The Other McCain

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

Not Sure If This Will Offend More Dweebs Than Feminists

by Smitty . . .but Dustbury should consider the hypothesis that the WoW player who clicks on that advert is saving himself for a feminist.

Maybe Leno Could Hire Some North Korean Writers To Help His Material

by Smitty HuffPo has it that Jay had all the charm of an oil rig explosion at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Maybe he didn’t want to go down the Colbert of Sykes roads, as the article notes. Or maybe he needed to water the material down, so as not to upstage President Thin Skin. […]

National Offend a Feminist Week 2010

Wow, has it really been an entire year since May 2, 2009, when we inaugurated this tradition? To quote the charter: Hey, sweetheart, when I say “bring me a cup of coffee,” I mean bring me fresh coffee, OK? Bloggers: It is once again National Offend A Feminist Week. Your expressions of reactionary, oppressive, patriarchal, misogynistic traditionalism […]

The Longest Comment Thread in the History of This Blog? Go Ahead, Guess.

Over the course of the past two years, for the benefit of some 3.8 million visitors, we have blogged on many subjects — the 2008 presidential election, war, peace, economics, race relations, culture, etc. Never, however, has any post generated as many comments as my April 24 post about the talent-deficient vocalist, Champagne Dream, of whom […]

Rule 5 Sunday

by Smitty Rule 5 Sunday, “Forget The World” edition. Boobquake jiggled the blogosphere most pleasantly, offering mounds of opportunity for more serious bloggers to get something off their chests.

PA12: ‘That Crazy Blogger Guy’

That’s what Tim Burns called me Friday night at campaign HQ, and here’s some more crazy blogging at the Hot Air Green Room: The Burns campaign can count on lots of votes from what one staffer described as “pissed off” Democrats and independents, but the real key will be the ability of Burns to appeal […]

Fear & Loathing at 3600 New York Ave.

Having gotten out in January 2008 while the getting was good, I’m once again less than shocked by the latest news of chaotic madness at the Washington Times: Washington Times executives are negotiating to sell the newspaper, after the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s family cut off most of the annual subsidy of about $35 million […]

Charlotte’s Pro Amnesty Protest
Updated: NYC and LA

by Smitty The Old Rebel dropped into Charlotte, NC to cover the Victims of Communism Day protest against those zany ‘Zonies who fetish security, the rule of law, and meaningful borders. As I started to leave, I remarked to one of the orange-vested organizers that unlike other pro-immigrant rallies I’d seen, there were few Mexican […]

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