27, of Sudburry Drive, Lake Placid, was charged with lewd and lascivious acts on a victim 12 to 16 years of […]

William Astore Makes Lindsey Graham Sound Macho

by Smitty Bio: William Astore teaches History at the Pennsylvania College of Technology. He retired from the Air Force as a lieutenant colonel in 2005, having taught at the Air Force Academy as well as the Naval Postgraduate School. He writes regularly for TomDispatch.com and History News Network. He has a post entitled “Our Military’s […]

‘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 […]

The Progressive Inverted Tongue (PIT)

by Smitty Gene Lyons offers a fine outing in this English look-alike, over at Salon. Media fooled by right-wing propaganda — again This time, the right-wing media juggernaut went too far too fast. Sleazy tactics similar to those employed by online provocateur Andrew Breitbart against former USDA official Shirley Sherrod have been driving the national […]

Full Of Shound And Fury, Signifying Nothing, Other Than Desire For
Re-election

by Smitty (via Insty) Senator Webb of Virginia, ever the centrist duck, made some quacking noises in the WSJ today about the need to make sure that the laundry list of Federal fairness management bureaucracies should just kinda be more fair about stuff or something. His conclusion: Nondiscrimination laws should be applied equally among all […]

Morgan Freeman: Genius

by Smitty (h/t Maggie’s Farm) Emitting more wisdom in one minute than some jokers have in 18 months, or are likely to obtain in a full four years: The bogus narrative dies in the sunshine of silence.

Let Me Get This Straight: The Cart Is Not The Horse

by Smitty (via The Corner) In this paper, published in Economic Policy Journal, economists Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc, and Andre Zylberberg looked at the impact of public employment on overall labor-market performance. The authors use data for a sample of OECD countries from 1960 to 2000, and they find that, on average, the creation of […]

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