The Other McCain

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

Rule 5 Monday: Chris Noel

— compiled by Wombat-socho Well, this week’s appetizer literally came out of nowhere. I was browsing Twitter and came across a piece on forgotten pinup girls from the Vietnam War, one of whom was Chris Noel. A star of beach movies in the 1960, Chris became famous to Vietnam Vets as hostess of the Armed […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Summertime Girls

— compiled by Wombat-socho I guess most of the country’s moved on to autumn, what with Labor Day being almost a month in the past, football season underway, and friends in states next to Canada already being vexed with snow, but here in Sin City it’s still warm enough to hit the beaches, and where […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Cecile Haussernot

— compiled by Wombat-socho Time flies, doesn’t seem a minute Since the Tyrolean spa had the chess boys in it All change don’t you know that when you Play at this level there’s no ordinary venue It’s Iceland, or the Philippines, or Hastings, or…or this place! -“One Night In Bangkok”, Murray Head Well, chess isn’t […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Paulina Porizkova

— compiled by Wombat-socho Well, RIP Ric Ocasek of the Cars, who died this weekend at the age of 75. Turned out a lot of fine music with the Cars, produced a lot more, and most pertinently from our point of view, was married to supermodel Paulina Porizkova for 28 years. Here’s Paulina in a […]

Rule 5 Sunday: All Hail KBDaBear

— compiled by Wombat-socho I got nuthin’. Fresh out of inspiration. Fortunately, @KBDaBear is a public benefactor who routinely posts quality totty to Twitter, and the brunette below is part of his Sunday Swimwear thread. Go forth and enjoy. Also, belated thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links last month. It’s very […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Labor Day With Jayne Mansfield

— compiled by Wombat-socho We had Sophia Loren a couple of weeks ago, and it seems only right to post Jayne Mansfield for the long Labor Day weekend, which I hope you’re all enjoying. Here she is in a fetching leopard-print bikini. Leading off is Ninety Miles From Tyranny with Hot Pick of the Late […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Katie Williams

— compiled by Wombat-socho I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that since the left considers everything political, and insists that any non-Left people and Ideas have to be “canceled” from public life, that this week we learned that Katie Williams, Miss Nevada was stripped of her title for essentially the same reasons Kathy Zhu, Miss […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Control Issues

— compiled by Wombat-socho So I’m sitting here munching on some homemade mac & cheese, wondering what I’m going to do about tonight’s Rule 5 post, and suddenly it hits me – who’s the most famous actress associated with pasta? Why, Sophia Loren, of course! Here she is in that famous picture with Jayne Mansfield, […]

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