The Other McCain

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

Why Won’t @ThomasArzi_ Stop?

  The response of Thomas Mix to my coverage Wednesday of his Florida lawsuit against Jeanette Runyon has been shocking. He has repeatedly made statements on his Twitter account that would appear to be threats to do me harm. His online conversations with “Nicole Bonnet” were sufficiently alarming that I wrote an email to Mr. […]

Should @Thomas_Arzi’s ‘Works of Darkness’ Be Hidden From the Light?

“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.” — Ephesians 5:11:13 (KJV) […]

UPDATE: Why Would @NicoleBonnet1 and @_Lazarus___ Be Threatening Me?

  After I described Thomas Mix’s Florida lawsuit against Jeanette Runyon, suddenly Mix’s Twitter account (@_Lazarus___) began chattering away with @NicoleBonnet1 in a manner that some people might interpret as threatening and conspiring to harm me. Anyone may search the Twitter archives to discover how closely allied these two characters are. Please, read what I […]

The @Nero Solution (and an Unfortunate Update on the #FreeKate Fallout)

  Milo Yiannopoulos has solved the “harassment” problem: The fact is, women are more easily rattled by nastiness than men. That’s a stereotype, but it’s also true — in the landmark Pew study on online harassment, women were more than twice as likely as men to say they were “very upset” by online harassment. That’s why, despite […]

Women’s Violence Against Women

We must stop violence against women: A Georgia mom allegedly shot and killed her estranged daughter-in-law after her son accused his wife of having an affair with a high school sweetheart, court records showed. Elizabeth Wall, 63, was charged with murder Thursday after she fatally shot 35-year-old Jenna Wall, a beloved Cobb County kindergarten teacher […]

New York Nazis? I Hate New York Nazis!

A famous line from The Blues Brothers came to mind when I read a story about the Perkowski family of Long Island: When the Perkowski family moved into an abandoned home on a quiet Long Island street, their elderly neighbor’s son repeatedly warned them, “The cops are coming. The cops are coming.” And at sunrise […]

Shorter @AmandaMarcotte: ‘Masculinity Killed Those Gay People in Orlando’

“The horror story of Orlando lays bare what damage that this kind of dominance-oriented masculinity does to our society . . . It’s a stark reminder of why we, as a country, need to get past the politics of tough guy posturing and move towards a more thoughtful, inclusive society.” — Amanda Marcotte, June 13, […]

Extenuating Circumstances? No Mercy!

Oakland, California, Police Chief Sean Whent resigned last week “after a sex scandal that began in his department spread to four other cities, with least 24 officers revealed to have slept with the same prostitute — some of them when she was just 16”: The woman, who goes by the name of ‘Celeste Guap’, said […]

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