The Other McCain

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

Have You Hated Yourself Over Your Air Conditioning Today?

by Smitty If not, Salon can assist, emphasis and formatting mine: . . .as science writer Stan Cox argues in his new book, “Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (and Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer),” the dizzying rise of air conditioning comes at a steep personal and societal price. […]

It Isn’t So Much Lindsey Graham’s Sexuality As His Political Views That Disappoint

by Smitty Salon quotes an NYT interview where LG reports: “I ain’t gay”. Nice tangential datum, Senator, but what matters more is your objection to the taste of Tea in your mouth: On four occasions, Graham met with Tea Party groups. The first, in his Senate office, was “very, very contentious,” he recalled. During a […]

Boehner Clings To The New Deal

by Smitty (via Hot Air) My headline is slightly unfair. I should credit Boehner for courageously opening the discussion on managing the sacred cow, rather than having it meander through our future, spreading cowflop in all directions. However, let’s talk butchery. As the bovine flop of FDR’s New Deal, combined with LBJ’s (not so) Great […]

Working Hard, Trying To Help The Huffington Post With Those Typos

by Smitty The editors at the Huffington Post have an editorial: G-20 Leaders Pledge To Halve Deficits By 2013. We here at The Other McCain would like to get rid of that spurious ‘L’ in the title: G-20 Leaders Pledge To Have Deficits By 2013. This implies that, yes, the deficits will still exist by […]

Sandy Goodman Thinks The BP Squeeze Was Not ‘Fascism-Fascism’

by Smitty Sandy Goodman at the Puffington Host generates a truly useful idiocy in attacking another useful idiot, David Brooks, for his PBS NewsHour appearance Friday night. At issue is whether the Joe Barton apology can be seen as standing up for the rule of law. Goodman: Those laws, Brooks reminded us, protect the unpopular […]

Get Some! Get Some!

by Smitty (h/t House of Eratosthenes) A fine campaign ad: Begs a Full Metal Jacket paraphrase: Private Joker: How can you eliminate Progressives? Door Gunner: Easy! Ya just don’t lead ’em so much! Ain’t Keynesian economics hell?

Liberal Decides It’s OK to Hint Politicians May Be Hiding Their ‘True’ Religion

No, not Barack Obama. Nikki Haley: By no means am I questioning their right to convert or their sincerity. . . . I think, instead, that if Haley felt compelled to revise her campaign materials this way, it says a lot about what’s still acceptable to the voters she’s courting. Neela Bannerjee at Slate scrupulously […]

Let’s See If We Can Clear That Up For Dr. Krauthammer

by Smitty Dr. Krauthammer, via The Corner, emphasis mine. On Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s criticism of the Arizona immigration law: Well, I’m sort of offended when the president of Mexico says, criticizing the Arizona law: ‘It’s placing our people in the face of discrimination.’ If they’re his people, what are they doing in the United […]

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