The Other McCain

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

In The Mailbox: 11.23.20

— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley delenda est. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: It Could Be Worse… EBL: Alex Rider – A Review, also, Clarence Thomas – In His Own Words Twitchy: Are You On Parler? MSNBC Thinks You’re Fine With Hate Speech & Racism Louder With Crowder: Patriot Confronts Maskless NJ Governor At Restaurant […]

When Police Yell ‘Drop the Gun,’ Guess What Happens If You Don’t?

Say hello to Rasheed Moorman, who may have been the unluckiest criminal in America. Or maybe he was just stupid. Notice my use of the past-tense verb “was.” Rasheed’s final crime was not his first. A previous exercise in criminal stupidity nearly killed him when, in 2014, he and an accomplice attempted to rob a […]

Immigration: Fallacies and Logic

What’s wrong with open borders? Or, to be more specific, what’s wrong with “conservatives” who don’t see what’s wrong with open borders? For more than 20 years, I have been mystified by those on “our” side who seem oblivious to the consequences of our broken immigration policy which is, in fact, so broken that it’s […]

Rule 5 Monday: Julie London

— compiled by Wombat-socho Somehow I have managed to get through over ten years of these posts without once featuring singer, actress, and pinup model Julie London, but today I correct that unfortunate omission. Probably best known to us as nurse Dixie McCall on the hit TV series Emergency!, produced by her ex-husband Jack Webb […]

FMJRA 2.0: Sandman

— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley delenda est. Rule 5 Sunday: Paulina Porizkova Animal Magnetism Ninety Miles From Tyranny A View From The Beach Proof Positive EBL ‘Properly Evolved’: How Pseudo-Eugenic Tropes Foretold Bob Chipman’s Doom Bacon Time Pushing Rubber Downhill How Deep Is The Rabbit Hole? EBL Biden’s #DAMP Victory EBL The Devil Went […]

The True Story of a Teenage Patriot

Abraham Isham Bolt was just 16 years old in 1780 when he joined the South Carolina militia. The Patriot cause had suffered its worst defeat of the war when Charleston surrendered in May 1780. The British planned to use Charleston as a base of operations from which to open a new front in the war […]

‘A Year Without Christmas’

Democrats everywhere are using COVID-19 as a pretext to shut down business. Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney is playing the Grinch: The City of Philadelphia imposed new business restrictions on Monday that will go into effect at the end of the week. Sectors of the local economy will be required to shut down or severely curtail […]

DNA of the Doomed

Let’s think about the word misbegotten. Originally, it implied bastardy — “a misbegotten child” was illegitimate — but attained also a connotation of deformed or defective, and the word was generalized to apply to anything “having a disreputable or improper origin.” “Misbegotten” comes to mind whenever I think of Lena Dunham, the weirdly shaped potato-looking […]

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