The Other McCain

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

Black Incel Solomon Henderson, 17, Identified as Antioch High Shooter

At 16-year-old girl was killed, another was wounded, and a third student suffered a non-shooting injury Wednesday at Antioch High School in Nashville, and the gunman, Solomon Henderson, killed himself. There was a “manifesto,” and also another file that’s called a “diary,” posted online by 17-year-old Henderson, who also livestreamed his crime. Wednesday afternoon, I […]

Least Surprising News of the Week?

I’m not surprised. You’re not surprised. Nobody’s surprised: A Trump-bashing, Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist — whose illustrations have been published by the Washington Post, New Yorker and Los Angeles Times — was arrested for possession of child pornography. Darrin Bell, the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartoons, was busted Wednesday […]

His Ex-Girlfriend Was Driving the Bus

The Los Angeles Department of Transportation operates a fleet of buses called DASH (Downtown Area Short Hop). Two days before Thanksgiving, 911 received a call that one of the DASH buses was being followed by an armed man driving a white Maserati. The caller told the 911 dispatcher there was a “domestic dispute” between the […]

Vindicated: Britain’s ‘Grooming Gangs’ Finally Get the Attention They Deserve

Because Elon Musk decided to remind people of the role that Britain’s Labour Party played in the “grooming gang” scandal, suddenly millions of people who never knew about the scandal — particularly in the United States — are talking about this as if it were breaking news. And while I suppose I should be grateful […]

Terrorism on Bourbon Street

It was nearly 4 in the morning on New Year’s Day, but crowds of people were still celebrating on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, because celebrating until dawn is what you do when you’re in New Orleans, unless the reason you’re in New Orleans is to kill people: The suspect accused of plowing a pickup […]

A Product of the Crazy-Making Factory

Notice the slogan on Natalie Rupnow’s T-shirt: “KMFDM,” a reference to Kein Mehrheit Für Die Mitleid (“no pity for the majority”), a German rock band whose fans included Columbine High School gunman Eric Harris. Lyrics to KMFDM songs were posted on Harris’s website, and fandom of KMFDM was part of Natalie Rupnow’s obsession with mass […]

Radicalized: Ivy League Boy Reads ‘Unabomber’ Manifesto, Becomes Killer

The headline is your “tl:dr” summary of what might otherwise seem mysterious: Why would the handsome young scion of a prominent Maryland family decide to murder the CEO of a health insurance company? Meanwhile, here’s the New York Times story: Luigi Mangione, the online version of him, was an Ivy League tech enthusiast who flaunted […]

Crazy People Are Dangerous

Say hello to Daniel Escalera and, while you’re at it, go ahead and say good-bye, because Escalera was shot dead by police last Sunday when he went crazy and attacked an Illinois nursing home: A chainsaw-wielding man was shot and killed by police Sunday morning in the west suburbs, officials said. The officer-involved shooting happened […]

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