The Other McCain

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

Rewarding Failure, Punishing Success

Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged is in many ways too radical — with dangerous overtones of Nietzsche — but clearly enunciates certain basic insights. In one of her characters’ monologues, Rand expresses the fundamental problem with the Marxist maxim, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” What’s wrong with that? It […]

Thursday Is Mary Jo Kopechne Day; Would Government Health Care Have Been A Good Investment For Her?

by Smitty Roughly three weeks shy of 343 years to the day after ersatz naval architect Ted Kennedy proved conclusively that a ’67 Olds does not a submarine make, but with the right name you can still be the Lyin’ of the Senate, the PPACA decision arrived, in a flurry of prestidigitation that defies reasonable […]

Game ON.

–by Wombat-socho Somebody has decided to amuse themselves by posting as Yr. Humble Linkmongler under a false e-mail address to various other blogs, upsetting the bloggers and spreading vileness. Somebody is about to discover that there is no real anonymity on the Internets. Somebody is going to find out, first hand, what the penalties are […]

Axis Of Fedora Puts Another Two Under The Brim

by Smitty Yesterday at the Barack Obama Elizabeth Warren channeling (quotation is from Roanoke, but I doubt they reloaded the teleprompter) the Axis of Fedora enrolled a couple of new members, joining the ranks of SWAC Girl and Fishersville Mike. Welcome aboard, Marooned in Marin and some guy named Aaron Worthing. The Axis of Fedora […]

‘Bainers’

by Smitty I can’t force the video to begin at 1:30, but Tommy Chong* serves up the basis for a ‘Bainers’ theme song: Red State: It is well established that Mitt Romney left Bain to go salvage the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. It is also well established that his name remained on some SEC […]

Hoping To Fake Change Successfully

By Smitty VodkaPundit points to The Weekly Standard, where there is a teaser about an interview with #OccupyResoluteDesk fortuitously airing on Friday the 13th (emphasis mine): CBS News’s Charlie Rose has an interview with Barack and Michelle Obama airing tomorrow, and in an advance excerpt, the president says his biggest mistake was focusing too much […]

Hot Air Hires Mary Katharine Ham Too Late to Prevent My ‘SkirtGate’ Debacle

If I had any sense, I would let this news pass without comment, but if I had any sense I never would have started blogging in the first place, eh? An appetite for risk, however, is one of those reckless habits that endear me to my friends, even those friends who fear to associate too […]

In Which @SissyWillis And I Work On “The Ballad Of Nancy Pelosi”

by Smitty Sometimes Twitter just. . .happens, as we see in this stream of mutual consciousness: @SissyWillis Whereas a botox-addled girl is like a melon. @politico — Chris Smith (@smitty_one_each) July 12, 2012 @SissyWillis “When you are serious, when you are serious, pass the bill, for the answers you seek. . .” — Chris Smith […]

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