The Other McCain

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Rule 5 Sunday: Rally ‘Round The Banner, The Banner Purple And Green

Posted on | February 21, 2016 | 11 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

It’s amusing that among the other crimes against “social justice” Stacy might be accused of by Twitter’s Committee of Public Safety is his support of #GamerGate, though in plain fact if he’s concerned with it at all, it’s as just another example of how utterly deranged feminists like Sarkeesian and Quinn are trying to destroy any semblance of fun that boys and men might enjoy. Still, viewed as a whole, you can certainly say that this blog supports both #GamerGate and its older littermate, the Sad Puppies. Which explains why this week’s appetizer is a young lady cosplaying as #GamerGate mascot Vivian James. As usual, be aware that many of the following links are to pics commonly considered NSFW; the management is not responsible for your failure to save, loss of quest items/experience points, character death, social ostracism, pollution of your precious bodily fluids, or any other repercussions arising from your acting like a dumbass and clicking without exercising the necessary discretion.

“There were supposed to be games.”

Goodstuff leads off this week, triggered by Jessica Gomes’ capacitance, followed by Ninety Miles from Tyranny with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress (Bike Seat Envy), and Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism contributes Rule 5 Friday and a Super-Sized Saturday Gingermageddon,  The Last Tradition submits Sasha Del Valle and Lisa Morales, and First Street Journal reminds us “If it ain’t rainin’, it ain’t trainin’!”

EBL’s thundering herd this week includes Alexandra Breckenridge from The Walking Dead, Exploding Heads, Johansson and Osorio, and some Daytona 500 Rule 5.

A View from the Beach presents Let’s Try a Rookie – Tanya Mityushina, Soft Core at Clinton.com, He May Have a Point, Seattle Sex Show Cancelled Over Cannibalism Concerns, Denisovan Princess Leaves Bracelet to Science (cavegirls!), Study Takes Rays Off the Hook in Shellfish Decline, Client 9 Accused of Assault and Battery, Rape or Mugging? Just Use the Force!, Depressed About Smoking, Blood Clots or Skin Cancer? Blame the Cavemen in Your Family Line (more cavegirls!), Happy Valentine’s Day!, When Fishing Season Lasts Just 1 Hour, The Facebook Blues, and Be Careful Out There

Soylent Siberia offers your morning coffee creamer, Have A Soylent Valentine’s Day!, Monday Motivationer Snowed In, Tuesday Titillation Ebony Awesome, Humpday Head Hunter, Furlette El Fuego, Latent Lingerie, and Weekender Bath Night Combo.

The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes this week are Barbi Benton, Renee Young, Kara Allison, Angela Fong, Yui Minami, Ayumi Uehara, and Smiles!

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Audrey Aleen Allen, his Vintage Babe is Mara Corday, Sex in Advertising is covered by Nina Agdal, and there’s also Women of PETA XLIX! At Dustbury, it’s the lovely Taylor Swift and Nancy Wilson.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery, both here and at the FMJRA, where Rule 5 posts are perennially the most-linked posts at The Other McCain! Links for next week’s Rule 5 roundup should be submitted to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox no later than midnight on Saturday, February 27.


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Category: Rule 5, Zeitgeist

#FreeStacy: ‘A Girl’s Name’

Posted on | February 21, 2016 | 43 Comments

Yesterday, I did a short telephone interview with Ethan Ralph of The Ralph Retort, which began with him asking, “What should I call you?” This led to me explaining a bit about why (a) my friends call me Stacy, but (b) I use my full name as my byline.

The actual story of my name is this: My father’s name was William McCain, and my mother’s maiden name was Frances Kirby. My older brother is William Kirby McCain, who was always called by his middle name, Kirby. Our family’s pediatrician in Atlanta was a man named Dr. Stacy Burnett. My mother thought this a fine name, and so I was named Robert Stacy McCain, Robert being a family name on my father’s side, including my Uncle Bobby (who is actually a first cousin, but nearly as old as my father, and therefore my brothers and I were taught to address him respectfully as “Uncle”). Like my older brother, I was called by my middle name. After I started school, I would occasionally encounter the playground taunt, “Stacy is a girl’s name,” and perhaps a Freudian might speculate about psychological overcompensation — becoming in some way hyper-masculine as a defensive reaction to such “issues” — but Freudianism is mostly garbage. Sibling rivalry with my older brother almost certainly explains more of my personality than anything else from my early childhood, but it is amusing when left-wing trolls occasionally mock me as having “a girl’s name,” to which I sometimes reply by mentioning my wife, six children and two grandchildren.

Overcompensation? Maybe, but it works.

Anyway, as I explained in the interview, early in my newspaper career I discovered that unless I used my full name as my byline, I would get phone calls from readers asking to speak to “her.” Although a guy named Stacy could cite other men — including the tough-guy actor Stacey Keach and NFL star Stacey Bailey — in response to playground taunts about having “a girl’s name,” one had to confront the reality of ordinary expectations. So using the byline “R. Stacy McCain” on news articles resulted in people calling the office expecting to speak to a female reporter, requiring me to make an explanation of who I actually am.

Thus the use of Robert Stacy McCain as my byline, which sometimes causes another incorrect assumption, i.e., I’m using my full name as a matter of aristocratic ostentation. Anyway, my eldest son is named Robert Stacy McCain Jr., and he’s just Bob, and if Bob has a son named Robert Stacy McCain III, I’d expect my grandson to be called “Trip” or “Trey.” Maybe 25 or 30 years from now, when Trey McCain sires Robert Stacy McCain IV, the trend in names will have shifted enough that Stacy will be out of fashion as a name for girls, and my great-grandson can be known as Stacy without anyone ever being confused.

However, as I explained to Ethan Ralph, this confusion could sometimes be helpful to the kind of teenage hoodlum I used to be:

Maybe I shouldn’t tell stories like that, but I was a Democrat and a dopehead back then. It was the ’70s, man. Being a teenager in an era when the American people thought it was a good idea to elect Jimmy Carter president is the kind of experience which, if you were lucky enough to have survived it, should permanently cure you of such folly. Polyester pants? Disco? Voting for Democrats? What were we thinking?

Eventually the drugs wore off. Some of us grew up, got married, had kids, paid taxes, and vowed our kids would be spared the helpless gloom of existential despair that Jimmy Carter’s presidency represented. Other people, however, never grew up. They voted for Barack Obama, the narcissistic epitome of political adolescence.

Meanwhile, totalitarian forces seek to silence voices of sanity in this lunatic wilderness of 21st-century “progressive” madness.

Allum Bokhari at Breitbart.com reports:

McCain is not the first high-profile conservative targeted by Twitter recently. From Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos’ unprecedented loss of “verified” status, to actor Adam Baldwin’s temporary suspension over innocuous tweets, Twitter has been disproportionately targeting conservatives for minor offences while leaving left-wing rule breakers on the platform unpunished.
Fears of political bias at Twitter were stoked after the company announced its new “Trust and Safety” council to help the site be “global and inclusive” in its future policies and practices. The council is packed with left-wing advocacy organizations, while not a single conservative or pro-free speech group can be found. More recently, it was revealed that Twitter maintains a “blacklist” of right-wing users whose tweets are “shadowbanned,” or effectively hidden from other users.
As Twitter does not comment on individual suspensions, it’s hard to know for sure why McCain was suspended. Yet the timing of the right-wing blogger’s ban, so soon after these other incidents of anti-conservative behaviour on the part of Twitter and at a crucial period in the election cycle, make it impossible to ignore.

It’s about partisan politics, you see. The whole build-up of the Feminist™ brand the past three or four years has been about establishing a cultural narrative that would benefit Hillary Clinton and the Democrats. This is why, as much as I enjoy talking about myself, #FreeStacy is not about me.

The Left will always find excuses and pretexts for smearing or silencing anyone who exposes the lies by which the Left gains power. Democrats could never be elected if the American people knew the truth about who the Democrats are — unless, of course, the perversity of the culture meant that the American people were themselves so corrupted that they would elect a person as dishonest as Hillary Clinton.

Be afraid, America. Be very afraid.




 

Category: Fear. Loathing., Sex Trouble

FMJRA 2.0: #FreeStacy Edition

Posted on | February 20, 2016 | 9 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Monday: Half Price Chocolate Day Edition
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles from Tyranny
A View from the Beach
Proof Positive
Batshit Crazy News

Guys: Never Talk to a College Girl
GayPatriot
Dustbury
Living In Anglo-America
A View from the Beach
Batshit Crazy News

FMJRA 2.0: RIP Justice Scalia
The Pirate’s Cove
A View from the Beach
Batshit Crazy News

Crisis: Justice Scalia Dead at 79
Batshit Crazy News

Pro Tip: Don’t Be a ‘Feminist Man’
The Camp of the Saints
Living In Anglo-America

In The Mailbox: 02.15.16
Proof Positive
Batshit Crazy News

‘Jeopardy’ Is Rape Culture?
Instapundit
The Lonely Conservative
A View from the Beach

In The Mailbox: 02.16.16
Proof Positive
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 02.18.16
A View from the Beach
Proof Positive

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge
Batshit Crazy News

In The Mailbox: 02.19.16
A View from the Beach
Proof Positive
Batshit Crazy News

Top linkers this week:

  1.  Batshit Crazy News (8)
  2.  A View from the Beach (6)
  3.  Proof Positive (5)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!


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Category: FMJRA Award

The #FreeStacy Story: Why Was My @rsmccain Account Suspended?

Posted on | February 20, 2016 | 427 Comments

Unexpectedly, and without explanation, my @rsmccain Twitter account was suspended Friday evening. Based on past experiences, my guess would be that this resulted from a complaint by one of the leading “social justice warriors” (SJWs) who have been at war with #GamerGate since August 2014. However, there was no reason stated for the suspension, and who knows? So I’ve switched to the @SexTroubleBook account I created to promote my book and meanwhile, friends who are fed up with Twitter’s bias and censorship started the #FreeStacy hashtag. This morning I shared some thoughts with a blogger friend who followed the #GamerGate saga:

As I have said for years: Being notorious is not the same as being famous, but it’s better than being anonymous.
That is to say, I don’t often complain about being hated or misunderstood. It comes with the territory. I started out in the news business as a $4.50-an-hour staff writer for a tiny weekly newspaper in Austell, Georgia. Most people have no idea what I did before I got involved in political journalism as an assistant national editor for The Washington Times in 1997, or even have any idea of the work I did there. The vast majority of people who read my blog or follow my Twitter feed have no knowledge of or interest in my personal “backstory.” It’s not about me. I am not the story. I am the guy telling the story, or I am the guy making jokes about the story. I understand that. But I think some people in the New Media era lose sight of this reality.
Politics is like football. It’s a team sport. Until I was in my mid-30s, I was a very partisan Democrat. Bill Clinton (who I voted for in 1992) cured me of my Democrat loyalty. During the 1990s, I began a rather deep autodidactic study of politics, history, economics, philosophy, etc. My politics are conservative, my economics are Austrian, my faith is Christian. It’s that simple — and certain people HATE me for it. But those people hate everybody who is not a Democrat. Fine. I understand that kind of hate, having once been a Democrat myself, but Democrats think of their personal hatred as “social justice.” And so I understand them better than they understand me.
However, it’s not about me. . . .

You can read the whole thing at The Ralph Retort.

This has been a crazy experience, but then again, my whole life has been a crazy experience, so I’m cool with it.

UPDATE: Linked by Darleen Click at Protein Wisdom, Legal Insurrection, Da Tech Guy Blog, Battleswarm, featured at Twitchy, Vox Day, now a Memeorandum thread and welcome, Instapundit readers!

UPDATE II: Robby Soave quotes me accurately at Reason magazine, and they’ll probably never forgive him for it.

UPDATE III: Here’s a podcast I did today:

UPDATE IV: Linked by Donald Douglas at American Power and by Dean Esmay at Dean’s World. Arguably the most interesting post, however, is Ken White at Popehat explaining why he really, really dislikes me and yet . . .

Well, he hates me with every fiber of his being, which is OK. It is a free country, and nobody is required to like me, or even to pretend to like me. However, if Hillary is elected president and our nation descends into anarchy and civil war, and from this chaos emerges a military junta in need of a Supreme Leader as figurehead of New America, I’m available for the gig.

Under such a regime, Generalissimo McCain will not only be obeyed, but also respected and, in fact, it will be the duty of his people to admire and praise the Generalissimo.

Is such an outcome . . . likely? Probably not, but you can’t say it is impossible. You are my people, America, and should circumstances require me to rescue our beloved nation — a swift coup d’état, at a time of crisis — then you understand it will be my duty to answer the call. The Enemies of the People will tremble! And the enemies of the Generalissimo are also the Enemies of the People, obviously.

Blog wars? The Generalissimo will be merciful. It would ill behoove the junta to be settling personal grudges and besides, our manpower will be strained to its limits, rounding up Women’s Studies majors and feminist Tumblr bloggers, giving them a few days’ training, loading them onto C-130s and dropping them by parachute into places like Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, etc., as part of our effort to bring about world peace.

 




 

Category: Fear. Loathing., Media Bias

Verging On Fantasy

Posted on | February 20, 2016 | 3 Comments

— by Wombat-socho


So last week I promised you a review of Larry Correia’s Son of the Black Sword, the first in a series of epic fantasy novels from the International Lord of Hate. Short version: this novel delivers. Set in a society looking a lot like pre-Raj India, complete with various societal castes and perennial infighting among the powerful families, this is the tale of a master swordsman, a member of the Protectors, who has an extra edge over demons and humans thanks to his ancestor sword, a weapon forged from magical black metal that contains the memories of all its wielders back to its forging. Ashok needs it, because the demons that live in the sea and prey on seaside humans are damned tough to kill, and when the Protectors are sent in to break up a house war, numbers are never in their favor. Ashok’s entire life is upended by his teacher’s deathbed revelation, a revelation that sends him home to find the truth about his origins. This shows every sign of becoming a rich, complex series, possibly even surpassing his Monster Hunters International universe, though at times it reads more like SF than fantasy. Highly recommended, and I’m just sorry it took me so long to get around to it.

Roger Zelazny is best known for his Amber novels and for his Hugo-winning Lord of Light, and I suspect the latter’s quasi-sequel, Creatures of Light and Darkness, suffers from the comparison in a number of ways. Whereas Lord of Light was a tightly-written tale of transhuman “gods” and “goddesses” contending for power in a world settled by colonists from India, Creatures of Light and Darkness relied a lot more on allegory and poetry to drive its plot, and the both the background and the characters suffer from that reliance. Some of the characters are given different names to start the book, because to name them by their true names would wreck the plot before it even got rolling, and while the presence of Anubis and Osiris is understandable, we know little or nothing about how they came to be the powerful figures they are in the universe Zelazny describes, since there’s very little backstory, and much of what there is lacks relevance to the main plot. It’s not a bad read, but one can understand how people who came to know Zelazny through Lord of Light were disappointed. Worth picking up for cheap.

One of the joys of unpacking all my old books is occasionally finding one I haven’t read in decades, and finding out it’s every bit as good as I remember. Such is the case with Henry Garnett’s Blood Red Crescent, a young adult novel about teenage Venetian Guido Callatta, who winds up with a ringside seat to the Battle of Lepanto in this excellent historical novel. I have the original 1960 edition and was very pleased to see that it’s been reprinted and brought out in a Kindle edition. While written for kids the same age as its 15-year-old hero (or slightly younger), the book still gives an honest portrayal of a divided Christendom facing the Islamic threat in the Mediterranean. Several historical figures make appearances, and at times I felt as if I was having flashbacks to G.K. Chesterton’s “Lepanto”. Definitely recommended.

Also recommended: Castalia House’s reissue of There Will Be War Volume III, which among other great stories includes the classic “The Spectre General” by Ted Cogswell, “The Miracle Workers”, by Jack Vance, “Hide And Seek” by Arthur C. Clarke, and “Silent Leges” by Jerry Pournelle, which many of us will recognize as Mark Fuller’s story from Prince of Mercenaries.


Category: Books

Guys: Never Talk to a College Girl

Posted on | February 19, 2016 | 78 Comments

The more I read about the current climate on America’s college and university campuses, the more convinced I am that no man smart enough to go to college would ever be stupid enough to date a college girl.

Feminists have ginned up a frightening hysteria of anti-male fear among female students. Any boy who kisses a girl on campus could be expelled for sexual assault, and even speaking to a college girl might result in accusations of harassment. Feminist “rape culture” rhetoric has incited such a virulent hatred of males among college girls that they go berserk at the idea of a man being invited to speak on campus, even if the man is homosexual. A frenzy of uncontrollable madness was unleashed when Milo Yiannopoulos spoke last week at Rutgers University:

Breitbart tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos made an appearance at Rutgers University, and his ideas and rhetoric so traumatized the delicate flowers who heard him that many of them attended a “group therapy” session afterward.
You are not going to believe what happened next:

According to the [Rutgers student newspaper The Daily Targum], students and faculty members held a wound-licking gathering at a cultural center on campus, where students described “feeling scared, hurt, and discriminated against.”
“A variety of different organizations and departments were present to listen, answer questions and show support” to the apparently weak and vulnerable students, who just a few days prior had disrupted Yiannopoulos’ event by smearing fake blood on their faces and chanting protest slogans.
One student at the event told the Targum that they “broke down crying” after the event, while another reported that he felt “scared to walk around campus the next day.” According to the report, “many others” said they felt “unsafe” at the event and on campus afterwards.
“It is upsetting that my mental health is not cared about by the University,” said one student at the event. “I do not know what else to do for us to be heard for us to be cared about. I deserve an apology, everyone in this room deserves an apology.”
A number of organizations were at the event to offer support to the poor, traumatised students. These included Psychiatric Services, the Office for Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance, and the Rutgers University Police.

Dear God, the education system is turning kids into spineless cowards. My paratrooper son spends his days jumping out of C-130s and marching for miles with 70 pounds of gear on his back, but Rutgers students “broke down crying” and were “scared to walk around campus” because Milo gave a speech? Are there any sane students at Rutgers? Are there no responsible adults in the administration or faculty? Like every other university in America, Rutgers has been descending into decadent chaos for years, as evidenced by this story from September 2014:

Jessica Valenti hopes to redefine
what rape really means
A Rutgers graduate with a master’s degree in women’s and gender studies, Jessica Valenti . . . addressed an almost-full Trayes Hall in the Douglass Campus Center yesterday during her presentation, called “Yes Means Yes: Battling Rape Culture and Moving Towards a Positive Sexuality.” . . .
“I am a feminist this month because a student and activist Emma Sulkowicz carries around a mattress to all of her classes in protest until her rapist is kicked out of her school,” Valenti said.
Valenti hopes to redefine rape, saying that the word has been so distorted that it makes it difficult for sexual assault survivors to admit and report rape. She added that society tends not to believe victims.
The new definition of rape, she said, must include the acknowledgement of inequalities and discriminations in society . . .

What does this mean? It means never talk to a college girl.

“The new definition of rape” means that everything is rape, if a feminist says it is rape, and guess what? Any guy who talks to a college girl is a rapist, because “inequalities and discriminations in society” or something. Whatever. Feminists like Jessica Valenti clearly won’t be happy until males are forbidden to attend college. Heterosexuality will be prohibited on campus and guys will be subject to arrest if they go anywhere within 500 feet of a college girl. And this would probably be a good idea, because college girls are so crazy now that no parent would want their son to associate with one of them.




 

Category: Education, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 02.19.16

Posted on | February 19, 2016 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Book post to follow after work; my trackball ain’t tracking so well any more, and it’s making posting difficult, to say nothing of annoying.


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Pope Francis, Tear Down This Wall!
Da Tech Guy: Pope Francis In Context
The Camp of the Saints: No Longer To The Manner Born
The Political Hat: About That Democratic Socialism…
Michelle Malkin: Border Surge Solution – Send ‘Em To Camp David!
The Shark Tank: South Carolina – Jeb Bush’s Last Stand?
Twitchy: Louisiana Police Captain’s Warning To Gang Members Goes Viral


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Thinker: How Justice Scalia And Ted Cruz Saved The Second Amendment
Conservatives4Palin: Coulter, Others Ramp Up The “She’s Not One Of Us” Attacks on Nikki Haley
Don Surber: Dumped Cruz Ad Actress Explains Why Hillary’s In Trouble
Jammie Wearing Fools: Fearless Strongman Trump Walks Back Attacks On Pope
Joe For America: Chilling Video Shows #blacklivesmatter Attack On Hero Marine
Pamela Geller: Leaked German Government Report Shows “Refugees” Committed Over 200K Crimes Between 2014-2015
Protein Wisdom: Friday Fiction- 100 Word Challenge
Shot In The Dark: While You’re All Outraged About The Apple Flap
STUMP: Math Ain’t Magic – Playing With Numbers Doesn’t Make Pensions Cheaper
The Gateway Pundit: Miami Police Call For Beyonce Boycott After Racist, Cop-Hating Super Bowl Show
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – The Force Can Have A Strong Influence On The Weak-Minded
The Lonely Conservative: Watch As Senator Ben Sasse Reads Angry Tweets From Trump Supporters
This Ain’t Hell: Pentagon To Track Down “Ghost Soldiers” In Afghanistan
Weasel Zippers: Obama Refuses To Bomb New ISIS Capital In Libya
Mark Steyn: No Market For The Marketplace Of Ideas


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Category: Linkagery

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | February 19, 2016 | 3 Comments

by Smitty

What’s more relaxing than a grandmother in the Keys of a perfect day, walking in the shallows as the tide flows in?
It’ss the first day after the cleanup was mostly complete from the next hurricane after Katrina. The family has trundled down to the beach to find it mostly the same, despite some strange small bits of debris that looked like bones, and seaweed that seemed. . .old, dark. Sinister?
The day is beautiful; the tube inflated; the hat in place. She enjoys sand between her toes. Until the foot slips on the slimy lip of a stone opening. . .

via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction
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