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In The Mailbox: 10.24.25

Posted on | October 25, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.24.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Google Maps Navigation can eat my entire ass for trying to get me to North Platte by every obscure county road in the northern part of Nebraska before I shut it off, hauled out the atlas, and barely made it to Grand Island in time to take two games out of three from Pete’s Brewers.
Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Pretty soon they’ll be Maveriks, but it won’t be the same.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Racist Gun Control in Chicago, How Do You Spell “Unhinged?”
Director Blue: The Illustrated Spygate Scandal Part XXXI, 
EBL: Japanese Troops Shocked by 12 Gauge Shotguns, Eat More Cheese, How To Have A Successful Marriage, Gavin Newsom and Democrat policies likely contributed to fatal truck collison in Ontario California, and Mussolini: Son Of The Century
Twitchy: “I Can’t Believe They Did This To The People’s House” Memes, Tara Setmayer Compares WH Ballroom Construction To 9/11, and Deranged Kansas Legislator Thinks The Trump Team Is Planning An Escape To Argentina
Louder With Crowder: “We’re going to kill them”, Authorities Won’t Deport Migrant For Sexual Assault Because…, Dem Gov tries lying about Chicago’s murder rate, then gets smacked (figuratively) by facts and a chart, Migrant has major tantrum after seeing Halloween decorations, and Sunny Hostin accuses her white neighbors of racism over an alleged hate crime that hasn’t happened yet
Vox Popoli: Carriers to the Caribbean, The Consequences of Stupidity, Clown World Knows It’s Falling, The Name is Bezos. Jeff Bezos., and Isolation, Nietzsche, and Politics
According To Hoyt: Sunglasses, Parliamentary Procedures, A Civics Report from an EAA Meeting, Living in Interesting Times, and The Dragon Awakes
Ammo.com: What Percentage of Gun Deaths Are Suicides?
Defending The Wood Perilous: Not the only one
Upstream Reviews: Bleed More Bodymore
Cedar Sanderson: Mixing Up Dirt
Jim McCoy: The Wandering Inn, also, A Word To The Wise
Gab: Why We No Longer Know Our Neighbors
Stoic Observations: Southwall Homelab Update, also, Tennis Balls & Valve Caps

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Trump Calls Off Trade Talks With Canada
American Greatness: Deputy AG Todd Blanche Warns California Dems to ‘Stand Down or Face Prosecution’ After Pelosi Threatens to Arrest ICE Agents, Gov. Pritzker Confronted Over Chicago Having ‘Highest Murder Rate of the Big Cities’, Chicago Activists Accuse Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino of Violating Judge’s Use of Force Ban, ‘No Kings’ for Thee, But Not for Me, and White House Renovation Draws Criticism From Critics, Entire East Wing To Be Rebuilt
American Thinker: The Glorious Coming Lessons of the Mamdani Landslide, A Hidden Tax: What Americans Are Really Paying for Illegal Immigration, Mamdani Thinks New Yorkers Are Stupid and Unworthy, States Where it’s Almost Impossible to Prove Voter Fraud, and Governor Pritzker’s Gambling Profits … or Mobster Payoff?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, Animal’s Daily Trump Court Victory News, Animal’s Hump Day News, Animal’s Red Thursday News, and Rule Five Funding Antifa Friday
Baldilocks: When You Pray
BattleSwarm: Denmark Strangles Russia Oil Lifeline, Glock Discontinues Most Models, Is Abbott Finally Cleaning Up Austin’s Homeless Mess? “Hey, How About We Limit Voting To Citizens?”, and LinkSwarm For October 24
Behind The Black: Two lawsuits filed against NASA at its Marshall Space Flight Center, SpaceX launches communications satellite for the Spanish government, China launches a “communication technology test” satellite, Weird “What the heck?!” pedestal crater on Mars, and European companies Airbus, Leonardo, and Thales merge their satellite divisions
Cafe Hayek: On Rising American Living Standards, Phil Gramm and Me: Trump’s Trade War Was a Loser, Rodrik Misses the Point of the Pencil, Understanding Trump’s Misunderstanding of Trade, and Did U.S. Trade Deficits Mostly Fund Americans’ Consumption?
CDR Salamander: Overdue For De-NORKification of Our Uniforms, also, Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Worthwhile Reading & Viewing, The Cuban Missile Crisis, as Viewed From a Soviet Launch Facility, A Blast from the Past, and Two Houses, Alike in Dignity
Da Tech Guy: I haven’t really written about DaDiet on the Blog, also, Are the Democrats REALLY that Stupid on EBT? (The GOP Ads Write Themselves)
Don Surber: Maine Kampf, also, Trump’s Ballroom Blitz
First Street Journal: There’s no threat quite like an empty threat, Christians cannot hate Judaism without hating themselves, That thing that never happens has happened again, The journolism of The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Hold them accountable!
Gates Of Vienna: Using Rat Poison to Escape Paying Child Support, Banning the Burka is “Discrimination Against the Muslim Community”, Where Islam Wanders, Abuse of Women Follows, “The Muslim Brotherhood Must Not Be Contained, It Must Be Eradicated”, and Is the Future of Russia Islamic?
The Geller Report: Ardent Antisemite Physician Continues to Practice at NHS, Senate Democrats BLOCK Bill to Pay Troops and Essential Federal Workers Working Without Pay During the Shutdown, 38 TRILLION! National Debt Surges As Democrats Hold Country Hostage For Even More Spending, Races to Watch, and “If You Can Have Your Church Bell, We Can Have Our Islamic Prayer Call”
Hollywood In Toto: This Too Shall Pass Is Unlike Most Teen Comedies, Wedding Crashers Is Back (And Wokesters Will Be Furious), Last Days Offers Dense Portrait of Possible Christian Martyr, Boss Bomb? Deliver Me from Nowhere’s Sad Tracking, and Few Movies Love Horror More than Popcorn
Legal Insurrection: Joe Rogan’s Audience Learns That Climate Hysteria Set Back Real Science by 50 Years, USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group Heads to Caribbean to Confront Narco-Terror Networks, U. Arkansas-Little Rock Fires Prof Who Celebrated Charlie Kirk’s Death, Mystery Donor Gives $130 Million to Pay the Troops, and Schumer Facing More Defections During His Shutdown
Matt Taibbi: Notes From A Recent Visit To Russia
Outkick: Tony Vitello Hopes San Francisco Giants Decision Doesn’t Give Him Lane Kiffin Status With Tennessee Fans, Minnesota Vikings Quarterback Situation Is Messy And They Can Only Blame Themselves, Nick Saban Isn’t Returning To College Football But Don’t Let His Wife Hear These Contract Numbers, MLB Star Confronts Shohei Ohtani With Hilarious Question: ‘Why Do You Hate Me?, and ‘Sex Warfare’ Spies Are Trying To Bone Our Horny Tech Nerds & It’s A Real Problem
Power Line: California Threatens to Arrest ICE Agents, Gradually, then suddenly, Our Nasty Democrats, The Weinhagen Vanishes, and Signs of the times
Shark Tank: AG Uthmeier Investigating CDL School After Deadly Turnpike Crash 
Shot In The Dark: Questions, Public Image, and Peace In Our Time
The Political Hat: Glock Block Crock, The Eschaton Is Always But One Immanentization Away, Queering The European Union, Quick Takes – Nature Rights: Indigenous Ways Of Knowing At Harvard; Democrats In Wisconsin; Gaia The Corporatist, and Firing Line Friday: A Firing Line Debate: Resolved: That the New Anti-Terror Bill Is Good for Americans
This Ain’t Hell: Coast Guard personnel fire in direction of a U-Haul truck, Man, who played ‘Imperial March’ at National Guard troops, sues for being arrested, Valor Friday, A bit of history, and Make Military Great Again!
Transterrestrial Musings: The Great Feminization, No Kings, It Begins, and John Brennan
Victory Girls: “I Don’t Care”: Virginia Democrat on Kids and Sexual Content, Gavin Newsom’s Pro-Illegal Alien Policies Claim Three More Lives, Usha And J.D. Vance Put On Blast By “Circle Back” Jen Psaki, Your Mom Did: Karoline Leavitt’s Snark Level? Presidential, and Bluesky App Gets Trumpian Trolling From This Administration
Watts Up With That: Sadiq Khan’s Ulez Expansion Had No Impact on Air Pollution, Study Finds, Climate Out, Affordability In, Green Transition? Coal Use Hits Record High, Aussie Climate Minister Slams Queensland’s Reliance on Intermittent Coal, and President Trump Cancels $700 Million of Battery Manufacturing Grants
The Federalist: After Losing At SCOTUS, Wisconsin Finds A New Way To ‘Target’ Catholic Charities, New York High Court Blocks Race-Grifters From Using Courts To Indoctrinate Children, Big Government Locks Young People Out of the American Dream, Jay Jones’ ‘Community Service’ Scandal Is Worse Than You Think, and NBC Is Helping Run Anti-ICE Ops For Dems
Mark Steyn: Ladies Choice: Clare Boothe Luce and the Nightmare of The Women, I Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten Cent Store), Live Around the Planet: Shutdown Landslide, Never Mind the Bollocks, It’s Islam, and So Long, Big Time!

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In The Mailbox: 10.23.25

Posted on | October 23, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.23.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I was pretty busy the last couple of evenings catching up with friends I hadn’t seen in 10+ years. On the road home to Nevada; tonight’s linkagery comes to you from Sioux Falls. Again.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Turns Out It’s a Bad Idea to Give Auto Loans to Illegal Aliens,  also What’s the Opposite of Diversity? University
Director Blue: The Illustrated Spygate Scandal Part XXX, 
EBL:The White House East Wing Remodel and Democrat Outrage Theater, Swedish Justice, My First Bluefin Tuna, Make Prosecutions Great Again: Comrade Brennan’s Turn, and The Impact Of The Colt .45
Twitchy: David Shuster Can’t Help You If You Can’t See The Difference Between Obama’s Renovations & Trump’s, CBS News Reports Cuban Deported To Africa Is On Hunger Strike And “His Life Is On The Line”, and Stephen A. Smith Says NBA Gambling Crackdown Is “Trump’s Revenge”
Louder With Crowder: Dems roll out early retiree boomers to whine their taxpayer-funded ObamaCare subsidies are going away, George Stephanopoulos DESPERATELY tries to get Walmart CEO to attack Trump, gets fact-checked instead, NBC News employee Jen Psaki starts the panic over JD Vance being president while lashing out at his wife, Cincinnati’s woke police chief embarrassed the badge one time too many, causing the city council to have to take action, and “Dumb and Dumber” actor still freaking out over Donald Trump “poop” video
Vox Popoli: They Have No Regrets, Observation and Invention, BNP Paribas Problems, Baen is the New Tor, and The Post-WWII Moral Order
Cedar Sanderson: Groundskeeper – Have A Dead Night, also, Hide & Go Seek, 
Stoic Observations: My Anal Probe
Upstream Reviews: The Summoned Sage
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Why Japan Has Few EVs
Defending The Wood Perilous: Virtual vs. Reality
Gab: Researchers Find Systemic Anti-White/Anti-Christian Bias In Top AI Models

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Baldilocks: They Keep Trying, also, Wading Into The Water
CDR Salamander: A Drug War Goes Hot, also, Singapore Gets A Proper Frigate
Don Surber: I agree with the Washington Post, also, Republican Cavewomen 
Matt Taibbi: Karine Jean-Pierre Writes History’s Most Incoherent Memoir, also, Activism Uncensored – No Kings & ICE Protests In Portland
STUMP: RIP Diane Keaton – Pneumonia & Multiple Causes of Death

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The Delusions of #Resistance 2.0: Did Democrats Forget They Lost the Election?

Posted on | October 22, 2025 | Comments Off on The Delusions of #Resistance 2.0: Did Democrats Forget They Lost the Election?

Think back to mid-November 2024. President Trump had just scored a decisive victory, winning all seven “battleground” states and, unlike 2016, winning the popular vote by a margin of more than 2 million votes.

In the wake of their shattering defeat — which not only put Trump back in the White House, but left Republicans with majorities in both houses of Congress — many Democrats, and their media mouthpieces, seemed willing to admit that maybe it was time to reconsider their general approach to politics. Perhaps taxpayer-funded sex-change treatment for prison inmates and DEI quotas in the Pentagon were not a winning policy agenda, some liberals were willing to confess. For a few weeks there, in November and December, it seemed that Democrats might be on the road to recovery from their long bout with Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Ah, fleeting hope! The brief prospect of a more sensible (or at least, more cautious) stance by Democrats did not last long, and they swiftly reverted to the shrieking rhetorical extremism — “Resist Orange Hitler!” — that had been their habit for more than eight years. So here we are, more than three weeks into a shutdown caused by the Democrats filibustering a spending bill in the Senate, and the No. 2 Democrat in the House can’t seem to understand why some people might be upset about it:

“Shutdowns are terrible and, of course, there will be, you know, families that are going to suffer. We take that responsibility very seriously. But it is one of the few leverage items we have. It is an inflection point in this budget process where we have tried to get the Republicans to meet with us and prioritize the American people.”

After that exploded, Katherine Clark went on CNN to try to clean up her mess, but the real problem here is that Democrats have apparently forgot that they lost the election, and elections have consequences.

Clark represents a deep-blue district (D+24) in the deep-blue state of Massachusetts. She is second-in-command of a caucus led by Hakeem Jeffries who represents a deep-blue district (also D+24) in the deep-blue state of New York. Over on the Senate side, Democrats are led by Chuck Schumer of New York (which Kamala Harris carried by a 13-point margin) with his second-in-command being Dick Durbin of Illinois (which Harris won by a margin of 11 points). None of these people are from anywhere that Republicans constitute a meaningful competition, and seem to have no regard for the 77 million Americans who voted for Trump. This is a big part of why the Democratic Party is stuck in its ranting extremist mode, shutting down the government just to thwart Orange Hitler, and clueless about what a majority of voters actually want.

Everyone is now looking toward the off-year elections in Virginia and New Jersey as an indicator of what we can expect in next year’s midterms. Both states went for Harris last November — Virginia by a five-point margin and New Jersey by a six-point margin. While it would be hard to imagine a GOP victory in either state, if the Republican gubernatorial candidates in either of those states do at least as well as Trump did, it could bode well for Republicans in their bid to maintain the House majority in 2026. But that’s more than a year into the future, and we don’t know what could happen between now and then.

It is clear that Democrats have not learned their lessons from 2024, and only by repeating the lesson — beating them again and again in successive elections — can we ever hope to teach them anything.



 

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In The Mailbox: 10.21.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | October 21, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.21.25 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

“The convention was dying when I got there, but it wasn’t my fault.”
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Top 20 Adam Schiff Fun Facts, The Illustrated Spygate Scandal Part XXIX, and Top 20 Atrocities Of Jack Smith’s Jihad, 
357 Magnum: A Galaxy of Expenses, also UK Policing Sinks Farther Into Antisemitism
EBL: Hitler’s Hollywood, JD Vance with the Marines, By Order of the King, MAGA: No Kings Day was lit, and Smoked Swordfish Bone Marrow With Chef Snezhana
Twitchy: London Cops Ban “Far-Right” Protests Callign For Mass Deportations, Ron DeSantis Takes A Well-Deserved Victory Lap, and Ted Cruz Shares Post Of Largest Democrat Protest Before No Kings & Leftists Plotz
Louder With Crowder: Man verbally abuses white Christian at a park, then cries victim when the police are forced to step in, Karine Jean-Pierre returns and STILL denies Joe Biden’s obvious mental decline, The White House has joined BlueSky, IMMEDIATELY starts trolling an increasingly unhinged left, Democrats dress up as “LICE” agents and roll around on the Constitution, because “no kings” or something, and Harry Sisson cries that Trump dropped a pile of poop on him, but JD Vance pledges to find out why
Vox Popoli: The Art of War in the Middle Ages, When Change is for the Better, It Actually is Their Land, Epstein Bankrolled British Royalty, and The Importance of GamerGate
Cedar Sanderson: Unwarranted Assumptions, also An Artist’s Workshop,
Stoic Observations: A Patriotism Test, 
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Of Kings, 
The Abbey of Misrule: News, Events, & Updates
Draw & Talk Comics: Holy F*** What Happened?
M.C.A. Hogarth: 25 Years of Publishing – Jaguar Thoughts
Toni Airaksinen: Linked In Says “Zionist” Jobs Violate Their Community Standards
Gab: What Is A “Good Christian”?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Baldilocks: Letting Go of the Past, Accusers Beware, and Duolita
CDR Salamander: Anduril & The Promise of Autonomous Systems,
Don Surber: Press pimps No Kings parades
Elizabeth Nickson: The Bountiful Economy of the Future, also, The Falsification of Climate & Species Science Is The Key Destructor of the World Economy
Matt Taibbi: Timeline – The Case Against John Bolton, also, Exclusive – FEMA Workers Improperly Collected Political Data About Disaster Victims, 
 

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Rule 5 Sunday: Terrain Features Part II

Posted on | October 20, 2025 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Terrain Features Part II

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Hope I get my main account unsuspended, or the pickings might be slim next week. This week, a fine young lass with the Grand Canyon as her backdrop.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Schumer Shutdown and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Truth & Treason, Across The River & Into The Trees, PMJ: “Pinky & The Brain”, Is It Time For Mars?, Charlie Kirk Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, Lucrezia Borgia, Candela Saitta, MAGA Gaza Peace Deal & Giorgia, Magic City, “I Really Like Sea Men”, The Red King, Dorothy Malone, and Diane Keaton RIP

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Josie Stevens, MD Striped Bass YOY Index Comes in Low Again, John Bolton’s Mustache Indicted, Fish Pic Friday – Haleigh Barker, Thursday Tanlines, The Wednesday Wetness, Scallops Returning to Chesapeake Bay, Other Side of the World, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday

BACON TIME: Rule Five Butt Its Friday

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: No Joy At Fenway

Posted on | October 19, 2025 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: No Joy At Fenway

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Well, at least we won the opener. The 1974 Senators began the season on the road against the Red Sox in Fenway Park, and Jim Kaat went the distance for a 7-2 win in the opener, but neither Carl Morton nor Steve Renko could hold the BoSox bats in check in games 2 and 3, which were close losses- but a loss is still a loss. We face the Royals this Tuesday.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

SRS MANAGER IS SRS

The Deadly Tautology of Antifa
A View From The Beach
EBL
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FMJRA 2.0: Opening Day 1974
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Rule 5 Sunday: Terrain Features
Animal Magnetism
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EBL
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Are You Tired of All This #Winning Yet?
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In The Mailbox: 10.13.25
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 10.14.25 (Morning Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
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Hometown News
EBL
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In The Mailbox: 10.14.25 (Evening Edition)
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EBL
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In The Mailbox: 10.16.25 (Morning Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 10.17.25 (Afternoon Edition)
EBL
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In The Mailbox: 10.17.25 (Evening Edition)
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Third Saturday Was Historic This Year

Posted on | October 19, 2025 | Comments Off on Third Saturday Was Historic This Year

Zabien Brown en route to the end zone.

Saturday night, my wife and daughter-in-law were upstairs watching The Sound of Music while my brother and I were downstairs watching Alabama play Tennessee. And right before halftime, Kirby and I started yelling so loud that the neighbors might have called 911.

Alabama had taken a 9-7 lead midway through the second quarter when Tennessee quarterback Joey Aguilar, caught in his own end zone, was called for intentional grounding, giving the Crimson Tide two points on a safety. On the ensuing Alabama possession, QB Ty Simpson completed three passes to get the Tide down to Tennessee’s two-yard line, where Jam Miller punched it in, and now Alabama was leading 16-7. The Volunteers didn’t quit, though, and drove downfield 74 yards on their next possession, coming up on third-and-goal at the ’Bama one-yard line with nine seconds remaining before the half. Tennessee called their final timeout, and on the next play, lined up in a run formation, but they didn’t fool the Crimson Tide defense, which didn’t buy the run-fake on the play-action pass. Aguilar threw toward his tight end at the front pylon, but Alabama cornerback Zabien Brown jumped the route for the interception.

My brother and I weren’t the only Alabama fans yelling at the top of our lungs. Brown streaked down the sideline, and as he neared the Tennessee 40, one Volunteer player raced after him with a chance to make a touchdown saving tackle. Volunteer running back DeSean Bishop dived at Brown’s heels near the 20, but Brown made a high-step move to avoid the tackle and the capacity crowd inside Bryant-Denny Stadium, which was already roaring like a hurricane, added at least 10 more decibels of joy. Brown streaked into the end zone for the touchdown and, with the extra-point kick, Alabama took a 23-7 lead to halftime.

The game was never really in doubt after that, and Alabama went on to win 37-20. “Alabama became the only team in SEC history to beat four straight ranked opponents with no open dates,” as ESPN reported, and the Crimson Tide, which entered the game ranked 6th, moved up to No. 4 in the rankings released Sunday, as both Miami (previously No. 2) and Ole Miss (previously No. 5) suffered losses this weekend.

The third Saturday in October is always the Alabama-Tennessee game, and this particular rivalry requires some explanation. Only two rivals, Georgia and Georgia Tech, are mentioned in the Alabama fight song, which does not deign to take notice of Auburn (opponent in the annual “Iron Bowl,” played the Saturday after Thanksgiving). My dad was an Alabama alumni (Class of 1951) and once I asked him why we hated Tennessee so bad. He explained it went back to a game in Knoxville where Tennessee “ran up the score.” Years later, I checked the history of the rivalry and was shocked to learn that game was played in 1931 — Tennessee beat Alabama 25-0 — when my dad was just seven years old!

Talk about tradition, man, that’s something. Bitter memories of ancient grievances — a grudge held by succeeding generations — are part of what makes college football such a special sport. Zabien Brown has writ his name in crimson flame, and ’Bama is now in the national title hunt.



 

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Strange Return of the Whore Aella

Posted on | October 18, 2025 | Comments Off on Strange Return of the Whore Aella

Four years ago, Bari Weiss published an interview with a “sex worker” who goes by the name Aella. Some of what Aella said about “the imbalance in value” between men and women was intriguing enough that I wrote about it (“Wisdom From a Whore,” July 28, 2021). And then, as is my habit, I forgot all about her. Decades of deadlines accustomed me to work in “file-it-and-forget-it” mode where, once the story’s done, you move on to the next story. At times, people I’ve written about (when covering what I think of as “the kook beat”) have accused me of being “obsessed” with them, when in fact I don’t care about them at all. They just happened to do something that made them worth coverage (e.g., as an example of feminist lunacy) and as soon as I finish whatever it was that drew my attention to them, I forget all about them. Of course, some of these stories may go on for months, the way the #FreeKate case did, but once the story drops off my radar, I forget about it and move on.

All of that is preamble to a weird coincidence. While I was minding my own business this week, there was an online conversation about the recent “SlutCon” in San Francisco, which prompted a question from my old friend Ladd Ehlinger about the headliner of the event and, in response, Deanna Prince mentioned my 2021 article about Aella.

When I wasn’t paying attention last year — there was an election, remember? — Aella gained notoriety for her birthday gang bang:

She wrote an entire Substack article about the experience of having sex with 37 different men in celebration of what was, by my calculations, her 32nd birthday. Now let’s return to what I wrote about Aella in 2021:

“Aella” grew up in a strict Mormon household, left home at 17 and — judging from her own published self-history — went wild at age 20, when she had eight different sexual partners in a year. That was about the time she started her “sex worker” career as a camgirl, and now her number of lifetime sexual partners is 38, including 11 women. “Aella” is currently 29 and peddling herself via OnlyFans, and I’m sure her family must be mortified by her career choice. It’s impossible for me to view such matters except from the parental perspective. Whenever you see this kind of behavior, you must think, “What went wrong? How did she get so messed up? What could lead her to disgrace her family this way?”
When I was a young bachelor, of course, my attitude might have been different, but as a father (and now a grandfather) I find myself appalled by the normalization of such shameful behavior.

The “published self-history” refers to this tweet:

In 2021, I didn’t notice some of the details of that history, especially the part noting the “average age difference” between her and her partners. At age 18, she had a boyfriend the same age, but at age 19, she had two partners — one male, one female — who were an average 11 years older, i.e., 30. My guess is that she got involved with a couple of “swingers” (an older couple) who had her as the third member of a ménage à trois. Very interesting, as this precedes the next year, when Aella went wild, averaging a new partner every six weeks or so, with most of those partners also being substantially older than her. At an age when many young women would have been college juniors, then, Aella was already well on her way to being a notorious whore. In 2014, when she was 22, she had 10 different new partners, seven of whom were female. Since she was performing as a “camgirl” by then, my guess is that most of those involved doing girl-on-girl performances on video.

Eventually, it seems, there was a sort of burnout leading to a period of celibacy or else she got into a monogamous relationship for a couple of years (ages 26-27) when she had zero new partners. In order to protect her self-esteem (or as a matter of reputational management), Aella presents herself as an exemplar of “sexual liberation,” making rational choices and exercising independent agency. But no one with the least bit of common sense could believe this. A gang-bang with three dozen dudes to celebrate her birthday? That’s objectively insane, and it brings me back to the questions I raised in 2021: “What went wrong? How did she get so messed up? What could lead her to disgrace her family this way?”

What if . . . disgracing her family is intentional?

We know very little of Aella’s background, but it seems like a reasonable inference that she is from a small town or suburb, where her family is (or once was) regarded as respectable people. It’s a small enough community that Aella’s shameful behavior is well known — her former high school classmates are all aware of what she’s been up to the past decade or so — and the disgrace felt by her family is very painful to them. Inflicting pain on her family is the whole point of what Aella is doing.

That’s my theory, anyway. It is difficult to find any logical explanation for why someone would deliberately seek notoriety as a whore, but that’s the best I can do, based on the available information. As for my use of the venerable English noun whore, it is always preferable to euphemisms like “sex worker.” If you don’t want to be called a whore, don’t be a whore.



 

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