The Other McCain

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

Regulations Not The Problem: Complexity

by Smitty I disagree here: How government became a deviant subculture is a story of good intentions gone awry. We tried to avoid government abuse by replacing individual responsibility with detailed rules and objective legal proceedings. Never again would officials play favorites or indulge personal prejudices. Government would be an efficient assembly line. I assert […]

Geekzer Bait Taken

by Smitty To answer Daily Pundit, The old HP-48 is depicted here, along with a scrap of RPL I wrote against it in the dim, dark past. The old 48GX may not be as old as what Daily Pundit mentioned, but it’s just a great piece of hardware. As recently as 5 years ago, I […]

All Right, Everybody Quit Making Fun Of Matthew Yglesias

by Smitty via (JWF) Yglesias cannot be held to account for mistaking the Paul Ryan for the Congressman who engaged in insider trading after the 2008 housing meltdown: Public Servant Drool Bucket To the best of my knowledge, ‘Gentleman’ Jim Moran has offered no explanation, much less an apology, for the allegations of day trading […]

Brett Kimberlin Will Have to Answer Questions Under Penalty of Perjury

As a definition of “more fun than a barrel of monkeys,” I think that will do, don’t you? Aaron Walker’s attorney Dan Backer has served interrogatories in Walker’s lawsuit against Kimberlin, Neal Rauhauser and Ron Brynaert: Kimberlin has been served with discovery and has twenty-one days in which to comply. And we won’t be revealing […]

#TwitterGulag and Anonymous Trolls

After I posted about Jimmie Bise Jr.’s “gay slurry” post this morning and Tweeted it to Jimmie’s attention, he was accosted with vile accusations from the Twitter troll @warpublican (aka “Bloody Leftist”), an anonymous supporter of the Occupy movement who has sent nearly 10,000 Tweets but has fewer than 900 followers. This is one of the […]

Delicious Gay Slurry!

Instapundit crashed Jimmie Bise’s servers when he linked him earlier this week, preventing thousands from reading the shocking truth about Chick-fil-A’s homophobolicious menu: Dan Cathy’s mills convert hundreds of thousands of gay people a year into a delicious slurry that is then combined with the tears of orphans into the secret and highly-addictive ingredient added […]

‘It Was the Cake That Got You Dead’

Back when I was working at the Washington Times, I’d log onto Ace of Spades and say to myself, “That’s what I want to do.” Because Ace and his merry band of Morons had fun. Anyway, four years into this thing, I’m still trying to have as much fun as Ace. Blogging doesn’t have to be — […]

HotAir Misses The Larger Point In The Fauquier County Tea Party Protest

by Smitty Mary Katherine Ham has her facts straight about why the protest occurred on 02 August in support of farmers from Paris, Virginia: Farmers and their supporters rallied August 2 at a Board of Zoning Appeals meeting, where Boneta’s lawyer asked for reconsideration. She did not prevail, but the fight’s not over. Fauquier farmers believe […]

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