The Other McCain

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

Some Guy You Never Heard Of Wants to Be Some Woman You Never Heard Of

We must preface this with the observation that any pop music group with an exclamation point in their name is almost certainly gay: Against Me! singer Tom Gabel reveals plans to begin living as a woman in the new issue of Rolling Stone. Gabel, who has dealt privately with gender dysphoria for years, will soon [...]

Which Is Worse: Gang-Rape or Racism?

British teens must be grateful their rapists weren’t victims of racism “Individuals opposed to Party rule are selected as targets of disapproval, usually to the point of demonization. Criticism usually extends to allegations of personal corruption, wickedness, or barbarism. Terms used to vilify Party opponents are formulaic, seeming to draw from a lexicon developed for [...]

Creepiest News of the Day (So Far)

It’s not yet 6 p.m. ET, so I suppose something weirder might still come along, but so far? Yeah, this is definitely it: Bill Johnson, a former Alabama gubernatorial candidate, has left his wife and family in Prattville to be with babies he secretly conceived as a sperm donor in New Zealand. Johnson’s wife, Kathy Hale [...]

Students Walk Out After Anti-Bullying Speaker Dan Savage Calls Bible ‘Bulls–t’

Two weeks ago, the Journalism Education Association and the National Scholastic Press Association sponsored a national conference for high school journalists in Seattle. They invited San Francisco-based sex-advice columnist Dan Savage as a speaker. Savage reportedly began his speech by announcing to the teenagers, “I hope you’re all using birth control,” and made lascivious comments [...]

It Turns Out, There Are Two Americas

In one of those Americas, people used to take John Edwards seriously. In the Other America, we always knew he was a phony. In the America that once nominated Edwards for vice-president of the United States, the cross-examination of a former Edwards aide is seen as good news for the accused. In the Other America, [...]

Closet-Case Democratic Party Official Infected Ex-Girlfriend With AIDS Virus?

Jay Parmley and Rebecca Burgin Last week, we noted that Jay Parmley, who was forced to resign as executive director of the North Carolina Democratic Party after being accused of sexually harassing a 26-year-old male staffer, had claimed to be the victim of “right-wing political enemies.” Alas, it appears that the real victim was a young [...]

Why ‘Modern Romance’ Is an Oxymoron

Greta Gerwig and Adam Brody in Damsels in Distress That which is romantic is almost always in some sense old-fashioned, but we cannot be old-fashioned if we know nothing of the past, and most young people have no idea what Edmund Burke meant when he lamented that “the age of chivalry is gone.” Maggie’s Notebook [...]

That Amazing Right Wing!

Is there anything it can’t do? Not according to Jay Parmley, who was recently forced to resign as executive director of the North Carolina Democratic Party after being accused of sexually harassing a 26-year-old male staffer. Parmley, who served less than a year at the helm of the party, denied harassing any employee and blamed right-wing [...]

What Happens in Cartagena …

. . . doesn’t stay in Cartagena: Most of the Secret Service agents embroiled in a prostitution scandal brought women back to their Colombia hotel rooms before President Obama arrived in town for an international summit, Rep. Pete King said Saturday. King said the raunchy rendezvous involved 11 agents and went sour when an agent [...]

Whatever You Do, Don’t Tell Canada: Muslim Women Have Boobies!

Before blogging about this, I first checked Five Feet of Fury to see if the One Good Canadian, Kathy Shaidle, had weighed in. Because she obviously should, and if she had, I would have been obliged to link and quote her. How she could have missed this one, I don’t know. Canadians are in an [...]

Lena Dunham, Sandra Fluke, Joy McCann

One of them’s got an HBO series called Girls and has been called “The Voice of Her Generation,” because . . . I dunno, because magazine editors need angles for feature stories. Anyway, 26-year-old Lena Dunham says (perhaps unintentionally) revealing things in interviews: If you notice my mincey language, it’s just that I’m still shedding the [...]

No, Whoopi, Rosen Said Precisely What She Was To Say

by Smitty Thanks, Whoopi. I’ve personally never failed to value my mother’s decades of commitment to the vocation of raising well-adjusted children: On the other hand, rolling over for Hilary Rosen shows a lack of critical thinking. #OccupyResoluteDesk and his lackeys have reached the point where they are guilty until proven innocent, in my mind. [...]

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