The Other McCain

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

In The Mailbox: Black Friday

— compiled by Wombat-socho CLASSIC THANKSGIVING LEFTOVERS The Desolate Wilderness The New Land OVER THE TRANSOM First Street Journal: Democrats Lie; What Else Is New? Proof Positive: Pilgrims Elect To Receive Dead Republican Party: Official Obamabot Thanksgiving Litany Michelle Malkin: Thanksgiving 2013 Twitchy: “Best Pic Captions Of The Day” – Oprah vs. Dr. Ben Carson […]

Be Thankful for Bill Schmalfeldt

The biggest laughingstock on the Web  has been providing hours of entertainment, thanks to “Kimberlin Unmasked” — my co-defendant in the Maryland lawsuit Kimberlin v. Walker, et al. — who has been turning Bill Schmalfeldt’s ridiculous rants into a series of comics. Among my favorites in the series are “Oedipal Bill #22: Internet Detective,” and […]

‘It Is Not Journalism. It’s Crime.’

Barrett Brown promotes atheism on Fox News, January 2009 Until this afternoon, I had never heard of Catherine Fitzpatrick, but in September she put up an excellent and lengthy article debunking the Barrett Brown victim myth. Fitzpatrick first encountered Barrett circa 2005 in the online virtual world Second Life, where he was part of a […]

‘Gender Integration’ = FAIL

This is both hysterically funny and pathetically sad: The Army colonel who wrote an internal email suggesting public affairs officers use photos of “average-looking women” when they need to illustrate stories about female soldiers has stepped down as the leader of an Army study on gender integration. Army spokesman George Wright confirmed on Saturday that […]

The Hate-Troll Sockpuppet

After a while, you learn to discern the pattern: Not operated by a named person. Not associated with any organization. Lots of hashtags and/or slogans in the profile to signal ideological solidarity. Lack of organic content. Associates with other known trolls. There are other traits — dots in the pattern — but the point is […]

Confirmed: Crazy People Are Dangerous

He was once described as “happy-go-lucky,” but then his father lost an election and his parents divorced and Gus Deeds went nuts: “Eventually it got to the point where everyone… you couldn’t ignore it. It was obvious he was going through a difficult time,” Tony Walters, who has been friends with Gus since they were […]

Also, Troll, You Misspelled ‘Syphilis’

Between 5:21 and 5:23 p.m. ET, someone using my name and the bogus e-mail address “[email protected]” posted four insulting comments on an earlier thread, one of which mentioned my 14-year-old son by name. Wombat whacked them with the troll hammer, but not before the IP address (46.182.106.190) was traced to a proxy server in Amsterdam, […]

Kook Update: Roger Shuler

Crazy people like Roger Shuler have rights, even in Alabama. You may or may not remember Bill Schmalfeldt’s personal hero, Alabama crazy-blogger Roger Shuler, who got locked up last month for contempt of court after publishing unsubstantiated defamation against evil Republicans who (in Roger’s delusional mind) are conspiring with Karl Rove to silence courageous truth-teller […]

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