The Other McCain

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

Rule 5 Monday: Midnight Snack

— compiled by Wombat-socho Better late than never, right? As usual, some links lead to pix normally considered NSFW, so use discretion when clicking. Thinking Man’s Zombie leads off this week, crossing the streams of Dr. Who and Rule 5; hard on his heels is Average Bubba with Rule 5 Friday. Goodstuff gets weird this […]

Feminism and Sex: ‘Bad, Dumb, and Desperately Unfun and Unsexy’

Anna Merlan’s verdict on a destined-for-infamy scene in Girls can best be understood as a verdict on Lena Dunham’s feminist ethos. Dunham’s ethos, in turn, can best be understood as an expression of the decadent cultural values of 21st-century “progressives”: They are the Nowhere People — rootless, without loyalty to family, community or religious tradition, and […]

The Higher Education Bubble: Feminist Postmodern Literary Criticism, Ph.D.

The following specimen of decadent uselessness was produced by Laura Alexander, “a PhD candidate in English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her scholarly interests include Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature, feminist theory, and women’s writing, and her research typically leads her to take interdisciplinary approaches to literature in her writing”: In “The […]

A Call For A Statute Of Limitations On Cheap Equivalences

by Smitty I’ve had about a belly full of this noise, emphasis mine: it’s plain that some branches or interpretations of the faith view any depictions of the Prophet Mohammed as blasphemy. That doesn’t mean that all Muslims who see such depictions as blasphemy think the appropriate response is violence; far from it. But a […]

The New Exodus

The four Jews killed in an attack on a kosher market in Paris will be buried in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced and, despite absurd leftist hysteria about “Islamophobia,” we need not doubt who is targeted by the real climate of hate in France: A survey of French Muslims in 2014 found a community […]

Asked and Answered

Headline at National Review: Why Do the Media Refer to ‘the Prophet Mohammed’? The media always say "the Prophet Mohammad" so as to distinguish him from the suicide bomber Mohammad and the terrorist gunman Mohammad. — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) January 12, 2015 Always happy to be of assistance.  

FMJRA 2.0: Pretty Pink Rose

— compiled by Wombat-socho Muslim Fanatic Defends Savage Murders by Fanatical Murderous Muslim Savages Batshit Crazy News Big Food, Big Garden, Big Life Lonely Conservative Regular Right Guy Bits Blog Law Of Markets Cragin Media Rule 5 Sunday: Happy New Year! Animal Magnetism Average Bubba Political Rift Proof Positive A View from the Beach Ninety […]

France and Terror

Reacting to Ross Douthat’s New York Times column about the plight of France, I deployed my usual caustic sarcasm: If the fate of the West is in any way dependent on the French, then our civilization is doomed beyond all hope of redemption. This could create the impression of thoughtlessness, and I don’t wish to […]

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