The Other McCain

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

The Eliminationist Rhetoric of @QueerSpring2013, Twitter Psychopath UPDATE: The ‘Pomosexual’ Mandela?

If you recall the reaction to passage of Proposition 8 (see my 2008 article “Gay Rights, Gay Rage”), you know that the more militant members of the gay rights movement are some of the most hate-filled lunatics in human history. Pol Pot looks reasonable by comparison. One such deranged monster uses the Twitter handle @QueerSpring2013, […]

Stereotype: Neurobiology Majors Just Can’t Resist Those Sexy Seventh-Graders

It’s a familiar problem in every college town: How to keep the neurobiology majors from banging middle-school girls. Oh, sure, the nuclear physics department always has its share of jailbait-chasers and more than a few chemical engineers have a taste for the young stuff, but every university administrator knows this: Nine times out of 10, […]

In Praise of Conor Friedersdorf

— by Wombat-socho Everyone who’s raised a child, or housebroken a puppy, knows the importance of rewards and punishments.* So it is with young pundits who show the occasional flashes of conservative or libertarian leanings: we must fisk them, or at the very least point and laugh, when they write something stupid for public consumption, […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 06.21.13

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS One Million Marchers Turn Out For Brazilian Protests Demonstrations intensify despite government concessions India Searches For Flood Survivors; Death Toll May Rise Valleys in foothills of Himalayas remain cut off four days after rains Senators Reach Agreement On Border Security Amendment Just a question of what kind of bread […]

The Unlubricated Truth

It’s 3 a.m., and I don’t have a Mercedes sports coupe to take on a 100-mph joy ride, so why not get reckless on Twitter? Alternate Headline: Lying Democrat Buttfuckers Pretend to Be Horrified by Anal Sex http://t.co/brMa9PyRN0 — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) June 21, 2013 My apologies for that last Tweet — the phrase […]

It Hasn’t Been As Much Fun Since The Bear Up And Died

— by Wombat-socho Or, A Lot Of Words And Not Enough Pictures About Technothrillers A couple of weeks ago we had a nice discussion in the comments about combat SF and the non-PC offerings of science fiction publisher Baen Books, and we were graced with some comments and linkagery by Sarah Hoyt. At the time, […]

‘Fire Can’t Melt Crazy!’

Says Matt Bramanti, although certainly the craziness has been heated to its boiling point lately and . . . speaking of Alex Jones: The revelation that Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings was working on a story about the CIA before his death and had contacted a Wikileaks lawyer about being under investigation by the FBI hours […]

Obama’s Sequel Speech In Berlin Was Really Just An Alice In Chains Reference

by Smitty The Daily Mail carries the story the U.S. news is mostly ignoring: It was a more muted affair for President Obama in Berlin today as he spoke at Berlin’s iconic Brandenburg Gate before an invite-only crowd of 4,500 guests – a remarkable difference from the rock-star welcome he received five years ago in […]

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