The Other McCain

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

Fat Lives Matter

  How is it that we now have 25-year-old Instagram influencers lecturing the world about the “social construction” of “norms”? And why is it that everything — absolutely everything — in 2020 ultimately comes around to “white supremacy” as an explanation? How “woke” are you? No matter how attuned you may be to social-justice ideology, […]

Blame New York

  What counts as “success” in fighting a pandemic? Last week, Dr. Anthony Fauci, made a controversial assessment of New York’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. “We know that, when you do it properly, you bring down those cases. We have done it. We have done it in New York,” he told PBS’s Judy Woodruff. […]

In The Mailbox: 07.21.20

— compiled by Wombat-socho OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Chicago Continues Its Slide Into The Abyss EBL: Greyhound – A Review Twitchy: MSNBC Analyst Claims President Sending “Paramilitary Units” Into Cities Is “Trial Run” To Steal The Election Louder With Crowder: The Mask Nazis Are Coming After Ric Flair Vox Popoli: Betting On A Trumpslide, […]

A Little Chin Music for the NY Times

  Baseball fans are familiar with the term “chin music,” otherwise known as the “brushback” pitch. If a batter is crowding the plate, the pitcher brings a fastball “high and tight” — an inside pitch, aimed at about chin level — to convey the message, “Back the f–k up, buddy.” In the etiquette of baseball, […]

In The Mailbox: 07.20.20

— compiled by Wombat-socho OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Lake Delhi Dam Breach – July 2010 EBL: The Business Of Drugs Twitchy: Brian Stelter Admits There’s “Real Problems” In Portland, Criticizes Right-Wing Coverage, Gets Rekt  Louder With Crowder: NYPD Commissioner Goes Off On City Leaders, also, Charles Barkley Blasts Antisemitic Athletes & Rappers Vox Popoli: […]

Just a Coincidence, I’m Sure

Last week, U.S. District Judge Esther Salas was assigned to preside over a lawsuit brought by Deutsche Bank investors claiming financial fraud related to the bank’s dealings with Jeffrey Epstein. Four days later — Sunday evening — a man dressed as a FedEx delivery man showed up at Salas’s home in New Jersey and shot […]

Death of a White Man

Probably no one will mourn the passing of Sean Ruis, who flipped out last week in a Michigan convenience store when the clerk refused him service because he wasn’t wearing a mask. Ruis reacted by stabbing a 77-year-old man, and was subsequently gunned down by a sheriff’s deputy: For her part, Gov. Whitmer said she […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Toni McBride

— compiled by Wombat-socho Our spotlight this week is on LAPD officer Toni McBride, who Stacy mentioned last week in connection with the shooting of a meth-addled idiot. Predictably, the Coalition of the Damned is out there howling for officer McBride’s head, and given the feckless morons in charge of LA these days, they may […]

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