The Other McCain

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

@DavidAFrench: Up Your Game

by Smitty French has a fair cop over at NRO, (emphasis mine): And just like that, in lockstep, the tough-guy Right pivots. The herd moos aggressively and goes to war. It’s just as big a joke as a Democratic party that once pitched its own fits about hackers and leakers and now casts leaking in […]

Social Justice vs. Heterosexuality (and the Problem With ‘Male Feminists’)

“We must recognize that heterosexuality is also part of the structure of the oppression of women. Sexual repression is one of the ways in which women are oppressed and one of the ways in which patriarchy is maintained.” — Jane Flax, “Women Do Theory,” 1979, in Feminist Frameworks: Alternative Theoretical Accounts of the Relations Between […]

A Modern Love Story

On Valentine’s Day, Lenore Skenazy at Reason told the story of Zachary, who was 17 years old when he met a girl who was 13, who had a friend, also a 13-year-old girl, who “shared Zachary’s love of dragons and videogames.” An online romance flourished via Skype between Zachary and the dragon-loving girl and — […]

Bad Movies and Robert De Niro (and Why Donald Trump Is Not Literally Hitler)

  In March 1975, Robert De Niro was 31 years old when he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his breakthrough role as young Vito Corleone in The Godfather, Part II. Leslie Mann was barely 3 years old at the time, and there was something distinctly weird about Mann, now 44, being cast […]

In The Mailbox: 02.17.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho OVER THE TRANSOM EBL: Trump Administration To Use 100K National Guardsmen To Round Up Illegals? Twitchy: Meathead Predicts How “Democracy” Will Be Saved As Irony Spotters Have A Field Day Louder With Crowder: Washington’s Supreme Court Rules Government Can Force Business Owners To Violate Their Consciences Bill Whittle: Muslim Chic (h/t […]

Democrat Commits Violence Against Women That Feminists Will Ignore

  You won’t see any feminist blogs discussing this story: Embattled Louisiana State Senator Troy Brown has resigned from office he announced Thursday afternoon. At Thursday’s announcement, Brown stated, “In both criminal manners, the judges issued a punishment that is commensurate to the offense. If we did a parallel for what the Senate body is […]

Oh, @Jack Dorsey and @SarahSilverman Sharing Coup d’Etat Fantasies?

  Further evidence Twitter is being run by a delusional megalomaniac: The CEO of Twitter seemingly believes America is currently experiencing civil unrest comparable to the Arab Spring, a series of revolutionary protests, coups and civil wars in the Arab world a few years ago. While the social media company appears to be treading water after […]

Feminism: Ignorance as Expertise

  Sarah is a 24-year-old Australian feminist on Tumblr: The idea that mothers can unilaterally prevent their sons from displaying misogyny if they just put in the requisite amount of effort to “raise them right,” is such a slap in the face to women who have raised sons for millennia. Would misogyny no longer exist […]

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