The Other McCain

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

Espionage or Journalism?

Posted on | December 13, 2010 | 4 Comments

“There’s a huge difference between an individual or an organization reporting abuses in government or business one at a time and the same people stealing enough classified material to run a spy agency. But sleazy Julian Assange and his spy agency WikiLeaks are trying to pretend they are journalists. He even calls himself ‘editor-in-chief,’ sort of like Mata Hari calling herself H.L. Mencken or the Rosenbergs claiming to be Woodward and Bernstein.”
— Dan Gainor, “Media Can’t Decide Whether Espionage is Journalism”

Category: WikiLeaks

Math Problem: If the Atlantic Monthly Makes a Profit of $1.8 Million a Year . . .

Posted on | December 13, 2010 | 6 Comments

. . . and Andrew Sullivan “account[s] for more than a quarter of the site’s unique visitors and close to half its visits,” then isn’t Sully the most important member of the Atlantic Monthly‘s staff? A lot more important than the “cadre of young writers [who] began filling the newsroom’s cubicles” after they moved to D.C.?

Also, if Glenn Reynolds drives a lot more traffic than Andrew Sullivan — and he most certainly does — why isn’t Instapundit generating something upwards of $400,000 a year in profit? Or is it? Does his wife know?

UPDATE: Donald Douglas also discusses the “cadre of young writers” model — i.e., “let’s hire a bunch of bloggers” — at the Atlantic. All I can say is I’d be interested in seeing their proprietary Web analytics.

Category: Andrew Sullivan, Journalism

You May Have Noticed . . .

Posted on | December 13, 2010 | 1 Comment

. . . I didn’t do a post about Elizabeth Edwards dying of cancer last week. Or maybe you didn’t notice. Famous people die every day, and I seldom comment for good or ill.

Donald Douglas commented on Elizabeth Edwards’s death — and generated 133 comments, including a lot of the “hurry up and die you awful right-wing scum” variety, plus a lot of Rule 4 hate-links.

Did I mention it’s Holiday Traffic Suckage Season?

Category: American Power, Rule 4

LIVE AT FIVE – 12.13.10

Posted on | December 13, 2010 | Comments Off on LIVE AT FIVE – 12.13.10

TOP NEWS
UK Police Search Bedfordshire Property In Connection With Swedish Blast

Man points out site of Saturday's car bomb explosion in Stockholm

No explosives found, no arrests so far

Foes Face Up To Passage Of Tax Rate Bill
“It’s quite possible the tax cut extension will be passed, but … a lot of Democrats will vote against this,” said Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD)

Trustee To Continue With Suits Against Marc Madoff
Son of imprisoned Ponzi schemer hung himself Saturday



POLITICS
Bloomberg Says Democratic Base Should “Suck It Up” On Tax Deal

Mayor Bloomberg. Definitely not running. Definitely. Definitely.

“Leadership is about doing the possible, not sitting around and waiting for the perfect.”

Time Up For Michael Steele At The RNC?
Has asked RNC members to join him on Monday conference call; many expect him to resign

Advocates Schedule Press Conference To Pressure Scott Brown On DREAM Act

Boehner Announces Cuts To House Committee Budgets; Move Will Save $30 Million

Evan Bayh Rules Out 2012 Governor Bid

Fracking Gas Drilling Veto Somehow Pleases Greens, Drillers Simultaneously



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
PRC Pledges Inflation Control Is Primary Priority
A&P Grocery Chain Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, Will Restructure
Anonymous Hacks Gawker Out Of Spite
Now Playing In A Sky Near You: Geminid Meteor Shower



SPORTS
Finally, A Game Worth Watching In Detroit

Snow falls inside the Metrodome as the roof collapses for the first time since the 1980s

Giants v. Vikings game relocated to Detroit after the Metrodome roof collapses
Coach Frazier Shoots Down Favre Rumors

Patriots Dash Through Snow, Throttle Bears



Packers Lose Rogers, Maybe More In Detroit
Sputtering Jets Put Playoff Sport At Risk
Nyets Give Lakers All They Can Handle But Fall Short
Penguins Extend Winning Streak Against Sabres




FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Richie/Madden Wedding Draws Family, Friends And An Elephant

Joel Madden and Nicole Richie

Pretty traditional wedding, for certain values of traditional
Miley Cyrus Not Dazed By Bong Controversy

Presenting Wills & Kate’s Official Engagement Photo

Joanna Garcia, Yankees OF Nick Swisher Tie The Knot

“The Tourist”: Box Office Failure?

Carrie Fisher: Everyone Knows John Travolta Is Gay



“Black Swan”/”Showgirls” Trailer Mashup (Video, NSFW)



FOREIGNERS
New Japanese Defense Plan Emphasizes Threat From PRC
Globe & Mail: Obama’s Gamble In Afghanistan Paying Off
Climate Deal In Cancun Does Little But Prepare For Next Year’s Talks
Palin Urges More U.S. Assistance To Haiti



BLOGS & STUFF
Just One Minute: Ishmael Reed – Obama’s Problem Is That He’s Trying To Lead A Bunch Of Racist White People
Meryl Yourish: Who Spiked Thomas Friedman’s Coffee?
Jammie Wearing Fool: Palin’s A Quitter, Says Woman Who Quit EPA After Just Two Years
Weasel Zippers: Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) Calls GOP “A Bunch Of Gangsters”
Protein Wisdom: More Multicultural Nonsense


— compiled by Wombat-socho

Category: Live at Five

Rule 5 Sunday

Posted on | December 12, 2010 | 3 Comments

Warning: this post contains vast quantities of cheesecake, some of it not entirely safe for work. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

We Stand Divided was late last week with this comparison of Tammy Banovac dealing with the TSA today and her Playboy days as Tammy Brewer, Plus, bonus New Yorker cartoon!

Soylent Green offers a triple-dip of Summer Altice, an entrancing selection of corsets with Irina Shayk inside them, a return to last week’s Cancun action, and (on a related topic) Shelly Goodair, barely wearing something trimmed in fur. Yum. 🙂

Yankee Phil contemplates the ailing Queen of Soul and also draws our attention to K-mart’s shapely new spokeswoman.

Left Coast Rebel wishes to apprise us of an International Pole Dancing competition and a rather confusing anecdote about Kelly Ripa and crutches. Not content with this, he offers a Russian girl in the snow.

Troglopundit reminds us of the virtues to be found in drinking milk. Take, for example, Lauren Conrad. For the ladies, a reminder that Kelsey Grammer and Danny Bonaduce are no longer on the market.

Meanwhile, at The Camp of the Saints, Karla James and Valory Irene serve as worthy bookends to Bob’s own Rule 5 collection.

Boom3 was in a classic mode last week, and so offers us a Ginger Rogers interlude.

Finally, from Dustbury come Mandy Moore, Sara Bareilles, Bo Derek, and a trio of cable news babes.

That’s it for this week, and thanks to all who contributed. Want to join the crowd? Send in your Rule 5 submissions to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox, so they don’t get lost among the flagged comments and other, considerably less entertaining mail.

Category: Rule 5

‘Christmas Time Is Here’

Posted on | December 12, 2010 | 9 Comments

Category: Christmas

Stockholm Bomber ID’d as Sven Olsen Taimour Abdulwahab Al-Abdaly

Posted on | December 12, 2010 | 19 Comments

The Lutheran Menace:

A suicide bomber who died in a terrorist bomb attack which rocked Stockholm city centre, is believed to be a graduate from a British university.
A Facebook page thought to belong to the 29-year-old indicated that he studied sports therapy at the University of Bedfordshire in Luton. He graduated in 2004.
The man, named locally as Taimour Abdulwahab Al-Abdaly, had also posted numerous videos relating to the Iraq war, the war in Chechnya and the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay.
The Iraqi-born bomber first set his car on fire and then walked 200 metres before the explosives, believed to be in a backpack strapped to his body, detonated.
Just minutes before, he had sent out an email to the police and a news agency warning of deadly reprisals for having Swedish soldiers in Afghanistan.

Lutherans: The Danger Among Us!

UPDATE: More info on this Lutheran radical:

His favourite pages on Facebook included ‘Yawm al-Qiyaamah’, the Islamic ‘Day of Ressurection’. The page’s signature image features London’s Tower Bridge being engulfed in flames and floods. Another favourite page was ‘Islamic Caliphate State’.
The man is also thought to have been active on Muslim contact sites, where he claimed to be looking for a second wife. In one message on the site Muslima.com, he says that he was born in Iraq and moved to Sweden in 1992. He said he had two daughters, one aged 3 and one under the age of 2. He said he wanted to marry again and that his first wife had agreed to this.

Polygamy, global totalitarian theocracy, terrorism — you obviously see why, whenever TSA is screening airline passengers, they make sure to pay special attention to Lutherans with names like “Sven Olsen.”

Also, Anna  Kournikova.

Because she could snap any minute, y’know . . .

UPDATE II: I got this video from Ed Morrissey, who lives in Minnesota, home of many dangerous Lutherans:

Category: Sweden, Terrorism

FMJRA 2.0: Off The Sidewalk, Into The Tree

Posted on | December 12, 2010 | 4 Comments

Sometimes not even written directions can save you from your own stupidity, especially at 0100.  Without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, your FMJRA.

Palin-Hating Columbia Professor, Huffington Post Blogger, Busted for Incest

Keith Olbermann Punk-Smacks Obama in the Best ‘Special Comment’ EVAH!

Unintentional Hilarity: Feminists Ask If Julian Assange Committed ‘Rape-Rape’

Bristol Palin, Margaret Cho, Kathy Griffin and the Politics of Sexual Destruction

More MSNBC Awesomeness: Obama Gets Pimp-Slapped by Rachel Maddow

President Obama Abandons White House After Bill Clinton Says ‘Please Go’

Helen Thomas: Blood on Her Hands

Pearl Harbor Day Reflection

Rule 5 Sunday – Cancun Edition

Allen West: DADT Debate ‘Crazy’

Everything You Need to Know
About ‘Tax Cuts for the Rich’ . . .

Barrett Brown’s Lawyer Sends Me an Email Threatening ‘Legal Proceedings’

Smell the Glove, America!

‘A Communicational Schematic That Is Superior to Anything Else in Existence’

Ruh-Roh: Bernanke Says Unemployment Won’t Be Back to ‘Normal’ for Five Years

LIVE AT FIVE – 12.07.10

The Angry Left Turns Against Obama

Julian Assange Arrested in London

‘I Feel As If I’m in a Surreal Swedish Movie Being Threatened by Bizarre Trolls’

Worst Scandal Imaginable

Julian Assange, Prince of Trolls

LIVE AT FIVE – 12.09.10

Eight House Republicans Who Deserve a One-Way Ticket to Nuevo Laredo

OUTRAGE: Wisconsin Strip Club Denies Equal Rights to Nude Lap Dances

Awesome Awesomeness Update: MSNBC Host Rips Into Democrat Alan Grayson

Olbermann: ‘My God, You’re a Buffoon’

You’ll Never Forgive Me for This

BREAKING: Tax Deal Falling Apart?

Reader E-Mail: ‘I Live in Reality’

LIVE AT FIVE – 12.10.10

Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin Prevents Repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

Does Sarah Palin Need a Tutor? Would Richard Wolffe Volunteer for the Job?

In E-Mail, Democracy for America Claims Credit for Bernie Sanders Filibuster

Conservative ‘Character Flaw’ Diagnosed by Neurological Scientist Janeane Garofalo

VIDEO: Herman Cain Tells Cavuto He Is ‘Prayerfully Considering’ 2012 Campaign

What’s Wrong With the Republican Party in Two Words: Mark McKinnon

Incestophobia?

Category: FMJRA Award
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