The Other McCain

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

Miracles Still Happen

Perhaps my method — relentless sarcasm — is not ideal, but somebody’s got to be Andy Sipowicz. Jesus gets to be the “Good Cop”: As a professor of English and women’s studies, on the track to becoming a tenured radical, I cared about morality, justice, and compassion. Fervent for the worldviews of Freud, Hegel, Marx, […]

Dissent Must Be Abolished!

Criticism, disagreement, doubt = HATE, says LGM's Lemiuex http://t.co/fVD0un41KO @AmPowerBlog @vermontaigne @darleenclick — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) February 16, 2014 Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) is a totalitarian commissar trapped in a college professor’s body. This phenomenon — trans-Stalinism — has become increasingly common in American academia over the past 30 years, as Marxist intellectuals strive to […]

About the @EllenPage #Lesbian Thing …

Found full text of Ellen Page's speech on @HRC Tumblr: http://t.co/ocbWxbkv2L It's pretty hard to make me cry but this did. #LoveIsLouder — Tippi McCullers (@ali_steventon) February 16, 2014 I already loved Ellen Page, and after that amazing speech I love her more! Congrats, @EllenPage! http://t.co/MiiGgEYOVW — Overstuffed Bookcase (@OverstuffedBook) February 16, 2014 While the […]

Police: Arizona Teacher Had Sex on ‘Multiple Occasions’ With Her Son, 13

A Tucson TV station has now edited its story to remove references to the fact that Christine Mazzarella’s alleged 13-year-old victim is her own son, but other news outlets have been less discreet: A Tucson, Ariz., special education teacher faces sexual misconduct charges after police said she had a relationship with her own son. Christine […]

‘If It Was a Rape, It Was Good Rape’

“One of the contributors [to a 1993 feminist essay collection], Doris C. DeHardt, a feminist therapist . . . thinks that ‘feminist marriage is, like military intelligence, an oxymoron.’ . . . [M]ost of the lesbian contributors took no pains to conceal their sense of superiority at living perfectly coherent feminist lives.” — Daphne Patai, […]

Intellectuals and the Total State: @JAMyerson’s Dilettante Marxism

Left to right: Leon Trotsky, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Lavrenti Beria. “Lenin, at every passing opportunity, emphasized the absolute necessity of the terror. . . . “We heard such tirades from him a dozen times a day and they were always aimed at some one among those present who was suspected of ‘pacifism.’” — Leon Trotsky, Lenin […]

Boy-Crazy Teacher Meredith Powell Raped Tacoma Teenagers, Police Say

A 24-year-old Lincoln High School math teacher was charged Thursday with “two counts of third-degree child rape and communication with a minor for immoral purposes via electronic communication,” and on Friday she pleaded not guilty: Meredith Powell performed oral sex on a 15-year-old student in her Tacoma classroom last month and sent him nude photos […]

Whose Children Are They?

Tell you what: How about me and Harvard University Professor Paul Reville go on one of those tacky tabloid TV talk shows where they DNA test children? I’ll bet $100 — no, make it $1 million — that Professor Paul Reville is not the father of any of my children, no matter what he has […]

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