The Other McCain

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

‘Blood Will Tell,’ as Folks Say Down Home

In addition to being handsome, my son Jefferson is also very smart. Last week I texted him, “What did you score on the LSAT?” He answered 170 which, really, is Ivy League caliber, but instead he accepted a generous scholarship offer from a law school in the Midwest and is now in his second semester. […]

A Criminal History

The weird thing about the YouTube algorithm is its apparent randomness. Saturday night at dinner with my podcast partner John Hoge, I went off on a tangent about the bass riff on the 1966 Simon and Garfunkel hit, “A Hazy Shade of Winter” — something I picked up watching a YouTube video — and then […]

Shocking: Muslim ‘Diversity’ Grifter Exposed as Just Another White Woman

Let me start with this: Never trust a Quaker. In a world where most forms of “hate speech” are severely sanctioned, Quakers don’t have the kind of official victim status that protects some other groups, and I could probably start promoting anti-Quaker conspiracy theories without suffering any serious repercussions. So why not? My genocidal hatred […]

Armed Self-Defense in Dallas

This happened in December, but the police took a while to complete their investigation and make arrests, so we’re just now getting a detailed account of what happened: There are a lot of new details about how a recent attempted carjacking of a luxury car went down in an upscale area of Dallas. Police arrested […]

In The Mailbox: 02.17.23 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho Having successfully pimped Son of Silvercon, it’s time to get a good night’s sleep before grabbing some spudnuts and heading west for a wild Saturday night in Elko. Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Chicago Politicians Wouldn’t […]

CNN: Making News (Not in a Good Way)

Because you don’t watch CNN — nobody watches CNN — you might not be aware that they employ a person named “Don Lemon,” who is both (a) homosexual and (b) unpopular with cable news audiences. Whether there is any cause-and-effect relationship between (a) and (b), the question of whether a gay man is qualified to […]

In The Mailbox: 02.17.23 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho From the Temporary Field HQ in Provo, Utah. Silicon Valley delenda est. OVER THE TRANSOM Twitchy: “Rachel” Levine Emails Reveal Push To Profit On “Gender Clinics” At Childrens’ Hospitals, also, Unhinged Fascist Joy Behar Rants About “These Fascists Out There” And LOL  Louder With Crowder: CNN co-host storms off after Don […]

In The Mailbox: 02.16.23 (Punditocalyse Redux)

— compiled by Wombat-socho An abbreviated edition, because I just got in from Reno and would love nothing more than to just sleep. However, duty calls, with a shrill, annoying voice. SOTD. Silicon Valley delenda est. OVER THE TRANSOM Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1994 – Valentine’s Day Edition 357 […]

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