The Other McCain

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

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.17.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Obama Urges Global Effort To Stem Ebola As Virus Spreads Pentagon requests approval for $500 million budget shift Global peril cited as US prepares to send troops to Africa CDC ramps up Ebola worker training Ukraine Parliament Approves Special Status For Lugansk, Donetsk Regions Also approves amnesty for rebels […]

‘Erection Equals Consent’?

This is a phrase I never expected to encounter and, when I saw the headline, I misunderstood what the writer meant by it: The flesh is weak: On the Erection Equals Consent rape myth What I expected, based on that headline, was an argument by a feminist “deconstructing” the common claim that men are unable to […]

Kirsten Gillibrand’s Phony ‘Courage’

Kirsten Gillibrand is a Democrat and a liar, but I repeat myself. In her new book, she claims that male Senate colleagues sexually harassed her, but refused to name names, which means either: A. The harassers were Democrats, and Gillibrand is protecting these sexist swine for partisan reasons; or B. She’s lying. You can believe […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.16.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS How Kira Kazantsev Went From Cronut Blogger To Miss America Has always been an overachiever; speaks three languages and triple-majored at Hofstra Happy red cup leads to happy new Miss America Why the Miss America pageant can’t save Atlantic City Obama Dispatching Military, Medical Aid To Africa For Ebola […]

HIV-Infected Music Teacher Arrested for Sex With 15-Year-Old Boy

McKinney, Texas: Police have arrested a Richardson music teacher and charged him with sexual assault after he was found sneaking out of a home in McKinney. The homeowners called police on Sept. 10 to report what they thought was a burglary, police said in a press release Friday. They found Roger Kessler, 43, trying to […]

Rotherham Update

Sarfraz Mazoor, a Briton of Pakistani ancestry, has an op-ed column in today’s New York Times about the Rotherham Horror: What has gone wrong in Rotherham, and what is wrong with its Pakistani community, are questions much asked in recent weeks: How could this small, run-down town in northern England have been the center of […]

‘I Was Drunk. After That, It All Gets Kind of Blurry. … I Know We Had Sex.’

The headline is a quote from atheist Alison Smith, describing her hookup with atheist Michael Shermer at a 2008 atheist conference in Las Vegas, in a BuzzFeed article headlined: Will Misogyny Bring Down The Atheist Movement? My headline is better. Just sayin’ . . . Also, the BuzzFeed headline is asking the wrong question. It […]

Is Scotland A Symptom?

by Smitty Pravda on the Hudson notes: From Catalonia to Kurdistan to Quebec, nationalist and separatist movements in Europe and beyond are watching the Scottish independence referendum closely — sometimes more so than Britons themselves, who seem to have only just woken up to the possibility that Scotland might vote next Thursday to bring to […]

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