The Other McCain

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

FMJRA 2.0: Even Worse

— compiled by Wombat-socho My Senators’ agony continued this week, as we lost two out of three to the Angels and then got swept by the Hated Yankees. Worse, in looking at my roster, I’m going to have to replace most of my position players since most of them turn into pumpkins in 1973. Ceterum […]

‘Team Joe’ Sends Me E-Mail

Many years ago, when I was covering Hillary Clinton’s doomed 2008 Democratic primary campaign, I clicked a link saying I would attend one of her appearances in Pennsylvania, and ever since then, my email address has been passed around to every other Democratic campaign, which is why this morning, I received this message: As a […]

‘Dangerously Out of Touch’: ABC Interview Doesn’t Quell Dump-Biden Talk

The vultures are now circling overhead above the decaying carcass of Joe Biden’s reelection campaign. The damage done by the June 27 debate cannot be repaired or wished away. The number of House Democrats calling for Biden to step aside as the party’s nominee has now increased to five, with Minnesota Rep. Rep. Angie Craig […]

In The Mailbox: 07.05.24 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM EBL: Biden tries to resurrect himself with Democrat Homunculus George Stephanopoulos, also, What to the slave is the Fourth of July? Twitchy: Megyn Kelly Says What We’re All Thinking About Biden’s […]

In The Mailbox: 07.05.24 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM EBL: Independence Day, also, Happy 4th of July Twitchy: “Looks Really…WHITE”, It’s Time To Play What’s That Stain! and Liz, Just Take The L Vox Popoli: Mailvox: Debt Deflation in Action, How NOT to Talk to Girls at Parties, Happy Independence Day, […]

Thinking of Christmas in July

Does it occur to you that, instead of celebrating the Fourth of July, when the Declaration of Independence was published, that instead we should celebrate our independence on the Nineteenth of October? It was on October 19, 1781, that Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, the victory that finally secured America’s independence, but the Nineteenth of October […]

In The Mailbox: 07.03.24 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the […]

Dumbest Car Thief Ever?

Say hello to 29-year-old Charles Millsaps, who had the brilliant idea to (a) steal a 1992 Honda Accord, and then (b) try to outrun the Georgia State Patrol in aforesaid vehicle, with the result that (c) he got locked up in the Chatham County Jail — and never mind the fact that (d) he was […]

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