The Other McCain

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

Probably Should Take The Day Off

by Smitty Santa is low-key this year. The World’s Youngest Blogger has puked about five times today, the check engine light on the car is going to cost ~$1,200 to turn off, and the prescription sunglasses have pulled a Snowden on me. Whaddayagonna do? Get frisky with a steak this afternoon, say I:

A Positive Aspect Of The “Duck Dynasty” Kerfuffle: Identifying The Fools

by Smitty Such as O. Wesley Allen Jr.: But other Bible experts said the Scripture Robertson cited isn’t quite clear about homosexuality. “A lot of people misread this text because it’s so complicated,” said O. Wesley Allen Jr., an associate professor at Lexington Theological Seminary in Kentucky. First, scholars say, we have to look at […]

So, Justine Finally Landed …

Love this http://t.co/18BHgS8pZG #HasJustineLandedYet — Evey (@pertaub) December 22, 2013 The unfortunate Justine Sacco, whose Friday tweet inspired the hashtag #HasJustineLandedYet, went into full grovel mode: Today Sacco spoke to ABC News, saying, “My greatest concern was this statement reach South Africa first.” After sending her statement to South African newspaper The Star, Sacco shared […]

Special Snowflake Syndrome

A frightening report from the front lines of the Culture War: Amy (not her real name) sat in my office and wiped her streaming tears on her sleeve, refusing the scratchy tissues I’d offered. “I’m thinking about just applying for a Ph.D. program after I graduate because I have no idea what I want to […]

Is Phil Robertson Wrong?

"It’s certainly a colorful expression of his personal preference." http://t.co/MKamR33GwZ — @mkhammer, putting it mildly — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) December 19, 2013 You’ll excuse my confusion, but amidst the hyperventilating screeches — GLAAD claiming that Phil Robertson was pushing “vile and extreme stereotypes” — maybe I missed what it was the Duck Dynasty patriarch […]

‘Nobody Matters Less to Our Society Than Young Black Women. Nobody.’

The headline quote is from a very long Village Voice interview with former Chicago Sun-Times reporter Jim DeRogatis about the sexual accusations against pop singer R. Kelly. Since the release of the singer’s latest album, Black Panties, DeRogatis has quite evidently become angry at the way Kelly’s predatory conduct has been glossed over, or even […]

Homophobia: Pathology or Tautology?

A good friend, who spent many years as an active lesbian, but then met and married a man, becoming a Christian wife and mother, absolutely hates the word “homophobia.” The implied psychiatric diagnosis — that the person so labeled has an irrational fear or hatred of homosexuals — is absurd, and can probably be best […]

Anonymous Compares Bradley Manning to Nelson Mandela (Irony Alert)

#Anonymous is circulating this. pic.twitter.com/jnAYvuHgfL Irony much? — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) December 12, 2013 In that analogy, President Obama is P.W. Botha and laws to punish disobedient soldiers are apartheid. Remember that Bradley Manning was the emotionally disturbed Army private who illegally provided classified U.S. documents to Julian Assange’s Wikileaks. Conservatives are often accused of […]

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