The Other McCain

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

Thought Experiment On Fixing US & ME

by Smitty This story about the Mizzou twits bemoaning the fact that events in The Real World had returned them to their prior media-attention-deprived state. Gives me an idea: Trump is making waves about mass-deportation of illegal aliens. Let’s stipulate that, if they were packing the gear to get themselves here, they’ve already showed more […]

Editorial Assist For Mizzou Prostesters

by Smitty In an ironic development, to say the least, protesters at the University of Missouri (MU) segregated themselves by race Wednesday night, having white students leave a gathering in order to create a “black-only healing space.” If you re-arrange it to “Only Healing Black Space” the resulting acronym is “OH BS“. Someday, after the […]

A Fine Thumbnail 1984

by Smitty I’m old enough to remember a time that something like this would not have been uncomfortably plausible: via Gerard

Rule 5 Sunday: Pre-Halloween Pinups

— compiled by Wombat-socho We’re just a few days away from one of the Lesser Feasts of Gluttony, sometimes referred to as All Hallows Eve or more commonly, Halloween. You would think that in all these years since the invention of the vacuum cleaner, some artist would have drawn a modern witch riding a newfangled […]

Slow Joe At All Stop, And I Am Half In Agreement With Piers Morgan

by Smitty Shorter Joe Biden: "When she threatened "your little dog, too," I knew I couldn't do it." — IGotOverMachoGrande (@smitty_one_each) October 21, 2015 I guess at Biden’s age, the thought of having the weather suddenly raining knives on you might be more than you need. Meanwhile, while I think “sucked” is too negative, “Star […]

That Time Hillary, Huma, Nancy, and Michelle Got Together To Commiserate

by Smitty Stunning result:

I May Not Have Been Blogging Much Of Late. . .

by Smitty . . .but I sure have been getting the smiles.

Perhaps @Twitter @Support Can Explain Why My @rsmccain Account Is Locked

I was scarcely on Twitter yesterday because I was doing research for my Sex Trouble series, but this morning I received notification that I am locked out of my account @rsmccain and I won’t be able to unlock it for 12 hours. There was no explanation given, but probably some enemies — feminists, maybe? Neal […]

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