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The Thrill of Victory: Niners Upset Rams; Mac Jones Now 3-0 as S.F. Starter

Posted on | October 5, 2025 | Comments Off on The Thrill of Victory: Niners Upset Rams; Mac Jones Now 3-0 as S.F. Starter

Excuse me for being absent from blogging duties the past few days. Heading into the Thursday Night Football match-up between the San Francisco 49ers and the Los Angeles Rams, I was so nervous I couldn’t think straight, and since the Niners’ wild overtime victory, I’ve spent the past two days in the gloat zone. Just checking the archives now, I discovered that I haven’t written about football since preseason, so I’ll have to bring you up-to-date on the saga of Mac Jones in Frisco.

The 49ers opened the season with a 17-13 road victory over NFC West division rival Seattle. After getting the win, however, it was revealed that starting quarterback Brock Purdy had suffered two injuries — one to his left shoulder and a “turf toe” injury to his right foot. That meant that my boy Mac Jones, QB2 on the San Francisco roster since being acquired as a free agent in March, would start the next game for the Niners, on the road at New Orleans. And let me tell you a few things . . .

Forty-Niners fans are known as the “faithful” (their hashtag is #FTTB, “faithful to the Bay”) and their devotion is impressive. While you wouldn’t expect a left-wing cesspool of urban degeneracy like San Francisco to be much of a market for the wholesome All-American sport of football, the 49ers faithful are among the most loyal fans in the NFL, rivaling the infamous Buffalo “Bills Mafia” and even the legendary cheese heads in Green Bay. So despite them having pronouns in their bios and “Coexist” bumper stickers on their Volvos, San Francisco fans love their team, and thousands of them will travel to every away game, staging a “takeover” of the opponents’ stadium. Such was the case September 14 in New Orleans, when Mac Jones threw for 279 yards and three touchdowns to lead the 49ers to a 26-21 victory over the Saints.

From my perspective as a Mac Jones fan, the victory over New Orleans was perfect — my boy steps in as a substitute, has an outstanding game against a weak Saints squad, and then returns to his backup role. Except, as it turns out, “turf toe” can be a pretty serious injury. The silly-sounding name “turf toe” makes it seem like something trivial, and an injury to the big toe might not be much for a tackle, but for a quarterback, it matters a lot. Brock Purdy still wasn’t ready when the Niners returned for a home game September 21 against another division rival, the Arizona Cardinals, so Mac Jones got the start again. My boy was heroic in the clutch:

The San Francisco 49ers had lost another star to an injury, given up a fourth-quarter lead on a safety and were relying on a backup quarterback and a brand new kicker to maintain their perfect start to the season.
Mac Jones and Eddy Pineiro delivered.
Jones calmly moved San Francisco down the field in the closing minutes to set up Pineiro’s 35-yard field goal on the final play that gave the 49ers a 16-15 victory over the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday.
“I failed a lot in that situation, to be honest, in the NFL,” said Jones, who was just 3-17 in his career in comeback chances before this win. “I just knew the guys had my back and like we talked about on the sidelines, go out there and rip it.”
Jones did just that and San Francisco (3-0) was able to overcome an injury to Nick Bosa and the absence of starting quarterback Brock Purdy to eke out the win. . . .
Jones took over at his 20 with 1:46 to play and completed five passes for 59 yards to get the Niners in position for the winning kick.

The stat line on Mac against Arizona wasn’t spectacular — 27-of-41 passing for 284 yards and a TD with one interception — but that drive at the end to set up the game-winning field goal was the kind of hero moment he hadn’t had very many of before, and to do it in front of the home-field crowd against a division rival? Nice.

At this point, Mac had accomplished what he needed to do this year: Prove he was still a quarterback who could win games. Under a two-year contract with the Niners, all my boy needed was to get some wins, put some good plays on video, and know that he’d get his shot to be the starter somewhere in 2027. Brock Purdy said he was ready to go the next week, when the Jacksonville Jaguars came to San Francisco, and I was happy to see my boy Mac return to holding a clipboard on the sidelines.

PLOT TWIST: The Jags won 26-20 and Purdy looked awful. San Francisco’s “franchise quarterback,” who just signed a contract worth upwards of $50 million a year, threw two interceptions and lost a fumble on a strip-sack. And, guess what? Purdy re-aggravated his “turf toe” injury in the process. That meant that Mac Jones would return to the field for the next game, which was only four days away, as the 49ers were set to play a Thursday night game on the road in Los Angeles against the hated division rival Rams on prime time national TV.

The stakes could not be higher: Facing off with the Rams, on the road, with first place in the NFC West on the line, an injury-riddled Niners squad takes on the defending division champions.

The oddsmakers had San Francisco heavy underdogs. But the faithful believe, see? They bought 61% of the tickets to the 49ers-Rams game, neutralizing LA’s home-field advantage.

And my boy Mac Jones? Nothing less than magnificent:

Everything seemed to indicate the San Francisco 49ers were in for a long night when they traveled south on a short week without Brock Purdy, Nick Bosa, George Kittle and their top three wide receivers to face the surging Los Angeles Rams.
The Niners had a long Thursday night, all right — but after nearly 67 minutes featuring innumerable twists and turns, they headed home with an improbable victory that reasserted their dominance in their biggest NFC West rivalry.
“We talked about how tough we had to be for four quarters,” quarterback Mac Jones said. “It came down to who was going to be the toughest team, and I think it was us.”
Eddy Piñeiro hit a 41-yard field goal in overtime before San Francisco stopped Kyren Williams on fourth down with 3:36 to play, and the short-handed 49ers hung on for a thrilling 26-23 victory.
Jones passed for 342 yards and two touchdowns while playing through a leg injury for the 49ers (4-1), who scored on their first two drives and led 20-7 late in the third quarter.
Los Angeles finally mounted a rally, but with help from several glaring Rams mistakes, the Niners hung on to win their first OT game since losing Super Bowl 58 in February 2024.
The frantic fourth quarter featured Piñeiro’s tiebreaking 59-yard field goal with 2:52 left, Williams’ subsequent goal-line fumble and Joshua Karty’s tying 48-yard field goal for the Rams (3-2) with 2 seconds to play.
“They were unbelievable,” 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan said of his players. “We talked about how long this game was going to be, how focused we had to be, how competitive we had to be for the entire time. Started out great, but it’s a good team. They tightened it up. Got real tight, then lost a number of dudes. We had to overcome losing two D-linemen in that game, and the D-line is still stepping it up big. That was a huge character win.”
The Rams gave the ball to San Francisco to begin overtime, and Jones drove to set up Piñeiro’s fourth field goal with 5:51 left.
Los Angeles marched down the field, and facing fourth-and-1 at the San Francisco 11, coach Sean McVay elected to go for it — only to call a running play that he regretted almost immediately.
“I’m pretty sick right now,” McVay said. “I’m sick of the spot that I put our group in to end the game, but these are the tough beats that you’ve got to be able to learn from and move forward.”
Marques Sigle and Deommodore Lenoir got credit for smothering Williams well short of the first down.
“It didn’t look like they had anywhere to go,” Shanahan said. “Looked like a brick wall, which is similar to what we ran into all game, but it was awesome for us to get it done.”
Kendrick Bourne had career highs of 10 catches for 142 yards for San Francisco, while Jones played impressively through an apparent leg injury. Christian McCaffrey had 139 total yards for the 49ers, who snapped their three-game losing streak in this rivalry despite the injury absences of Purdy — who is “week to week” with his toe injury, Shanahan revealed — and the majority of their most famous players.
San Francisco then lost starting defensive linemen Kalia Davis and Yetur Gross-Matos to injuries during the game, but rookie backup lineman Alfred Collins made the biggest play of the night when he forced and recovered Williams’ fumble at the goal line with 1:05 left in regulation.
“It was a must-have-it play, because if I didn’t do that, they would have scored,” Collins said. “When I saw the ball, I cocked it back and hit it.”

Like that phrase “improbable victory.” Backup QB on a team without its top three wide receivers and all-pro tight end George Kittle, somehow guts out a win with a crew of rookies and second-teamers.

So when Sunday rolled around, it was the best kind of day — sitting on top of the division, watching everybody else lose. As weird as it seems — no Hollywood screenwriter could come up with a scenario this exciting — the San Francisco 49ers at 4-1 are now tied with the defending champion Philadelphia Eagles, the Detroit Lions and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the best record in the NFC. Next Sunday? They travel to Tampa Bay for a showdown with the Bucs, and chances are that Brock Purdy will still be recovering from his “turf toe,” which means that Mac Jones will be leading the Niners in a game with potential Super Bowl implications.



 

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FMJRA 2.0: Draft Day 1974

Posted on | October 5, 2025 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Draft Day 1974

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I don’t think Pete’s draft list at Da Blog is up to date, but here’s how my draft went.

1st round: SS Bucky Dent, White Sox (because Ed Brinkman’s not getting any younger)
Traded SP Bill Lee to the Red Sox for Dave Winfield and a 5th round pick
2nd round: (to Atlanta for 3b Steve Braun – what was I thinking?)
3rd round: SP Steve Renko, Expos
4th round: C Dave Rader, Giants
5th round: OF Vada Pinson of the Angels and P Roger Nelson, Reds
6th round: SP Jim Bibby, Rangers
7th round: C Glenn Borgman, Twins
8th round: OF Tom Grieve, Rangers

Got a few more rounds to go, but we’re off the clock, so it could take a few days.
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Not a bad draft!

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In The Mailbox: 10.03.25

Posted on | October 4, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.03.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
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Mac reacts to the “Aliens” scene where Ripley gives tactical advice to the Marines.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum:Rioters or Protestors? also, Woman Shoots Man Assaulting HerDirector Blue: The Illustrated Spygate Scandal Part XXI
EBL: Diddy going to the Big House, Barrel Fish on the Cutting Board, Tensions rise at protest outside of Portland ICE facility, Play Dirty, and The Paper
Twitchy: Cosplaying Trantifa “Frog” Gets Pepper Sprayed By Cops At Portland Riot, NBC News Description Of Wannabe Kavanaugh Assassin Transitions Suddenly, and SPLC Wannabe Doxxer Gets The “Eagle Eye” From Homeland Security – Deletes Post And Scurries Away 
Louder With Crowder: Woke Senator admits the TRUE motive for Dems shutting down the government, Dem Senator pushes lie Dems don’t support taxpayer-funded healthcare for illegals…then gets hit with a major receipt, Tampon Timmy claims without evidence our European “allies” are scared of Trump’s hilarious memes, and Elizabeth Warren goes on the warpath after a reporter gently asks her about supporting healthcare for illegals
Vox Popoli: On Motorcycles, Oktoberfest Cancelled, and There Will Be No Integration
According To Hoyt: This, That And The Other, The Face Of War, Ask Not Why the Caged Clanker Still Sings, Don’t Drink Their Ink, and Why So Slow?
Upstream Reviews: All You Need Is Kill

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: A Japanese General Takes on America’s Warmongers
American Greatness: Trump’s Bold Gaza Peace Plan Is an Offer Hamas Can’t Veto, DOJ Probes Arrest of Conservative Journalist Outside Portland ICE Facility; Trump Surges Troops to Protect ‘War-Ravaged’ City, and Media Outlets Cut Coverage of Speaker Johnson’s Q&A on Healthcare for Illegals
American Thinker: Mr. President, Please Make ‘Lightbulbs’ Great Again
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Basic Training Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For October 3
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites
Cafe Hayek: Protectionists Think That You’re Stupid and Immature (And They Also Think That Foreigners are Smart and Mature)
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Worthwhile Reading
Da Tech Guy: 1974 League Draft (Constantly updated)
Don Surber: Shutdown backfires on Democrats
The Geller Report: Wave of Antisemitic Candidates Hits Chicago’s Democratic Congressional Primaries, Gavin Newsom’s Billion Dollar Skyscrapers for the Homeless, Violent Anti-Jewish Riots in the UK Just Hours After Muslim Terrorist Slaughters Jews at Manchester Synagogue, and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Party Has A Plan to Reverse the Migrant Invasion
Hollywood In Toto: Good Boy Wilts Under Its Remarkable Gimmick, Why The Shining Never Loses Its Shock Value, Vampire in Brooklyn Remains a Tantalizing Misfire, The Road Between Us Shows Chasm Between Israel, Hamas, and Pittsburgh Moving Picture Festival Brings Satire, Horror to Keystone State
Legal Insurrection: ‘Trans’ athlete at center of SCOTUS girls’ sports case trying to drop lawsuit, Would-Be Kavanaugh Assassin Gets Lenient Sentence After Pleading Trans, Federal Investigation Concludes U. Kentucky Violated the Civil Rights Act, Pope Blesses a Block of Ice at Climate Justice Conference, and Planned Parenthood Shuts Down in Louisiana
Outkick: Mac Jones Goes Bananas As 49ers Starting Quarterback, So Is He Replacing Brock Purdy? Baltimore Ravens’ Already Bad Start To Season Would Go Off Rails Without Lamar Jackson, WNBA Commissioner Speaks Out After Napheesa Collier Criticism, There’s No Such Thing As Choking In The Major League Baseball Postseason, and Steve Jobs’ Hot Daughter, Eve, Stuns The Internet, Jimmy Fallon’s A FRAUD & Taylor Swift’s Thighs Grip America
Power Line: Ilhan Omar – Fraud exhibit A, More About Jihad [Updated with Rape Charge–Further Updated], Shutdown: women, minorities hardest hit, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Florida Gets Reimbursement For Alligator Alcatraz
Shot In The Dark: Profound Evil
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: Is the Anti-Terror Bill a Danger to Civil Liberties? Part I
This Ain’t Hell: Government dealings, Valor Friday, Rank-and-File React to Hegseth’s Meet, Senator Demands Trillions in Cuts, and New York Times poll finds public support for enforcing migration laws is solid
Victory Girls: Netflix is the Pervert in a Trenchcoat Targeting Your Kids
Watts Up With That: The Doughnut of Prosperity and Comrade Guterres’ War on Capitalism, Friday Funny – Net Zero is DOOMED, Net-Zero Banking Alliance to Stop Operations After Member Exodus, and Australia’s Big Battery Snowy 2 Pumped Hydro Scheme Suffers Another Cost Blowout
The Federalist: Composer Arvo Pärt’s Popularity Exposes A Hunger For Beauty Amid Modern Musical Ugliness, DOJ Opens Investigation Into Antifa-Indulging Portland Police, Here Are All The Transgender Medical Experiments Your Tax Dollars Are Funding Through Obamacare, SCOTUS Agrees Trump Can Strip Temporary Protected Status Of Venezuelan Nationals In America, and The Left Has Abandoned Rational Debate And Embraced Political Violence
Mark Steyn: More Bollocks from Islam’s Prison Bitches

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In The Mailbox: 10.02.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | October 3, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.02.25 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: I, For One, Welcome Our Self-Driving Overlords, also Hollywood Is Insane
EBL: GOLDEN TRUMP, The Senior, Holy Guardian Angels, and Make Lobster Rolls with this Fish
Twitchy: Iowahawk’s Hilarious Take On Des Moines Superintendent Scandal, CNN & MSNBC Cut Off Speaker Johnson As He’s Explaining Dems’ Desire For Illegal Alien Funding, and J.D. Vance Gives Joy Reid “Honest, Non-Trolling Advice
Louder With Crowder: Gavin Newsom shares “AI deep fake” video of JD Vance after making “deep fakes” illegal in California, JD Vance makes promise to Hakeem Jefferies about “sombrero memes” that leaves the press corps laughing, Woke rocker confirms that the “racist country star” she sung about was Morgan Wallen, and AOC Calls on GOP to Negotiate The Shutdown With Her…Forgetting That She’s Not a Senator
Vox Popoli: France Seizes Russian Tanker, Paypal is Turned Off, A Political Conundrum, The Foundation of Sand, and Fighting the Previous War x4
Cedar Sanderson: Days of No Ink

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American Conservative: Don’t Restart the Afghanistan War, also, Can Iran Diplomacy Be Salvaged?
American Greatness: Swalwell Says If Dems Win Majority in 2026, They’ll Subpoena Private Citizens Who Worked With Trump, Father Of Murder Victim Unloads On Dems’ Soft-On-Crime Policies, Rep. Darrell Issa Drafts Legislation for FBI ‘Most Wanted’ List of Antifa Leaders, Trump Deploys National Guard to Portland to Beat Back Anti-ICE Antifa Mob and Restore Order, and Many Educators Revel over Charlie Kirk’s Death
American Thinker: Transgender Ideology Killed Charlie Kirk and It’s Destroying America
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News, also, Animal’s Red Thursday News
BattleSwarm: Schumer Shutdown Soros Sponsored, also, Abbott Creates Houston Crime Task Force
Behind The Black: Sunspot update: For one month the Sun does what the scientists predicted, Satellite propulsion startup Portal successfully tests new and radical thruster design, Update on the plans to observe interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas using interplanetary spacecraft, The growing mystery of the little red dots in the early universe, and Climategate global-warming activist Michael Mann resigns from PennU after celebrating murder of Charlie Kirk
CDR Salamander: Yes, I Can Say Nice Things About LCS
Don Surber: Dems swing at Trump and hit themselves
First Street Journal: The poor economics of Starbucks
Gates Of Vienna: Hamas Comes to Berlin, Memo to the UK Authorities, 20 Years After the Muhammad Cartoons, and What Could the Motive Possibly Be?
The Geller Report: Muslim Named Jihad al-Shami Slaughters Jews at Synagogue on Yom Kippur, the Holiest Day for Jews, Jihad Mamdani Vows to Increase Funding For “Hate Crimes Programs” By 800%, TrumpRx – Trump Announces Lower Prescription Drug Costs, New York’s Financial Sector Losing Ground to Rivals, and DEMOCRATS SHUTDOWN THE GOVERNMENT
Hollywood In Toto: Smashing Machine Retires Johnson’s Rock Persona for Good, The Canceled Movie Hollywood (Still) Won’t Defend, Fallon’s ‘Both Sides’ Political Defense Is Fake News, Influencers Jolts Indie Franchise with A.I. Twist, and Could These Skits Save ‘Saturday Night Live’ from Itself?
Legal Insurrection: ‘Put Americans in Danger’: FBI Ends Comey-Era Ties With ADL, Upcoming Big Supreme Court Cases – Preview, Green Meltdown Continues as Russ Vought Axes $8 billion From ‘Climate Crisis’ Projects, Maxwell House Coffee Changes Name to Maxwell Apartment for Limited Time, and NYU Law School Cancels Federalist Society Event With Ilya Shapiro Over Fear of Protesters
Matt Taibbi: Jim Comey – A Man Of Many Faces, None Of Which Are Speech Martyrs,
Outkick: A Coach Is Too Expensive To Fire? Mark Stoops’ $38 Million Buyout Has Kentucky Stuck, NCAA Tournament Is Going To Expand, Unfortunately, Rams Fumble, Bad Kicking Spoil Comeback Effort Versus 49ers, Yankees Rookie Stuns Red Sox with Masterful Postseason Pitching Debut, and God’s Blessing: Riley Gaines Celebrates The Arrival Of Daughter Margot
Power Line: How Trump Is Doing, Motive unclear [Update: suspect named], America’s Most Dishonest Politician, New woes for Iowa Man, and What States Have the Best Schools?
Shark Tank: Byron Donalds Criticizes David Jolly For “Rational” Democratic Party Claim
Shot In The Dark: New System, 21 Jump Lane, and Para Bellum?
The Political Hat: Hate Speech & The Left, also, Quick Takes – Shutting Down DEI In Academia: LGBT Spectrum Center Closes; DEI Discontinued At Emory; Inclusive Excellence Out At VCU
This Ain’t Hell: Jessie Mahaffey, USS Oklahoma survivor, passes, Government shutdown – Democrats wanted to extend pandemic era Obamacare subsidies, Approved VA Claims Rubber Stamped, Hegseth’s All Hands, and Remember Iraq?
Transterrestrial Musings: Secretary Hegseth, Pot, Meet Kettle, and Professor Mann
Victory Girls: Sherrill Campaign Has More Explaining To Do As Polls Tighten, also, Somali Fraud in Minneapolis Was Hiding in Plain Sight. Now What?
Watts Up With That: An Energy Trojan Horse, DOE’s “Forbidden Words” Fake Scandal – Politics by Semantics, An Open Letter to Governor Newsom and the California Air Resources Board, Feds deaf to eagle-kill warning, and To Permanently Unleash our Federal Lands, Congress Must Reform the Antiquities Act
The Federalist: Data Doesn’t Lie – Political Violence Is An Overwhelmingly Left-Wing Problem, After Promising Review Of Deadly Abortion Pill, FDA Greenlights A Copycat Version, 2500% Spike In Google Search Results For ‘Trump’ And ‘Fascist’ Shows Dems’ Violence Incitement Problem, Delaware University Won’t Punish Students Who Thanked Charlie Kirk Assassin In School TV Program, and ‘That Era Is OVER’: FBI Ends ADL Partnership After TPUSA ‘Extremist’ Designation
Mark Steyn: What the U.N. Hath Wrought, Live Around the Planet – Shutdown Theatre, The Permanent Globalist Wanker Class, and Morning Fire. Warrior Faith

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In The Mailbox: 10.02.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | October 2, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.02.25 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links last month.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

We’ll probably be seeing more anti-nuclear nonsense soon.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Illustrated Spygate Scandal, Part XX
EBL: Jane Goodall RIP, Butcher Whole Mutton Snapper, MAGA – Democrats Shut Down Government, Dead Kennedys “Government Flu“, and A Place to Call Home
Twitchy: Keir Stürmer Bravely Says Manchester Synagogue Attack Was An Attack On Jews Because They Were Jews, Hamas Rejects Trump’s Peace Plan, Will Continue Fighting, and Jessica Tarlov’s Freakout Over Project 2025 Goes Hilariously Wrong
Louder With Crowder: JD Vance explains how Democrats shut down the government over illegals slowly enough for even the media to understand, Hakeem Jeffries has another meltdown over Trump putting him in a sombrero… so of course Trump did it again, Troon congresscritter dials up the cringe with a TikTok video blaming the GOP for the Democrat shutdown, DC Police Union Chief goes off on Dem Senator for obsessing over Jan. 6, ignoring EVERY OTHER DAY cops are assaulted, and Drag Queen and California (of course) senate candidate makes ridiculous DEMAND of immigration officers
Vox Popoli: The Transformation of the EU, A New Standard of Nothing, The Inevitable, Junior Classics 9 and 10, and Soul-Selling is Lucrative
Upstream Reviews: Just Stab Me Now 
Cedar Sanderson: The Lamb & Pipers
Stoic Observations: Farewell To A Dream Of Baldwin
Gab: Why Modern Life Feels Empty

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: We Don’t Need A New Force Design Or National Strategy
Don Surber: Trump’s war and peace
STUMP: RIP Robert Redford & Claudia Cardinale – The Death of Beauty

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Acme Law School Alumni Update

Posted on | October 1, 2025 | Comments Off on Acme Law School Alumni Update

Sometimes, you have to explain the set-up for a joke before it makes any sense to a general reader:

The Acme Corporation is a fictional corporation that features prominently in the Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote animated shorts as a running gag. The company manufactures outlandish products that fail or backfire catastrophically at the worst possible times.

If you’re my age, you grew up watching Road Runner cartoons every Saturday morning, so the concept of ordering a product from the Acme mail-order catalog (and then suffering the disastrous consequences) is an obvious comic plot device. So, during the Brett Kimberlin saga, when the Pro Se Pipsqueak was filing peace orders and bogus lawsuits against various “enemies” (notably leading to Aaron Walker getting handcuffed during a Maryland court hearing), we began joking about Kimberlin — who had boasted of the number of lawsuits he’d filed as pro se litigant — as being an alumnus of The Acme Law School. At the time, the diminutive pipe-bomber was vocally supported by a clique of progressive blogger types who had a habit of offering ill-informed legal opinions about the various torts and crimes of which my friends and I were guilty, and we’d mockingly dismiss them as practitioners of Acme Law.

All that is preamble to recent legal news from California, where the pro se litigants Ariel and Maridol Mendones sued their former property management company Cushman and Wakefield over a tenant dispute. Acting as their own lawyers, the plaintiffs then manufactured fake “evidence” using artificial intelligence (AI):

The Court finds that Plaintiffs violated section 128.7(b) of the Code of Civil Procedure by submitting fabricated evidence in support of their motion for summary judgment….
The Court finds that exhibits 6A and 6C are products of GenAI and do not capture the actual speech and image of Geri Haas. In other words, these exhibits are deepfakes….
While the “person” depicted in exhibits 6A and 6C bears a passing resemblance to the person depicted in exhibit 36, they are not the same person. The accent, cadence, volume, word choice, pauses, gestures, and facial expression, among other characteristics, of the person depicted in exhibit 36 are vastly different from those demonstrated by the “persons” depicted in exhibits 6A and 6C….
The Court finds that a terminating sanction is appropriate. This sanction is proportional to the harm that Plaintiffs’ misuse of the Court’s processes has caused. A terminating sanction serves the appropriate remedial effect of denying Plaintiffs— and other litigants seeking to make use of GenAI to submit video testimonials—of the ability to further prosecute this action after violating the Court’s and the Defendants’ trust so egregiously.
Further, a terminating sanction serves the appropriate deterrent effect of showing the public that the Court has zero tolerance with attempting to pass deepfakes as evidence.
This sanction serves the appropriately chilling message to litigants appearing before this Court: Use GenAI in court with great caution.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) This is the most extreme pro se shenanigans I’ve ever seen, and I was sued by Brett Kimberlin, which makes me an expert on pro se shenanigans. Wile E. Coyote could not reached for comment.



 

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Chuck Schumer’s Sombrero Shutdown

Posted on | October 1, 2025 | Comments Off on Chuck Schumer’s Sombrero Shutdown

Perhaps you didn’t notice, but the federal government is “shut down” because they ran out of money. It’s all Kabuki theater, of course. Two weeks ago, the House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government going, but it got filibustered by Senate Democrats. Why? Well, six months ago, in a similar situation, Schumer threatened a shutdown before backing down — and then got roasted by his party’s left-wing grassroots nutjobs, who want to FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! against TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! Scorched by this blowback, Schumer decided this time he’d actually go over the cliff to appease the lunatic fringe Democrats, and so after the House passed its CR, Schumer and the Senate Democrats issued a laundry list of “demands.”

Well, guess what? Elections have consequences, and Republicans are in no mood to kowtow to Schumer’s lunatic fringe party. So the response to Chuck and his demands was, “OK, you really want to shut down the government? Do it. Double-dog dare ya, you little sissypants.”

Maybe they didn’t say that in so many words, but considering the nature of the Democrat demands — including funding free healhcare for illegal aliens — Republicans calculated that Schumer’s temper tantrum would hurt Democrats far worse than it might hurt Republicans. Despite polls showing the shutdown was a loser, Chuck did it anyways, so . . .

An AI video with a sombrero and cheesy Mexican music is not exactly my idea of statesmanship, but in its memetic function — making the point about taxpayer-funded healthcare for illegals as the basic Democratic demand, while also inviting mockery — this is excellent online messaging. It also projects the confidence at the White House, knowing that most voters are against the shutdown. In fact, 43% of Democrats don’t want it, so Schumer is losing, and Trump is winning.

Despite any apocalyptic rhetoric you might hear about the shutdown, it’s not like Democrats actually believe it:

We don’t know how long the Schumer Shutdown will last, but we do know that every day — heck, every hour — that it does, the Democrats will be screeching in front of every microphone they can find that it is the apocalypse for the American people.
But, as we all know by now, it is far more important to watch what Democrats do rather than listen to what they say.
And last night, we found out what Democrat leadership is planning for early October. (Hint: it does not involve negotiating with Republicans or fighting to serve the American people.)

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.) Democrats are completely cynical, using scare-mongering rhetoric to gin up hysteria among their dimwit voters, who aren’t smart enough to understand that they’ve being hoodwinked and bamboozled. It’s truly pathetic.



 

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In The Mailbox: 09.30.25

Posted on | October 1, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.30.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Annie Agar reports on the NFL’s Week 4
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

He’s not wrong.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Good Guys 2, Bad Guys 0
EBL: The World’s Strongest Snapper, President Trump Delivers an Announcement, Saint Jerome, and The Village
Twitchy: Trump Launches Another Meme At Hakeem Jeffries Ahead of the Shutdown, Bulwark’s Bill Kristol Gets Dragged By Retired Colonel After Hegseth/Trump Tantrum, and John Kennedy Explains – The Schumer Shutdown Is All About Love
Louder With Crowder: Sunny Hostin thinks it’s so weird how Pete Hegseth believes there should be physical requirements for our military, Democrat governor, who calls Trump fascist, says it’s dangerous that Trump labels Democrats “fascist”, Muslim Democrat Senate candidate makes alarming anti-Second Amendment comments (and Michigan may elect this guy), JK Rowling SAVAGELY responds to Emma Watson now that the woke actress wants to be friends again, and Joy Reid freaks out on the DANGEROUS MAGA agenda of… making a lot of money and giving it to your children
Vox Popoli: A Real Russian Attack, Fake Democracy in Europe, Dear Vidiots, The Eighth Front, and The Weirdness Escalates
Cedar Sanderson: September in Writing
Incensepunk Magazine: Our Lady of the Asteroid Belt
Weird Catholic: Jerome The Lion

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Normalization of Assassination, also, Trump, Hegseth Address U.S. Generals
American Greatness: Rep. Darrell Issa Drafts Legislation for FBI ‘Most Wanted’ List of Antifa Leaders, Former FBI Director Comey Facing Possible Indictment for Lying to Congress, The Obamacare Sweeteners Poisoning Budget Negotiations, Federal Air Marshal Describes How His Wife Was Put on TSA Domestic Terror Watch List After Attending Trump J6 Rally, and Is There Any Role for the United Nations in Trump 2.0?
American Thinker: Why Trump Wants to Ban the Muslim Brotherhood – And Why America Should Care, Wise Up, New Yorkers! An Unabashed Paean to Curtis Sliwa, Revenge Or Justice, That Is The Question, Why Trump Hates His Enemies, and Trump Created An ‘Emperor’s New Clothes’ Moment At The UN
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, also, Animal’s Daily Schedule Update News
BattleSwarm: Six Staffers Jailed At NHS “Hospital of Horrors”, “Here’s Some Money To Build A Library.” “Right. We’ll Use It To Hate Jews.”, Moldova Votes Against Moscow, and Scenes From The Transsexual Madness Rollback
Behind The Black: Inspector General says the state of NASA’s spacesuits on ISS is becoming critical, Next Starship/Superheavy test set for October 13, 2025, Firefly loses first stage for next launch when it explodes during static fire test, China launches two “test satellites”, and Study suggests low dose radiation reduces severe knee pain
Cafe Hayek: Thought Experiment – Trump Attends the Wedding at Cana, There’s Nothing Fishy About Free Markets, More on Alleged Middle-Class Economic Stagnation, and Progressives Played A Huge Role In Putting Trump In the White House
CDR Salamander: Russia’s Baltic Gambit
Chicago Boyz: The Milley Plan
Da Tech Guy: Ignoring the Kingdom of Noise
Don Surber: Trump Tower vs. Obama Library
First Street Journal: Who can seriously believe that this will happen?
Gates Of Vienna: Another Culture-Enriching Success Story in France, Culture-Enricher Molests Six Infidel Women in Three Days, An Object Lesson, Culture-Enriching Brawl in Gelsentürken, and We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Infidel Music
The Geller Report: PAID STOOGE – Greta Thunberg Funded By Hamas, Documents Show, Trump Vows to Reopen Mental Institutions, “One Of The Greatest Days Ever in Civilization”, FINALLY! Eric Adams Drips Out of NYC Mayoral Race, and ‘Make Assassinations Great Again’ Bumper Stickers and Music
Hollywood In Toto: Shane Gillis Drops Truth Bomb on Kimmel’s Defenders, What If One Battle After Another Glorified Right-Wing Terrorists? Why Wolf Man Deserves a Second Look, Strangers: Chapter 2 Is Best Film in Slasher Franchise, and Gabby’s Dollhouse – Please, Make It Stop!
Legal Insurrection: Feds Launch FACE Act Lawsuit Against Anti-Israel Protesters at NJ Synagogue, Backlash Forces UK’s NHS to Withdraw Report Praising First Cousin Marriage “Benefits”, Dems Plan Luxury Retreat in CA Wine Country While Complaining About Shutdown, Federal Judge Dismisses Lawsuit From Florida Professors Challenging DEI Funding Ban, and Hegseth Lays Out New Culture at Pentagon: No DEI, No Identity Months
Matt Taibbi: My Senate Testimony on Surveillance, Not Only Tulsi – Three Members Of Congress Also Spied On By Quiet Skies Program, Activism Uncensored – A Return To ICE Protests In Illinois, 
Outkick: University of Colorado Condemns Hateful Chants Toward BYU Fans, Football Team. Big 12 Fines CU, Tyreek Hill Might Have Played His Last Game For The Dolphins But He Goes Out With A Smile, Deion Sanders Apologizes, Blames A Group Of Drunk And High Kids For Anti-Mormon BYU Chants, Napheesa Collier Torches WNBA Commissioner: ‘Worst Leadership In The World’, Shohei Ohtani Belts Two Homers as Dodgers Roll Past Reds, and It’s That Time Of Year Again: Paige Spiranac Announces Her 31 Days Of Sexy Halloween Is Returning
Power Line: The Misbegotten Comey Indictment, Operation Twin Shield, Ms. Dhillon reports, Arrested for a Tweet, and Twice is coincidence
Shark Tank: Biggest Winners & Losers In Miami’s Fiery Mayoral Debate
Shot In The Dark: Conspiracy Theory
The Political Hat: Digital Big Brother Proposed In Michigan, also, The Totalization Of People And State
This Ain’t Hell: Troops Sue Military Housing LCC, Government Shutdown Again, Captain Dylan Blaha criticized President Trump’s use of the military in cities, WWII nurse, age 106, donates bullet from husband’s heart to Pearl Harbor museum, and Last? Tuskegee Airman dies
Victory Girls: Hillary Is Still Part Of The She-Woman-Man-Hater Club, Gavin Newsom Proves the Left Learned Nothing From Political Violence, and Temple to His Own Ego: Obama’s Chicago Library Pushes People Out
Watts Up With That: Trump’s UN Speech – The Climate Emperor Now Stands Exposed, Dr. Michael Mann finally gets his comeuppance, California needs Biomass Energy to Meet its Wildfire goals but its Policies Keep Burning them Down, Trump Admin Moves To Demolish Biden-Era Coal Crackdown, and Net Zero Hobbits Encounter Realities Outside Middle-earth
The Federalist: Georgetown U. Won’t Say How It’s Protecting Free Speech After Leftist Threats On Campus, Spanberger Refuses To Condemn Male Sex Offender Using Girls’ Locker Rooms, Democrats’ Relentless Demonizing Paves Way For The Next Political Assassination, The Left’s Love Affair With Terrorists Isn’t New — It’s The Playbook, and Justice Thomas Is Right. SCOTUS Has An Obligation To The Constitution, Not Bad Precedent
Mark Steyn: The Big Questions, A Trip to Space – The Right Stuff, The Seventh Age, Autumn Leaves, and The Terror Has Come

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