The Other McCain

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

BREAKING: Kaitlyn Hunt Refuses Plea Offer, Will Face Trial on June 20

Kaitlyn Hunt, the Florida 18-year-old who admitted a sexual affair with a 14-year-old girl, has rejected a plea-bargain offer from prosecutors in Indian River County and will face trial June 20 on charges of lewd and lascivious battery. UPDATE: Hunt’s supporters had mounted an online campaign claiming that she was the victim of homophobic prejudice […]

Fairfax Free Citizen Thought The VA GOP Convention A Blast

by Smitty The World’s Youngest Blogger, the new job, an online course in Data Science: I’ve been busy. Hence the fact it’s been mostly Twitter for me, of late. There was a deal with Mrs. Other Smitty that the blogging would be walked back after the election, as well. Too, Stacy’s been jamming with the […]

Has Somebody Told @Jack Dorsey That Twitter Was Invented by Ed Markey?

#InventedByEdMarkey YouTube (and we thank you: youtu.be/sFYqErvyLC8) — Bill Murphy (@billmurphy) May 10, 2013 “Breaking down those monopolies in the 1996 Telecommunications Act unleashed $1 trillion worth of private-sector capital that has created thousands of jobs — yes, you know the names, Google and eBay and Amazon and Hulu and YouTube and Facebook and Twitter […]

The Russians Call South Carolina’s Media Trajectory A Molniya Orbit

by Smitty Twitter was awash in SC-1 Jubilation about Sanford’s win over Colbert-Bush: So Mark Sanford won?yay, I guess. — Wodeshed (@Wodeshed) May 8, 2013 IowaHawk captures the depth of the opportunity SC-1 has missed for redeeming itself in the eyes of our mainstream media betters: South Carolina: bellwether of new progressive South to hellhole […]

Jeff. G. Heroically Resists

The epic saga of Meg Lanker-Simons continues to yield rich and varied opportunities for the deployment of vicious satire: Last night, a bit tipsy on Tullamore Dew Irish Whiskey, I’ll admit, I was subjected to (but nevertheless was able to rebuff) a sudden and violent attempt to hate fuck myself. Unfortunately, the rebuff made me quite angry, […]

No Wonder They Couldn’t Find Her

For 11 years, police in Pennsylvania searched for a woman who had disappeared. It’s easy now to understand why they could find her. She had hitchhiked to Florida, and the photo on the “missing” posters didn’t look anything like her after 11 years of hard living: People thought Brenda Heist had been murdered. Her ex-husband […]

The Dreaded Wyoming GOP Facebook ‘Hatef–k’ Rapist Has Been Apprehended

The university campus in Laramie was gripped by fear last week: “I want to hatef–k Meg Lanker Simons so hard. That chick that runs her liberal mouth all the time and doesn’t care who knows it. I think its hot and it makes me angry. One night with me and shes gonna be a good […]

‘A History of Psychiatric Problems’

The California math teacher was arrested last summer: The charges against 36-year-old Amber Lee Failla include unlawful sexual intercourse, oral copulation with minors and contacting a minor with the intent to commit a sexual offense, according to Kern County Superior Court records. . . . California City police said their investigation into Failla began when […]

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