The Other McCain

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

LIVE AT FIVE: 03.11.13

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS SecDef Hagel Gets Explosive Welcome To Afghanistan Two bombs kill nineteen on day of Hagel’s arrival Karzai: “The bombs that were detonated in Kabul and Khost were not a show of force; they were serving America.” Delhi Gang Rape Suspect Ram Singh Suicides In Solitary Confinement Cell Prime suspect […]

Rule 5 Sunday: This Time It’s For Real

— compiled by Wombat-socho For the benefit of those reading Rule 5 compilations for the first time, or who have forgotten since last time: some of the links below are most definitely Not Safe For Work and could contribute to the pollution of your precious bodily fluids – or worse. Laughing Conservative leads off this […]

No School Like the Old School

Ed Driscoll has memory. Intelligence is, in fact, mostly about memory. So the more you remember, the smarter you are. This is why old people are smart and young people are stupid. So I was reading Ed’s account of “The State of Journalism in 2013,” and I was stunned when Ed reminded readers — I knew, but […]

Alexis C. Madrigal, Harvard ’04

“I remember walking down Barlett Street in the Mission and saying to myself, out loud, ‘I’m a writer. I’m a writer! I’M A WRITER!’ It was all I’d wanted to be since I was 16 years old. And I was making it.” — Alexis C. Madrigal, “A Day in the Life of a Digital Editor, […]

Adam Carolla’s Righteous Indignation

He rips up the liberal media the way you wish you could rip up the media. Never have you heard f-bombs stacked up with such raging fury. Ed Driscoll says, “You’ll like him when he’s angry. A lot.”  

FMJRA 2.0: Venus, The Bringer Of Peace

— compiled by Wombat-socho Report: Team Kimberlin Harassment Now Targeting ‘Blog Bash’ Event at CPAC Hogewash Jackie Wellfonder Da Tech Guy The (Perhaps Slightly Less) Lonely Conservative PJ Tatler A Conservative Lesbian Conservative Hideout Rick’s Rants Malaysians, and Other Foreigners I Might Be Able to Give a Damn About, If You Could Pay Me $389,724.70 […]

Barrett Brown Trial Pushed Back to September, at His Lawyer’s Request

September 2012: Barrett Brown threatens an FBI agent in video Missed this news earlier: There was apparently a hearing Wednesday in which an attorney for former “Anonymous” spokesman Barrett Brown, who had been scheduled to stand trial later this month and in April on federal charges, was granted a continuation pushing the trial back to […]

Sen. McCain Fears Crazy Birds Dumping Whitewash On TSA Security Theater

by Smitty Are Piers Morgan and John McCain the New Hotness? Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is calling for congressional hearings to see if a new rule allowing airline passengers to carry knives and bats on flights should be blocked. His intervention comes after the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) relaxed post 9-11 rules to allow blades […]

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