The Other McCain

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

Talking to Courtney Stodden’s Mom

By strangest happenstance, I found myself on the phone this afternoon with Krista Stodden, whose 16-year-old daughter Courtney made worldwide headlines last month when it was learned that the aspiring singer/actress had married 51-year-old actor Doug Hutchison, best known for his role in the Oscar-winner “The Green Mile.” Transcribing our 35-minute interview is taking longer […]

The Dark Night of Fascism

“In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the suggestion that he is the flesh-and-blood tribute to the success of […]

KIA: Cars for Creeps? Company Claims Brazilian Agency’s Ad Was Unauthorized

Ace of Spades headlined this: “Kia Motors: Our New Cars Are As Hot As Sex With Very Young Children!” — which obviously isn’t a message the Korean automaker intended to send. Jim Edwards of CBS business news headlined the story, “Kia’s Pedophile Ad Campaign Illustrates Everything Wrong With the Ad Business.” You will perhaps not […]

America’s Cultural Elite

“Anthony Weiner deserves to be supported and hopefully he will be mayor of New York one day. I’m serious. He is a Democrat [who] actually fights for the things liberals and progressive and rational people care about. I don’t know why he’s being thrown under the bus. He hasn’t done any — he hasn’t broke […]

It’s Like the ‘Reefer Madness’ of Sex

Don’t know where Laura W. found this trailer for the 1967 exploitation film Teenage Mother, but we are all eternally grateful she did: After watching that atrocious dreck, I’m sure you’re asking yourself three questions: Were the 1960s really like that? — Of course not, no more so than life in 2011 is like movies […]

‘UR SO HOT! C MY WANG?’
(Or, #WeinerGate Explained)

Mark Steyn quotes Little Miss Attila in regard to The Story That Won’t Go Away. (“If you experience an erection lasting more than four news cycles, call a spin doctor.”) Attila said: Everyone lies about Twitter-flirting, and everyone knows that everyone lies about Twitter-flirting. Kellie Jane said that it is actually not so unusual for […]

What Da Tech Guy Said

“That I would see something like this in an American city while survivors of the ovens are still alive is obscene.” When I saw what Zombie posted at Pajamas Media, I was so profoundly shocked that I sent out the link on Twitter with a short headline, a link and “OMFG.” Then I tried to […]

Leave the Em Dash Alone!

A Slate columnist has declared war on one of my favorite punctuation marks. If I have to become the em dash’s Chris Crocker, I will.

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