The Other McCain

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

Rule 5 Sunday: Columbus Day Edition

— compiled by Wombat-socho It’s that time of year again, when all manner of malcontents are coming out of the woodwork and complaining about the poor administrative skills and politically incorrect conduct of the Admiral of the Ocean Sea, going so far as to call for his day being renamed Indigenous Persons Day, or some […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Time For The Professionals

— compiled by Wombat-socho Week 4 of the NFL season is underway, and this being Vegas, my “home” casino has a (free) game going on that gives away stuff based on how successful one is at picking winners in each week of the season. Me, I don’t follow the NFL, so after a futile first […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Roll Tide!

— compiled by Wombat-socho I admit to not following college football all that much, which is why this introduction didn’t appear three weeks ago when the NCAA season started. Nonetheless, it is time to make the annual obeisance to the altar of the Crimson Tide, and so the appetizer this week is the University of […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Monkey Boy Don’t Care

— compiled by Wombat-socho This week Rule 5 Sunday pays homage to one of the greatest artists in the comic book field today, a man who knows what the people want and gives it to them good and hard. Ladies and gentlemen, the creator of Liberty Meadows, Frank Cho! Of course, Frank’s talent for drawing […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Proudly Encouraging The Male Gaze Since 2009

— compiled by Wombat-socho This week’s appetizer is courtesy of some moron on the AoSHQ Facebook Group, and is further proof that fans can often come up with better music videos than the band that made the music to start with. Much like many of the links to follow, this video may be considered NSFW, […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Summertime Girls

— compiled by Wombat-socho Labor Day weekend is the traditional end of summer in most parts of the country, but here in Las Vegas it’s a little hotter a little longer, and quite a few of the casino resorts on the Strip have pools that double as nightclubs. Needless to say, the party keeps rocking […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Hot Babes In Space

— compiled by Wombat-socho I don’t know why I didn’t do this last weekend, considering it was Worldcon weekend…oh, right. Anyway, I want to kick off this week’s Rule 5 post with a Kelly Freas cover from the March 1974 Analog, for Jerry Pournelle’s “High Justice”, because Kelly was an awesome artist and a fine […]

Rule 5 Sunday: RIP Batgirl, Viva Jeannie!

— compiled by Wombat-socho This week marked the demise of Yvonne Craig, known not only for her portrayal of Batgirl on the 1960s Batman series but (perhaps more widely) as the Orion Slave Girl in the original Star Trek pilot The Menagerie. It’s also Barbara Eden’s birthday! Born in 1931, Ms. Eden was a busy […]

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