The Other McCain

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

Letterman Successfully Continues To Avoid Success

by Smitty The Recovering Liberal has a good read up about David Letterman still spiraling downward as he eats his ratings out, watching Leno clean up with Sarah Palin on in the first week back. Is there a pattern of commitment to self-destruction afoot? Letterman seems to resemble the POTUS in the negative glide slope […]

Screw Pluribus: Unum

by Smitty Ace seems kind of worried about Einstein, the shiny new data omnivore soon to be devouring an email box all too near you. Yukon Axis of Evil illuminati industrial intelligence mailbomb Bush Wired AMEMB Aldergrove Ft. Bragg BLU-114/B rs9512c UMTS security BROMURE FSF First of all, not having seen line #1 of the […]

POTUS Ain’t Naked:
He’s Channeling Rick James

by Smitty Kenneth G. Davenport is all exercised about the WSJ editorial that prints Paul Ryan’s devastating review of the Senate healthcare legislation. Trifecta also covered Ryan here. But this is by no means an “emperor’s new clothes” moment. Heck, no. This is a Rick James moment, beeotch. You might have seen this [NSFW] Dave […]

Married at 10? Divorced at 12? Hey, Who Wants to Play ‘Guess Which Religion’?

If you guessed “Lutheran,” try again: Nujood is a Yemeni girl . . .  (Doggone, I was going to guess “Belgian.”) . . . and it’s no coincidence that Yemen abounds both in child brides and in terrorists . . .  (Beware of the Utah Liberation Front!) For Nujood, the nightmare began at age 10 when her […]

Charlie Crist Is Not Scum

Charlie Crist is the bacteria that infect the parasites which feed on the pus that oozes from the maggots which crawl through the slime that grows on scum.

When It Comes to ‘Crazy’ and Politics, Glenn Greenwald Is an Expert

That was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the notorious sock-puppet master’s headline: Who are the actual ‘crazy’ people in American politics? Greenwald knows crazy like Eskimos know snow. (Via Memeorandum.)

Red State’s Erick Erickson Endorses
Rick Barber in AL2 House Race

The Tea Party-backed candidate is added to Erickson’s “Candidates I’m Supporting” list, and Barber’s Web site quotes his statement: “Rick has the support of the grassroots in the district, which we are seeing more and more is going to make the difference in a close race.  It’s not that his opponent is the establishment person.  It’s […]

Union-Endorsed Politician Caught in Drunk Driving Scandal: Is This News?

State Sen. Roy Ashburn’s contributions from California labor unions raised eyebrows last year, but now that he’s been busted for DUI all that anyone seems to care about is that Ashburn is a Republican: The veteran Kern County lawmaker was spotted weaving at about 2 a.m. Wednesday and was pulled over, said Sgt. Rick Campbell […]

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