The Other McCain

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

The Instagram Influencer Grift: What Is Caroline Calloway’s ‘Brand’ Value Now?

Caroline Calloway spending Daddy’s money in Europe, 2013. Back in January, I told you the story of “Caroline Calloway and the ‘Creativity Workshop’ Influencer Tour From Hell”: Parlaying a popular Instagram feed (and maybe also a YouTube channel) into a lucrative income is a matter of “branding,” and one of the most popular “brands” of […]

In The Mailbox: 09.11.19

— compiled by Wombat-socho OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Try To Remember – A September 11th Musical Interlude Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #740 EBL: T. Boone Pickens, RIP Twitchy: Rekt Again – Occasional Cortex Doesn’t Like Being Reminded By Tom Homan Who Makes The Laws ICE Enforces Louder With […]

Eighteen Years Ago Today

  My wife woke me up and handed me the phone. My brother Kirby was calling: “Stacy, it’s terrorism. They hit the World Trade Center.” What the hell? I was an assistant news editor at The Washington Times, and my workday didn’t usually begin this early, especially on a Monday* after I’d worked the late […]

In The Mailbox: 09.10.19 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: This May Be The Biggest Accounting Fraud In History EBL: Get Girls With Garlic? Twitchy: The Duo Who Exposed Planned Parenthood Are In Court And The Testimony Is Horrifying Louder With Crowder: Beta O’Rourke Demonstrates His Inability To Understand How Rights & Property Work RIPPED FROM […]

Brain Candy

— compiled by Wombat-socho Many years ago, when I was living in Minnesota and involved in an amateur press association yclept Stipple-APA, one of the other contributors used the term “brain candy” in reference to SF that didn’t make you think too hard, but was nonetheless entertaining, and didn’t make you feel like you’d wasted […]

UPDATE: GOP’s Dan Bishop Wins Special Election in North Carolina’s 9th District

UPDATE 11:25 p.m. ET: In addition to Bishop’s win in the Ninth District, the GOP also picked up a victory in a special election in the Third District, where Republican Greg Murphy beat Democrat Allen Thomas by 19 points, 59%-40%. What went wrong for Democrats? As the Daily Caller notes: “McCready came under fire after […]

CNN Story ‘Simply False,’ CIA Says

  Never trust CNN: The Central Intelligence Agency on Monday evening slammed what it called CNN’s “misguided” and “simply false” reporting, after the cable channel’s chief national security correspondent authored a hole-filled piece claiming that the CIA had pulled a high-level spy out of Russia because President Trump had “repeatedly mishandled classified intelligence and could […]

He Was the Walrus, Goo Goo Ga Joob

  They are the egg men: President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he had fired national security adviser John Bolton after a string of disagreements over how the U.S. should handle North Korea, Afghanistan and Iran. Trump announced on Twitter that he had asked for Bolton’s resignation on Monday night, saying he had “disagreed strongly […]

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