The Other McCain

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

In The Mailbox: 12.06.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho Forgot to note this yesterday, but Mark Steyn is doing a reading of “A Christmas Carol”. Part three is linked below.  Silicon Valley delenda est. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: An Entitlement That Can’t Be Fulfilled EBL: Kirstie Alley, RIP, Should Ronna McDaniels Stay On As RNC Chair?, and John Bolton […]

Headless Woman in Hopeless City

How many murders involving decapitation happen in an average year in the United States? Pretty sure the number is small, but when your city is on pace for more than 500 murders a year — as is the case in “Killadelphia” — a certain number of statistical outliers can be expected: Since the beginning of […]

In The Mailbox: 12.05.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley delenda est. OVER THE TRANSOM Director Blue: A Single #2 Pencil Outsmarts The Entire Progressive Movement 357 Magnum: Even Texas Has Fallen To Bail Reform EBL: Oh Canada – The State Has Suggestions For Making Healthcare “Affordable”, Tesla’s Electric Semi?, and Democrat Darling Michael Avenatti gets 14 more years […]

Rule 5 Monday: HMS Foxhound/HMCS Qu’Appelle

— compiled by Wombat-socho HMS Foxhound was one of the interwar F-class destroyers built under the restrictions of the Washington Naval Treaty, and was later modified to become an escort destroyer (not to be confused with destroyer escort) before being transferred o the Royal Canadian Navy as the Qu’Appelle. Despite spending much of her time […]

FMJRA 2.0: I Scent The Morning Air

— compiled by Wombat-socho .400 ball this week; lost 2 of 3 to the Dodgers and split a pair with the Angels. Bah humbug. On the upside, the third volume of Klaus Schulze’s La vie electronique is just as good as the first two. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam. In The Mailbox: 11.30.22 […]

Football: Learn the Rules!

Blocked field goals are a rare enough occurrence in college football that fans can be forgiven for not knowing that, after a kick is blocked, it’s still a live ball. But why didn’t LSU players know this? You are a college student, on a scholarship to play football. You are assigned to special teams duty. […]

#TWITTERGATE: Elon Musk Exposes Twitter’s 2020 Election Interference

One of the things Elon Musk bought for $44 billion was proprietary rights to Twitter’s internal communications and — whoo, doggies! — what a treasure trove it proves to be: Elon Musk’s Twitter released internal discussions about censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story Friday night via journalist Matt Taibbi. The documents reveal widespread internal and […]

In The Mailbox: 12.02.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: The Woke Disaster That Is DC Comics EBL: Where The Crawdads Sing Twitchy: Elon Musk Explains What Really Happened With The Hunter Biden Story, Glenn Greenwald’s Take On The “Twitter Files” […]

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