The Other McCain

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

And Let All God’s Children Say ‘Amen’

Jim Goad on @LenaDunham: As the “brains” behind the inexplicably acclaimed HBO series Girls and the author of the #1 bestselling book Not That Kind of Girl, Dunham is hailed as a cultural pioneer for doing what has become as stale as a yeasty vagina — namely, she is a female who is congenitally incapable […]

Rush Limbaugh Will Rape the DCCC

Those lying bastards finally told one too many lies: Radio host Rush Limbaugh has threatened to sue the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) for defamation, The Daily Caller has learned. Limbaugh retained the services of lawyer Patty Glaser and demanded that the DCCC “preserve all records in anticipation of a lawsuit for defamation and interference” […]

UPDATE: @AmandaBynes Is Crazy

This isn’t necessarily news to anyone who has followed the (literally) insane misadventures of Miss Ultimate Starlet Meltdown: Amanda Bynes is flat-out admitting it. She was tired and fell asleep on a couch at her local mall, the Beverly Center. It’s the latest step in the Amanda Bynes journey. She tweeted that she slept there […]

Andrea Dworkin . . .

. . . could not be reached for comment: BAY MINETTE, Ala. — By most accounts, 19-year-old Brittney Wood was with uncle Donnie Holland the night of May 30, 2012, the last time anyone saw her. Holland — who was under investigation for horrific sex crimes at the time — died from a bullet within […]

Did Pervert @LenaDunham Make Her Younger Sister Grace a Lesbian?

  Kevin Williamson (@KevinNR) is a masterful journalist who knows a thing or two about effective storytelling. Sometimes, as a writer, you don’t want to be the one to connect the dots. Just say, “Oh, look, here’s a dot and there is another dot,” and let your readers form their own conclusions. And so, having […]

What Self-Hatred Looks Like

@LisaKudrow expresses #feminism by obverse reaction: Lisa Kudrow: ‘Gay Men Are Superior Beings In My Mind’ . . . Although she notes that “the people I work with are gay,” Kudrow says her love of the gay community extends beyond the confines of Hollywood, too. “I don’t know who I’m going to offend by leaving […]

A #GamerGate Oddity

The troll @MMashItMatt popped up in my Twitter timeline Tuesday to call me a “piece of sh*t doxxer.” Now, there are two kinds of trolls: The worthless pests I block, and the potentially dangerous creeps I don’t block because I want to keep an eye on them. See, I figured out that not every Twitter […]

The Curse of Beauty

Her name was Gia Carangi and she was, for a couple of years in the late 1970s, the hottest model in the fashion industry. Only 18 when she arrived in New York and rocketed to success, appearing on the covers of magazines like Cosmopolitan and Vogue, she was the favorite model of legendary photographer Francesco […]

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