The Other McCain

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

In The Mailbox: 02.10.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho The 2025 Spring Based Books Sale Starts Wednesday! Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Professor Yamane and the Facts About Gun Culture 2.0 EBL: Humane, Tom Robbins RIP, Eve Keneinan, Cheerleaders, and Elizabeth Warren’s Big Pharma Money Twitchy: Elon Musk Responds To NYT OpEd On DOGE By […]

Rule 5 Sunday: F**k Art, Let’s Dance

— compiled by Wombat-socho For certain values of “art” and “dance”. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt. ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Alaska Voters Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon. EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, “February Brings Rain”, “You’re Sixteen”, Valentina D’Agostino, Jordon Hudson, MAGA & DOGE – Sunlight Is The Best Disinfectant, […]

FMJRA 2.0: Return to Mediocrity

— compiled by Wombat-socho I posted a video about stuff. The Senators started the week getting mauled by the Twins as Spaceman Lee self-destructed on the mound en route to a 14-2 blowout, but we managed to salvage the final game with Jim Kaat and the bullpen holding on for a 9-5 win. Things likewise […]

A Shootout in Carnarsie

The intersection of Flatlands Avenue and East 80th Street is probably not the worst part of Brooklyn, but it’s also not the best part of Brooklyn. Far be it from me to pretend to have any expert knowledge of Brooklyn neighborhoods. All I know on the subject, I learned via Google searches, which tells me […]

Obama Judge Orders DOGE to Stop Telling Us Where Our Money Went

Wow, what a week it’s been, huh? Elon Musk’s young wizards at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have applied their superpowers — weaponized autism — to the simple question: Exactly who has the federal government been giving our tax dollars to? The resulting revelations, especially at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), […]

In The Mailbox: 02.07.25 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts. In case you were wondering, Babalu Blog seems to have vanished from the Intertubes, which is unfortunate since it was the best blog for Cuban and Latin American affairs.   Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Germans […]

In The Mailbox: 02.07.25 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: The Grammys – Proving They Are Still Meaningless After All These Years, also,  More Guns, Less Crime – New Jersey Edition EBL: USAID Scandal and Media Corruption, The Mafia Kills Only in Summer, Trump press secretary Karoline Leavitt gives White […]

The Worst Democrat in Congress?

The question mark in the headline is necessary because, of course, the competition for Worst Democrat in Congress is fierce. Ilhan Omar, Jamie Raskin, Eric Swalwell — it’s a tough league. But keep your eye on the representative from the 30th District of Texas, about which Wikipedia says: “With a Cook Partisan Voting Index rating […]

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