The Other McCain

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

URGENT NEWS ALERT: VodkaPundit Will Drunkblog SOTU Tonight

Well, that’s not exactly news, really, since he’s been doing it for years and never blogs completely sober:  I realized I’d been watching these damn things since 1980. And that the time for games was over. And that the only way I was going to get through another one, sanity intact, was to start drinking […]

‘This Makes Me Want to Build an Ark’

So says Political Junkie Mom, in reaction to this disturbing news from Pamela Geller: A new documentary, Oral Sex Is the New Goodnight Kiss, chronicles America’s moral decay. Sharlene Azam, a Canadian filmmaker, says, “If you talk to teens [about oral sex], they’ll tell you it’s not a big deal. In fact, they don’t consider […]

‘Noticeably Monosyllabic’

So says AOL News editor Steve Pendlebury, sampling blog reaction to the arrest of James O’Keefe: Michelle Malkin: Ugh Hot Air’s Allahpundit: Ohhhh boy Political Byline: D’oh! The Other McCain: Ruh-Roh Instapundit Glenn Reynolds: Hmm Maybe he expected us to say, “Wiretapping is as American as apple pie” or “If Mary Landrieu doesn’t get wiretapped, the […]

Chris Cassone’s Tea Party Anthem Ripped Off by the New Yorker

Can you say “copyright infringement,” boys and girls? A gray-haired man in a blue velvet jacket and sneakers started inching toward the center of the room with an acoustic guitar. He had a “Reagan for President” button on his shoulder strap and a “Hoffman for Congress” sticker on his case. [T]hey invited the guitarist to […]

Aretha Franklin Understands

Matthew Archbold makes his wife feel like a natural woman, which shocks a woman who’s all into “natural” living: “What?!” gasped the woman. “Really? You really have five kids?” . . . It is rather an oddity that with all this focus on natural foods that many women still don’t consider birth control in the […]

The Battle of P.S. 234

Julia Vitullo-Martin in the New York Post: Tribeca is embroiled in a bitter neighborhood-school war that some residents say is jeopardizing its sense of community, as well as its future. It’s a story repeated from time to time all across New York. The key question will be decided tonight: Which families will be forced out […]

Maureen Dowd Is So Original!

Scott Brown: Taking Sexy Back — The Other McCain, Jan. 13 Bringing Sexy Back — Maureen Dowd, Jan. 26 OK, so we’re both cribbing from the same pool of pop-culture phrases. She does get in one good line: The only question left is: Why isn’t Scott Brown delivering the State of the Union? Maureen Dowd […]

Department of Shocking News

Obama can’t create change with words alone — Eugene Robinson, Washington Post (Contary to rumors that the first draft of tonight’s State of the Union address began with “fiat lux.”)

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