The Other McCain

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

In The Mailbox: 06.26.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley delenda est. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Marvel & The No Accountability Superhero Movie, also, “Trust The Science” They Say EBL: Asteroid City, The Gallant Hours, and Whose Side is Belarus’ President Lukashenko on? Twitchy: London Breed Has Dumb Response To DeSantis’ Criticism Of San Fran, Publisher Says ALA […]

Science Fiction, Gatekeeping, And Why Awards Are Useless

— by Wombat-socho First, let me give a shoutout to Son of Silvercon‘s Guest of Honor, Maggie Hogarth, who has a new book dropping at the end of July, An Exile Aboard Ship. It’s the start of a new series set in her Peltedverse, which has a lot of cool aliens in it, and if […]

Checked and Ready for Boarding

BALTIMORE-WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Remember the “Shoe Bomber”? In December 2001, would-be terrorist Richard Reid was aboard an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami when he failed in an attempt to detonate plastic explosives hidden in his shoes. Because of this botched terrorist attack, all commercial airline passengers to this day are required to remove […]

North! To Alaska!

This afternoon, my wife and I will be flying the friendly skies, first to Dallas for a three-hour layover before heading to Anchorage. I’d told y’all about this trip earlier, when I thought we’d be leaving last week, but I was mistaken about the anticipated travel date. Our Army son is stationed there with the […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Tracy Cortez

— compiled by Wombat-socho UFC flyweight fighter Tracy Cortez is a tough gal (10-1) but also a cutie, as Outkick noticed since they’re always on the lookout for cute sports gals. Here’s a pic of Miss Cortez outside the ring – imao, she looks a lot better with her hair down. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon […]

Who They Think We Are

The editor of Iowa’s Quad Cities Times has apologized for publishing the cartoon above, after being called out on Twitter by Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who lamented the “shameful” cartoon and said: “It’s sad that this is how the MSM views Republicans. I’ve met with grassroots conservatives across America & never *once* experienced the […]

FMJRA 2.0 Let It Ride

— compiled by Wombat-socho Another week of .500 baseball for the Senators; we took two of three from the Hated Yankees in New York and then came home to lose two of three in RFK to the Reds, getting 2b Cookie Rojas crunched for 60 days in the process. So we’ll have to make do […]

Undertakers of Democracy: How the Washington Post Is Deliberately Burying the Hunter Biden Influence Scandal

When I first joined the staff of The Washington Times in 1997, a senior editor explained to me that the difference between how they covered the news and how the hated crosstown rival Washington Post covered the news was very simple: “selection and emphasis.” During more than a decade at the conservative Times, I observed […]

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