The Other McCain

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

‘They Are Not Allowed to Fail’

Amanda Carpenter called attention to a letter a Maryland middle-school teacher wrote to the Washington Post‘s education writer: I am paid to give out gold stars to everyone so that no one feels left out, to give everyone an A because they feel sad if they don’t have one. I take the perpetual, insane harassment […]

It Had to Be Written

Really, the deadly satire "Fear and Loathing With David Brooks" needs to be written, but I'll defer to @iowahawkblog or @AceofSpadesHQ. — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) January 3, 2014 As soon as David Brooks shared his drug experiences with an unwilling world, the gonzo version was inevitable: The silver 2001 BMW 535i roared through Adams […]

Florida: The Crazy State

Yes, I’m aware I used the same headline yesterday, but our national lunatic asylum continues to earn its moniker: A Palm Bay man was arrested after police say home surveillance video caught him in sexual acts involving his family’s dog. Joshua Werbicki, 22, was charged last week with animal cruelty and sexual acts involving animals. […]

Bill Schmalfeldt’s Clown Show, and a Certain Dog That Has Not Barked

That is Bill Schmalfeldt’s clumsy summary of certain allegations made by Brett Kimberlin in the Maryland lawsuit Kimberlin v. Walker, et al., but Schmalfeldt doesn’t say this, does he? No, he cites no source for these claims, but merely repeats them as if they were statements of fact, which can be dangerous. Is the irony […]

This Was Probably Predictable

Ace of Spades: American troops spilled their guts fighting Al Qaeda in Fallujah in 2004. And now, AQ has driven out all representatives of the Iraqi government and raised its flag over government buildings. Like nature, Islamic extremism abhors a vacuum: Black-clad Sunni militants of Al Qaeda destroyed the Falluja Police Headquarters and mayor’s office, […]

Everybody Hates Cathy Brennan: Troll Under the Bridge on the Crazyville Road

The unstable isotope of insanity that is feminism reached critical mass a few months ago when radical feminist Cathy Brennan threatened legal action against the socialist magazine Jacobin, which published an article by Samantha Allen that included this: A small but vocal band of activists known as “Radfems” see transgender women like myself as a […]

What The Flu-Shot Is A “Federal Dollar”?

by Smitty Great article over on Town Hall by Conn Carroll about ObamaCare. Worth reading in full, but I’d like to pick up where he ends for a bit of a rant on a fundamental conceptual flaw that cuts across so much of our jacked-up contemporary thinking (emphasis mine): We already see this happening in […]

Feminists Accused of ‘Transphobia’: Competitive Victimhood Derby

“If gender is inherently detrimental as the radical feminists maintain and if trans identification occurs in part because gender is rigidly interpreted and represented through normative modalities of behaving, then there will be unceasing dissonance between these two groups.” — Julian Vigo, “The Left Hand of Darkness” Following up on last night’s post, “Mental Illness […]

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