The Other McCain

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

All My XXX’s Live in Texas

The Lone Star State has become the Porn Star State: When a friend told Hollie Toups that topless photos of her had been posted on an Internet pornography site, she felt horrified, but she didn’t feel alone: She recognized more than a dozen other South Texas women on the website, she said. Last Friday, Ms. […]

‘Learning French,’ IYKWIMAITYD

Valérie Allain as Mireille Belleau in French in Action (1987) “Many have criticized the depiction of Mireille as gratuitously sexist. The camera often lingers on the actress’s chest and bare legs. ‘You’re seeing the videotape through a male gaze,’ said one female teaching assistant who asked not to be identified.” — New York Times, March […]

FMJRA 2.0: Day Late & A Dollar Short II

— compiled by Wombat-socho Well, once again my Saturday was eaten by the necessity of getting the last of my stuff out of the old apartment, but enough about me. Ladies and gentlemen, your linkagery from last week. Unexpectedly: Unemployment Increases! IM41 Hogewash The Daley Gator Protein Wisdom The (Perhaps Slightly Less) Lonely Conservative Jackie […]

The Self-Dramatizing Victimhood Narrative of Lana (Neé Larry) Wachowski

There is nothing more pathological in contemporary culture than our de rigeur celebration of the hero/martyr/victim as the ambitional ideal. If you can achieve nothing else in life, you can always claim victimhood and be applauded for it. This is why we have hate hoaxes by people like Sharmeka Moffitt, and this is why all […]

COMPLETE TEXT: ANN ROMNEY SPEECH TO GOP CONVENTION

TAMPA, Florida Just got this from the Romney campaign: I want to talk to you tonight not about politics and not about party. And while there are many important issues we’ll hear discussed in this convention and throughout this campaign, tonight I want to talk to you from my heart about our hearts. I want […]

The Kimberlin Files: Ali Akbar, the Fight for Liberty and … a Disturbing Silence

  “If Rauhauser and Kimberlin aren’t under investigation by the FBI yet, why not?” — Robert Stacy McCain, June 4, 2011 FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION During the Right Online conference, National Bloggers Club president Ali Akbar was interviewed by Christina Corbin of Fox News: “What they’re clearly trying to do is dampen down free speech, […]

FMJRA 2.0: Iron Head

— compiled by Wombat-socho National Offend a Feminist Week 2012 Lisa Graas The Camp Of The Saints WyBlog No One Of Any Import Disrupt The Narrative Enjoyment And Contemplation The Daley Gator That Mr. G Guy Pechorin Father Z’s Blog A Fine Mess!! The Daley Gator The Camp Of The Saints Lisa Graas The Camp […]

Probably Just a Coincidence

After public schools have spent the past two years engaged in elaborate (and federally funded) “anti-bullying” programs — with especial emphasis on protecting kids from the evils of homophobia — the Washington Post publishes a 5,000-word article portraying Mitt Romney as having been a high school bully who picked on gay kids. By the way: […]

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