The Other McCain

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LIVE AT FIVE: 05.27.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Narendra Modi Sworn In As Prime Minister Of India Takes office one week after his party’s smashing victory in Lok Sabha elections; Nawaz, Karzai in attendance Ukraine’s New President Vows To Restore Order Poroshenko rules out negotiations with pro-Russian militants High Hopes For Al-Sisi As Egyptian Tourism Falters Former […]

ROAD TRIP!

With little advance warning, I have decided to hit the road today, bound for New Orleans and the Republican Leadership Conference: Republicans who can’t wait for an advance preview of the 2016 GOP presidential primary campaign should mark the last weekend in May on their calendars and book their flights for New Orleans, site of […]

Toward Anarchy and Oblivion

“It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. . . . I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look […]

Alyssa Funke, R.I.P.

She was a straight-A student and then she decided it would be smart to get an F on camera, so to speak: A 19-year-old college student committed suicide just two weeks after making her first pornographic video. Alyssa Funke, who starred in her first porn film earlier his year for a website called CastingCouch-X, used […]

#OccupyResoluteDesk PSA

by Smitty @BarackObama isn't good at taking responsibility; he's good at talking about responsibility as if it had been taken. — Quiet PreJuicer (@smitty_one_each) May 26, 2014

Trigger Warning: Violence, Scapegoating, Misogyny and a Creepy Little Weirdo

The Mass Murder Blame Game: Elliot Rodger, Gunman in California Mass Shooting, was influenced by the “Men’s Rights Movement” — Will McLeod, Daily Kos UCSB Shooter Elliot Rodger Posted Racist Messages on ‘Puahate’ Website — Matt Willstein, Mediaite The Pick-Up Artist Community’s Predictable, Horrible Response to a Mass Murder — Amanda Hess, Slate Elliot Rodger’s […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Memorial Day Weekend Edition

— compiled by Wombat-socho Welcome back to one of the most popular (or most-linked, at any rate) posts at The Other McCain, leading the FMJRA for two weeks running! As usual, the following contains links to half-pretty women half-dressed to show it, as well as rather attractive women completely nekkid, or as close as makes […]

Portrait of a Killer: Elliot Rodger Claimed in Video to Be ‘Supreme Gentleman’

Santa Barbara mass murderer Elliot Rodger. Background information about the Santa Barbara shooter is beginning to emerge, tending to confirm what I said about Elliot Rodger when his YouTube rant was nearly all we knew about his motives: This attitude is a typical “Nice Guy” rationalization by which losers project onto others the responsibility for […]

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