The Other McCain

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

LIVE AT FIVE: 01.13.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Iran Nuke Deal Done Iran opens nuke program, agrees to limit enrichment in return for relaxed sanctions Israel Holds State Funeral For Ariel Sharon Tight security for former PM’s memorial service Chaos In Iraq A Preview Of Afghanistan? Taliban, Haqqani Network and Al-Qaeda poised to take advantage of NATO […]

Egalitarianism Triumphant

“In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the suggestion that he is the flesh-and-blood tribute to the success of […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Take It Off

— compiled by Wombat-socho Once again it’s time to consider the wisdom of Rule 5, this week while enjoying the musical stylings of the band formerly known as the Electrocutes. Maybe not for everyone, but certainly a band to consider if you like Joan Jett, Blondie, Suzi Quatro and the Runaways. As usual, be discreet […]

She Craved the Taste of Boy Flesh

Alicia Gray performed oral sex on 14-year-old boy. Degenerate perversion in Alabama: A former Alabama high school teacher who was married, pleaded guilty to having sex with a student, and has been sentenced to immediately serve jail time as well as surrender her teaching certificate. Alicia Gray, 28, accepted a plea deal by prosecutors as […]

FMJRA 2.0: Frisby

— compiled by Wombat-socho Al Gore and the Big Climate Lie Liberty’s Spirit Batshit Crazy News Watcher Of Weasels The Right Planet Independent Sentinel Nice Deb Trevor Loudoun The Razor Bookworm Room Rick’s Rants Dead Republican Party Will De Blasio Get Away With This? Da Tech Guy Blackmailers Don’t Shoot Lowering The Boom PJ Tatler […]

‘Idiocy Is Not a Zero-Sum Game’

Alabama crazy-blogger Roger Shuler. The title quote is Popehat blogger Ken White’s assessment of the Roger Shuler case as quoted in the New York Times: For over six years, Roger Shuler has hounded figures of the state legal and political establishment on his blog, Legal Schnauzer, a hothouse of furious but often fuzzily sourced allegations […]

Florida Atrocity: Girls Beat Teen, Held Her Down as She Was Raped on Video

Left to right: Erica Avery, 16; Jayvon Woolfork, 19; Patricia Montes, 15. Having recently dubbed Florida the “Crazy State,” I’m seldom surprised by reports of criminal degeneracy and perverse madness there, but the raw savagery in this case is astonishing: A 16-year-old girl was allegedly beaten by other girls before being held down to be […]

In Which @NYTimeskrugman Exposes His Own Structural Stupidity

Yesterday I praised Kevin D. Williamson’s elegant account of poverty in Appalachia, but of course the liberal know-it-all Paul Krugman couldn’t resist adding his two cents of Nobel Prize ignorance: My take on Williamson’s report . . . is that it basically says that William Julius Wilson was right. Wilson famously argued that the social […]

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