The Other McCain

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

Your Tax Dollars at Work Wank

SEC staffers watched porn as economy crashed Senior staffers at the Securities and Exchange Commission spent hours surfing pornographic websites on government-issued computers while they were being paid to police the financial system, an agency watchdog says. The SEC’s inspector general conducted 33 probes of employees looking at explicit images in the past five years, […]

Liberals Scream: ‘No Fair! Conservatives Are Infringing Our Monopoly on Gay-Baiting Republican Closet Cases!’

As Professor Donald Douglas points out, that is the essence of liberal blogger Steve Benen’s concern-troll post at Washington Monthly: I’m not generally in the habit of defending Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), but some of the abuse he’s been receiving from the right is ridiculous. . . . For the record, I neither know nor […]

‘Dear Penthouse Forum . . .’

“A 1992 survey of 5,000 U.S. librarians, long withheld by a professional journal, found one in five respondents had engaged in sexual trysts among the stacks. Will Manly, who said the New York-based Wilson Library Bulletin withheld the results of his survey in 1992, published results recently on his Web site indicating 51 percent of […]

Hey, Baby, Let’s Get Seismic

Great pickup lines in Tehran: A senior Iranian cleric has claimed that dolled-up women incite extramarital sex, causing more earthquakes in Iran, a country that straddles several fault lines, newspapers reported today. “Many women who dress inappropriately . . . cause youths to go astray, taint their chastity and incite extramarital sex in society, which […]

Blogging As An Exchange Of Nerve Treading

by Smitty Cassandra at Villainous Company returns the favor with an ugly stereotype: In all fairness, the biggest proponents of the “that’s all we ever think about and we can’t control ourselves” meme tend to be … men. Why do guys talk about themselves that way? A few points: The fact that the word ‘meme‘ is […]

Jesse James Enters Rehab, Seeking Treatment for Skank Addiction

Having cheated on Sandra Bullock with a plethora of frighteningly low-rent skanks, Jesse James has finally admitted he’s got a problem — and not just the various social diseases he’s probably picked up while shagging chicks so vile that Snoop Dogg wouldn’t touch them. How bad is Jesse’s problem? He did this chick four times in […]

Cablinasian Fever!

Dan Collins at Piece of Work in Progress: The remote island nation of Cablinasia eagerly— and somewhat nervously — awaits Tiger Woods’ return to the golf tour. . . . Meanwhile: Nearly 60 percent of those who answered a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey said they wanted the embattled golfer to win the event at Georgia’s […]

Second-Best Blog Headline of the Day

SEC Employees Were Masturbating to Kiddie Porn While Your Economy Tanked And the sad thing is, it’s not a joke: Two video files found on [a gay SEC employee’s] computer were referred to the FBI because investigators suspected that the men depicted having sex in them were underage. Some people may object that “gay SEC […]

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