The Other McCain

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

I Don’t Know If I Agree With Surber

by Smitty Don Surber posts The Top 10 Things Obama Got Wrong. Those observations are mostly predicated upon the assertion that #OccupyResoluteDesk was a sincere candidate, genuinely intending to do the best possible job for the country, and stuff just went awry. As with the birth certificate issue, or his religious faith, I’ll offer a […]

From an Undisclosed Location

Where am I? Why am I wearing a Guy Fawkes mask and standing in front of a green screen in a studio?

Kedging

by Smitty Kedging in the Golden Era. The Manual of Seamanship for Boys and Seamen of the Royal Navy, 1904 (a recent fathers day gift) defines kedging as follows: “Laying the kedge anchor out in a boat and warping ahead to it”. In more practical English it meant that sailing ships in the days before […]

Responsible Elite In ‘A Face In The Crowd’

by Smitty At the suggestion of Ladd Ehlinger, I took in A Face in the Crowd, a 1957 Kazan flick that is well worth your time. ‘Lonesome’ Rhodes goes from nowhere to national stardom. Andy Griffith is powerful as an Icarian pop culture icon. The documentary on the DVD includes a couple of interesting quotes […]

Software Enhanced Politics: Perl Flip-Flop

by Smitty Coding is actually fun, not that I have time to do much anymore, because you can work on small problems and actually solve them. In politics, you talk about solving problems as though a closed-form solution was somehow obtainable. In the blog world, you can compare this site to a retail shopping trip […]

What Other Alternatives Exist For Getting Off Of Fiat Money?

by Smitty Ron Paul on money sounds so lucid: You know your current course is financially suicidal. Those who say otherwise are the ones who are culpable for the current mess. So, if not Ron Paul’s ideas, and not the status quo, then what? via Tyler Durden

Another Under-Bus-Toss For The DOD?

by Smitty Apparently the ACLU is feeling stretched by the Defense Authorization Bill, emphasis original: The Defense Authorization bill is now on the Senate floor with troubling provisions that would give the President — and all future presidents — the authority to indefinitely imprison people, without charge or trial, both abroad and inside the United […]

Was That Megan McArdle Or Meghan McCain?

by Smitty Nonetheless, I confess, I like Barney Frank. I also think that, whatever his mistakes, he’s pretty knowledgeable about finance. And you need only look at the committee list to see that it could have been so, so much worse. Well, garsh, guys: the leukemia death was way better than straight decapitation. Barney Frank; Maxine […]

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