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‘Fattie Goes Oink’: California Professor Performs at Academic Conference

  Angelina Moles (@fiercefatfemme on Instagram) is a tenure-track Professor of Communication Studies at Merced College in California and a self-described “Queer Performance Artist.” To quote a Facebook post about an event in Idaho last year featuring Ms. Moles: Angelina’s work focuses on humanizing the Fat experience while honoring it’s unique monstrosity. She currently teaches […]

Police Say Florida Teenagers Used Online Resale App to Lure Robbery Victim

Clockwise from top left: Henderson, Jackson, Jones, Reddish. The perpetrators reportedly confessed: Four teenagers are in custody after deputies say they used an online sale meetup to beat a man and rob him of $400 in the Starbucks parking lot in Sarasota. Around 12:30pm on Sunday, deputies were called to the Starbucks on Cattlemen Road. […]

More Stupid Criminal News

  The stupidity is piling up high in Oklahoma, folks: A 69-year-old Alva man, and co-owner of a number of vape shops and a medical marijuana business in the state, appeared in Oklahoma City federal court Thursday on a charge of allegedly trying to hire someone to kill a former employee and one-time lover, and […]

Woman Arrested in Hate Graffiti Case

  Wednesday, under the headline “Stupid Is as Stupid Does,” I reported on this woman whose crimes were captured on video: The Norman Police Department arrested 45-year-old Allison Johnson in connection to the recent vandalism incidents in both Norman and Oklahoma City this afternoon. Police say she turned herself in for the crimes. Johnson was […]

Another Public-Relations Debacle for Houston’s ‘Drag Queen Story Time’

William Travis Dees as “Sister Jeff” (lower right). “Drag Queen Story Time” at the Houston Public Library suffered a serious public-relations setback last month after it was revealed that one of the participants, “Tatiana Mala Nina,” who had been reading to children as part of the program, was in fact Albert Alfonso Garza, 32, a […]

Stupid Is as Stupid Does

An incredibly stupid woman committed an incredibly stupid crime last week in Oklahoma City, spray-painting neo-Nazi graffiti (a swastika and “1488”) on the state Democratic Party headquarters and the offices of the Chickasaw Nation. She made no effort to disguise herself and was caught on video:   Was this a real “hate crime,” or is this […]

The Fake ‘Hate’ Epidemic

  Political paranoia: Portland, Oregon, is a deep-blue city in a deep-blue state — in 2016, Hillary Clinton got 73% of the vote in Multnomah County, carrying Oregon by an 11-point margin — and therefore would seem to be an unlikely place to find anti-LGBT violence. So when activists in Portland claimed they had been […]

Democrat Ex-Sen. David Boren Accused of Being Creepy Old Gay Closet Case

  The accusation: A former University of Oklahoma student alleges he was touched and kissed inappropriately by former university President David Boren on several occasions almost a decade ago when the man worked as a teaching aide for the onetime governor and senator. The allegations by Jess Eddy, now 29, appear to be at the […]

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