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Fear and Loathing at BWI

BALTIMORE WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT The Flying Dog Tap House near Gate A8 doesn’t have WiFi, but they do have Ralph Steadman’s art on the walls, so that’s probably a good omen for this Gonzo adventure. My flight to Boston’s Logan International boards at 9:10, which gives me just about half an hour to write . […]

In The Mailbox: 09.05.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho LATE-BREAKING WEEKEND RULE 5 SPORTS NEWS: KATE UPTON TRADED TO HOUSTON ASTROS, SOME PITCHER ALSO INCLUDED IN DEAL OVER THE TRANSOM Proof Positive: A Modest Proposal Regarding Antifa Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #2 EBL: Walter Becker RIP Twitchy: Alyssa Milano Wants Obama To Show “What […]

‘The Least Worthwhile People’ and @The_Moviebob’s Darwinian Inversion

  If you don’t know who Bob Chipman is, it’s not your fault. He’s an untalented nobody with a YouTube channel who was a movie critic or something for a site called The Escapist until (a) in 2014 he became obsessed with ranting against #GamerGate and (b) in 2015 was laid off from The Escapist, […]

A Tattoo-Covered, Mentally Ill Ex-Stripper Whose Real Name Is Chelsea Van Valkenburg Publishes Dishonest Book

  Today is the official publication date of a dishonest book by the woman who caused #GamerGate, whose story I explained last year: “Zoe Quinn” was Patient Zero of the #GamerGate controversy. A tattoo-covered, mentally ill ex-stripper whose real name is Chelsea Van Valkenburg, Quinn was the creator of a tediously dull game called “Depression […]

‘Too Cute to Be Straight’: Canadian Taxpayers Fund LGBT Message for Kids

  Heterosexuality is only for ugly people — that’s the message promoted at taxpayer expense in Canadian schools, where “Too Cute to Be Straight” is among the slogans on buttons distributed to students in public schools by the Alberta GSA Network. These anti-heterosexual messages were posted to the Instagram account of the government-backed group that […]

Unintended Consequences or Not?

The media’s relentless promotion of feminist propaganda has deleterious results, and the “girls in tech” crusade is no exception: A professor at Georgetown University has found that STEM recruitment efforts actually “backfire” when targeted at women. Adriana Kugler, who teaches economics at Georgetown, recently published her research on the gender-gap in STEM fields. She found that STEM […]

Taking Out The Laundry

— by Wombat-socho Welcome to another all-too-infrequent book post at The Other McCain. As you might have guessed from the post title, this post is mostly going to be about Charles Stross’ Laundry novels, which are about the adventures of “Bob Howard”, a rising star in the British agency tasked with defending Her Majesty’s realms […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Butts! Boobs! The Final OUTRAGE!!!

— compiled by Wombat-socho A few years ago, before completely succumbing to a severe social justice infection, Marvel Comics hired Italian artist Milo Manara to do an alternate cover for Spider-Woman #1. Inevitably, Manara’s cover sparked OUTRAGE! from critics who deemed the character excessively sexualized, and Marvel backed down in a hurry. Not so Frank […]

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