The Other McCain

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

Rule 5 Sunday: Merry Christmas!

— compiled by Wombat-socho Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt. ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Continuing Resolution Friday, the Saturday Gingermageddon, and a Winter Solstice bonus! EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Juror 2, Wyrd Sisters, MAGA – Take A Load Off Fani, “Last Christmas” (Postmodern Jukebox), “Grandma Got Run Over By A […]

FMJRA 2.0: A Christmas Break From Baseball

— compiled by Wombat-socho Well, the draft is done, and Pete says we’ll start playing after Christmas. I’m fairly happy with my picks, and we’ll see how it works out during the upcoming season. Especially with the DH in effect for the American League teams. Today’s illo is taken from the Korean Playstation 5 game […]

Against Euphemisms

However much you hate the creeping totalitarianism of our time, you don’t hate it enough. Let me quote this: One of Orwell’s most important messages in 1984 is that language is of central importance to human thought because it structures and limits the ideas that individuals are capable of formulating and expressing. If control of language was […]

2024: The Year the Media Lost

The Gloat Zone is a great place to be. Whether it’s in football or politics, the aftermath of a big victory is an occasion for soaking in the feel-good endorphin bath, and laughing at the follies of your defeated opponent. Victory is always sweetest when it’s an upset, staging a fourth-quarter comeback after your opponent […]

In The Mailbox: 12.20.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM EBL: Terrorism: At least 2 dead, nearly 70 injured when car plows into Magdeburg, German Christmas Market Twitchy: Depressed Mode – Fashion Forward Or Step Backward? Speaker Johnson Criticized As CR […]

In The Mailbox: 12.19.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: When Law and Order Break Down …, also Fake News EBL: Presumed Innocent, Bloated Congressional Funding Plan Dead On Arrival, North Koreans may be having a tough time with drone attacks in Ukraine, and Jill Biden and the Democrat Party hid that […]

A Product of the Crazy-Making Factory

Notice the slogan on Natalie Rupnow’s T-shirt: “KMFDM,” a reference to Kein Mehrheit Für Die Mitleid (“no pity for the majority”), a German rock band whose fans included Columbine High School gunman Eric Harris. Lyrics to KMFDM songs were posted on Harris’s website, and fandom of KMFDM was part of Natalie Rupnow’s obsession with mass […]

In The Mailbox: 12.18.24 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM EBL: Inside Story: Caddyshack, The Thin Man – Christmas Morning, George Stephanopoulos butthurt over settlement with Trump, and Investigations Regarding Liz Cheney Witness Tampering? Twitchy: Rep. Nancy Mace Calls Out Some of the Orwellian Language In The CRomnibus, Congressman Slammed For Trying […]

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