The Other McCain

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

Finally: Japanese Official Admits ‘Possible Partial Meltdown’ at Nuclear Power Plant

It only took about 24 hours after the explosion at Fukushima Daiichi — an entire day of denial — but at long last we may be starting to get some (carefully qualified) truth here: Japan’s top government spokesman says a partial meltdown is likely under way at second reactor affected by Friday’s massive earthquake. Chief Cabinet […]

Predictably, Japan Disaster to Be Scene of Next ‘Battle of the Network News Stars’

So predictable, you can set your watch by it: A catastrophe or crisis makes headlines, and TV news operations compete to see who can get their celebrity on-air talent to the scene first: Cooper, Amanpour among TV journalists to Japan U.S. broadcast and cable networks, some of which were short-staffed Friday morning in Japan, are […]

Japan Disaster Gets Worse: Meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant UPDATE: Meltdown or Not? Also: Cooling Failure Reported at 2nd Plant UPDATE: Now 3rd Reactor in Trouble?

BUMPED FOR UPDATE 5 p.m. ET: Just when I was thinking about eating lunch and taking a nap, I decided to check Drudge and saw this: The link is to a Reuters story: A quake-hit Japanese nuclear plant reeling from an explosion at one of its reactors has also lost its emergency cooling system at […]

What If We Threw Steroids At The Broken Window Fallacy?

by Smitty Volokh notes the WSJ: “Some economists have argued that a quake could actually lift the economy in the long run, by requiring a surge in rebuilding spending.” Does that mean that we could help the economy by regularly trashing all entitlement programs, say, by forcing them to expire with the departure of the […]

If There Is Any Value Whatsoever In The Current US Middle-East Policy. . .

by Smitty Consider this: what you’re seeing the US do now is essentially what Ron Paul’s non-interventionist approach would look like. So consider that, ye Paul fans, as the butcher’s bill grows and reddens.

Journalists or Clairvoyants?

On Friday, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen of Politico published one of those Smartest Guy in the Room analytical pieces that always annoy the crap out of me, and ought to annoy everyone else, too. It amounts to Vandehei and Allen playing GOP strategists: The Republican Party is undergoing a messy but unmistakable 20-month transformation from fanatically […]

Loren Burke Is a Great American!

Earlier today, talking about the California surfer dudes who hit the beach in hope of riding the tsunami, I said: There is something distinctly American about guys who are willing to risk their lives for a super-gnarly wave. The surge wasn’t as overwhelming as the surfers hoped — probably a good thing, too — but […]

‘A Vagina . . . and a Brain’

Contrary to feminist myth, many of us guys actually prefer women who have both a vagina and a brain, especially when a woman knows which organ to think with: I have a mind of my own, and I don’t need to be told I’m a victim. Or that society must change utterly for my convenience. […]

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