The Other McCain

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

The Vagina as Commodity: What Does the Pubic Depilation Phenomenon Mean?

“This particular cosmetic trend — I’ve dubbed it the Deforestation of the Pubic Delta — is really a byproduct of the pornification of culture. In the same way, trends like breast augmentation, body piercing and tattoos for women have been mainstreamed by the pervasive porn aesthetic. “When you turn sex into a commodity, the marketing […]

Ted Cruz Goes All Night; Vendors of Conventional Wisdom Say This Is Bad

Readers may have noticed that I have been ignoring the ObamaCare “Don’t Fund It” dramatics, along with the “government shutdown” threat and the punditry gabfest that have accompanied it. Depending on who you listen to, either Ted Cruz is the future of the Republican Party or else Ted Cruz is the harbinger of the final […]

Woman Lawyer Offers Helpful Career Advice, Gets Slammed by Feminist

Vanessa James is a British lawyer who wrote a column for the Guardian newspaper with the headline, “Formal complaints over sexism should be last resort for women,” which included this: The point is that everyone has boundaries and communicating these to colleagues through behaviour is key to avoiding unnecessary offence. It is also important to […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 09.25.13

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Senator Ted Cruz Filibusters Obamacare Funding Texas senator’s tactic seen as quixotic HHS Report Claims Obamacare Premiums “Less Than Expected” In 36 States Non-government analysts disagree Kenyans Mourn As Mall Siege Ends With 61 Dead Five Al-Shabaab jihadis dead, 11 captured POLITICS Inhofe Says UN Gun Treaty Already “Dead […]

Obligatory ‘Miley Cyrus Topless’ Post

You’d hate me if I didn’t do this one. Show of hands: Anybody want to see @MileyCyrus topless? Anybody? pic.twitter.com/mxOmYsTI0w No? I didn't think so. — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) September 25, 2013 The piercings, the tattoos, the butch haircut — if you find that look attractive, seek professional psychiatric help immediately. In her Rolling […]

Complementarity vs. Androgyny

“If Americans can be divorced for ‘incompatibility of temper’ I cannot conceive why they are not all divorced. I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are […]

Goldman Sachs Banker Charged With Raping 20-Year-Old Irish Student

Meet Jason Lee, 37, an Ivy League-educated managing director of the equity capital markets department at Goldman Sachs. One weekend in late August, Lee was celebrating his birthday at a bar in the Hamptons when he met a 20-year-old student from Ireland. He bought her and her friends drinks, and invited them to a $33,000-a-month house he […]

Nebraska Sex Offender Re-Offends (And His Brother Is a Sex Offender, Too)

Clintus Alford (left); Cletus Alford (right) Clintus J. Alford, 37, was sentenced to 40  to 60 years in prison Monday for raping two girls, ages 12 and 14. He had previously been convicted in 2004 of false imprisonment for a case involving an 11-year-old girl, and served two years in prison for that offense. The […]

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