The Other McCain

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

FMJRA 2.0: The Mission

— compiled by Wombat-socho Have A Koch And A. . .Hint Of Queasiness Political Hat Our Tyrannical Government Batshit Crazy News The Lonely Conservative That Mr. G Guy The Dorchester Doofus Batshit Crazy News Gender Theory: Beyond Parody The Pirate’s Cove Political Hat Victory Girls Good-Bye, Employer Mandate? Batshit Crazy News Regular Right Guy A […]

An Omen of the ‘Mystifying Oracle’?

“One time I was with Cara, Chloe, Anne, and Ellie, and we were messing around with a Ouija board.” The blogger at “Please Excuse My Vagina: My life as a teenage feminist” will probably notice the trackback, and to her this should be a warning — as it should be to anyone tempted to try […]

Massacre: Ronald Haskell Murders Six Members of Texas Mormon Family

Ronald Lee Haskell was going through a divorce from his wife, Melannie Lyon. The couple had four young children, and Haskell had become increasingly violent. Lyon’s sister, Katie Stay, urged Lyon to leave Haskell in Utah and move to Texas, where Stay and her husband lived with their five children. Wednesday, Haskell went to the […]

Stupid Vicious Criminal Scum

Left to right: Marisela Pacheco, Ruben Archunde, Jessica Gallegos Marisela Narango Pacheco’s boyfriend was in jail in Tucson, Arizona. Her boyfriend’s buddy Ruben Estevan Archunde had just been released from jail and was awaiting trial on an auto theft charge. They came up with an idea of how to get the money to bail out Pacheco’s […]

Rape Without Context

Perusing the #fem2 (feminist) hashtag, I found a post at @TheNib that tells the story of a woman’s rape, in a way that makes no sense. Go read the whole thing and try to figure it out. The guy “hovered over” her — where? — and told her she was “pretty,” had sex with her […]

Buy It Now: ‘The Last Falangist’ Review; Wombat Shows the Hard Face

In case you don’t recognize the name Kevin Trainor, he is our very own Wombat, the co-blogger who compiles the daily “Live at Five” headline roundup and now the author of The Last Falangist: Essays on Culture and Politics in America — CLICK HERE TO BUY NOW. Wombat points out in the introduction that he […]

What Were They Thinking?

Why would the editors of Esquire assign Tom Junod — or anybody else, for that matter — to write “In Praise of 42-Year-Old Women”? And, having made that assignment, why would they not demand a re-write after he turned in a horrifying mess that begins thus: Let’s face it: There used to be something tragic […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 07.11.14

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Obama Offers To Broker Gaza Ceasefire Palestinians claim most of the dead and injured are civilians Rocket fire from Lebanon joins barrage from Gaza Turkish PM Erdogan says Gaza offensive threatens rapprochement Gov. Perry To Obama: Send Guard To Border Now Criticizes President for not visiting border Even Texas […]

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