The Other McCain

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

McDonald’s Beating Suspect

We have a mug shot and a name: Baltimore County police have named the 18-year-old charged with beating a transgender woman at Rosedale McDonald’s, amid demands from some community members that the incident be investigated as a hate crime. Teonna Monae Brown of the 2000 block of Kelbourne Road in Rosedale was charged in the […]

The Case of the Missing Young Blonde

Twenty-year-old Holly Bobo is missing, believed to have been abducted April 13 from her family’s home in rural Decatur County, Tennessee: Police say they believe the alleged abductor may be from the area and possibly acquainted with Bobo and her family. The kidnapper is described as a white man, about 5 feet 10 inches tall […]

Canadian Left-Wing Guy With Fetish for Asian Porn Kills Chinese Student, 23

Brian Scott Dickson, 29, had been a top university student who once worked for a foreign-policy think tank, the Atlantic Council of Canada, and was also “involved with Developments in Literacy, a Pakistani aid organisation that raises money for children.” And now Dickson is charged with murder in the death of a Chinese student: Described […]

VIDEO: Victim of Beating Says McDonald’s Attackers ‘Spit in My Face’

You saw her get beaten, and now she speaks for herself:   From the Baltimore Sun: A transgender woman brutally beaten at a Baltimore County McDonald’s spoke out on Saturday, saying that the attack was “definitely a hate crime” and that she’s been afraid to leave the house ever since. “They said, ‘That’s a dude, […]

‘Ladies and Gentlemen, I’ll Be Brief …’

  “The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our female party guests — we did. But you can’t hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few sick, perverted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn’t we blame the whole fraternity system? And […]

Hateful Atrocity as Transvestite Beaten by Christian Fundamentalists. Oh, Wait …

By now you’ve probably seen the viral video in which a woman (or, according to the guy who shot the video, a transvestite) was beaten senseless by two teenage girls in a McDonald’s restaurant: It appears that the victim used the women’s restroom, and these two teenagers decided to appoint themselves the Anti-Drag-Queen Vigilante Committee […]

Public Education: Making It Easy for Sexual Predators to Find Their Prey

When he was about 30 and teaching high-school band in Georgia in the late 1980s, Robert Hamberg divorced his wife, Jacque, and married 18-year-old Diane, his former student who had once baby-sat his children. Well, OK. Creepy and unethical, perhaps, but not illegal. However, reasonable people might think that such behavior would have put an […]

Thugland, USA: Baseball Fan Brutally Attacked Outside Dodger Stadium

A 42-year-old paramedic is hospitalized with critical head injuries after he was savagely stomped in the parking lot while leaving a Dodgers-Giants game last week. The injured man, a father of two young children, is a Giants fan and the Los Angeles Times depicts this atrocity as a sports-rivalry-gone-wrong. But Southern California blogger Donald Douglas […]

« go back — keep looking »