The Other McCain

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

Not Quite Sure What to Make of This

One of the basic principles of blogging is, Know Where Your Traffic Is Coming From. How are readers reaching your site? Are they coming from links at other blogs? Are they finding you through search engines? Social networking? Tweets by Alyssa Milano? If the object of the game is to increase traffic — and doesn’t […]

‘It Was the Pronouns! They Were Overwhelmingly Masculine Gendered.’

“Kate Swift, Writer Who Rooted Out Sexism in Language, Dies at 87,” reads the New York Times obituary headline, to which we might cheerfully add: “And Not a Moment Too Soon!” Ms. Swift turned her attention to the issue of sexist language when she and Casey Miller, her companion, formed a professional editing partnership in […]

Moms, ‘Myths’ and Cultural Marxism

“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 […]

Large Crowd of Unattractive Women Attend ‘Slutwalk’ Parade in Boston

“Stop the violence, stop the hate,” hundreds of ugly women chanted as they paraded down the streets holding up signs with stupid slogans: You’ll excuse my factual description of the event, but I haven’t seen so many dogs in one place since the AKC grand championship show. The Boston Herald reports: It’s not every day […]

Amity Shlaes Has a Big Sexy Brain

  Back in February we took notice of the “Draft Amity Shlaes for Senate” campaign proposed by Adam Brickley, who was the first to suggest Sarah Palin as GOP vice-presidential timber in 2008. It seems to have gotten an enthusiastic response — “Amity Shlaes Senate” yields 278,000 Google results. Her credentials are impressive, and she would certainly […]

Pneumonia Update, Etc.

Three days since I went to the emergency room. I’m coughing less, but my chest is still sore. Everybody keeps telling me to drink lots of fluids and get plenty of rest. Which I do, but then news happens and I feel the need to blog it. Also, there are feminists who need to be […]

Feminism: Synonym for Insanity?

During his Sunday announcement that U.S. special operations forces had killed terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden, President Obama said, “Justice has been done.” Not even the president’s harshest Republican critics would argue with that. But you know who could argue? Jos Truitt at Feministing: That’s not what I call justice. I don’t see justice in […]

Feminists Offended by TV Commercial; Osama bin Laden? Not So Offensive

This is National Offend a Feminist Week, and last night I checked in to see what was happening at Feministing, where Lori Adelman was profoundly offended by this commercial for Klondike ice cream bars: Now, this is what we call a “joke.” The guy in the commercial is watching the game, and his wife wants to talk to […]

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