The Other McCain

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

Methods of Journalism 301

Welcome to J-School, boys and girls, and before we start today’s lesson, somebody needs to hit the tip jar for $16.04, for reasons to be explained later. This morning I had an online colloquy with my friend Ladd Ehlinger over the merits of When Harry Met Sally. It was Ladd’s contention that, as a director, […]

Fear and Loathing at Mar-a-Lago? Freaky Friday Flashback to ‘Big Ed’ Muskie

“Not much has been written about The Ibogaine Effect as a serious factor in the Presidential Campaign, but toward the end of the Wisconsin primary race — about a week before the vote — word leaked out that some of Muskie’s top advisors had called in a Brazilian doctor who was said to be treating […]

Memo From the National Desk: Tales of Fear and Loathing in the Commonwealth

LOUISA, Virginia — It was a lovely 150-mile drive to get here for today’s “VOTE NO” rally at the Louisa County Courthouse. A sunny spring day, with the trees turning green, and the picturesque scenery of central Virginia, adorned with signs that the Old Dominion ain’t dead yet. “VOTE NO” signs are all over rural […]

Apocalyptic Timeline Update

Have you forgotten “The Craziest True Crime Story Ever”? In March 2024, my brother Kirby called my attention to a bizarre tale from Cimarron County in the Oklahoma Panhandle, where five people were arrested in connection with the murder of two women, the result of a child custody dispute over the grandchildren of the local […]

The True Definition of ‘Objectivity’

Perhaps you’ve forgotten John Paul Neumann, a/k/a “Chloe Sagal,” whom I wrote about in 2018 (“Death by Social Justice: Transgender Scammer ‘Chloe Sagal’ Commits Suicide”), after he/“she” died by self-immolation, having set himself/“herself” on fire “in a downtown Portland park across from the Multnomah County Courthouse after reading a manifesto about homelessness and mental health.” […]

Scott Siskind Didn’t Start the Fire: Rationalism, NY Times and the Zizians

Many readers will recall how the New York Times decided to dox the blogger Scott Alexander, whose Slate Star Codex was enormously popular. He responded by deleting his blog (some archives still exist) and publicly outing himself as San Francisco Bay area psychiatrist Dr. Scott Suskind (who comes from a family of many eminent physicians). […]

Another Day, Another Deadline

“There was never enough time. Every deadline was a crisis. All around me were experienced professional journalists meeting deadlines far more frequent than mine, but I was never able to learn from their example.” – Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 MEMO FROM THE NATIONAL DESK This morning, at precisely […]

Fear And Loathing On The Intertubes

— by Wombat-socho Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam. I don’t follow VTubers because my attention span these days is short enough I have a hard time making it through a lot of YouTube videos, much less a three-hour stream, and I’m not in the target demographic anyway. However, when #1 Son threw me […]

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