The Other McCain

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

In The Mailbox: 10.10.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho As of yesterday, I am 65. Never thought I was going to live anywhere near this long. Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: When Politicians Pretend They Know Anything About High Tech EBL: We Will Dance Again Twitchy: Politico Fantasizes That Kamala Is Riding A Dream Economy […]

Democrats ‘Increasingly Worried About a Number of Issues Plaguing’ Kamala

Remember what I told you in mid-September? “Kamala Is Underperforming” was the headline, at a time when the newly-minted Democratic presidential nominee was still riding her post-convention “bounce.” A careful comparison of Harris’s poll numbers to Joe Biden’s numbers in 2020 and Hillary Clinton’s numbers in 2016 showed that she was weaker against Trump than […]

In The Mailbox: 10.08.24 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Lies, Damn Lies, and Government Statistics EBL: Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas Prioritizes High End Personal Shopping Over Hurricane Recovery, Hurricane Kamala only cares about Kamala, Kamala Flounders In 60 Minutes Interview, and Notorious robophobe Matt Yglesias is allegedly sexbot curious Twitchy: […]

In The Mailbox: 10.08.24 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Don’t Like the Swill Produced by Hollywood? Then You’re a Bad Person (Part 2) EBL: Kamala giving $157 million to Lebanon, but not for Hurricane Helene vicitms, Killer Heat, Our Lady of the Rosary, and October 7, 2023: The hours that […]

Death by Online Misadventure

Say hello to Joseph Nathan Ryan, “a Springfield, Va., resident who lived with his grandmother and a small dog,” according to the Washington Post, until one day in February 2023, when he was shot to death as “part of an elaborate ruse that lured a man interested in sexual fetishes” to the home of a […]

Rule 5 Sunday: But First, Coffee

— compiled by Wombat-socho Somewhere in one of my picture folders I have a photo of a coffee-drinking lass on a bed wearing a T-shirt* with the sentence “Yes, But First, Coffee”. Until I find it again, this pic from Rule5Texan on X will do quite nicely. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam […]

Happy Birthday to Me

Today is my 65th birthday — old enough to qualify for Social Security, but still working. It’s been four days since I updated the blog, but my day job kind of interfered with the blogging schedule this week. Also, I keep doing that thing where I begin an article, write hundreds or even thousands of […]

FMJRA 2.0: The Pleasure Is To Play

— compiled by Wombat-socho SOTD Regardless of how poorly my Senators did this year, I miss playing, and I am already poring over the cards of players who will definitely be available next year as well as looking at players from the playoff teams who will probably be available in the draft after those teams […]

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