The Other McCain

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

Rule 5 Sunday: Loungewear.

— compiled by Wombat-socho I forgot to mention this in the FMJRA, your usual source for all things Senators, but Pete Da Tech Guy has asked me to inform the commentariat that the Cubs are available for the upcoming 1974 season in our Dynasty Baseball league. The Cubs finished 57-105, eleven games ahead of the […]

FMJRA 2.0: Wait Until Next Year

— compiled by Wombat-socho The season ended with the Pirates sweeping the Senators at Three Rivers, finally putting the season out of its misery. We finished last in the Beta Division of the American League at 67-95, six games behind the A’s but still ahead of the O’s and Royals, who finished at 62-100. This […]

Media Mourns Loss of Terrorist Leader

After much blowback — were college interns working the weekend copy desk? — Associated Press has changed that headline, but what was the logic? How does the journalistic “mainstream” reach a point where a bloodthirsty Jew-hater like Hassan Nasrallah gets such a fond send-off from AP? Dig the euphemism in the lead paragraph, where Hezbollah […]

In The Mailbox: 09.27.24 (Returning From The Secret City Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts. The week I spent at Oak Ridge TN was educational, informative, interesting, and unfortunately I was hideously jet-lagged and short on sleep for about half of it. That having been said, if you’re in the neighborhood, you should absolutely visit the K-25 Museum, […]

Sports, Politics and War: Morale Matters

The benefits of having a readership full of nerds is that sometimes they can teach you things, as in this comment on yesterday’s post: Obscure wargaming reference here. In the old Avalon Hill Game called Kingmaker — a simulation of the Wars of the Roses — one of the most annoying random event cards is […]

STOP DOING THIS!

Look, I don’t want to name any names or call anybody out, but I am sick and tired of the defeatist negativity that crops up in the comments every time I blog about the election. Whenever I point to hopeful signs about November (as I did on Tuesday), the comments fill up with a chorus […]

The Slow Death of Kamala’s ‘Joy’

Notice something about that picture of Vice President Kamala Harris? She’s wearing sneakers. Is this supposed to be some kind of message? At age 59, she is the candidate of youth, or something? In a campaign short on substance and long on symbolism, we can be certain that having the candidate onstage in a pair […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Moving Indoors

— compiled by Wombat-socho Even in Las Vegas, it’s getting cool enough outside so wet T-shirt contests need to start moving indoor to the bars from the pools. This week’s appetizer courtesy of kbdabear on X. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt. ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Border Crisis Friday, and the Saturday […]

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