The Other McCain

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

In The Mailbox: 05.07.22 Special Weekend Edition

— compiled by Wombat-socho Not going to lie, the main reason I’m doing this is so my Feedly doesn’t get jammed up with almost a week’s worth of posts when I get around to doing Monday’s posts… Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam. OVER THE TRANSOM EBL: Stock News May Suck, But At Least […]

Ukraine’s Kharkiv Counter-Offensive Could Threaten Russians in Izyum

On the one hand, the past week has been good for Russia in that they seem to have gone the past six days without having another general killed, but on the other hand, the Ukrainians have scored crucial victories around Kharkiv. The invaders have been pushed back north and east of the city, which has […]

‘A Poor Man’s Mac Jones’? (And Other Thoughts on the Patriots’ Draft Picks)

Following up on last week’s post (“Belichick’s Strange Choice Confounds Critics Who Don’t Understand 4D Chess”) about the New England Patriots in the NFL Draft, there was a widespread consensus among football commentators that the Patriots had a lousy 2022 draft class overall. Among the choices by Belichick that had pundits scratching their heads this […]

An Administrative Note

— by Wombat-socho Just got home from Las Vegas, and my arms aren’t the only thing that’s tired…so I’m going to bed and will most likely wake up very early Saturday morning to do the last link dump of the week. It was an interesting morning at the dentist and an equally interesting afternoon at […]

“If You Lack a Uterus, You Cannot Speak”

One point I’ve not seen raised as we move toward a possible abortion of Roe/Casey is this pertains to the “If you don’t have a uterus, you cannot speak” argument. Whether one can speak has nothing to do with whether the plumbing is “indoor” or “outdoor”, because this is fundamentally a family, not an individual argument.

Aspiring Rapper Update: Misdemeanor Charges for Homeless Lunatic in L.A.

Say hello to Isaiah Lee,23, a homeless man and “aspiring rapper” who jumped onstage and attacked comedian Dave Chappelle during a performance this week at the Hollywood Bowl: The brother of the man arrested for the onstage assault of Dave Chappelle at the Hollywood Bowl says he’s stunned by the incident — and he wants […]

In The Mailbox: 05.05.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley delenda est. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Why Are Guns So Prevalent In U.S. Culture? A View From The Beach: From The Cheap Seats – How Does The Russo-Ukrainian War End? EBL: Democrats Plot Their Fundraising Grift Twitchy: Ruth Sent Us Claims They Didn’t Post Conservative Justices’ Home Addresses […]

Who Is Charlie Warzel and Why Do I Feel This Urge to Give Him a Brutal Fisking?

Honestly, this was a rabbit hole I never intended to go down. Like, why should I spend more than an hour scrolling through Google search results to try to assemble a biographical sketch of an obscure journalist? But today I glanced at Memeorandum and spotted this headline: Why Are the Right Such Sore Winners? Even […]

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