The Other McCain

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

Yet Another Inconvenient Mass Murder Destined for the Media’s Memory Hole

Wednesday I was watching CNN (so you don’t have to) and they were still leading every hour with Tuesday night’s shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia. The gunman killed six people and wounded four others before turning the gun on himself and committing suicide, shortly after police arrived. In CNN’s coverage, however, there was […]

Crazy People Are Dangerous: No Motive Yet in Colorado Springs Shooting
UPDATE: Shooter Is ‘Non-Binary’?

In June 2021, Anderson Lee Aldrich was in an armed standoff with police at his mother’s home in Colorado Springs. He was charged with multiple felonies, but for reasons as yet unknown, the charges were dropped and records in the case were sealed. Seventeen months later, Aldrich was wearing body armor when he stormed into […]

The CEO Was a Tumblrina? How Did Somebody Overlook This Gigantic Red Flag in the FTX Catastrophe?

“This is worse than Theranos, this is worse than Madoff, if what I’m reading is true.” — John Reed Stark, former SEC official Suppose that you’re a major Silicon Valley venture capitalist, someone entrusted to invest vast sums of other people’s money in new enterprises. Don’t you have an obligation, as due diligence, to research […]

The Ka-Bar Killer? ‘Edged Weapon’ Used to Kill 4 Idaho Students, Police Say

Sunday afternoon, police got a call about an “unconscious person” at a residence near the University of Idaho campus in Moscow, Idaho. It was soon reported that four people had been killed, but police wouldn’t say how they’d been killed or what the motive might be. Murders are very rare in the town of 26,000 […]

DOJ to Rudy Giuliani: ‘Oops!’

Mentioned this in the earlier post, but gosh, isn’t it just a timely coincidence that we’re just now learning this? Federal prosecutors in New York said Monday they have declined to file criminal charges against former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, more than a year after his apartment and office were searched by the […]

Further Proof the Washington Post Copy Desk Is Staffed by Incompetent Idiots

As if further proof were needed. They quickly changed the headline and re-wrote the lead, but you have to wonder, what kind of hiring process results in one of the nation’s leading newspapers employing an editor who would click the “publish” button on something like that? “A gunman has killed three people at a university […]

Sam Bankman-Fried: MIT-Educated Crypto Swindler Scammed Billions, Donated Millions to Democrats

How could a Ponzi schemer hide in plain sight so long? That’s the real question at the heart of the story of how Sam Bankman-Fried, the son of two Stanford University law professor, became a celebrity in the financial world — rubbing shoulders with Bill Clinton and Tom Brady, among others — even while critics […]

‘… After Receiving a Call About a Suspicious Man in the Area …’

Gosh, I don’t why anyone thought he looked “suspicious”: A Belding [Michigan] man was arrested for possession of methamphetamine with intent to deliver after leading police on a brief car chase. In the early morning hours of Nov. 10, a pickup truck was spotted running a stop sign on Deaner and Wyman Road in Home […]

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