The Other McCain

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

At Least He Didn’t Call Sheen, Green

by Smitty The hyper-critical Vodka Pundit takes Silvio to task for calling on George Clooney as a character witness. Burlesconi is older than two and a half men, in some countries, and he’s far less ugly than his neighbor to the south. Get yourself some cold Stoly and go easy on the man, Stephen.

Answer: Because I Really Do Not Need A Rocket Suppository

by Smitty Ace asks: “Why Is the Media Covering Up The Kill Team Story?“. It was quite wrong for the media to endanger troops in the W era over Abu Ghraib. If you’ve let your emotional horses out of the barn, and feel that news of what a handful of twistos have done should be […]

Jerry Wilson and the Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Dream Job

Getting paid to write about NASCAR? Dude, some things are so unfair they ought to be against the law. Jerry Wilson: America’s Luckiest Blogger. Remind me to call around to some magazine editors this afternoon and see if anyone needs a full-time columnist to provide them with in-depth coverage of NCAA cheerleaders and barbecue ribs. […]

I Say, Well Played Old Chap!

by Smitty At first I thought this bit of squid porn at the Reaganite Republican was a serious post from Information Dissemination, or something. By mid-post, I’m looking at “The USS William Jefferson Clinton is show here sailing out of its home port of Vancouver , BC.“, and saying, “Wait, what?” Nicely done, sir.

Ace Miffed At Portman For Doing What She Does?

by Smitty I’m afraid I don’t grasp the nature of the criticism of Natalie Portman, whose Black Swan flick I still haven’t seen. Come to think of it, my only knowledge of the lady is that the Slashdot crowd fantasizes about her petrified, naked, and covered in hot grits. So what if she was also […]

New York Times Sends an 11-Year-Old Girl to Interview the Jonas Brothers

Or the equivalent thereof: Shridar Pappu’s profile feature on “Washington’s New Brat Pack” pulses with so much fanzine breathlessness you might think it was February 1964 and the Beatles had just landed in New York: In only a few years, these young men and others like them have become part of the journalistic establishment in […]

05Apr: Walker’s Wisconsin Waterloo?

by Smitty John Nolte at Big Government updates us on the status of the case of the Union vs. Governor Walker in Wisconsin. It’s an excellent overview, worthy of your full attention. The gist is that if one of the four conservative judges on the court, Prosser, is lost on the 05Apr election, then the […]

Roxeanne de Luca Writes About Feminism, Sex and Virginity

In her role as guest-blogger at Camp of the Saints, Roxeanne explains the difficulties of being A Woman Who Disagrees With “Pro-Sex” Feminists: I got excoriated . . . .because I suggested that premarital sex is not an achievement and is about as novel as not wearing a hoop skirt. When I said that premarital […]

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