The Other McCain

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

Robert Redford Uses Independence Day To Ride Climate Hobby-Horse

by Smitty I guess plutocratic People Who Matter feel an esteem boost from agreeing with the elder quasi-Kennedy: Liberal Blowhard Smitty Heading into the July 4th celebration of America’s independence got me thinking about when it comes to huge challenges we’ve faced as a nation, we have a rich and storied history of aspirational spirit and belief in […]

What @AdamRichman Learned

Maybe you haven’t heard about this controversy, but it’s a helpful lesson in the unstated rules of 21st-century discourse. Adam Richman is a former actor and self-educated chef who, for four seasons 2008-2011, was the star of the Travel Channel series Man vs. Food and its sequel, Man vs. Food Nation. The show was a […]

Department of Useless Advice

Among other uselessness, the August issue of Cosmopolitan includes an interview with movie star Megan Fox: “Women don’t have to be desperate and try so hard. Allow yourself to be strong and powerful and men will be crawling on their hands and knees.” This is advice that works well if you’re Megan Fox, or somebody […]

Celebrities in the Culture War

Famous weirdos in the news: Post-baby heartbreak. Just five weeks after giving birth to daughter Alijah, Kendra Wilkinson was forced to face a bitter, shocking truth: As rumored, husband Hank Baskett had indeed cheated with a transgender YouTube model named Ava Sabrina London. As revealed in the new issue of Us Weekly, out now, former […]

Demi Lovato Keeps Dropping Hints

Either this is a coy, slow-motion “coming out,” or else it’s a clever marketing strategy to attract a niche audience, but maybe it’s both. Whatever it is, 21-year-old former Disney starlet Demi Lovato earlier this month performed for “my #LGBT brothers and sisters” at the Los Angeles Gay Pride parade and — although she has […]

Demi Lovato Is Gay?

Oh, Demi Lovato (@ddlovato) came out as lesbian? https://t.co/Zw2zDz9Gbf Did I miss something earlier? @LAPRIDE #lgbt — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) June 8, 2014 Probably not. The ex-Disney starlet’s announcement of her appearance at the Los Angeles Gay Pride parade was deliberately ambiguous. The last time I noticed Demi Lovato was in 2010, when she […]

Feminists Outraged After Young Actress Shailene Woodley Says, ‘I Like Men’

She refused to join the Angry Marxist Lesbian Man-Haters Club: In a recent interview with Time magazine, the actress Shailene Woodley was asked if she considered herself a feminist. “No,” said Ms. Woodley, 22. “Because I love men, and I think the idea of ‘raise women to power, take the men away from the power’ […]

You Had Me at ‘Mariel Hemingway’

When I learned that Mariel Hemingway was among the celebrities caught in James O’Keefe’s latest video sting, politics briefly disappeared into a sort of fog of nostalgic imagination: Mariel Hemingway! Oh, that was a name to conjure with, back in the day! It wasn’t just her striking beauty, although Mariel’s face seemed as if it […]

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