Archive for 2018

HA! GLENN SUGGESTS THIS “DRUNKEN SEDUCTRESS” IS A RAPIST: But under the peculiar standards of today’s colleges and universities, aren’t drunken women supposed to be incapable of consent (and hence always the victims)? If so, isn’t she right that the 14-year-old boy she jumped is the rapist?  It’s so hard for me to keep up with the modern world …

OPEN THREAD: Make this one count.

ON THIS DAY IN 1814:  The tiny hamlet of Brookeville, Maryland, was the “United States Capital for a Day.”  Madison camped out there while the British burned Washington, D.C. during the War of 1812.

FLASHBACK: What Happens When Men Have Sex with Teenage Boys. “There is an uncomfortable truth here that I never had sex with anyone my own age as a teenager. Every single man was an adult who recognized my youth and chose to engage in sex anyway. As a 34 year old man today I cannot conceive of doing this with a teenager. I genuinely struggle to understand how it was possible at all.”

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY OF JOHN MCCAIN: Far from a comprehensive account but it lays out the basic cases on all three points.

WHAT MCCAIN KNEW:

McCain emerged from Hanoi a changed man, carrying a truth that would shape his political career: “I discovered in prison that faith in myself alone, separate from other, more important allegiances, was ultimately no match for the cruelty that human beings could devise when they were entirely unencumbered by respect for the God-given dignity of man. This is the lesson I learned in prison. It is, perhaps, the most important lesson I have ever learned.”

Read the whole thing.

KEVIN WILLIAMSON ON THE EXQUISITE SENSIBILITIES OF THE OUTRAGE INDUSTRY:

If only there were some easy way to distinguish between the decent and well-intentioned and the callous and hateful. Perhaps we should consider the philosophical maxim of Raylan Givens: “If you get up in the morning and you meet an a**hole, you met an a**hole. If you meet nothing but a**holes all day, you’re the a**hole.”

Social-justice warriors take note.

Heh. Read the whole thing.