The Other McCain

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

Ladd Ehlinger’s Four Letter Review Of Atlas Shrugged: Crap

by Smitty Let me first say I preferred reading “The Fountainhead”. Second, my standard review of everything: “It would have been twice as good if it was half as long” definitely applied to “Atlas Shrugged”. Rand’s critique of Socialism is effective, her approach to sexuality bizarre, and her atheism a total yawn. Thirdly, I’m not […]

NoSheeplesHere Saddles Up The Union-icorn For A Spin

by Smitty The strange, creepy relationship between the Administration and unions is something about which Americans need to be reminded frequently. Also, the Administration’s fantasy approach to such matters as budgeting and economics. Some call it ‘unicorn math’. NoSheeplesHere brilliantly merges the two ideas: Read the whole, detailed, important thing. Lady, you rock!  

Separated At Birth, Reynolds/Grant Ed.

by Smitty This is precisely what it appears to be, a blatant attempt at blogwhoring. You will likely never see me mention the dude on the right again. I thought the height of his acting career was getting his chops busted by Colin Firth in Bridget Jones’s Diary

The Savage Young

My hometown friend George Hall occasionally used to say he’d like to start a band called “The Savage Young.” George and I had both been caught up in the second wave of Beatlemania that swept over teenagedom in the middle and late 1970s, years after the Beatles had broken up, and a lot of us […]

The 1970s In NYC: Something Else

by Smitty Ed Driscoll, one of those great bloggers whom we don’t link enough, has a post about people waxing nostalgic for NYC’s seedier days. Admittedly, that was a little before my time, but it did bring to mind a funny bit from Our Dumb Century: Some humorless git seems to have left the funniest […]

Guys: Collective Guilt Is Not Sexy

A couple weeks ago, there was a lot of buzz surrounding the “Dear Woman” video — hell, no, I’m not gonna embed it here — in which a bunch of New Age dudes profess their intent to compensate for the historic oppression of women. Melissa Clouthier’s reaction: My initial response was to laugh so hard […]

How Ladd Ehlinger Went Viral And Flu Around The World

by Smitty Never mind my sorry pun fetish, read Ladd’s play-by-play in full. A wee cough: In space, no one can hear you scream. On youTube, no one HAS to watch your video and no one WILL unless you do something interesting. If, on the other hand, you’re an obscure politician in Alabama running for […]

Usefully Dealing With Birtherism

by Smitty It’s really cool of The Donald to go all high dudgeon about the birther nonsense this late in the presidential term. Dealing with it in a useful way, in contrast, is Arizona, whose ‘fool us once’ measure goes to the Senate. As with checking for valid ID at a polling place, checking for […]

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