The Other McCain

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

In The Mailbox: 08.22.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho Back home on the mountain. Normal blogging will resume, with a double-scoop Rule 5 Sunday coming up this weekend.  Silicon Valley delenda est. OVER THE TRANSOM EBL: Elon Musk should apologize to James Woods, Pope St. Pius X, Hurricane Hillary Dumps Heavy Rain On California and Nevada, How Would Walt Disney […]

A Smoking Gun, Next to a Bloody Corpse: Joe Biden Is Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!

You know it’s bad for Joe Biden when (a) even Washington Post “fact-checkers” admit he’s lying and (b) CNN can’t ignore it anymore: CNN host Jake Tapper admitted that former President Donald Trump “was right” during the 2020 presidential debates when he accused then-presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden of accepting large amounts of […]

THEY’RE CANCELLING BIG BUTTS?

Great minds think alike, and so when word got out that “Fat Bottomed Girls” is omitted from an updated version of Queen’s Greatest Hits, Ed Driscoll asked if “Sir-Mix-a-Lot [will] be able to escape the PC police?” I like big butts and I cannot lie. You other brothers can’t deny, When a girl walks in […]

In The Mailbox: 08.21.23 (Lost Weekend Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho Finally out of the VA hospital, where I spent a long weekend having my legs bandaged/unbandaged/rebandaged while having intravenous antibiotics pumped into me. Staying the night in Vegas before heading home tomorrow morning. Silicon Valley delenda est. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: PG&E Says All Your Batteries Are Belong To Us, […]

How Am I Related to Pocahontas?

Having traced the ancestry of my paternal grandmother Perlonia McCain (née Bolt) all the way back to Rollo the Viking — seriously, that’s what the Internet says — my son Jefferson also took a look at the ancestry of my maternal grandfather, Hermit Eiland Kirby, whose father was William Thomas Kirby. His father, William Terry Kirby, […]

Music Cue: ‘Immigrant Song’

Genealogy is fun, although I’m not entirely sure that online sources are reliable. At any rate, my son Jefferson texted me today about some of the research I’d done. It seems his girlfriend’s family can trace their ancestry to William the Conqueror, and here I’d gotten no further back than the Revolutionary War. But I […]

21st-Century Digital Stalinism

Of all the sinister aspects of the Soviet Union — secret police, famine, mass murders — perhaps nothing was ultimately more frightening than the way the Communists literally erased history. After Trotsky was purged, Soviet propagandists began airbrushing the former Bolshevik leader from historic photographs, so that his role in the Russian revolution, and his […]

On ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’

After 10 days of reading endless commentary about Oliver Anthony’s viral hit “Rich Men North of Richmond,” I finally decided to watch the YouTube video and see for myself: Red-bearded young man with a muscular voice picking a Gretsch dobro and singing the blues about “what the world’s gotten to,” and how it feels to […]

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