The Other McCain

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In The Mailbox: 04.21.26 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho Yesterday was eaten by snakes – or would have been if the super had brought his. Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Relatives of Dead People Don’t Like Self-defense Director Blue: A Day With Audie Murphy At The Colmar Pocket (1944), EBL: George Harrison and the Lumberjack […]

IT’S ‘STOP THE LOBSTER’ DAY!

After I called it “Spanberger’s lobster” last week, many others have taken up that phrase to describe the crustacean-like shape of the district that Democrats would inflict on Virginia if today’s referendum passes. Vote No, #Virginia. Vote against gerrymandering. Blue-Tailed Lobster https://t.co/OFSXoihqoL — Old Dominion Post (@OldDominionPost) April 20, 2026 Pinwheels and the ‘lobster district’: […]

VA’s 21Apr Vote: This Dog Don’t Hunt

by Smitty Somebody I know who is credentialed in the art of surveying people (pharma, for drug trials) was unimpressed by then quality of the question on the ballot tomorrow in Virginia. After feeding Spanberger’s dirty diaper into Claude: (Judge Hurley’s injunction) Much has happened since the 28Feb Fairfax GOP meeting. One speaker offered an […]

‘Several Young Individuals’: At Least Two Dead in North Carolina Mass Shooting UPDATE: Not the Expected Victims

Euphemisms are amazing, aren’t they? Perhaps you can think of some other phrases that would be more helpful in describing the likely participants in the situation that “escalated” into a mass shooting Monday morning at Leinbach Park in Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Two people were killed after a mass shooting at a park in North Carolina […]

Rule Five Sunday: More Hot Girls & Hot Cars

— compiled by Wombat-socho This week’s appetizer courtesy of @kbdabear Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. EBL: More Girls With Guns – Revolutionary War, Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Edith Wharton, Cheese Ball Day, The Lucky One, MAGA Strait Of America, Sabrina Carpenter Should Embrace Her Inner Amelia, Jeremiah Johnson, The Testament Of Ann Lee, […]

Aspiring Rapper Update

“Gee, Stacy, is it really fair to post a picture of the deceased performer brandishing illegal firearms?” Perhaps, but good luck finding any pictures of Jalen Carpenter in which he is not brandishing firearms. The image above is from the video for EbkCap82’s song “Zombieland 2,” in case you’d like to go enjoy that spectacle […]

Guess Who Made an Interesting Point? UPDATE: Sarah Palin Explains Herself

Where do I start in explaining my hatred of Nick Fuentes? That this preposterous Jew-hating homosexual has been elevated to podcast royalty — the Pied Piper of 21st-century neo-Nazism — is one of those phenomena that makes me despair for the future of humanity. And I honestly fail to see what it is that makes […]

FMJRA 2.0: Probably Not This Year

— compiled by Wombat-socho You would think that six games in the Launching Pad and Wrigley Field would have seen Dave Winfield, Jim Northrup, and Dave Kingman jacking homers in all directions, but unfortunately the Bravos and Cubs have some tough pitchers, and we finished the week 1-5, which may just be enough to knock […]

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