The Other McCain

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

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty [Start with Darleen, or this will make less sense.] She dragged as the smart phone rang. “Nailed. DVD evidence by courier.” “Thanks. When do we go to divorce court?” “That’s Litigation. I’m Operations.” * * * Courier knew nothing, of course, but metadata in the MPEG4 would make the case. HomeWreckers, Inc. had […]

Exceptions, Rules and Tumblr Feminism

How many data points are necessary to demonstrate a pattern? In the news business, the old joke was, “Three’s a trend,” describing the unfortunately too-common method by which feature writers manufacture “trend” stories from thin air. When the “Sex Trouble” series began way back when, I was extraordinarily conscious of the “arguing by exceptions” trick […]

‘Mattress Girl’ Emma Sulkowicz Releases Crappy Porn Video With French Title

“Ceci N’est Pas Un Viol” is French for “This Is Not a Rape” and if recent Columbia University graduate Emma Sulkowicz intended this eight-minute video as “art,” it’s very bad art. Sulkowicz claimed she was raped by fellow student Paul Nungesser, who was cleared of wrongdoing in subsequent investigations by the university and by New […]

Totalitarian Ideologue @JennyKutner Asks: ‘Why Aren’t You Totalitarian, Too?’

In case you missed it, in April, a poll commissioned by the left-wing blog Vox.com found that “feminist” is not a popular identity. This made Jenny Kutner at left-wing blog Salon.com very sad: Eighty-five percent of people favored “equality for women,” and 78 percent agreed that they believe in the “social, political, legal, and economic equality […]

Feminism Is NOT About ‘Equality’

Feminist Tumblr clarifies this common misunderstanding: When did I ever say I support equality? Feminism is about anything as half assed as “equality.” Equality for whom? With whom? Who is to be made equal with whom, and at what cost? With white men, the most well off group in our world? But white men only […]

Men ‘Calling Yourself Feminist Is Invading a Movement That Was Not Made for You’

Feminist Tumblr makes explicit the movement’s anti-male ideology: Feminism as a movement is not about prioritizing the feelings of cis men as above or equal to our own. You are welcome to be an ally for us. But calling yourself feminist is invading a movement that was not made for you and in which your […]

The Lesbian Strangler: Jessica Ewing Murdered Friend Who Rejected Her

Jessica Ewing (left) and her victim Samanata Shrestha (right). Virginia Tech senior Samanata Shrestha was 21 when she was strangled to death in February 2014 by a fellow student, Jessica Ewing, 22. Police and prosecutors had not publicly discussed the motive, and it was not until a sentencing hearing this week that Ewing testified that […]

Five Relatives Arrested in Texas Teen Abortion Horror; Dead Baby Burned

The perverted nightmare culture of Obama’s America: A 14-year-old girl who was impregnated by a relative was beaten by four other family members to induce an abortion, Dallas police say. After the eight-month pregnant girl delivered, the family tried to cover up the crime by burning the stillborn baby on a charcoal grill at a […]

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