The Other McCain

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

In The Mailbox: 07.11.25 (Evening)

— compiled by Wombat-socho Finally caught up. Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM EBL: The World’s Most Expensive Salmon, North by Northwest, Songs of the U.S. Marine Corps, Bullitt, and Mini Skirts Twitchy: Libs of TikTok Completely Broke Gavin Newsom Last […]

In The Mailbox: 07.11.25 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho I got sufficiently bogged down in other stuff that I almost forgot to do this post. Super Plumber Sisters Kickstarter is live! Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Only the Rich Should Have Rights, Or Something EBL:  Thank You Susie Wiles, also, Don’t Forget Lady Jane Grey! […]

In The Mailbox: 07.10.25 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Spanish Battery Recycling Plant Fire, also Self-Defense Might Be Legal in New Jersey EBL: Everything we know so far about the deadly Texas floods, Saipan and Lee Marvin, Make Prosecutions Great Again – Brennan and Comey, and Make China Great Again Twitchy: […]

In The Mailbox: 07.10.25 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho The Epic Indie Summer Book Sale is on! Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Alcohol Can Be Hazardous to Your Health EBL: Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan, Graf Zeppelin Airship, and How could there be no Epstein client list? Twitchy: Brit Hume Nuke Hillary With […]

In The Mailbox: 07.08.25 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho Obligatory seriousness about the America Party Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM Director Blue: Reimagining Security Clearances 357 Magnum: Wyoming Opens Most Government Buildings to Concealed Carry, also Ozzy’s Last Performance EBL: Sherlock & Daughter, The Battle of Hubbardton, Heads of State, Barbara Alyn Woods, and Flash floods—how do the […]

In The Mailbox: 07.04.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts. The famous Gettysburg Address was actually delivered on October 19, but it’s the logical capstone to posts about the battle. What people tend to forget is that Lincoln’s now-famous speech wasn’t the main event that day. Rather, a then-famous orator, Edward Everett, went […]

In The Mailbox: 07.03.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the […]

In The Mailbox: 07.02.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho Hopefully today’s note on Gettysburg won’t accidentally enrage the boss like yesterday’s…anyway, just about everyone knows about Joshua Chamberlain and the 20th Maine’s stand at Little Round Top. Less well known is the suicidal charge of the 1st Minnesota into the teeth of Wilcox’s brigades attacking Cemetery Ridge, ordered by General […]

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