The Other McCain

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

It Looks Like The Debt Limit Increase Will Make The CR Fracas Look Like Beanbag

by Smitty Keith Hennessy has a detailed post, from which I’ll mooch his bullet points: First, a temporary continuing resolution has a hard deadline, while a debt limit increase does not. Second, defaulting on a debt obligation is potentially far more serious than a temporary government shutdown. Third, a freestanding debt limit increase bill doesn’t […]

Oh Sure, Right After I Got Wrecked Converting The Traditional IRA To A Roth

by Smitty (via Insty) Mrs. The Other Smitty and I this year listened to the financial adviser and converted the modest Traditional IRA to a Roth. By making the optimal choice on what to do with the sudden profit, we managed not to get completely destroyed on income tax. The amount of money in question […]

Sexy Asian Farmhouse Antiques

by Smitty Fish Fear Me has a picture of a folding sign in his neighborhood that is right off of Engrish.com. Sort of brought the mighty Tap to mind: Maybe it’s too subtle for some, but mocking the over-sexed nature of rock’n’roll by trying to find innuendo in common agricultural objects is, to my twisted […]

‘An Aimless and Slovenly Disaster’

The quote is from Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly reviewing Charlie Sheen’s Friday live show at Radio City Music Hall in New York. A great phrase, worthy of a book title. As to exactly why Charlie’s show sucked: In the early stages of his madman meltdown phase . . . he created the sex-and-dope version […]

Obama, the Deficit-Hater

After two years of pissing away trillions of dollars in borrowed money, President Obama this week will present “a multiyear debt-reduction plan” — which is kind of like Tiger Woods deciding to cut back on banging cocktail waitresses after his wife left him. Notice that Obama sends a campaign strategist onto Meet the Press to […]

Hef at 85: A Myth Grown Old

The octogenarian hedonist celebrated his birthday in Vegas, at one point posing with 31 previous Playboy centerfolds, the oldest of them being Miss May 1998, Deanna Brooks, now age 36. Hefner is now engaged to 24-year-old Crystal Harris (Miss December 2009) and, of course, the bride-to-be will be required to sign a pre-nuptial agreement prior to the […]

Sweet, Sweet Quantitative Easing

by Smitty There is something special about nihilistic joy. You spot doom on the horizon. You track it. Doom comes in, at constant bearing and decreasing range, despite every possible maneuver to avoid it. And the doom is so huge as to cause the people in charge to loop in stage one of the Kübler-Ross […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 04.11.11

TOP NEWS Obama To Call For Broad Plan To Reduce Deficit But not Paul Ryan’s plan. Gadhafi Approves Ceasefire Plan, Allow OAU Peacekeepers Zuma positive, but will rebels accept a plan that leaves the Khadafy family in power? Japan PM Weakened By Local Election Losses, Ongoing Atomic Crisis Coalition government for recovery doomed? POLITICS Debt […]

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