The Other McCain

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

Why Are Democrats Such Bad People?

Everybody has already commented on the bizarre case of Aidan Maese-Czeropski, the staffer for Maryland Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin who was fired after posting a video of himself being sodomized in a hearing room at the Hart Senate Office Building, and then claimed victimhood: Aidan Maese-Czeropski, the Senate staffer who filmed himself having anal sex […]

In The Mailbox: 12.18.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho From John C. Wright: Moth & Cobweb is back! Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Electric Buses That Don’t Work In The Cold EBL: The Family Plan, Mistletoe Ranch, Hannibal and the Second Punic War, and The Gift of Biden Twitchy: Brandon Straka Announces He’s Won […]

Which One of You ‘Christofascists’ Urinated in A.R. Moxon’s Cornflakes?

Say hello to A.R. Moxon, a writer who has a Substack where he rants against Republicans or, as he calls them, “the sort of Christian Nationalists who would love to see a fascist dictator take power to install a white nationalist Christofascist ethnostate.” That is the eminent danger, the existentialist threat, according to A.R. Moxon, […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Outstanding In Her Field

— compiled by Wombat-socho This week’s appetizer courtesy of Rule 5 Texan on X. Unsolicited and completely unrelated plug: if you like fudge and bad jokes, I cannot recommend the Uranus Fudge Factory (“The Best Fudge Comes From Uranus!) highly enough. I ordered a couple small boxes of the Reduced Sugar fudge, and it was […]

FMJRA 2.0: Falcons & Eagles

— compiled by Wombat-socho Well, we done good, even though we lost three of our last five games – split a two-game series with Baltimore, and then lost two of three in Pittsburgh. Still, we finished 91-71, far better than any Senators team IRL, and get the home field advantage against whoever we’re playing in […]

John Hoge, R.I.P.

“The Other Podcast” is on hiatus, and NASA’s space robot program has suffered a major setback, as my podcast co-host John Hoge died Friday morning. Our friend Aaron Walker relayed the news: I want to take a moment to announce that my best friend, John Hoge (@wjjhoge) has passed on. His son, William Hoge IV, […]

In The Mailbox: 12.15.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts. William J. Hoge, RIP. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: What Happens When You Pass Medical Students Without Regard For Merit? EBL: Republican Mazi Melesa Pilip running for vacated Santos Seat, Reacher: Season 2, and […]

Fact Check: Jesus Was NOT an ‘Undocumented Immigrant’ (and Also, Joseph and Mary Weren’t Homeless)

“And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria. And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, […]

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