The Other McCain

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

‘I Wouldn’t Call Him Crazy’

The headline quote comes via the London Telegraph: Chris Lutz, a humanitarian aid worker in Kyiv, told the BBC that Routh was known locally as a “recruitment cheerleader” but had no rights or powers to recruit for Ukraine’s international legion. “I wouldn’t call him crazy. He was just hyper-focused. He was trying his best to […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Enthusiasm!

— compiled by Wombat-socho “I prefer my women smiling and running toward me, not screaming and running away.” – Maj. Kaltin Gruder, from David Drake & S.M. Stirling’s The Steel. I daresay all of us would agree with Major Gruder, no? This willing young lass comes to us courtesy of kbdabear on X. Ceterum autem […]

FMJRA 2.0: The Beatings Will Continue Until The Season Concludes

— compiled by Wombat-socho I’m trying to figure out what a miracle meant. What an awful week. We were hoping to sweep the A’s and Dodgers, or at least take two out of three from them, but they both beat us like the family mule (especially embarrassing because the Dodgers have no hitting but still […]

Kamala Is Underperforming

Keep that word in mind — “underperforming” — as you contemplate the fact that Kamala Harris is campaigning in Pennsylvania, a state that Joe Biden (allegedly) won by more than 80,000 votes in 2020. Let’s compare Kamala’s polls to Biden’s polls four years ago. On this date in 2020, the Real Clear Politics average showed […]

In The Mailbox: 09.13.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: The WSJ Covers Video Games – Ubisoft In The Spotlight EBL: MAGA Biden, also, So what does Kamala stand for?  Twitchy: Man Who Allegedly Shot Pro-Hamas Protester Appears In […]

In The Mailbox: 09.12.24 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho Not sure what I did right this time, but I got home to Tonopah FULL OF ENERGY. SF author Chuck Gannon has a Patreon. Free this month, 20% off October & November. Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: The Government Is Hiding Data About Good Guys […]

Trump: I Won, No More Debates

This is a bold move, and can only be explained by Duane Patterson’s question: “If Kamala Won the Debate, Why Is Trump Gaining Ground?” Counter-intuitive as it may seem — because Trump had a lousy debate performance — it appears that many undecided voters moved in favor of Trump as a result. Or, to put […]

In The Mailbox: 09.12.24 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM EBL: ABC’s David Muir: 100% Positive Coverage of Kamala Harris, also, Remember September 11, 2001 Twitchy: Tom Elliott’s Then vs. Now Supercut Of Democrats 180 On Dick Cheney Might Give You Whiplash, Team Kamala Hit With More Bad News About Another Group […]

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