The Other McCain

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

‘Underlying Psychological Co-Morbidities’

Thanks to The Tennessee Star, this week we learned a whole lot more about Audrey Hale, the deranged 28-year-old woman who wanted to be a man named “Aiden” and who killed six people at Covenant School in Nashville before being shot dead by police. Among the revelations this week, we learned that Hale had been […]

Crazy People Are Dangerous: Black ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Shoots Memphis Cop

Say hello to Geronimo Kee, 22, who was behind the wheel of a Nissan doing 81 mph in a 55 mph zone on I-240 at 4 o’clock in the morning when he was pulled over by Memphis Police 2nd Lt. Bobby Johnson. The officer wrote Kee a speeding ticket, but Kee refused to sign the […]

Nashville Shooting: Expert on Violence Agrees That Crazy People Are Dangerous

OK, so forensic psychologist Dr. Helen Smith did not say those exact words during her appearance today on Fox News, but we can read between the lines as she discusses Audrey Hale’s murder spree: “When I did studies in the late ’90s on girls who kill or girls who are violent, I found that girls […]

Nashville Shooter Left ‘Manifesto,’ Was ‘High-Functioning’ Autistic

In an afternoon press conference, police confirmed that Audrey Hale — the transgender shooter who killed three 9-year-old kids and three adult staffers at a Christian school in Nashville before being shot by cops — left behind a “manifesto” that we may expect will explain her motives. Meanwhile, the Daily Beast interviewed several people who […]

BREAKING NEWS: Nashville School Shooter Is Probably Not a Trump Voter

While I always strive to avoid speculation in situations like this, the (allegedly) transgender person known as Audrey (or “Aiden”) Hale does not seem to fit the MAGA profile. It is not yet known if Hale’s motive was political, or if she/“he” was just crazy. Therefore I must withhold judgment on whether this shooting — […]

The Diversity of ‘White Supremacy’

When I first heard that there was a controversy about a black man being beaten to death by police in Memphis, I certainly did not expect to discover all the cops were black: Five Memphis police officers have been charged with second-degree murder, among other charges, in connection with the death of Tyre Nichols, who […]

Suspect In Memphis Woman’s Murder Began His Criminal Career at Age 11

Well, his first arrest was at age 11, although he might have been perpetrating felonies ever since he learned to walk: The Tennessee man charged in the abduction and murder of a woman who vanished Friday as she was jogging in Memphis has a lengthy juvenile criminal record that dates to 1995, when he was […]

Memphis Police Charge Suspect With Kidnapping Billionaire Heiress

In 2001, when Cleotha “Pookie” Abston was just a teenager, he already had “a long juvenile record of theft and aggravated assault” before he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for kidnapping a man at gunpoint. Now, he’s been charged in what seems to be an even more serious crime: A 38-year-old man who […]

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