The Other McCain

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

LIVE AT FIVE: 07.28.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Gaza Truce Efforts Go Up In Smoke Hamas allegedly accepts UN truce, continues rocketing Israel UNSC calls for immediate ceasefire Kerry’s unique artistry: he came, he saw, he muddled Two Americans Stricken With Ebola In Liberia Doctor, aid worker test positive for deadly virus Westerners Urged To Leave Libya […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Mind The Gap

— compiled by Wombat-socho Yes, it’s time once again for us to take a break from the misery of politics and the cesspool of popular culture (well, except for this, of course) to contemplate the glory of God’s creation, especially as it’s expressed in the female form. As the Loyal Readers should know by now, […]

Death by Misadventure

Brooke Slocum (left); Charles Oppenneer (center); Brady Oestrike (right). You meet the creepiest people on Craigslist. That’s probably the only lesson to be learned from the tragic deaths of Brooke Slocum and her boyfriend Charles Oppeeneer. Slocum, 18, was eight months pregnant when Oppenneer posted an ad to Craigslist offering to let other men have […]

FMJRA 2.0: An Extra Girl (Ape)

— compiled by Wombat-socho Daily Kos Founder Markos Compares Arizona to ‘Apartheid South Africa’ Regular Right Guy Batshit Crazy News The Pirate’s Cove That Mr. G Guy Victory Girls Rule 5 Sunday: Electric Avenue Batshit Crazy News Animal Magnetism Proof Positive A View from the Beach Ninety Miles from Tyranny LIVE AT FIVE: 07.23.14 Batshit […]

Sex Trouble: Feminists Worry That Disney Movies Are Making Girls Heterosexual

Jasmine was a victim of Aladdin’s magic patriarchal carpet. Is your daughter a victim of male oppression? Blame Aladdin — as well as The Little Mermaid, Pocahontas, The Lion King and Toy Story 2. Disney cartoons and other G-rated children’s movies are full of “gendered sexuality,” subjecting women to the male “objectifying gaze,” as “heterosexuality is constructed through hetero-romantic […]

The Amnesty Fine Print

by Smitty Mickey Kaus, emphasis mine: Cautionary note for hopeful Latino activists: A legislative compromise always seems within reach. There is vast DC lobbying/media complex that depends for its survival on “comprehensive” reform always seeming within reach — to keep the corporate clients paying the bills, to keep the grantmakers granting, to keep reporters on […]

Just Relax In Your ‘Fundamentally Transformed’ Country, Americans

by Smitty Pres’ent Obama has simply carried through: In the pre-transformed America, it was understood that the Commies had infiltrated Hollywood and academia. No one really expected subversion of the IRS: To summarize: The IRS (famed for nitpicking and prosecuting the tax law), chose to authorize hundreds of billions of illegal subsidies without having performed […]

Multimedia Hijinkery

— by Wombat-socho The reading has been slack this week because I’ve gotten sucked into Ingress, a vile plot by Niantic Labs (a startup within Google) to get slack, nerdy sorts such as myself out from behind their desks and encourage us to tromp around the landscape to various “portals” and either capture them for […]

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