The Other McCain

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

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. […]

If You Were Asked to Name a Two-Word Phrase You Never Want to Read …

. . . I’m pretty sure “anal cancer” would be near the top of your list: U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of Gardasil (human papillomavirus vaccine) has been widened to include prevention of anal cancer and associated precancerous lesions, the agency said in a news release. Human papillomavirus (HPV) is associated with about 90% […]

Lawyer for Accused Columbia Professor Compares Incest to Homosexuality, Calls Daughter ‘Accomplice,’ Not ‘Victim’

Asked by ABC News to comment on a proposal in Switzerland to decriminalize incest: Epstein’s lawyer, Matthew Galluzzo, said that charges against his client were still “only allegations” that have not been proven. “Academically, we are obviously all morally opposed to incest and rightfully so,” he told ABCNews.com. “At the same time, there is an […]

International Hero of World Peace Julian Assange Free to Rape Again? Not Yet

The Swedes seem determined to deprive the LeakyWicker of further opportunities for semi-consensual condomless sex with socialist women: The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, is to remain in jail after the Swedish authorities decided to challenge a decision by a British court to grant him bail on allegations of rape in Stockholm. A judge in London […]

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 […]

A. You Really Don’t Want to Know

Q. How do you artificially inseminate a killer whale? You might think the tricky part of this procedure would be getting the female orca to cooperate. But you’d be wrong — at least according to a letter that Motley Crue rocker Tommy Lee wrote to Sea World: Rocker Tommy Lee is attacking SeaWorld over what […]

Unintentional Hilarity: Feminists Ask If Julian Assange Committed ‘Rape-Rape’

Exactly why this showed up on Memeorandum, I don’t know, but with a headline like “Some thoughts on ‘sex by surprise,’” I had to click and it’s Jill Filipovic at Feministing: There’s a lot going around in bloglandia and on the interwebs about WikiLeaks honcho Julian Assange’s sexual assault charge in Sweden; commentators are saying […]

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