The Other McCain

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

Rule 5 Monday: The Master Race Strikes Again

— compiled by Wombat-socho We’re all familiar by now with the Japanese tendency to seize on some aspect of American culture and go nuts over it, but I never dreamed that Texaboos existed, and certainly not in enough numbers to support Western bars in Japan. Yet, there they are, and as we can see from […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Pre-Tax Double Scoop Edition

— compiled by Wombat-socho Making up for lost time and lack of Internet…this week’s appetizer courtesy of Rule 5 Texan on X. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt. ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule 5 American Rome Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon. EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Make Taylor Swift Cry, The Plasmatics – […]

Rule 5 Monday: Happy Lee-Jackson Day!

— compiled by Wombat-socho Yesterday was eaten by snakes. Today is a Federal holiday in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but in Virginia it also used to be Jackson-Lee Day, commemorating Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson and Robert E. Lee, sons of Virginia who did great deeds in the Mexican War and the Civil War. […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Coffee, please

— compiled by Wombat-socho Coffee. Tread juice. Java. Is there anything it can’t do? Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt. ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Eight Predictions Friday, also, the Saturday Blondepocalypse. EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Carmen Curlers, MAGA SCOTUS Blues, Corsicana, “Wuthering Heights”,  Scenes From The Decameron, Black Sheep Squadron, […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Happy New Year!

— compiled by Wombat-socho Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt. ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Goodbye 2023 Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon. EBL: Saturday Night Is Right For Girls With Guns, Auld Lang Syne, MAGA Maine Democrat Fix, The Dollyrots, Nikki Haley, Wonka, “Precious”, Caroline Werner, Leave The World Behind, Yoko Swifto? The […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Santa, Baby!

— compiled by Wombat-socho This is the time of year when we’re blessed with a surfeit of attractive young ladies clad in festive Christmassy raiment. One such is this lass, whose pic I filched from kbdabear’s feed on X. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt. ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Climate Cult Friday, […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Outstanding In Her Field

— compiled by Wombat-socho This week’s appetizer courtesy of Rule 5 Texan on X. Unsolicited and completely unrelated plug: if you like fudge and bad jokes, I cannot recommend the Uranus Fudge Factory (“The Best Fudge Comes From Uranus!) highly enough. I ordered a couple small boxes of the Reduced Sugar fudge, and it was […]

Rule 5 Sunday: For The Fallen

— compiled by Wombat-socho I will advert to you that I am not really in the mood to do this post tonight, as I have been informed that one of my favorite SF authors, David Drake, has died. Still, if he taught me nothing else, he taught me that when you have a job to […]

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