The Other McCain

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

She’s Ready for Her Close-Up, Mr. DeMille

You may not recognize that teenager from New Mexico who, in 1981, posed for Oui magazine, and she hadn’t crossed my mind in many years until I saw this headline today: Demi Moore, 59, poses in swimsuits as she hopes to change ‘this idea that we become less desirable as we get older’ Well, you’ve […]

Our Patriotic Duty

That’s my son Jim, rigging the last fuse on our Fourth of July fireworks finale. We planned the show on very short notice — driving back from Georgia after attending my Aunt Pat’s memorial service Saturday — and were adding to the show as late as six o’clock Monday afternoon, when Jim sent me to […]

In The Mailbox: 07.06.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley delenda est. OVER THE TRANSOM EBL: Savannah Daisley Accused of Rape of 14 Year Old Boy, also, Jerone Davidson (R-AZ4) for Congress – Make Rifles Great Again Twitchy: Rep. Lauren Boebert informs Rep. Eric Swalwell that no, he can’t date her, also, Fauxcahontas on the warpath against Massachusetts crisis pregnancy […]

In The Mailbox: 07.05.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley delenda est. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: What’s The Military Version of “Get Woke, Go Broke?” EBL: Mamie Van Doren, also, Bikini Day Twitchy: Dean Obeidallah says that Gov. Gavin Newsom is doing more than just crushing Gov. Ron DeSantis Louder With Crowder: UFC Champ Asks the Question On All Our Minds, […]

Eulogy for a Great Southern Lady

(My cousin Trish asked me to give a eulogy for my Aunt Pat Huber at the memorial service July 2 in Mableton, Georgia.) The Roman poet Ovid said, “If you want to be loved, be lovable.” And I think everyone who knew Pat Huber would agree that she was a very lovable person. She was […]

A Story Too Good to Check?

This headline appeared Friday in the Columbus Dispatch: As Ohio restricts abortions, 10-year-old girl travels to Indiana for procedure On Monday three days after the Supreme Court issued its groundbreaking decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist, took a call from a colleague, a child abuse doctor in Ohio. Hours […]

Annual Bruce Catton Appreciation Post

— compiled by Wombat-socho For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the […]

Rule Five Sunday: Ava Gardner

— compiled by Wombat-socho What do we really need say about legendary actress Ava Gardner? One can only wonder how her kids with Frank Sinatra would have turned out…anyway, here she is in a pinup pic before she hit it big in Hollywood. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam. NINETY MILES FROM TYRANNY: Hot […]

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