The Other McCain

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

Repeat After Me: Raaaaacism Is DNA-Based Decision Making

by Smitty Also, sexism. ‘Diversity’, in the Progressive Inverted Tongue (PIT)*, just means that some Affirmative Action mafia manages the raaaaacism, ‘white’ washing it with the magic squiggle (signature) of some bureaucrat. La Shawn Barber points to a post at Minding the Campus, where Russell K. Nieli explores “How Diversity Punishes Asians, Poor Whites and […]

Incentivizing the Anti-Palin Slime

Chris Bodenner at The Atlantic Monthly: The link is to Jesse Griffin of the Immoral Minority blog, who perpetrated the Palin divorce hoax of August 2009, and who was forced to resign as a kindergarten aide at an Anchorage elementary school after his porn-blogging habits were exposed. Griffin, Dennis Zaki, Jeanne Devon — when it […]

If You Don’t Hit My Tip Jar . . .

. . . maybe I can get the federal government to subsidize me: Both the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission are undertaking studies of ways to ensure the steep economic decline faced by newspapers and broadcast news does not deprive Americans of the essential information they need as citizens. One idea under […]

More on Sex and ‘Science’

Judith Reisman is about to publish Sexual Sabotage, her latest and most comprehensive book on Alfred Kinsey’s fraudulent research, which came to mind when I saw this Time magazine article: Women ages 27 through 45 report not only having more sexual fantasies (and more intense sexual fantasies) than women ages 18 through 26 but also having […]

Megyn Kelly to Kirsten Powers: ‘You Don’t Seem to Know What You’re Talking About’

The relevant quote comes at about the three-minute mark. Everybody else has already blogged this — I got it at Ace of Spades HQ — and I agree it might well be the Most Awesome 10 Minutes in Fox News History: Megyn’s one-upsmanship — “Have you read the testimony?” — is what sparks the fireworks. I’m […]

A Relevant Parable

Once on a snowy evening, a woman went for a walk and happened upon a snake. The snake had strayed from his nest before the winter storm hit and, unable to make it back underground in time, was now nearly frozen to death. Seeing its beautiful colors and having pity, the woman decided to rescue […]

Would He Go Straight To A Nuremberg Defense?

by Smitty Gateway Pundit reports that the last shred of Bart Stupak’s honor is essentially gone: The Obama Administration will give Pennsylvania $160 million to set up a new “high-risk” insurance program under a provision of the federal health care legislation enacted in March. It has quietly approved a plan submitted by an appointee of […]

Sex, Science, Monogamy and Survival

While checking in to see what Dave Weigel was doing at Andrew Sullivan’s “Daily Dish” — addressing the Trig Truther problem, among other things — I came across Chris Bodener’s latest post in a series, “The Evolutionary Case Against Monogamy,” which is every bit the bass-ackward exercise in Darwinian pretzel-logic that you might imagine. Let’s begin with […]

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