The Other McCain

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

Saturday Afternoon College Football & Open Post

— perpetrated by Wombat-socho This evening we’ve got all kinds of college football action: Syracuse @ #20 Clemson #3 Mississippi @ #23 LSU #4 Alabama @ Tennessee #rolltide South Carolina @ #6 Auburn #12 Ohio State @ Pedophile, er, Penn State #21 USC @ #19 Utah #14 Arizona State @ Washington Also, Game 4 of […]

New Rule On Firearms Reporting: No Benefit Of The Doubt For Inaccuracy

by Smitty When discussing firearm usage, you don’t talk about Fight Club. You talk about sight alignment and trigger control. When reporting about firearm usage, this blog proposes the following rule: Henceforth, there is no benefit of the doubt for inaccurate reporting about firearms. It is presumed mala fides. If you’re a paid journalist, act […]

Postmodern College, Postmodern Love

Otterbein University is a small, private liberal arts college in Westerville, Ohio, near Columbus. Like most such schools in America, it began with an explicitly Christian purpose: The university was founded in 1847 by the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. . . . The university is named for United Brethren founder the Rev. […]

What Self-Hatred Looks Like

@LisaKudrow expresses #feminism by obverse reaction: Lisa Kudrow: ‘Gay Men Are Superior Beings In My Mind’ . . . Although she notes that “the people I work with are gay,” Kudrow says her love of the gay community extends beyond the confines of Hollywood, too. “I don’t know who I’m going to offend by leaving […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.24.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS NYC Doctor Tests Positive For Ebola Fourth Ebola case in the US, first in New York New Yorkers wonder why Dr. Spencer went bowling Tracing Spencer’s contacts a challenge for NYC health authorities Police: Ottawa Gunman Had Planned Going To Syria No apparent link to fatal attack earlier in […]

Brain Candy

— by Wombat-socho Many years ago, when I was still an APAhacker, one of my fellow Stipple-APA members introduced me to a term I’d never seen before: “brain candy”. He used it much like “eye candy”, only he was talking about SF novels which didn’t have any hifalutin’ messages, intersectionalism, or any of that other […]

Canadian Terrorist: Crazy Muslim

We learn that Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, the terrorist killed in his attack Thursday on the Canadian Parliament building in Ottawa, was both mentally ill and a convert to Islam: Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, the slain 32-year-old suspected killer of a Canadian Forces soldier near Parliament Hill, was a labourer and small-time criminal — a man who had had […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.23.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS CDC: All US Residents Returning From Ebola Zone To Be Tracked Monitoring for symptoms to continue for 21 days Death toll from Ebola hits 4900 Robots against Ebola? Some hospitals weighing withholding care from Ebola patients Harper: Ottawa Shooting Will Not Intimidate Canada Addresses Canadians after today’s terrorist attack […]

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