The Other McCain

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

Crazy People Are Dangerous

Everyone agrees that the late James Windale Lanier had “been dealing with mental health issues,” as WCTI-TV put it. But despite the relevance of this information to Lanier’s untimely demise earlier this year, I’ve been unable to find any media account that specifies how these “issues” had been diagnosed or treated. Because I’m not a […]

White Privilege or … Biden Privilege?

Decided against making this another Aspiring Rapper Update, but the lawyer for imprisoned Florida rapper Kodak Black makes an important point: Nobody else — certainly not a black man — would have gotten the sweetheart deal Hunter Biden got from the Department of Justice. Rapper Kodak Black’s Lawyer Slams DOJ’s Prison-Free Plea Deal with Hunter […]

Slap on the Wrist for Hunter Biden

Because it’s different when Democrats do it: The court papers indicate the younger Biden has tentatively agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges of failure to pay in 2017 and 2018. The combined tax liability is roughly $1.2 million over those years, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition […]

Detroit: Transgender Woman of Color Murdered During Pride Month

During Pride Month! An investigation is underway after the body of a transgender woman was found at a hotel [June 1], near Woodward and Six Mile in Highland Park. The mother of Asia Davis is devastated — asking why and how something like this could happen. “She’s my only child,” said Davis’ mother. “She was […]

The Ontological Error of ‘Gun Violence’

Gloria: “Daddy, did you know that sixty-five percent of the people murdered in this country in the last ten years were killed by handguns?” Archie Bunker: “Would it make you feel any better, little girl, if they was pushed out of windows?” That exchange from a 1972 episode of All in the Family always comes […]

Do Ghouls and Witches Count for ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ at Harvard?

The manager of the morgue at Harvard Medical School somehow got involved with a macabre collection of death-obsessed weirdos, and now all of them are facing multiple felony charges: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Cedric Lodge, age 55, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, Katrina Maclean, age 44, of […]

Chaos in NYPD as Commissioner Resigns

Three kids “horsing around” with a basketball in Brooklyn somehow set in motion a chain of events that has led to the resignation of New York City’s first female police commissioner. One of the first moves Mayor Eric Adams made when he took office in January 2022 was to appoint Keechant Sewell as the new […]

Right-Wing Trump Supporter Charged in Murder of Black Transgender Woman

As everyone knows, transphobic racist Republicans are constantly terrorizing LGBTQ people of color in cities like Atlanta: Atlanta police on high alert after 2 Black trans women shot to death a week apart April 21, 2023 ATLANTA — Police are working to determine if the murders of two Black transgender metro Atlanta women a week […]

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