The Other McCain

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

In The Mailbox: 04.11.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts. Four more days left in the Death March to April 15.  Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: “Education” in Chicago, also Air Conditioning is Serious Business in Florida EBL: Old Soldiers Never Die, They Just Fade Away, […]

Why Media Bias Matters

Say hello to Noah Madrano and, while you’re at it, go ahead and say good-bye, because it’s highly unlikely you’re ever going to see him unless somehow you get sentenced to federal prison, where he’s going to be serving a 50-year sentence for “his heinous crimes”: PORTLAND, Ore. — A Gladstone, Oregon man was sentenced […]

In The Mailbox: 04.10.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho Codex Comics just had their hard drive go splat, so they’re raising money by having a sale on their comics. 60% off storewide; I’d post an example but so far I haven’t found anything that wasn’t NSFW or real close.  Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Gun […]

In The Mailbox: 04.09.25 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM EBL: You’re Fired: Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield Canned, Road to Appomattox, Supreme Court Reverses Judge Boasberg, and Markets Rebound Twitchy: Tulsi Gabbard Threatens CNN With Defamation Lawsuit, One Third Of California Community College Applicants are FAKE, Taking Millions In Aid, and […]

Dow Jones Gains Nearly 3,000 Points After Trump Deports Gay Makeup Artist

Look, I’m not one of these All-Purpose Expert types who hangs around on social media all day pretending to know everything about whatever’s the big Democratic Party talking point at the current moment. Today’s economic “expert” was, just a few weeks ago, an “expert” on national security, and last October was an “expert” on election […]

In The Mailbox: 04.09.25 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: What Happens After You Defund the Police? EBL: Lawrence…Lawrence of Arabia, also, How are the markets today? Twitchy: Navy Admiral Refuses To Hang Trump & Hegseth Portraits, Gets Fired, She Must Have A Colt Following, and Straight Fire Thread Shows […]

In The Mailbox: 04.07.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho mood Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Stand and Deliver – A Movie You Probably Haven’t Seen, also Another Wrong-House SWAT Raid Director Blue: When Lisa Met Pete EBL: MAGA : Markets Continue To React To Trump Tariffs, Winsome Sears for Governor of Virginia, Bohemian Roberts with Norm […]

Hitler, the Nobel Prize and ‘Grease’

Truth is stranger than fiction, it is proverbially said, and such is the course of history that events and people can be connected in ways that you never imagined. Certainly I never dreamed that the hit musical Grease could be connected to a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and a World War II military intelligence officer, until […]

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