The Other McCain

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

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty The Association was composed of off-the-net greasepits and cars that people could still “work” on. He’d fetch the strongbox cached securely within the engine compartment, extract the optical media, mount it on the creaky old laptop (running some Slackware release that hadn’t been updated or rebooted in a decade–up the network!) and un-tar […]

Virginia Democrat Governor Posed in KKK/Blackface Yearbook Photo

  Well, this is certainly embarrassing: A photo from Gov. Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook shows him and another person in racist costumes — one wearing blackface and one a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood, though it was not clear which person was the future governor. The photo, which The Virginian-Pilot obtained a copy […]

‘Persons of Interest’

  Obviously they must be Republicans: The two persons of interest in the alleged attack on Empire star Jussie Smollett are only seen on the opposite side of the street in the surveillance footage reviewed by Chicago police, according to a local reporter. On Wednesday, the Chicago Police Department released screenshots of two persons of […]

Contraception by Zoning

If you’ve got a large family, you know why my family prefers to live as far as possible from a major city. But if you need a further clue, consider this article about zoning policy: At the end of last year, the Philadelphia City Planning Commission weighed a proposed zoning change that would effectively ban […]

In The Mailbox: 01.31.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Can You Stay Alive For Five Minutes? EBL: Thank You Prof. Jacobson & Rush – Trump Continues To Change The Courts Twitchy: Here’s a Great Thread Staking Out The Middle Ground Between The #MAGA & #NeverTrump Camps Louder With Crowder: Rabid Pro-Death Monica Klein Refuses To […]

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