The Other McCain

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

Far-Right Religious Extremists in Tennessee Attacking Public Education

Oh . . . wait a minute. No, I’m sorry — that’s what the headline would be if Think Progress wrote this story. Let me try again: Teacher Tells Ten-Year-Old Memphis Girl She Can’t Write About God for Assignment Memphis mother Erica Shead said she was angry after her 10-year-old daughter Erin, told her Wednesday, […]

Anna Shireman-Grabowski: Only Through Suicide Could She Ever Expiate Her Guilt

The very existence of this Middlebury College student is an act of historical oppression, exploitation and genocidal imperialism: My intention was not to cause pain but to visibilize the necessity of honoring all human life and to help a friend heal from the violence of genocide that she carries with her on a daily basis […]

Will @Mueller_Moriah2 Buy @Twitter IPO Shares? Will @MrDeondre__Huel? How About @MsBernhard__Mer?

Say hello to the fake Twitter account Evie Pacocha PhD (@Mueller_Moriah2) alias Ms. Darron Reichel (@MrDeondre__Huel) also known as Johnny Gibson DVM (@MsBernhard__Mer): During another conversation with a friend — and, as usual, by “conversation” I mean me ranting like a madman — about this continuing problem, I made the point that only lax policy […]

Crime Is a People Problem: Why @Twitter Must Prosecute Fake Account Makers

How hard is it to miss this as a Twitter avatar? As thousands upon thousands of fake accounts — all of them evidently generated by an algorithmic software program — have piled on following me on Twitter, I have tried to point out the obvious pattern: The fake-account manufacturers are using the same avatar images […]

A Female Rodney King?

Doc Washburn called my attention to this item at a liberal blog about a woman named Christina West who got arrested for drunk driving and got her face broken by the cops. The liberal blog makes this a case of police brutality, but what I’m seeing is a drunk woman who disobeyed instructions while police […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.13.13

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS “Biblical” Rains Trigger Flooding That Kills Three In Colorado State bracing for more rain and flooding through the weekend Putin: World Must Welcome Syrian Steps On Chem Weapons Lauds Syrian decision to join convention on chemical weapons Taliban Hits US Consulate in Herat, Afghanistan Bomb attack kills three POLITICS […]

Can @Twitter @Safety Prevent This?

Apparently someone at Twitter paid attention and about 10,000 fake followers got scraped off my account, but there are still about 3,500 that need to be zapped. Twitter has got to do something to eliminate this problem. People kept telling me, “You should do this” or “You should do that,” and I was like, “Why […]

Three Authors and Some Extra Stuff

– Wombat-socho Last week I said I was going to talk about great SF writers of the 1950s, which I’ll do presently, but first a couple of items hot off the presses and onto my Kindle, so to speak. First up, Casey Neumiller sent me a review copy of Dead Man’s Fugue (for which much […]

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