The Other McCain

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

Parents Charge ‘Double Standard’ in Texas Teacher Sex Crime Case

Kathryn Camille Murray had sex with a 15-year-old boy. When we took notice last week of female teachers charged with sex crimes against boys, Kathryn Camille Murray was on the list. She was sentenced this week to a year in jail and a year on probation for having sex with a 15-year-old immigrant from Costa […]

‘Revenge Porn’ Mogul Busted by FBI in Computer Hacking Conspiracy

Remember a couple years ago when “revenge porn” created a controversy with unauthorized nude photos of women being posted online? Turns out the guys didn’t get all those sexy pictures from embittered ex-boyfriends. Instead, according to a federal grand jury indictment, IsAnyoneUp.com founder Hunter Moore paid cash to a hacker who illegally gained access to […]

Suspect in Custody After Lockdown at Southern Adventist University

Reports are still kind of sketchy, but a suspect has reportedly been arrested after a “security procedure . . . for an unknown potential threat” at Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, Tennessee. Will update when more details become available. UPDATE: The Chattanooga Times Free Press provides this photo of multiple police cars at the entrance […]

Journalist @CalebHannan Exposes Sociopath and Is Accused of Transphobia

On Oct. 18, 2013, MIT-trained aeronautical physicist Dr. Essay Anne Vanderbilt — a former Pentagon contractor who had worked on the Stealth bomber project — committed suicide, which must have been difficult: It’s hard to kill a person you invented. Known as “Dr. V” in the world of golf, the person who died of an […]

Mexican Murder Suspect Is Finally Deported After 13-Year U.S. Crime Spree

Mexican criminal Fabian Godinez-Oseguera deported by ICE. This case “ought to make your blood boil,” indeed: Fabian Godinez-Oseguera was wanted on a warrant in Mexico for a 2000 murder. He fled to the United States and — despite multiple felony convictions here and having been repeatedly deported to Mexico — was still running around loose […]

Psychiatrist Arrested With Crack Cocaine and a Dead Man Buried in His Backyard

Allegedly, I hasten to add: The body of a 31-year-old man who went missing in October was buried behind the home of a psychiatrist affiliated with the University of Rochester Medical Center. Police say Dr. William Lewek, 62, confessed to hiding Matthew Straton‘s body “in his backyard under a patio chair and a pile of dirt, grass […]

Mister Popularity, Edward Snowden

Benny Johnson reports at BuzzFeed: As the American intelligence community struggles to contain the public damage done by the former National Security Agency contractor’s revelations of mass domestic spying, intelligence operators have continued to seethe in very personal terms against the 30 year-old leaker. “In a world where I would not be restricted from killing […]

‘I Didn’t Want to Seem Crazy’

A year before he killed 26 people, Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza called into an anarchist talk show broadcast on an Oregon university radio station and compared Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik to a chimpanzee named Travis that had turned on its human captor. After the broadcast, using his online pseudonym “Smiggles,” went into an Internet […]

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