The Other McCain

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

Celebrity News: ‘Flamboyant’ Skater Johnny Weir Divorces His Gay Husband

Whenever I get bored with politics, there’s always the celebrity tabloid headlines at WeSmirch. Of course, most of these “celebrities” nowadays are reality-TV personalities you never heard of, and the stories are mostly exercises in trivial silliness. Radar Online uses the stereotypical adjective “flamboyant” to describe former Olympic skater (and NBC Sports commentator) Johnny Weir, […]

At War With God and Nature: @AmandaMarcotte’s Darwinian Fate

“And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” — Genesis 1:28 (KJV) “I don’t want a baby. […]

Premature Obituary?

Josh Kraushaar at National Journal argues that the Tea Party is dead, while at The Federalist, Ben Domenech says that what Kraushaar interprets as rigor mortis is actually evidence of the Tea Party’s success. My own opinion on the subject is nuanced. Having been immersed in the Tea Party movement from its inception, I considered […]

In The Mailbox: 03.20.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho OVER THE TRANSOM Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Lena Dunham and the Hipster Golf Clap; also, Worldwide Heavy Metal. Proof Positive: Able To Leap Tall Conclusions In A Single Bound! Also, Bait And Switch, and Others May Have Reservations. First Street Journal: We Told You So! and A Canary In The Coal Mine […]

Australia Says Debris in Ocean May Be Missing Malaysian Airliner

Fox News: Military planes from Australia, the U.S. and New Zealand are searching for two objects spotted by satellite in the southern Indian Ocean that could be related to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Thursday. Abott told Parliament in Canberra that an Orion and three additional aircraft, including a […]

Picking Up The Signal

— by Wombat-socho A pox on Verizon for taking nearly a week to repair/replace the stone knives and bearskins that deliver the Intertubes to my humble burrow in the Virginia suburbs, after said high-tech devices were blown down during the windstorms last week. (As an aside, what kind of crappy 21st century infrastructure gets blown […]

‘Pervasive Culture of Sexual Violence’

No, that’s not a description of the Republican Party. It’s about one of the most famous bastions of liberalism in America: Thirty-one current and former UC Berkeley students filed two federal complaints against the university [Feb. 26] alleging a decades-long pattern of mishandling sexual assault investigations by campus administrators. The complaints allege that officials for […]

Ukraine Concedes Crimea to Russia

Putin scores an easy victory: Bowing to the reality of the Russian military occupation of Crimea a day after Russia announced it was annexing the disputed peninsula, the Ukrainian government said on Wednesday that it had drawn up plans to evacuate all of its military personnel and their families and was prepared to relocate as […]

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