The Other McCain

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

FMJRA 2.0: Better Living Through Chemistry

— compiled by Wombat-socho Remember, @SarahKSilverman Speaks Officially for the Democrat Party EBL FMJRA 2.0: Not Long Before The End A View From The Beach EBL In The Mailbox: 04.17.17 Proof Positive Patriarchy Means Paying the Bills EBL Our Moral Superiors™ EBL Child Pornography Arrest Exposes Australian TV Reporter’s Sordid Gay Life EBL Angelo Colon-Ortiz […]

Regime Change

At Fox News, Bill O’Reilly is out, and Tucker Carlson is in at the 8 p.m. slot. Meanwhile, in Venezuela, the socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro — who is more unpopular than Bill O’Reilly — is arming his supporters after having disarmed the rest of the civilian population. Speaking of socialist regimes, the University of California […]

Angelo Colon-Ortiz Charged in Case of Murdered 27-Year-Old Vanessa Marcotte

Angelo Colon-Ortiz (left) and Vanessa Marcotte (right). Vanessa Marcotte, 27, was jogging near her mother’s Massachusetts home in August 2016 when she disappeared. The young Google sales manager’s body was found. Police say she was murdered and sexually assaulted. She fought her killer, leaving DNA evidence on her hands. Laboratory analysis of the DNA indicated […]

FMJRA 2.0: Not Long Before The End

— compiled by Wombat-socho We are two days away from the end of tax season, and Lord, am I tired. Came back from Minnesota last Tuesday, went back to the tax mines on Wednesday, and with few exceptions I have done nothing but eat, sleep, excrete, and sit in my cube at work waiting for […]

Dear @EmmaWatson: You Are the ‘Goodwill Ambassador’ for a Rape Culture

  Hello, Ms. Watson. Remember when you went to the United Nations and gave that speech about how everybody should be a feminist? April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Ms. Watson,. and the organization for which you are a spokeswoman . . . Well, let’s talk about “awareness”: A Wednesday report by the Associated Press […]

Feminism’s ‘Rape Culture’ Insanity

Does anyone else remember the “Culture War” of the 1990s? Conservatives like Bill Bennett and Robert Bork argued at the time that the decadence of popular culture — as evidenced in everything from gangsta rap to video games to Quentin Tarantino movies — was corrupting morality, inciting violence and sexual perversion. Here we are, two […]

Intolerant Diversity, ‘Rape Culture,’ and the Feminist-Industrial Complex

Perhaps yesterday’s discussion of academic feminism — “The Feminist-Industrial Complex: Academia and the Means of Production” — was one of those “TL:DR” experiences for you. Certainly, when I stretch it out to 3,600 words, with lengthy quotations from Queer Theory scholars, I understand that many readers will skip out after a few paragraphs. The reader’s […]

Bad Luck or Bad Judgment?

  That tweet by Hannah Williams “went viral” and generated criticism that, predictably, Ms. Williams cited as proof of how bad men are: What is it about women sharing their actual life experiences that leads men to think they can ‘disagree’? I didn’t pluck those categories out my own ass. They are based on years […]

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