The Other McCain

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

‘The Kook Who Knew Too Much’: Heroic Fantasy, Paranoia and Barrett Brown

Sept. 12: Barrett Brown rants on YouTube about his plan to ‘destroy’ an FBI agent Ever since former “Anonymous” spokesman Barrett Brown freaked out on video and got himself arrested, various kooks have floated conspiracy theories to explain Brown’s arrest in terms of the paranoid delusion that Brown was an “enemy of the state” who got too close to the hidden […]

News Flash: Crazy People Are Dangerous

Bill Schmalfeldt of Elk Ridge, Maryland, a.k.a. “Liberal Grouch” Aaron Walker discussed the most recent evidence that Bill Schmalfeldt is a deranged sadistic sociopath, as if more evidence were necessary. But I think people are taking too lightly the menace to public safety posed by this swarm of obsessive Internet cyberstalkers whose persistent harassment has […]

Anonymous Spokesman Barrett Brown Is Sane Enough to Stand Trial, Judge Rules

September 2012: Barrett Brown threatens an FBI agent in video Breaking ; Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown just ruled competent to stand trial on federal charges against him — Lee Stranahan (@Stranahan) January 30, 2013 Breaking : Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown pleads not guilty to two recently filed obstruction charges against him in Dallas federal court […]

Scientology Continues Its Unwelcome Encounter With the ‘Streisand Effect’

A week ago, the secretive Scientology cult accidentally invited closer media scrutiny by paying The Atlantic to publish a “sponsored content” article so over the top that it generated a massive backlash. It wasn’t difficult for journalists to figure out why the creepy sci-fi “religion” was trying to buy good publicity: Award-winning reporter Lawrence Wright […]

Convicted Felon John Tiessen: Crazy? Certainly, But Is He Also Dangerous?

John Tiessen, ranting on YouTube about Nixon and Jesus and the Rothschilds Where do all these crazy people on the Internet come from, and why do they always seem to end up obsessively stalking me? Maybe I should write a book, Troll Magnet: How to Become an Irresistible Scapegoat for Every Deranged Lunatic With a […]

Slow-Mo Walkback Beginning? Sheepish Silence From Anti-Steubenville Media

‘Occupy Steubenville’ protesters, Jan. 5 “Protestors descended on Steubenville, Ohio [Jan. 5] to demonstrate their opposition to the possible cover-up of the alleged rape of a 16-year-old high school student by members of the Steubenville High School football team. … “Occupy Steubenville, as the rally came to be called throughout social media, was the second […]

‘Anonymous’ and Steubenville: Online Lynch Mob Complicates Rape Case

Call it “The Steubenville Horror”: A 16-year-old girl passed out drunk at a party with members of the high school football team in Steubenville, Ohio. She was sexually assaulted and reports quickly circulated online: By sunrise, though, some people in and around Steubenville had gotten word that the night of fun on Aug. 11 might […]

If ‘Crazy’ Were a Political Philosophy, Its Spokesman Would Be Alex Jones

Does any sane person take Alex Jones seriously, except as a deranged menace? — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) January 8, 2013 Remember when Alex Jones sicced a mob of kooks on Michelle Malkin during the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver? “She wants to put us in camps!” Crazy is not a political philosophy, and […]

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