The Other McCain

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

Rule 5 Sunday: Margot Robbie

— compiled by Wombat-socho It seems only fair that after a week of inflicting Barbenheimer memes on the commentariat that I bring you a pic of Ms. Robbie playing Barbie. While on the press tour to promote said movie, Disney and Mattel had the wit to show her off in real life versions of dresses […]

Congratulations, Massachusetts Liberals: Your ‘Millionaire Tax’ Just Cost the Patriots an All-Pro Wide Receiver

Here’s a fact: Tennessee has zero state income tax. Here’s another fact: Last year, Massachusetts voters passed a referendum approving a 4% “millionaire tax” in addition to the state’s existing 5% income tax, so that all income over $1 million a year earned by Massachusetts residents is now taxed at 9%. So in order for […]

Math = White Supremacy

Where did the belief arise that “white supremacy” is so structurally embedded in American society as to require wholesale changes to “dismantle” its nefarious influence? It didn’t start with George Floyd. Rather, in its most directly articulated form (of which the above graphic is an expression), it can be traced to the work of left-wing […]

FMJRA 2.0: We Saw It, It Was Coming

— compiled by Wombat-socho Senators took two of three from the division-leading A’s at RFK and ten went on the road to Minnesota and got thumped in two games straight before Juan Marichal came in to shut down the Twins’ bats while the lads teed off on Sudden Sam McDowell for an 8-0 blowout in […]

A Tale of Two Conventions

— by Wombat-socho Or, Taking Back SF One Convention At A Time. Every year in June, there’s a science fiction convention in Chattanooga, Tennessee, that is so popular, memberships sell out in a matter of hours when they become available. Part of this is because (thanks to some arcane rules I don’t pretend to understand […]

New York Architect Art Vandelay Denies Role in Long Island Serial Killer Case

As soon as I heard that the suspect arrested in the long-unsolved murders of three women in the Long Island community of Gilgo Beach was an architect, I immediately thought of George Costanza in Seinfeld pretending to be an architect named “Art Vandelay.” This just shows what my sick sense of humor, I suppose, but […]

In The Mailbox: 07.14.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: When You Outlaw Guns, Only Outlaws Have Guns EBL: I refuse to join a club that would have me as a member, Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning, Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, and Bastille […]

Crazy People Are Dangerous

The de-institutionalization of the mentally ill has been a disaster for American society. Many cities are plagued by homeless encampments largely populated by people who would probably be better off locked up in a psych ward, but the state mental asylums got shut down decades ago, and the healthcare system doesn’t have enough facilities to […]

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