The Other McCain

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

Feminism as Rationalization

One thing you notice if you pay close attention to the autobiographical details that feminists let slip as they’re telling their narratives (because “the personal is political,” y’know, and feminism enthrones extreme subjectivity as “the authority of experience”) is that many of these women have psychological damage they channel into political belief because they can’t […]

Texas Democrats vs. the Rule of Law

Even a liberal like Jonathan Chait can see it: They say a prosecutor could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich, and this always seemed like hyperbole, until Friday night a Texas grand jury announced an indictment of governor Rick Perry. The “crime” for which Perry faces a sentence of 5 to 99 […]

FMJRA 2.0: Call Me

— compiled by Wombat-socho ‘Hi, We’re Lesbian Feminists and We’re Here to Talk to Your Daughter About Sex’ Lonely Conservative Political Hat The Daley Gator That Mr. G Guy Batshit Crazy News Rick Bulow EBL A View from the Beach Sue Me Again, You Evil Liar Hogewash Batshit Crazy News The Rhetorican Zilla of the […]

Reality TV Mom Gets 10 Years in Prison

Andrea Clevenger with daughter Kylie (left); going to prison (right). Did you ever watch reality TV and think, “These twisted freaks need to be in jail”? I mean, the entire cast of Jersey Shore, for example, or the parents of Honey Boo-Boo, or the “Real Housewives” or that evil sadist Abby Lee from Dance Moms […]

The Moral Case is the Simple One

by Smitty The question is not: “What if your daughter was a porn star?” The question is “How shall one maximize joy in life?” Linker starts off with observations that are fair as far as they go: No, libertarianism hasn’t consistently changed how Americans think about taxation, government regulation, or foreign policy. But it is […]

‘Wacky Conservative Hit Piece About Raging Lesbian Feminist Carmen Rios’

Carmen Rios (@c_rios) is communications coordinator at the Feminist Majority Foundation and also a columnist at the lesbian blog Autostraddle, which has been sarcastically called “Cosmo for Queers.” Ms. Rios’ career as a lesbian activist was the subject of a blog post here Sunday, the latest in my “Sex Trouble” series about radical feminism. This […]

Don’t Mistake Disinterest in Emotionalism for Cowardice, @PatDollard

by Smitty It is time for Christians to pick up guns and avenge the slaughter in Iraq. — Patrick Dollard (@PatDollard) August 15, 2014 @PatDollard Christians, as such, are always better off picking up the Bible. — ‘Teahadist’ h/t@DMat (@smitty_one_each) August 15, 2014 @smitty_one_each STFU. Cowards like you are dangerous. Blocked. — Patrick Dollard (@PatDollard) […]

Off The Shelf

— by Wombat-socho This week we have something old (but repackaged) something new (but also repackaged) and something else new that isn’t repackaged, all from the shelves of the Fairfax County Library. Let’s start with the oldest of the three, A.E. van Vogt’s Transgalactic, which is interesting for a number of reasons. First, van Vogt […]

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