The Other McCain

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

Skepticism and Independence: Bad!

That’s the essential thrust of Mark Lilla’s lengthy essay in the New York Review of Books: [W]e need to see [the Tea Party movement] as a manifestation of deeper social and even psychological changes that the country has undergone in the past half-century. Quite apart from the movement’s effect on the balance of party power, […]

What Will We Do With Census Workers To Keep Unemployment Down?

by Smitty (via Digg) After the Census is taken, the job numbers would be likely to tank. Would be, that is, if Hugo Chavez wasn’t leading the way: Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela, who only recently signed up to Twitter, has rapidly risen up the rankings to become the top tweeter in the country, despite […]

The Green Hills Of Tyrol

by Smitty They say the Highland Pipe is in the key of the human heart. Gateway Pundit links a BBC clip of the 3 Rifles and 1 Scots cruising the Royal Mile. The tune the band is playing in the clip is “The Green Hills Of Tyrol”. Now, the band no doubt played an awful […]

Raquel Welch Agrees With Me

Da Tech Guy seems surprised: Raquel Welsh echoing Robert Stacy McCain? Yet we should not be surprised that even a legendary bombshell would acknowledge self-evident truth: One significant, and enduring, effect of The Pill on female sexual attitudes during the 60’s, was: “Now we can have sex anytime we want, without the consequences. Hallelujah, let’s party!” These days, nobody […]

Rule 5 Sunday

by Smitty Rule 5 Sunday returns, flush with URLs from National Offend A Feminist Week. What a pleasant challenge, attempting to figure out which posts should be FMJRA, and which should be Rule 5. So I blew off thinking about it, and just wrote the post. Three Beers Later catches us up on Juliana Moreira. […]

Go, Pamela!

Excuse the recto-cranial inversion that prevented me from previously noticing that longtime blog buddy Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs has a new book coming out. The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America, written in collaboration with Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch, also a blog buddy, will be published in July by Simon and Schuster, but you can pre-order […]

If the Tea Party Movement Is Racist . . .

. . . does that make Bob Bennett a Magic Negro? I’m just asking, because the basic argument of Tea Party-bashers (like Charles Blow) can be summarized by the syllogism: The Tea Party movement is anti-Obama; Obama is black; Ergo, the Tea Party movement is racist. Which means that Bob Bennett must be black, or else Charles Blow […]

Twitter Levity With Frank J.

by Smitty

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