The Other McCain

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

Our Long National Nightmare Is Over: Republicans Win House Majority

It shouldn’t take an entire week to count the votes — Florida, notably, counted all theirs in about four hours — but at last it’s done: It is now official. Republicans have won the House of Representatives. According to Decision Desk HQ, the GOP will hold at least 218 seats following yet another race called […]

In The Mailbox: 11.14.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley delenda est. OVER THE TRANSOM Director Blue: Enviro-Globalists Are The New Mayans EBL: The System Is The Steal Twitchy: Media Calls AZ Race For Hobbs, also, FBI Had Eight Informants Inside The Proud Boys Around January 6 Louder With Crowder: ‘Just doing what I always do’, Did Elon Musk […]

Further Proof the Washington Post Copy Desk Is Staffed by Incompetent Idiots

As if further proof were needed. They quickly changed the headline and re-wrote the lead, but you have to wonder, what kind of hiring process results in one of the nation’s leading newspapers employing an editor who would click the “publish” button on something like that? “A gunman has killed three people at a university […]

Late Night With Rule 5 Sunday: IJN Uranami

— compiled by Wombat-socho This has been, to put it mildly, a shitty weekend. Today I got the word that a good friend of mine, conservative journalist & SF fan Martin Morse Wooster, was killed by a hit & run driver while attending an ale conference in Williamsburg, Virginia. Also, I spent considerable time trying […]

Why Vote-By-Mail Is The End Of The Republic

by Smitty Hypothetically speaking (not purely, I had anecdotal awareness of at least one occurrence a few election cycles ago), one can use ballots sent to addresses in multiple states to vote more than once in an election. Who would know? So, what is to prevent some wiseguy from registering in every state that automatically […]

Sam Bankman-Fried: MIT-Educated Crypto Swindler Scammed Billions, Donated Millions to Democrats

How could a Ponzi schemer hide in plain sight so long? That’s the real question at the heart of the story of how Sam Bankman-Fried, the son of two Stanford University law professor, became a celebrity in the financial world — rubbing shoulders with Bill Clinton and Tom Brady, among others — even while critics […]

FMJRA 2.0: Ludwig II Von Bayern

— compiled by Wombat-socho Another week of .400 baseball – Marichal got us a win at San Francisco, and Joe Coleman held the A’s to two runs while we scored six, so we wound up with two wins out of five games. Could have been worse. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam. Joe Biden […]

‘… After Receiving a Call About a Suspicious Man in the Area …’

Gosh, I don’t why anyone thought he looked “suspicious”: A Belding [Michigan] man was arrested for possession of methamphetamine with intent to deliver after leading police on a brief car chase. In the early morning hours of Nov. 10, a pickup truck was spotted running a stop sign on Deaner and Wyman Road in Home […]

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