The Other McCain

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

What Depression Is, and Isn’t

Thursday evening my wife came home and said, “Hey, I bought coffee!” I just stared at her, in kind of a fog. “No more drinking decaf,” my wife said. “What? We’ve been drinking decaf? Since when?” “All week. We ran out of regular coffee Monday, but  I just made decaf and didn’t tell you, because I […]

Smitty’s Corollary To Godwin’s Law

by Smitty I’m likely not the first to notice this effect, varying Mike Godwin: .@dmataconis Smitty’s Corollary to Godwin: “As political discussion lengthens, the probability of a Boooshhh! invocation=>1.” @jackievasser — Smitty (D-aft) (@smitty_one_each) January 12, 2013

NYT Has Bum Strapped To Column, Plus, Introducing: ‘The Krugmanerrand’

by Smitty Emphasis mine: Finally, just consider the vileness of that G.O.P. threat. If we were to hit the debt ceiling, the U.S. government would end up defaulting on many of its obligations. This would have disastrous effects on financial markets, the economy, and our standing in the world. Yet Republicans are threatening to trigger […]

@Gabby_Hoffman Strangely Uncomfortable With Federal Ponzi Scheme

by Smitty Gabby Hoffman seems uncertain about whether the additional money the government is extracting is going toward anything useful: Hoffman, a 21-year-old Virginian who works at a nonprofit, estimates her paycheck will be roughly $30 less this biweekly pay period, or about $780 annually, thanks to the end of a two-year cut on payroll taxes, […]

Can Fauxcohontas Delete the Internet?

Wikipedia expert Leigh Thelmadatter guest-blogs at Legal Insurrection: On January 7, 2013, Legal Insurrection noted that the entire section about controversy surrounding Elizabeth Warren’s asserted Native American heritage had been wiped fromher Wikipedia page. That assertion was seen by Wikipedia and responded to, with the section reinstated, albeit in a  different form than before. , […]

Anatomy Of A Great Tweet

by Smitty Look at this thing of beauty: When people Tweet “I never imagined I’d agree with Smith…” they diminish themselves rather than Smith. — Daniel Hannan (@DanHannanMEP) January 6, 2013

Damn It, Jim, I’m a Blogger!

OK, so Pete Da Tech Guy wrote a post about loyalty, citing the persistence of my gratitude toward Alyssa Milano for an RT in September 2010.  Pete recalled that he had his own celebrity Twitter moment, a Tweet from William Shatner. (Eat your heart out, Jonah Goldberg!) At the end of his post, Pete mentioned […]

DeMint At Heritage

by Smitty It sounds as though DeMint hopes to do more as a thought leader at Heritage than he did in elective office. Why was he incapable of being a ‘big ideas’ guy in office? The ‘optimistic, positive ideas’ pitch sounds swell, but I thought that’s the approach on which Romney finished a powerful, strong […]

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