The Other McCain

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

Crazy People Are Dangerous

In a comment on the Deb Frisch post, @GraceGabriel51 shared some of her own experience with trolls: Many years ago there was an anonymous Usenet stalker who called herself Curio Jones. She conducted an on-line harassment against those she believed were involved in the conspiracy, posting information about the individuals. Among those she targeted were […]

Crazy People Are Dangerous

Deborah E. Frisch, Ph.D., is due in court Monday: The former University of ­Oregon professor released from jail [March 30] after pleading guilty to making a false report against a Eugene police officer is again behind bars on similar charges. Deborah Ellen Frisch, 53, is facing a charge of initiating a false report and a […]

The #AreYouBlocked Test: Gamers, Lesbian Feminists, the Pope and Me

If you’re wondering what the #AreYouBlocked hashtag is about, click here to see the League of Gamers “Blocklist Checker” site. What has happened? It’s simple: Crazy people do crazy things. One thing crazy people do is to accuse others of “harassment.” Randi Harper (@Freebsdgirl) decided to make herself the Social Justice Warrior (SJW) queen by creating […]

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty King Korbill at Valley Myzods Sky brooding: doom of the gods, King Korbill surveys the field, where destiny would soon drink. “Ten-to-one odds. Perhaps yield?” inquires Marshall Kornods, indulging in common-think. “A final trump we will wield, ere River Myzods runs pink,” the monarch he grimly nods. Enemy horde on the brink, and […]

Rude E-Mail Is Rape or Something

So, Tucker Carlson’s brother accidentally hit “reply all” on an e-mail in which he said rude things about Amy Spitalnick, a spokeswoman for New York Mayor Bill de Blasio.This became THE MOST IMPORTANT STORY IN THE WORLD for Erik Wemple of the Washington Post, who seems determined to spend the rest of his career writing […]

Why Is Feminism So Crazy?

  People sometimes need to be reminded that the modern feminist movement began in the late 1960s, arising from the New Left at a time when bizarre radical ideas were common among young anti-war activists. Weird sexual practices were widely promoted. Leaders of the Weather Underground adopted the slogan “Smash Monogamy” to describe their bisexual […]

A Coven of Liars: Sabrina Rubin Erdley, Emily Renda and Catherine Lhamon

Left to right: Sabrina Rubin Erdley, Emily Renda, Catherine Lhamon One of the first journalists to raise serious questions about Rolling Stone‘s rape hoax story, Richard Bradley makes this point: Sabrina Rubin Erdely started with a thesis and went in search of someone—and some place—that fit her thesis. She found Jackie and the University of […]

The Liberal Bubble: ‘They Can’t Fathom That Somebody Disagrees With Them’

So says a Silicon Valley CEO, describing the liberal echo chamber inside the tech industry that frigthens Republicans into silence: One startup CEO who has worked in Silicon Valley for more than a decade says that while it’s popular to talk politics in the workplace, the underlying assumption is that everyone has similar views. The […]

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