The Other McCain

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

The Ontological Error of ‘Gun Violence’

Gloria: “Daddy, did you know that sixty-five percent of the people murdered in this country in the last ten years were killed by handguns?” Archie Bunker: “Would it make you feel any better, little girl, if they was pushed out of windows?” That exchange from a 1972 episode of All in the Family always comes […]

In The Mailbox: 06.16.23 (Punditocracy Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho Sick and busy is not a good combination, but the usual weekend deadlines will be in effect for the usual weekend posts. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Comics Aren’t Dead, DC/Marvel Are Dead – Isom #2 EBL: Hero Marine Daniel Perry Railroaded By NYC […]

Do Ghouls and Witches Count for ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ at Harvard?

The manager of the morgue at Harvard Medical School somehow got involved with a macabre collection of death-obsessed weirdos, and now all of them are facing multiple felony charges: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Cedric Lodge, age 55, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, Katrina Maclean, age 44, of […]

‘All I Wanted Was a Pepsi’

So you’re gonna be institutionalized. You’ll come out brainwashed with bloodshot eyes. You won’t have any say. They’ll brainwash you until you see their way. For many years, I’ve complained about the “Compulsory Approval Doctrine” of the gay-rights movement, which seeks to forbid anyone from expressing disapproval of homosexual behavior or, for that matter, criticizing […]

In The Mailbox: 06.14.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley delenda est. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: San Francisco Has Morphed Into East Germany EBL: Anime Girl, also, Indictment Day in Florida Twitchy: Lefty Loser Threatens Conservatives That Come To His Tattoo Shop – It Doesn’t Go Well, also, Biden’s Preferred Parish Celebrating An LGBTWTFBBQ Pride Mass Louder With […]

Another Day, Another Deadline

“There was never enough time. Every deadline was a crisis. All around me were experienced professional journalists meeting deadlines far more frequent than mine, but I was never able to learn from their example.” – Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 MEMO FROM THE NATIONAL DESK This morning, at precisely […]

Approaching the Nadir of Wokeness

How far down the slippery slope of “woke” craziness have we slid? Well, California is evidently ready to mandate insurance coverage for gay men hiring women to be surrogate babymakers: California lawmakers are advancing a bill that would redefine the inability of men to get pregnant as “infertility” and entitle them to insurance-covered fertility treatments. […]

Chaos in NYPD as Commissioner Resigns

Three kids “horsing around” with a basketball in Brooklyn somehow set in motion a chain of events that has led to the resignation of New York City’s first female police commissioner. One of the first moves Mayor Eric Adams made when he took office in January 2022 was to appoint Keechant Sewell as the new […]

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