The Other McCain

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

Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher Star in Pre-Marital Divorce Training Video

Here, see for yourself: The story is, evidently, a romantic comedy for the post-marriage generation: The calling card of “No Strings” is its cavalier attitude toward casual sex, and how members of the opposite sex have precious few boundaries talking about or engaging in the practice of making love. . . . “I think holding […]

Paris Vogue Goes Creepy

Those photos are from the December issue of Paris Vogue, which had a multi-page fashion spread featuring 6- and 7-year-old girls. Jennifer Grant at Christianity Today calls this “Another Assault on Little Girls,” although she says some readers are defending it: Are fans of the December issue correct when they say that those of us […]

‘Few People Understand the Damage Boys Who Are Abused by Women Can Suffer’

So says Dr. Helen Smith in regard to an Arizona case where an underaged boy (allegedly) had sex with both (a) 48-year-old Susan Brock, and (b) her 21-year-old daughter Rachel Katherine Brock: Rachel Brock is accused of committing numerous sex acts with the teenage boy between February 2007 and August 2008, and sending him nude […]

Natalie Portman Explains Why Lesbian Scenes Are Like CGI Special Effects in 3-D

Whatever it takes to sell tickets: “Everyone was so worried about who was going to want to see this movie [The Black Swan] . . . I remember them being like, ‘How do you get guys to a ballet movie? How do you get girls to a thriller?’ And the answer is a lesbian scene. […]

More Proof Exercise Is Bad for You

A marathon runner is diagnosed with stress damage to her gluteal tendons, a malady called “dead butt syndrome.” Exercise is to yuppies what Islam is to suicide bombers. “Fitness” has become a cult among the college-educated and upwardly mobile. Tom Wolfe noticed this phenomenon nearly 30 years ago when he described the “social X-rays” — those bone-thin yuppie […]

The ‘Ick Factor’

“In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the suggestion that he is the flesh-and-blood tribute to the success of […]

Reader E-Mail: ‘I Live in Reality’

Image from the Art Renewal Center Regular readers will remember that earlier this week I found myself tangled up in flame-wars and attacked in the comments after I criticized a feminist’s attempt to use the Julian Assange case as a “teachable moment” to lecture about the protocols of condom use in the context of “no […]

Bristol Palin, Margaret Cho, Kathy Griffin and the Politics of Sexual Destruction

“Everyone was trying to pit me against Bristol, but the truth is, we got along well. She never asked me to babysit Tripp or anything like that, but I consider her a friend. . . . I really like Bristol as a person. . . . I am proud of her for shaking her ass!” […]

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