The Other McCain

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

This Is Probably a Hate Crime

WARNING: We apologize to readers for the disturbing neo-Confederate imagery in this shocking eight-minute video that shows

Stephen Green’s Hair Of The Dog

by Smitty George Will owns it at the outset, but the closing Lincoln bit was a nice touch:

Blaming Citizens United For Gingrich Is Like Blaming Kel-Tec For Trayvon Martin

by Smitty Possibly too soon for the analogy, but this bit from Adam Clancy at The American Interest is really that off-putting (emphasis mine): But as Gingrich found out all it now takes is the support of one billionaire to keep your campaign alive indefinitely. For Gingrich, that billionaire is the casino magnate Sheldon Adelson […]

In Case You Haven’t Noticed Yet, Everybody Recently Went Crazy

Everybody but me and you, that is, and one of us is probably on the verge of cracking up under the enormous stress that seems to be driving people off the deep end lately. Either we’re in the midst of an epidemic of mass hysteria, or else all these people jabbering like magpies on the […]

This Would Only Matter If It Was, Say, A Ron Paul Campaign Office

by Smitty I, for one, rejoice at the vast strides Barack Obama has made in reducing the number of bogus attacks on campaign offices for insufficient diversity: Original photo. If a GOP contender published that, the media would be on it like libelous edits on NBC. It’s just one more way BHO is winning the […]

The Science Is Settled!

According to the latest scientific study, homophobes are secretly gay! Therefore, Fred Phelps is Andrew Sullivan’s dream date, or something. For many years, I’ve been working on a scientific study to confirm my hypothesis that some lesbians — the really hot ones — are in fact secretly bisexual and eager to have me join them for a threesome.

So, How Was Your Vacation?

Advice to Tourists: When seeking a tropical resort destination, try to avoid locations where the beach is right next to the airport runway: By the way, this never happens to tourists in sunny Vanuatu.

Nate Silver, the Experts and … Me

From Matt Welch’s article about dinosaur media: In 2008, a 30-year-old baseball stat nerd looked at the reams of public research product churned out by the nation’s 1,500-plus daily newspapers, and concluded that, though “there is nearly as much data as there is for first basemen,” the “understanding has lagged behind.” So Nate Silver launched […]

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