The Other McCain

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Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | May 8, 2015 | 12 Comments

by Smitty

“I forgave Betty decades ago,” I told her daughter Ellen. We entered my step-mother’s house. Time to fix it up, Betty having at last allowed she’d ride out her widowhood in assisted living.

“Good to hear,” said Ellen. “Mom said little of you, and what there was wasn’t nice.”

I picked up a plain volume from the shelf. Opened it. Dates around my angry departure:

“August 16, 1987: can’t take Jeremy anymore. That nasty dog of his only yelped once as it hit the canyon floor. Jeremy’s gotta go.”

She killed Lou-dog.

Raw hatred returned, with decades of interest. Forgiveness?

via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction, Uncategorized

Meanwhile, At The Library

Posted on | May 7, 2015 | 14 Comments

— by Wombat-socho


Two weeks until the movers come and drag off all my boxes of stuff, but I still have time to read. 🙂
This week’s book post is a little lean, because I actually did spend most of my time last week packing or catching up with friends, but there’s interesting news that may be relevant to your interests.

First, I finished Ryk Spoor’s Polychrome, which is a delightful sequel to the Oz books by L. Frank Baum and others. It’s not a Baum pastiche; Spoor rings some changes on the tired old trope of mortal adventuring in the land of faerie, and he does it very well. In some ways it reminded me of the Erfworld webcomic, except that you could actually read Polychrome to your kids. I enjoyed it tremendously, and I think you will too.

So far Chuck Gannon’s Trial by Fire is moving fast and hitting hard, and I’m liking it better than its predecessor, Fire with Fire. More about it next week, along with the new C.J. Cherryh novel Tracker and Orson Scott Card’s Shadows in Flight. Also also, Mad Mike Williamson’s A Long Time Until Now.

In related news, site selection balloting for the 2017 Worldcon is underway; this requires a $40 membership in the 2017 Worldcon, which is applied toward your membership in whichever convention wins the bid. Contenders are Washington DC and three locations in the colonies: Montreal, Shizuoka (Japan), and Helsinki (Finland). For obvious reasons, I’d prefer Washington, even though I’ll have long since moved to Las Vegas; the Wardman Park Hotel is pretty awesome and is also located on the same site as the 1974 Worldcon hotel, the old Sheraton Park. Neighborhood has a lot of decent eateries in a wide range of prices, and there’s a Metro station within a block of the hotel.

Also, the International Lord of Hate posted a Sad Puppies update along with a bunch of other stuff he has going on.

Perhaps most interestingly, Vox Day seems to have shelved the Rabid Puppies second-strike capabilities, and instructed his Dread Ilk to stow the flamethrowers. For now. 🙂

And that’s about it for this week.


Category: Books, Culture

The War Against Human Nature: What Does ‘Unreasonable Pressure’ Mean?

Posted on | May 7, 2015 | 74 Comments

The Sexual Assault Task Force at the University of Kansas has some very strange (and by “very strange” of course I mean, typical feminist) ideas about what “sexual assault” involves:

Under “Recommendations for Policy and Process Improvement,” the task force recommends clarifying the definition of “incapacitation” in order to differentiate between “wrongful” and “permissible” conduct.
A university spokeswoman told The College Fix by email that the school defines incapacitation as an “inability to make informed, rational judgments.”
When substances are involved, “incapacitation” refers to how “alcohol or drugs consumed” can affect decision-making, including consequences and judgments, the spokeswoman said, responding on behalf of the Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access. . . .

(Fact: Young people commonly get drunk or high for the specific purpose of lowering their inhibitions, thus to facilitate or enhance sexual activity that they would be too afraid or embarrassed to initiate or enjoy if they were sober. This is what was meant by the old joke in which the “mating call of the Southern sorority girl” was described as, “Woo-hoo! I am SO drunk, y’all!”)

The Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access uses “incapacitation” as part of its multifaceted definition of sexual violence: “Taking sexual advantage of another person without consent, including causing or attempting to cause the incapacitation of another person.” . . .

(Fact: The legal drinking age is 21. If university officials are worried that “incapacitation” due to drunkenness is a contributing factor in sexual assault cases — as it obviously often is — the most obvious expedient would be to crack down on underage drinking by students. Yet because administrators at almost every university tolerate illegal underage drinking by freshmen and sophomores, we are told there is a “rape crisis” on campus when it usually seems more like a “drunk teenage sex crisis” on campus.)

The Kansas task force also acknowledges the vagueness in defining coercion as “unreasonable pressure for sexual access” because it does not distinguish between “coercive” versus “non-coercive sexual conduct.” . . .
The Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access uses the word “unwelcome” several times to describe prohibited behavior: One of those is “unwelcome efforts to develop a romantic or sexual relationship” or “unwelcome physical touching or closeness.”

You can read the rest of that.

Here, in the effort to add “coercion” to the definition of sexual assault, we see the real agenda behind feminism’s “rape culture” discourse. To put it bluntly, it is an attempt to criminalize male heterosexuality.

If you have studied feminist writing about sexuality, you know that they stretch the word “coercion” beyond recognition, so that male behavior which is entirely normal, customary and lawful is depicted as part of a “continuum of sexual aggression.” A presentation called “Understanding the Continuum of Sexual Violence” describes it this way:

Sexual violence is supported by the attitude or viewpoint that women are sex objects, and often takes the form of suggestive looks or actions, sexist comments, and sexual exploitation. All too often our society treats objectification of women as a cultural norm that does no real harm. Men whistling at and calling out to women on the street is tolerated, jokes or rude comments are the daily fare of talk shows and other media venues, and sexually pornographic material proliferates under the guise of freedom of speech and expression. All too often, none of this is considered “criminal” but is part of a largely accepted societal attitude towards women.
The level to which our society accepts sexual objectification creates a foundation where this becomes the absolute value of women.

What is involved in this, you see, is the creation of a connect-the-dots theory about “rape culture” in which anything that is deemed offensive, from “suggestive looks” to “jokes or rude comments,” is construed as part of a “societal attitude” that contributes to sexual assault. By this means, every double-entendre in an old Marx Brothers comedy becomes part of “rape culture,” while every vintage pin-up is also implicated in this “continuum” because it involves “sexual objectification.”

So now, in attempting to codify “coercion” and “harassment” as part of university policy, we find ambiguous phrases like “unreasonable pressure for sexual access” — how much “pressure” is “reasonable”? — as well as the use of the word “unwelcome” to describe “efforts to develop a romantic or sexual relationship” or “physical touching or closeness.”

Stipulate that some guys have deficient social skills, and are not good at “reading signals,” as we used to say, while other guys simply don’t know how to deal with rejection. Especially when we are talking about young guys (teenage boys, really, 18 or 19 years old, and away from home for the first time) it is inevitable that many of them will make awkward (“unwelcome”) attempts to “develop a romantic or sexual relationship.” This is inevitable, as I say, and unless you are engaged in a War Against Human Nature, you expect young women to be prepared to deal with male attention that is “unwelcome,” as well as “pressure” that is “unreasonable.”

Feminist ideology, however, demonizes male sexuality in such a way as to relieve women of all responsibility in negotiating the ordinary difficulties of normal sex life. Any attempt to advise females about avoiding sexual danger is condemned by feminists as “blaming the victim.” When confronted with the typical “he-said/she-said” cases that are cited as evidence of a campus “rape epidemic” — which usually involve what seems to be an unhappy misunderstanding between two drunk teenagers — your effort to discuss the ambiguities without presuming the guilt of the accused male could result in you being branded a “rape apologist.”

An 18-year-old college freshman starts knocking back tequila shots at a party, grinding on the dance floor with any guy who strikes her fancy and — surprise! surprise! — wakes up naked the next morning beside a complete stranger, with only the vaguest recollection of how she got there or why she’s feeling so sore and sticky. It’s impossible under the circumstances to prove she was raped, but her predicament (alas, too common in the binge-drinking “hookup culture” that prevails on many campuses) can be interpreted by a school disciplinary tribunal as sexual misconduct by the guy who “got lucky” with the drunk freshman and he may face expulsion as a penalty.

Is there a problem with sexual behavior on university and college campuses? Yes. It involves porn. It involves booze. It involves a decline of Judeo-Christian morality among youth. Even if you’re an atheist, even if you think illegal underage drinking is acceptable, even if you approve the Internet-driven flood of pornographic filth into the impressionable minds of adolescents — even granting all those caveats and exemptions for liberalism’s see-no-evil attitudes about such things, can’t we agree that this convergence of harmful influences creates a potentially dangerous sexual climate?

Although I know “Jackie” at UVA lied about being gang-raped at Phi Kappa Psi, I would never want my daughter to set foot in a frat party, or any other situation where college boys are getting drunk. Whether or not any of them could be trusted sober, they damned sure can’t be trusted when they’re drunk, and any college girl foolish enough to think otherwise is likely to wake up sore and sticky the next morning. You can go chant slogans at a “Take Back the Night” rally if you want, but you’re never going to win a War Against Human Nature.

Meanwhile, the attempt to criminalize male heterosexuality — which is what feminism’s “rape culture” discourse is really about — is likely to have consequences that neither the feminists nor their opponents can anticipate. Culture shifts often operate like Newton’s Third Law of Motion, where there is an equal and opposite effect. The degrading influence of pornography has inspired truly disgusting behavior among some young people (see paragraphs 16, 18 and 26 in the Nungesser v. Columbia lawsuit). Yet if that is the “equal” effect of the Newtonian equation, we can also perceive an opposite effect in the noticeable increase of women preferring lesbian relationships to such painful degradation in the contemporary “hookup culture.” We may observe that Emma Dawson, who was an ardent advocate of “sex-positive” feminism at Wesleyan University, thought it was a “good opportunity to remind everyone I’m queer” after she gained notoriety by making a public issue of her herpes infection.

The word “queer” has been popularized to include a wide range of sexual behaviors, so that a “queer feminist” is not necessarily a lesbian. Because she recounts various heterosexual exploits in her herpes narrative, we may presume that “queer” for Dawson signifies she’s a sort of bisexual Ado Annie. So, she’s a herpes-infected 22-year-old queer who paid  $47,972 a year to get a bachelor of arts in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Probably a Democrat, too.

Gotta be pretty bad out there, if any guy would resort to “unreasonable pressure for sexual access” to girls like that.

“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools . . .”





 

Category: Crime, Culture, Education, National Offend a Feminist Week, Sex Trouble

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.07.15

Posted on | May 7, 2015 | 17 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Polls Open In UK

Tory PM David Cameron on the hustings in Twickenham on Tuesday

Voters likely to punish Labour, Tories; SNP, UKIP expected to gain
Why the election is stumping the bookies
Why isn’t Cameron benefiting from the UK’s economic rebound?


Tornadoes Rip Central & Western Oklahoma
No reported deaths; 12 injured in trailer park

Chicago Approves $5.5 Million In Restitution For Torture Victims
Payout will go to victims of police abuse in the 1970s, 1980s



POLITICS
DeSantis Announces Run For Rubio’s Senate Seat

Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL)

Serves on Judiciary, Foreign Affairs, Oversight, and Government Reform committees

IRS Audit Finds Agency Promoted Tax Cheats

Wake For Slain NYPD Officer Brian Moore

Clinton’s Bold Immigration Promises Stun Advocates, Baffle White House

Boston Bomber’s Defense Wants Anti-Death Penalty Nun To Testify

Huckabee Takes Fire From Dems, Glenn Beck After Announcing

Indian-American Hotelier Hotly Denies Clinton Cash Allegations


Disgraced Former House Speaker Jim Wright Dies, 92

Hillary Courts Potential Super PAC Donors In California

McConnell Delays NSA Snooping Debate In Bid For Full Patriot Act Extension



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Falls On Profit-Taking, Ample Inventories: WTI $60.44, Brent $67.31
Wendy’s To Sell Over 640 Company-Owned Restaurants
Asian Markets Slide, Euro Hits Two-Month Peak As Global Bond Rout Rattles Markets
Hedge Fund Manager Dan Loeb Blasts Warren Buffett As Hypocrite At Vegas Conference
Whole Foods Plan To Court Millenials
Germany’s Siemens To Cut Another 4500 Jobs
iPhones Gain In Europe, China; “Phablets” On The Rise
The “Keurig For Cocktails” Among Futuristic Startups At TC Disrupt
Nintendo Turns First Annual Profit Since 2011
FCC Chairman Lectures ISP Execs On Merits Of Competition
Green Man Gaming Hits Back Over Witcher 3 Key Row



SPORTS
Burakovsky Leads Caps Over Rangers For 3-1 Series Lead

Burakovsky shoots! He scores!

Scores two of Washington’s three goals, including game winner

Tribe Rout Royals 10-3

Wild, Canadiens Hoping To Avoid Second-Round Sweeps


Colby Lewis Stifles Astros As Rangers Romp 11-3

LeBron James Activates Attack Mode, Cavs Tie Series With 106-91 Win

Twins Crush A’s 13-0

Bombs Away! Bryce Harper Slams Three Dingers As Nats Top Fish 7-5



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Emily Van Camp Returning As Agent 13 In Captain America: Civil War

As Revenge ends its four-season run

Appeared briefly in Captain America: The Winter Soldier


Elizabeth Olsen Hooking Up With Avengers Co-Star Tom Hiddleston

The Mindy Project Cancelled On Fox, May Move To Hulu


Jennifer Aniston Considering Mean Girls Spinoff Mean Moms

Natalie Portman Has Opinions

Eva Mendes Not Celebrating Mother’s Day This Year

Hot Chocolate Singer Errol Brown Dies, 71



FOREIGNERS
Bibi Closes The Deal: Bayit Yehudi Joins Coalition
Over 50 Thai Cops Punished Over Links To Human Trafficking
NDP Scores Historic Upset In Alberta Election
Iran Releases Seized Marshall Islands Vessel
Chile’s Bachelet Asks Entire Cabinet To Resign
Forget Tanks, The Russian Ruble Is Conquering Eastern Ukraine
After Two Years In Opposition, Israel’s Haredim Poised For Political Comeback
German Police Raid Far-right Groups Allegedly Planning Attacks
Over 38 Million Displaced Persons As Iraq, Other Wars Persist
Prince Harry Gets A Proposal And A Kiss Outside Sydney’s Royal Opera House



BLOGS & STUFF
EBL: Cultural Cowardice
Louder With Crowder: Going Nuclear On Islamic Apologists And Cowards
Michelle Malkin: What Assata Taught Me
Twitchy: Sorry, Militant Femnists And SJWs! You Didn’t Drive Joss Whedon Off Twitter!
Shark Tank: Crazy Cousin John Ripe For The Picking?
American Power: Pamela Geller – “This Is A War.”
American Thinker: LGBT Undermining Of The Constitution, Culture, And Conservatives
BLACKFIVE: New CJCS Nominee Dunford “Not A Cyber Expert”
Conservatives4Palin: Obama, Soros Group Stategize About Getting Illegals Naturalized Before 2016
Don Surber: Carly Avenges Sarah Palin In Couric Interview
Jammie Wearing Fools: Clinton Criminal Foundation Accused Of Taking Money From Controversial Group Accused Of “Serious Human Rights Violations”
Joe For America: Michelle Obama Says “Museums Are Only For White People”
JustOneMinute: I Think Hillary Has Found A Running Mate
Pamela Geller: The United States Has Become A Dictatorship Of Double Standards
Protein Wisdom: CA AG Kamala Harris’s Aide Arrested For Running Fake Police Force
STUMP: Chicago Followup – How Did Those Bonds Do?
The Gateway Pundit: Shock Video – Radical Imam Tells Pamela Geller On Live TV She Should Be Slaughtered
The Lonely Conservative: If Civilization Collapses, We’ll Know Who To Blame
This Ain’t Hell: Pam Geller And The Dallas Shooting
Weasel Zippers: VA Employee Steals $150K, Spends It On Hookers And Strippers
Megan McArdle: Life Under Obamacare


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Category: Live at Five

In The Mailbox, 05.06.15

Posted on | May 6, 2015 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Questions About The Clinton Family Foundation
Louder With Crowder: Avengers – Age Of Political Correctness
First Street Journal: As Usual, Hillary Clinton Gets It Wrong
Doug Powers: Looks Like Baltimore Already Received A Substantial “Urban Investment”
Twitchy: “Painfully Dumb Tweet!” Chris Cuomo Gets Schooled On Hate Speech And The Constitution
Shark Tank: Wasserman-Schultz Celebrates Four Years As DNC Chair, Others Not So Excited



RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: National Offend A Feminist Week
American Thinker: The Hill-Billy Cash Pump
BLACKFIVE: Trigger Warning
Conservatives4Palin: Daniel Henninger – The Democrats Own Iran
Don Surber: Court Tells Wife-Killer To Pay For His Own Sex Change
Jammie Wearing Fools: Media Continues Attacks On Pamela Geller As ISIS Calls For Her Slaughter
Joe For America: New Black Panther Leader – “Bomb Nurseries To Kill White Babies”
Pamela Geller: FBI Under Increased Scrutiny For Failing To Prevent Garland Jihad Attack
Protein Wisdom: All Your Children Are Belong To Us
Shot In The Dark: To Be Fair, You Were Warned
STUMP: Watch It Unwind – Chicago, Greece, And Asset-Grabbing
The Gateway Pundit: Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby May Face Charges
The Lonely Conservative: Big Brother Is Watching – And Transcribing
This Ain’t Hell: Jade Helm 15
Weasel Zippers: Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md) Says “My Party Did Not Cause The Problems In This City” Despite Dems Running Baltimore Since 1967


A Long Time Until Now

Category: Linkagery

Texas Teacher Heather Packwood Had Lesbian Sex With Teen Girl, Police Say

Posted on | May 5, 2015 | 31 Comments

In February we reported that a female teacher had been fired from New Braunfels Christian Academy in the midst of a sex crime investigation involving accusations that she had molested a female student. Police at that time had not yet named the accused teacher. Now, however, she has been charged with multiple felonies:

A former math teacher at New Braunfels Christian Academy was arrested Wednesday months after allegations surfaced that she had ongoing inappropriate sexual relations with a former female student.
Heather Lynn Packwood, 25, turned herself into the Comal County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday, New Braunfels Police spokesman David Ferguson said Thursday.
The Bulverde resident was charged with improper relationship between educator and student, sexual performance of a child and sexual assault of a child, according to Comal County Jail records. She is currently being held in the jail on a $40,000 bond. . . .
The alleged offenses began around January 2012 when the teacher moved into the victim’s home, Christopherson said. The victim’s family tasked the teacher with taking care of their children while they were away and taking them to school.
The female teacher and the victim apparently shared a room, [New Braunfels Police Lt. Craig] Christopherson said in February.
It’s unclear how long the relations lasted. The former student told her family about the alleged abuse on Feb. 13, according to Christopherson.

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.) While feminists dishonestly hype bogus statistics and phony stories to create the false impression that male college students are responsible for a campus “rape epidemic,” feminists refuse to acknowledge reports of sex crimes against girls committed by lesbian teachers, because the existence of such crimes contradicts feminism’s theory which (a) condemns all males as collaborators in the oppression of women, and (b) identifies traditional social norms, including “compulsory heterosexuality,” as institutional structures of patriarchal oppression. Once we recognize that the traditional family and its associated customs provide the best hope for human happiness — Haven in a Heartless World, as Christopher Lasch called it — we must reject feminism as a hateful and selfish ideology that destroys happiness.

It’s National Offend a Feminist Week. Be happy — because feminists hate happiness — and be thankful you’re not one of them.




 

Category: Crime, Education, National Offend a Feminist Week, Sex Trouble, Texas

LIVE AT FIVESEVEN: 05.05.15

Posted on | May 5, 2015 | 9 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Grandma Calls Wannabe Terrorist “A Good Boy”

Police officer stands near school bus used to evacuate attendees

Blames roommate Elton Simpson for actions
ISIS claims responsibility for attack

Carly Fiorina Throws Her Hat In The Ring
Former HP CEO formally enters race for GOP nomination

State Department Writes Off Americans In Yemen
Rescue mission deemed too risky



POLITICS
Justice Department Refused Funding For Baltimore Police Training

For want of $200k…

Money went to company that produced “Mister Rogers Neighborhood” for PBS

Top NY Lawmaker’s Arrest Throws State Assembly Into Disarray


Rand Paul Tweaks John McCain: “Some old guy”

Marine Commandant Chosen As Chairman Of JCS

House Veterans Committee Chair Blasts Secretary McDonald, Department’s “Rampant Lack Of Accountability”

SCOTUS Asks Solicitor General For Opinion On Interstate Pot Case

President Blasts Media Coverage Of Baltimore Riots



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Slips On Saudi Plan To Halt Yemen Bombing: WTI $58.87, Brent $66.40
EU Raises Eurozone Forecast Despite Bleaker Greek Outlook
Slower Economy Means Fed No Closer To Rate Hike
GE Links Up With Qualcomm, Apple On New Lighting Business Bet
Indian IT Companies Rise After Cognizant Posts Good Q1 Numbers
Dow Chemical To Cut Workforce By 3%
Windows Media Center Won’t Be Part Of Windows 10
DIY Computer Startup Kano Lands $15 Million
Sony Brings Game Streaming To PS3
Meerkat Dumps Twitter For Facebook
Apple Pressuring Music Labels To Drop Spotify’s Freemium Model



SPORTS
Capitals Shut Out Rangers, Take 2-1 Playoff Lead

Caps goalie Holtby blocks another shot by the Rangers

Beagle scores a rare goal to win

Red Sox Lose To Rays; Ramirez Loss Hurts Already Weak Offense

Whither The Spurs?

Rangers Stop Astros’ Streak With Sac Fly

Devils Hire Ray Shero As GM


Braves Fall To Phillies 5-2, And It Wasn’t Even That Close

Twins Hold Off A’s 8-7

Cubs Blow 5-Run Lead, Lose 10-9 To Cards

Escobar Goes 5-For-5 As Nats Rally Past Fish



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Amy Adams Gets Married After Seven-Year Engagement

Darren LeGallo and Amy Adams, husband and wife

Her 2015 movie schedule was empty, so why not?


Katie Couric Fled From Mayweather-Pacquiao Fight

See The Force Awakens Cast In Annie Leibovitz Pics

Rihanna Best Dressed Diva At Met’s Great Ball Of China


Chris Brown Named As Suspect In Vegas Brawl

“Django Unchained” Actress Ordered To Apologize To Police

Rachel Uchitel Leaving Door Open For Tiger – If He Grovels

Lauren Hill Cancels Israel Show



FOREIGNERS
Quake Hits Papua New guinea, No Damage Reported
UK Parties Plot For Coalition As Chancellor Warns Of Deeply Unstable Hung Parliament
National Front Founder Strikes Back At Daughter After Suspension From Party
Burundi Court Validates President’s Bid For Third Term
Boko Haram In Disarray After Nigerian Forces Advance
Netanyahu Promises New Approach To Help Ethiopian Jews
Italy Demands EU Partners Stump Up For Rescued Migrants
#GoHomeIndianMedia: Nepalis Slam Indian Media For Doing Indian Government PR
“No Room For Gays In Kenya,” Says Deputy President
Hello China! Modi Takes Diplomacy Directly To Weibo
Senegal Pledges 2100 Troops To Saudi-Led Yemen Coalition



BLOGS & STUFF
EBL: Blaming The Victim
Doug Powers: Bernie Sanders’ Challenging Vision for America – No Car In Every Garage
Twitchy: CNN’s Alisyn Camarota Gets Schooled By Pamela Geller
Shark Tank: Fidel Castro Outed As The Drug Dealer We Always Knew He Was
American Power: The Only Thing Better Than Dessert
American Thinker: The Obama Deceit Doctrine
BLACKFIVE: Iran Deal Ad – Why Are The Mullahs Laughing?
Conservatives4Palin: Weekly Standard Succumbs To Liberal Rhetoric On Governor Palin
Don Surber: CNN Likes Riots, Opposes Drawing Pictures
Jammie Wearing Fools: NYT Reporter Confused About This Whole “Free Speech” Thing
Joe For America: The Eric Sheppard Challenge Is An Ignorant Foot-Stomping For Attention
JustOneMinute: Politicizing The CIA
Pamela Geller: Texas Jihadi Identified, Was Previously Subject Of Terror Investigation
Protein Wisdom: Punch Back Twice As Hard
Shot In the Dark: Disappointment
STUMP: Obamacare Tax Watch – Drop After Tax Day Move
The Gateway Pundit: Texas Shooters’ Mosque Controlled By Muslim Brotherhood Front Group
The Lonely Conservative: And So It Begins
This Ain’t Hell: SFC Hobson-Shearwood Saving The World
Weasel Zippers: Obama Has No Comment On Garland – But It’s Time To Go On Letterman!
Megan McArdle: What The Clintons Haven’t Learned


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Category: Live at Five

Rule 5 Monday: Lt. Commander Rand, RIP

Posted on | May 4, 2015 | 33 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The weekend got eaten by Game of Thrones, visiting with friends, and suchlike distractions, but here we are, finally, with another week of links celebrating attractive women. This week we note the passing of Grace Lee Whitney, who played the rather toothsome Yeoman Janice Rand on the original Star Trek series*, with a pic of her in that role.

A rare shot of Yeoman Rand with her hair down

As usual, many of the following links are to pics of women wearing few or no clothes, and depending on where you work, these may be considered NSFW. The management is not responsible for your inability to exercise discretion; if swelling persists for over four hours, close your browser, put your pants on, and go outside.

Goodstuff leads off this week by getting fidgety with Gidget, played by the young Sally Field back in the day. Ninety Miles from Tyranny follows with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls with Guns; First Street Journal also has Women with Weapons.

EBL’s herd of heifers this week includes “Food Babe” Vani Hari, Jayne Meadows, Brooke Baldwin, Beach Body Ready, Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Women Eating Oysters, and Kathryn Grayson.

A View from the Beach checks in with Diora “Double D” Baird, Wombat’s Friday Feed, We’re No Better Than Neandertal Man (has cavegirl content), You Want Me to What?, Gitcher Motor Running, Air France Abides By Rule 5, Sexism in Science, Big Breasted Bimbo Blames Baltimore on Veterans, Some Red Meat For the Crowd, A $#!**y Story, Hannah and Her Horse and “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”

At Soylent Siberia, it’s your morning coffee creamer, an evening awesome appetizer, Monday Motivationer’s Let’s Make A Deal, Afternooner Garden Nom Nom Nom Gnome, Tuesday Titillation Fascination, Overnighty Window Dressing, Humpday Hawtness Because Leanna, Overnighty Going Blind Blonde, Foamy Fursday Classic Dorothy Stratten, Film At 11 I Hope, Fursday Evening Awesome Peekaboo Fur, Corset Crumpets, T-GIF Friday Acid Flashback, Overnighty Reflections On Tonsured T**t, Weekender Hoi Sin, and Bath Night Soapy Sushi.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Sophia Bush, his vintage babe is Mary Murphy, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Brazilians And Brazilians Served! At Dustbury, it’s L’Wren Scott and Trisha Krisnan; at Loose Endz, it’s the Friday Night Nudes, while at Three Beers Later, it’s the Super Goggles and “That’s How They Do It In Dixie!”

*I am well aware that she ascended to higher rank over the course of several movies and Star Trek: Voyager. As Stephen den Beste used to say, Don’t Write Letters.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox is midnight on Saturday, May 9.


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