The Other McCain

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

Not Buying So Much Gloom

by Smitty Via Protein Wisdom, we have this Zero Hedge article that is a bolt of pure hairshirt. “Welcome to the Age of Instability”. Yes, it’s going to be turbulent for a decade-ish. Yes, the centralized world order is dead on its feet. Yes, some folks in the forty-to-sixty age bracket, like me, are getting […]

Crowder And Scrivener With The Crucial Palate Cleanser

by Smitty People ask me how it’s going, and I say “I can’t complain.” Case in point as to why:It’s explicitely spiritual, without being heavily evangelical. <jest>At the end, though, Crowder does ‘go British’, and starts hating on the Cosmic Credit Card that has made America great. Why do you hate Progress, Steven?</jest>

Precedents Worth Nurturing

by Smitty Insty links The Hill discussing snuffing the Department of Transportation. Appearing late last week on a radio show in his home state, Rep. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) agreed with the host of the program that the DOT was a “middleman” in transportation projects that can be done without. “Well, I think there are some […]

Connect These Dots

by Smitty Maggieby’s Farm: “The breakdown of the family lies behind all other urban dysfunction.” Althouse: “So, there’s this petition going around asking that Bert and Ernie — yes, the yellow and orange dudes from Sesame Street — get gay married.” The Progressive is the political equivalent of the stereotypical unethical used car salesmen. You […]

We Can See The Tell: ‘The Riots Did Not Have A Political Motivation’

by Smitty Daily Pundit links Taylor at Outside the Beltway on the British riots in what is yet another willful attempt at non-analysis: As best I can tell, the riots did not have a political motivation (the spark/excuse was the police shooting a suspect) and the general tenor appears to be wanton criminality rather than […]

I Would Just Like To Point Out. . .

by Smitty . . .that anybody who is surprised that a mortal man cannot magically fix the economy ought to have their head examined. Yeah, he was supposed to be all that and scoop of ice cream, the most over-sold thin since XML. Sure, it’s a bad thing that his ideas aren’t proving much. But […]

God Grant Joe Nocera A Moment Of Lucidity

by Smitty Via Memeorandum, this column in the Gray, Room-Temperature Lady is just a thing of beauty, if you find beauty staring down a port-a-john. Crescendo reached here: Then came the financial crisis. I like to joke that there’s nothing like a good financial crisis to turn you into a liberal. But it’s not really […]

Detective Paco On The Border

by Smitty A fine break from whatever you were doing: Psychologists will tell you that people, when faced with a threatening situation, react instinctively: either “fight or flight”. What they overlook is the not inconsiderable number of human beings who are occasionally overwhelmed with a desire to shrink to the size of a dime and […]

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