LIVE AT FIVE: 12.08.14

God’s in His Heaven, Alabama beat Missouri to stay #1, and all’s right with the world…well, no, it’s not, but you can’t talk about politics all the time, and that’s why there’s Rule 5. Because sometimes you just have to relax and enjoy the view.

Roll Tide!

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Average Bubba leads off with Rule 5 Friday: Kathyzworld Edition, followed by Goodstuff with inverted boobage, and Ninety Miles from Tyranny with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.
Animal Magnetism chips in with Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, Loose Endz brings us Horror Film Hotties, and First Street Journal is his usual nonconformist self with American women in blue suits.

Postaldog returns with Miley Cyrus, Whitney Port and other bikini-clad ladies, a double scoop of Maitland Ward, Anna Faris, and Hilary Duff.

EBL’s thundering herd this week includes Inara Serra, Anna Benson, Girls Gone Fishing, a post pretending to be about Rosie O’Donnell (more like Elizabeth Hasselbeck), A WILD REESE SUDDENLY APPEARS!, and Ann Margret. Also, Seagals!

A View from the Beach exceeds expectations with this lineup: For a Swift Kick in the Butt, Jessica Hart, Wombat’s Friday News, “Wasted”, Wombat’s Thursday News, “Criminal”, Wednesday with the Wombat, Big Guns, Hot Shells, Now That’s Fast Food, Tuesday Travels with the Wombat, Stop Winding!, Around the World with the Wombat, From the Back of the Rack, Redskins Try to Kill Baby Horses, and Chinese Chicken Dance.

At Soylent Siberia, the horrible days with no coffee creamer are apparently over; also, there’s an Evening Awesome Header for Irish, Monday Motivationator With Linky Love and Fur: Andrea, Overnighty Anna Lynn, Tuesday Titillation, Evening Awesome With “Kyla–Queen Of Fur”, Humpday Hawtness Teriyaki, Overnighty Mary, Corset Friday: Latex, Leather & Lace, T-GIF Friday – Newtonian, Happy Hour, Weekender Underwonder, and Bath Night Bung.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is April Love Geary, his Vintage Babe is Penny Edwards, and Sex in Advertising is covered this week by Julia Roberts. Also, the obligatory Niners cheerleader(s)! At Dustbury, it’s Sila Sahin and Wende Wagner.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 roundup is midnight on Saturday, December 13. Because Friday the 13th falls on a Saturday this month.

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Category: Rule 5

The Index Is Up!

Posted on | December 7, 2014 | 9 Comments

— by Wombat-socho

Good heavens. I’ve been doing book posts since May of 2013. So many books, plus a few videogames, movies, and a Weird Al album.
Anyway, the index is up at Wombat’s Bookshelf. Feel free to look through the list, maybe click on the links and buy some books. Tis the season for giving, after all.

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Category: Books

FMJRA 2.0: Freedom Of Choice

Posted on | December 6, 2014 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Thanksgiving Tryptophan Coma Edition
Batshit Crazy News
Average Bubba
Political Rift
Proof Positive
A View from the Beach
Ninety Miles from Tyranny

Shout Out To Princess Pelosi
The Pirate’s Cove

FMJRA 2.0: Day Late And A Dollar Short Thanksgiving Weekend Edition
Batshit Crazy News

How About: “It Was A Godforsaken Lie”
Regular Right Guy

LIVE AT ~~FIVE~~SIX: 12.01.14
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

You’ve Got To Like Weigel
Regular Right Guy
Batshit Crazy News

Less-Than-Surprising Praise
Regular Right Guy
Dustbury
Batshit Crazy News

What #Feminism Hath Wrought
Political Rift
Dyspepsia Generation

LIVE AT FIVE: 12.02.14
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

Enjoying Buzzword-Free Masculinity
Batshit Crazy News
The Camp of the Saints
SimpleNewz

LIVE AT FIVE: 12.03.14
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

Democrats Implode in Louisiana
Political Rift
First Street Journal
Batshit Crazy News

LIVE AT FIVE: 12.04.14
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy
A View from the Beach

May Not Be True That We Have A 1-Party System, But The Theory Explains A Lot
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy

LIVE AT FIVE: 12.05.14
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive
A View from the Beach

Leftovers
Political Rift
Batshit Crazy News

Hughes’s TNR Makeover Is The Obama Administration In Miniature

Posted on | December 6, 2014 | 60 Comments

by Smitty

Emphasis mine:

“Assuming Chris really does plan to dumb it down in the name of clicks, what’s maddening is the way he has betrayed the premise on which he bought it. It’s like buying a historic Victorian mansion with the promise of preserving it — and then carving it into condos two years later,” one former longtime TNR staffer told POLITICO.

“I hope Chris realizes how much intellectual firepower he’s losing here — and how hard it is to fake intellectual substance,” the former staffer said.

I just love it when these Progressives get all emotional about the destruction of institutions. Given that this has been their stock in trade since the Summer of Love, culminating in six years of #OccupyResoluteDesk making a total cock-up of the Presidency, one is left to wonder why the Lefties can’t just enjoy their liberation from “intellectual substance”. This is another suck-is-the-new-cool call from the manor house down to the the peasants working the fields. Dig it, lackeys.

Progressivism is not a creative movement. It is the combustion of traditional, positive, moral values in a propaganda machine for the production of political power. Once all of the moral values of the culture have been burned, Progress will generally collapse into the kind of thuggery most recently seen in Ferguson, MO.

via Hot Air

Category: Democrats

Landrieu’s Swan Song Has Got To Be “When the Levee Breaks”

Posted on | December 6, 2014 | 17 Comments

by Smitty

“Momma, you got to move.”

If I lived down in Louisiana, I would be requesting that on every rock station available.

Vote Cassidy!

Category: Democrats, Louisiana

Leftovers

Posted on | December 5, 2014 | 23 Comments

— by Wombat-socho

So, I packed a bunch of stuff off to the Shenandoah with me last week, and managed to get them all read – or at least enough so that I feel good about giving an informed opinion. First off, no love for Dan Abnett’s Horus Rising, a ponderous tome leaden with Warhammer 40K thud and blunder. I’m taking another stab at at, but I don’t think my second opinion’s going to be any better than the first.

Contrariwise, Drake & Flint’s Belisarius I: Thunder at Dawn is good stuff; Drake and Flint write well together (see The Reformer and The Tyrant from the Raj Whitehall series) and the books are full of swashes being buckled, derring-do in far-off lands, and skulduggery close to home. I’m looking forward to the other four books in the series.

Virginia Postrel’s The Substance of Style is a fascinating book about the importance of esthetics in modern American society and how it impacts not just our cars, appliances, houses, and other objects but our very concept of who we are and the kind of people we like to hang out with. She has convincing rebuttals to both Abraham Maslow and his pyramidal hierarchy of needs and the Frankfurt School with its “manufactured consent” and the argument that we’re all just puppets manipulated by advertising. Very, very solid work and worth having even though it’s no longer on sale.

Peter Grant’s War To The Knife was a good read, a cut above the average brain candy. It starts as a tale of guerrilla war against a repressive off-planet invader, but the unexpected success of the guerrillas’ desperate final attack forces a change in the invaders’ government even as the guerrillas get off-planet and begin to assemble a government in exile that might be able to carry the war to the enemy’s home. I’m going to be very interested in seeing where Grant goes with this story.

Considerably more fluffy, and nearly as violent (which is saying quite a bit) is The Many Deaths of Joe Buckley, an amusing collection of death scenes written by Larry Correia, David Weber, John Ringo, and other Baen authors, with some added poetry and songs by fans. Who is Joe Buckley, and why do so many Baen authors enjoy killing him off? Even if you already know the answer, you may still be amused, and the proceeds go to Operation Baen Bulk and ReadAssist, unquestioably worthy causes.

Finally, a couple of weeks ago K-Bob suggested in the comments that I should put up an index of the book posts. Anyone else think I should fire up a Blogger page and do this?

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Category: Books