The Other McCain

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

#Metaphor: Academics Sign Their Own Death Warrants by Defending Loomis

It’s a formula: [Thing you’re angry about] [epithet] [Republican you blame] [obscenity] [heinously violent death wish] #metaphor @jimmiebjr — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) December 19, 2012 For example: “Barbara Walters should be eviscerated by machete-wielding crackheads! #metaphor” — bingo, you’re a tenured Ph.D.@jimmiebjr — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) December 19, 2012 Professor Erik “Head on […]

I’d Always Taken ‘Valley of the Shadow’ As A Psalm 23 Reference

by Smitty Joe Fein has an important post up about dealing with existential issues. Go read/comment/link. Americans come in all manner of shades, sizes and ideals. One of the first lessons I learned in NYC was not to stereotype anyone. All I can hope for is that we are treated as individuals, not as a […]

Dan Collins and His Son

Childhood Onset Schizophrenia — a condition rare enough that the doctor had never seen it. Guess somebody had to draw the short straw. Damn. Hard luck, Dan. Did I ever tell you about the time I went all-in with a full house, and the other guy turned over four of a kind? When I was talking to Cynthia […]

Patterico on Tommy Christopher and the ‘Wheelerization’ of Steven Crowder

You really need to read the article that Patterico put up about how Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher went “all-in” on the claim that a Michigan union thug’s assault of Steven Crowder was a hoax: I would love to know where Tommy Christopher got the idea that Lee Stranahan and Breitbart.com had something to do with the Crowder video. Just […]

Still Crazy, After All These Years

The loony bin, the funny farm, the nuthouse — it is not politically correct to refer to therapeutic institutions in such slang terminology, but this PC attitude of apologetic sensitivity toward the mentally ill doesn’t really help anyone, least of all the kooks themselves. If someone is dealing with clinical depression or paranoid schizophrenia, insensitive […]

‘Through a Plate Glass Window’: How Liberal Media De-Legitimize Dissent

Patterico did a post yesterday about the “Accuse the Accusers” strategy that I meant to link and discuss at length, but I didn’t get around to it because new outrages were piling up quicker than I could keep track. In just the past couple of days: Stephen Crowder got sucker-punched in the head by Michigan […]

REPORT: @NadiaNaffe’s Lawsuit Against @Patterico Flounders in L.A. Hearing

The diligent John Hoge calls our attention to the report at Popehat which indicates that the plaintiff was unable to show a valid claim during a Monday hearing in federal court. Admonishments against sarcasm are duly noted. Meanwhile — and I’m sure this is just a coincidence, Neal Rauhauser — the pro-Kimberlin trolls decided to […]

The Neitzschean Existential Angst of Blogging in the Same Sphere as Ace

BTW, in case you didn’t know it, @joenbc hates conservative talk-radio with the heat of ten thousand suns. — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) December 10, 2012 OK, the pretentious title is both: An anti-intellectual mockery of show-offs who throw around terms like “existential angst”; and An honest admission of inner doubts about my own relevance, […]

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