The Other McCain

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

Background to the Carolina Scandal:
Will Folks, Jake Knotts and the ‘Hit List’; UPDATE: Who Is Rod Shealy?

In August 2007, according to the (Columbia S.C.) Free Times, former Mark Sanford staffer Will Folks had an unscheduled meeting with Gov. Sanford in which Folks reportedly proposed a “hit list” to defeat a number of incumbent legislators in the 2008 elections. According to the Free Times, the “hit list” memo that Folks subsequently developed […]

No ‘Horse’ Jokes, Please: Beware of Geeks Bearing Gifts Cheap Condoms

Because some stereotypes aren’t just stereotypes: D.C. to begin using more-expensive Trojan condoms in HIV prevention program High school students and college-age adults have been complaining to District officials that the free condoms the city has been offering are not of good enough quality and are too small . . . So D.C. officials have […]

Elena Kagan’s Bold, Refreshing, Courageous Heterosexuality

Y’know, when you have to get your friends to leak it, as if divulging a dirty little secret . . . Elena Kagan is not a lesbian, one of her best friends told POLITICO Tuesday night, responding to persistent rumors and innuendo about the Supreme Court nominee’s personal life. “I’ve known her for most of her […]

Lawrence Taylor, a $300 Jailbait Hooker and a Pimp Named ‘Rasheed’ Walk Into a Tabloid Scandal . . .

OK, I probably should have continued to ignore the statutory rape prosecution of NFL legend Lawrence Taylor, but I just happened to see this story at the New York Post: The teenage hooker allegedly raped by Lawrence Taylor in a sleazy Rockland County hotel room told The Post yesterday about how her alleged pimp brutally […]

Raquel Welch Agrees With Me

Da Tech Guy seems surprised: Raquel Welsh echoing Robert Stacy McCain? Yet we should not be surprised that even a legendary bombshell would acknowledge self-evident truth: One significant, and enduring, effect of The Pill on female sexual attitudes during the 60’s, was: “Now we can have sex anytime we want, without the consequences. Hallelujah, let’s party!” These days, nobody […]

The Pill at 50: Unhappy Un-Birthday

The 50th anniversary of The Pill — oral contraceptives were first marketed in May 1960 — has resulted in a good deal of thoughtless journalism. Gail Collins spins a wondrous myth of The Pill as the pharmaceutical sunshine of a sexual-scientific enlightenment.  The Associated Press calls The Pill “America’s favorite birth control method,” which is not true: Female Sterilization is the […]

‘If You Made Your Living Selling Something . . .’

“. . . you wouldn’t want people to steal it, just because they can,” says Kaylani Lee, a “performer” who appears in this anti-piracy public-service announcement from the porn industry: Well, (a) I never heard of Kaylani Lei, and (b) exactly what is she “selling,” huh? Ranked among all the sorrow and misery in the world, the endangered […]

The Progressive Legacy of Bill Ayers: Sloppy Seconds for Social Justice

Van Helsing calls attention to a little-noted clause in the ’60s peace-and-love agenda: “Do it with my roommate, or you’re a racist!” It was at the Undergraduate Library at the University of Michigan on a Friday night in November 1965. I was a sophomore and was living in a sorority house — Alpha Epsilon Phi. . . […]

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