The Other McCain

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

Steven Crowder, Social Security, a Video Camera and a Few Too Many Red Bulls

An automatic formula for viral YouTube immortality: Steven, if you’re going to chug a four-pack of Red Bulls, you might as well just save time and go straight for the meth, dude.

Todd Palin Defense Fund Update

While I am grateful for the enthusiastic response to my suggestion that Sarah Palin’s supporters donate to create a legal defense fund for her husband, some of the commenters seem to be under the impression that I’m joking about this. But you see, as a veteran of 25 years in the news business, I understand the […]

Jobs Saved or Created?

Just randomly checking the news headlines when I saw this at Fox News: Use of Surrogate Sex Partners Rising Among Women Ummm. OK. Let’s see what this is about: “More and more women are now claiming their birth right to either have an orgasm, or healthy relationship or have sexual satisfaction,” said Shai Rotem, a […]

Anatomy Of A Twitter Slam

by Smitty Oh, the horror of aging:

VIDEO: Exclusive Interview With Young Victim of the East Coast Earthquake UPDATE: Meet the Heroic Survivors

HAGERSTOWN, Maryland Reporting live from this previously peaceful community, mere miles from the epicenter of the devastating 5.9 earthquake: Regular readers may notice that this emotionally traumatized victim bears a remarkable resemblance to my 8-year-old daughter, Reagan. And regular readers may also notice that the Earthquake Victims Relief Fund bears a remarkable resemblance to my […]

Leon Black Never Hits My Tip Jar

Just sayin’ . . . Last Saturday night, the financier Leon D. Black celebrated his 60th with a blowout at his oceanfront estate in Southampton, on Long Island. After a buffet dinner featuring a seared foie gras station, some 200 guests took in a show by Elton John. The pop music legend, who closed with […]

VIDEO: Jim and Bob, Possum-Killers

We live up in the woods near South Mountain, east of Hagerstown, Maryland, and my wife has a rooster and some hens in the backyard which provide us with eggs. So I was working here in my basement office at home, a little after midnight, when my 18-year-old son Bob comes running in the door […]

An Eternal Truth: ‘Getting Your Eyebrow Pierced Does Not Make You Any Less Fat’

That brilliant aphorism was spoken by a friend of my teenage son, after a visit to the local convenience store. This wisdom seemed important to share, along with my own observation: No woman has ever improved her looks by getting a tattoo.

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