The Other McCain

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

Fake Noose, Fake News

  Not a hate crime: The FBI has determined that a noose found in NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace’s garage at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday had been there since at least last year, according to the bureau. A statement issued by U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town said that an investigation has concluded that no federal crime […]

Old And Busted: Auto-da-fé
New Hotness: Tina da Fey

by Smitty An auto-da-fé (from Portuguese auto da fé, meaning ‘act of faith’) was the ritual of public penance carried out between the 15th and 19th centuries of condemned heretics and apostates imposed by the Spanish, Portuguese, or Mexican Inquisition as punishment and enforced by civil authorities. Its most extreme form was death by burning. […]

In The Mailbox: 06.23.20

— compiled by Wombat-socho OVER THE TRANSOM Pagan Vigil: Courage & Continuity 357 Magnum: The Statement That Will Get Brown Fired From The Chicago PD EBL: How About Some Dodo? Twitchy: Watch As Mostly Peaceful Protester From Black House Autonomous Zone Attempts Running Tackle On Andrea Mitchell Louder With Crowder: Teen Who Makes Teddy Bears […]

Rayshard Brooks’ Girlfriend Arrested

  Her lawyer denies she burned down the Wendy’s: The woman named as a suspect in the Wendy’s restaurant fire that broke out during protests over Rayshard Brooks’ death in Atlanta has been arrested and is facing charges of first-degree arson, authorities said Tuesday. The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office confirmed in a tweet that Natalie […]

The Hotepping of America

  Do you know what “hotep” means? Supposedly, hotep is an ancient Egyptian word meaning “peace,” but the word has become slang for promoters of a crude system of Afrocentric beliefs, with overtones of black nationalism tending toward paranoid conspiracy theories: In Afrocentrism and black nationalism of the late 20th century, influenced by the “Black […]

Black People Celebrate ‘Juneteenth’ Weekend by Shooting Each Other

You can’t blame racist police for this: Three people were killed and at least 11 hurt early Monday after a multi-day street party erupted in lots of gunfire in northwest Charlotte, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police. Five of the injured people were struck by cars as they began scrambling across streets away from the chaotic scene, […]

The Definition of ‘Execrable’

  The word originally meant, deserving of curses: Nikole Hannah-Jones, the lead writer for the New York Times’ “1619 Project,” caught backlash Sunday for telling people to “read” a conspiracy theory about the use of fireworks being an attack by the government “on Black and Brown communities.” Hannah-Jones’ “1619 Project” suggests America’s “true founding” was […]

In The Mailbox: 06.22.20

— compiled by Wombat-socho OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: First Weekend Of Summer In The Windy City EBL: Losing Movie Theaters, Losing History, also, Blackface Fallon & Kimmel Twitchy: Occasional Cortex Claims Latinos Are Black While Babbling About Needing To Talk About Colorism Louder With Crowder: James Woods Exposes The REAL Problems Of The Cities […]

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