The Other McCain

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

‘Gender Integration’ = FAIL

This is both hysterically funny and pathetically sad: The Army colonel who wrote an internal email suggesting public affairs officers use photos of “average-looking women” when they need to illustrate stories about female soldiers has stepped down as the leader of an Army study on gender integration. Army spokesman George Wright confirmed on Saturday that […]

The Hate-Troll Sockpuppet

After a while, you learn to discern the pattern: Not operated by a named person. Not associated with any organization. Lots of hashtags and/or slogans in the profile to signal ideological solidarity. Lack of organic content. Associates with other known trolls. There are other traits — dots in the pattern — but the point is […]

Confirmed: Crazy People Are Dangerous

He was once described as “happy-go-lucky,” but then his father lost an election and his parents divorced and Gus Deeds went nuts: “Eventually it got to the point where everyone… you couldn’t ignore it. It was obvious he was going through a difficult time,” Tony Walters, who has been friends with Gus since they were […]

Also, Troll, You Misspelled ‘Syphilis’

Between 5:21 and 5:23 p.m. ET, someone using my name and the bogus e-mail address “dumbwhitetrash@racistshit.com” posted four insulting comments on an earlier thread, one of which mentioned my 14-year-old son by name. Wombat whacked them with the troll hammer, but not before the IP address (46.182.106.190) was traced to a proxy server in Amsterdam, […]

Kook Update: Roger Shuler

Crazy people like Roger Shuler have rights, even in Alabama. You may or may not remember Bill Schmalfeldt’s personal hero, Alabama crazy-blogger Roger Shuler, who got locked up last month for contempt of court after publishing unsubstantiated defamation against evil Republicans who (in Roger’s delusional mind) are conspiring with Karl Rove to silence courageous truth-teller […]

Bill Schmalfeldt: Obsessed Much?

You stay classy, Bill Schmalfeldt! “Schmalfeldt . . . is closest to his sweaty-palmed Happy Place when he is describing degradation of others.” — Ken White, Aug. 6 Deranged cyberstalker Bill Schmalfeldt has many persistent traits, including habitual dishonesty and a tendency to mimic the rhetoric of his enemies. This latter trait is related to […]

Idiot Liberal Sees Feel-Good Story, Decides We Need Moral Improvement

Make A Wish Foundation Gives 5-Year-Old Leukemia Survivor His Dream: Being Batman for a Day Awww! You would think everyone’s natural sympathy would overwhelm their critical capacity, but fear not: Idiot Liberal™ is here! Happy for #SFBatKid, but can’t help but wonder if this would happen for a kid who isn’t white. Let’s put energy […]

Alec Baldwin Yells ‘Fag’ at Photographer; MSNBC Host Threatens to Sue TMZ

If @TMZ asserts that I used an anti-gay epithet, I will sue them. — ABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) November 14, 2013 Is he the worst host in the history of MSNBC? Gosh, that’s tough competition. Ed Driscoll summarizes the latest outburst: MSNBC anchor Alec Baldwin was videotaped shouting “c**ksucking f*g,” to a photographer by TMZ.com, John Nolte writes at Big Journalism: […]

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