The Other McCain

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

Post-Election Bonfire of Schadenfreude: ‘Hundreds’ Being Laid Off at CNN

It’s a “mostly peaceful” end for the journalism careers of a lot of deadwood on the payroll of the third-place cable news network: CNN started to inform staffers of layoffs, as its chairman and CEO Chris Licht wrote that notices will go out on Wednesday and Thursday. “Today we will notify a limited number of […]

Crime Scene: Atlanta

Being a native of Atlanta, I can only shake my head in sorrow at what’s happened to that once-great city. Basically the entire city and most of the suburbs have become a shooting range in recent years. Perhaps Atlanta is not yet as bad as Philadelphia, Baltimore, St. Louis or some of our nation’s other […]

Crazy People Are Dangerous (and They’re Working for the Biden Administration)

Sam Brinton is self-evidently crazy. He is daft, deranged, bonkers, berserk, a few fries short of a Happy Meal and cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. Exactly why Joe Biden would appoint this lunatic to a job working with nuclear technology in the Department of Energy — well, Democrats do crazy things all the time, and appointing […]

In The Mailbox: 11.29.22 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley delenda est. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: The Illusion Of Safety EBL: World Cup 2022, or, No Fun in Qatar, also, Biden’s Baggage Bandit Brinton Busted  Twitchy: Biden – Who Knew What A Supply Chain Was? Normal People – Pretty Much Everyone, also, Amanda Marcotte Says The Only Way […]

In the Mailbox: 11.29.22 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley delenda est. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Good Guys 4, Bad Guys 0 EBL: MAGA – My Dinner With Ye Twitchy: Joy Behar Tries To Backpedal On Her Disgusting Amy Coney Barrett Lie, Fails Miserably, also, Ex-LTC Vindman Brags To Nicole Wallace That HE’s Going To Hold Elon Musk […]

Late Night With Rule 5 Sunday: World Cup Edition

— compiled by Wombat-socho Because I am a merciful wombat, I interrupt the punitive procession of shipgirls with this timely pic of Shuuko and Shouko Komi cheering for Brazil. Why Brazil? Maybe the Komi family has relatives in Brazil. Maybe the artist is a Brazilian Komi fan.* Who cares? Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse […]

FMJRA 2.0: Control

— compiled by Wombat-socho Can it be possible? A five-game winning streak for my Senators? YES IT CAN! We took two out of three from the Braves at home in RFK, then went to New York and swept the DayTraders in a wild set of games that featured a 9-8 slugfest with not one but […]

‘Blood On Your Hands’? Is Anyone Really Endangered by Twitter ‘Amnesty’?

Hopewell Chin’ono is an award-winning journalist who has relentlessly exposed the evils of the lawless and corrupt regime in Zimbabwe: In 2020, Hopewell reported on alleged Covid-19 procurement fraud within the health ministry, which led to the arrest and sacking of Health Minister Obadiah Moyo. It was President Emmerson Mnangagwa who fired Obadiah in July […]

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