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Crime Is Down, the Border Is Secure, and Taylor Swift Is Finally Getting Married

Posted on | August 26, 2025 | Comments Off on Crime Is Down, the Border Is Secure, and Taylor Swift Is Finally Getting Married

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Travis Kelce wasn’t messing around when he knelt to the ground and pulled out a diamond ring for his new fiancée, Taylor Swift.
The pop superstar, 35, gave fans an up-close look at her stunning engagement ring Tuesday when she announced the Chiefs tight end, also 35, had popped the question after two years of dating.
The dazzling piece features an old mine brilliant-cut diamond set on a gold band, according to Page Six, which noted the ring was crafted by Kindred Lubeck of Artifex Fine Jewelry with input from Kelce himself.
Kelce proposed to Swift in a dreamy garden setting, complete with a floral arch and colorful blooms. . . .
First linked in 2023, Kelce famously made headlines in July of that year when he expressed interest in Swift on his “New Heights” podcast after failing to pass along a friendship bracelet with his phone number on it during an Eras Tour stop in Kansas City.
The 14-time Grammy winner, who attended her first Chiefs game two months after Kelce shot his shot, said on “New Heights” this month that she’s grateful the three-time Super Bowl champ “decided to use [the show] as his personal dating app two years ago,” as the pair ended up together.

Look, I’m not a “Swiftie,” and take a dim view of her songwriting oeuvre — date a guy, dump a guy, turn it into a revenge song — and considering how many guys she’s done this with, it’s difficult for me to imagine a “happily-ever-after” finale for the future Mrs. Kelce. Taylor’s been passed around more than a joint at a Grateful Dead concert. She’s been used as a pump-and-dump by Joe Jonas, John Mayer, Jake Gyllenhall and a long list of other guys that we know about, and who can estimate how many secret hookups she’s had with various drummers, guitarists, backup dancers, etc., over the years? There were even rumors of a lesbian affair with model Cara Delevingne a few years ago, but never mind that.

My point is, when a woman is 35 years old with a track record of busted relationships with more than a dozen previous boyfriends, what does one say to the fellow who decides she’s wife material? “Good luck”?

Man, if you had good luck you never would have ended up with her. Imagine being Taylor Swift’s husband. Forget to take out the garbage? Bang, there’s her new hit song denouncing you as a lazy bum.

No, this will not end well for Travis Kelce, although we can expect Taylor to get three or four new albums’ worth of songs out of it. I’ve warned my sons, “Never date a girl who dated a Jonas brother.”



 

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Carry Me Home to See My Kin

Posted on | August 26, 2025 | Comments Off on Carry Me Home to See My Kin

An unexpected road trip suddenly looms, as I just got word that my Aunt Joanne (actually a second cousin, but we kids called her “aunt” by courtesy) has died at her home in Montgomery, Alabama. Joanne’s mother was my maternal grandmother’s younger sister, and Joanne was especially close to my mother’s younger sister, Barbara Ellis.

Like Aunt Barbara, Joanne was a teacher, and her obituary notes her passion for politics as “a proud Democrat and a committed civil rights activist.” Some of my conservative friends don’t believe me when I say that many of my dearest relatives are Democrats, so there’s your proof.

The funeral will be Friday, which means I’ll have to rent a car, leave Thursday and drive more than 800 miles to get there. Which, of course, means it’s time for a return of the Big Yellow Button.

 

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In The Mailbox: 08.25.25

Posted on | August 26, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.25.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Call for Authors! The BasedCon Based Books Sale Is Nigh!
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OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Illustrated Spygate Scandal, 
357 Magnum: Disney Is Broken, also A Bear Is In Your House. What Do You Do?
EBL: Thai Fried Seafood – Yellowtail Snapper, Ariel Ekblaw, Turn This Grouper Skeleton Into Fish Stock, Academism, and Shantaram
Twitchy: “Who Is The Secretary of Agriculture?”, CNN’s Condescending Tiffany Cross Calls Stephen Miller White Supremacist, and Mark Cuban Blames Consultants Fro Not Letting Kamala “Sell Herself” To Voters
Louder With Crowder: Zohran Mamdani embarrasses himself trying to lift weights at “men’s day,” gets obliterated with nickname that’s gonna stick
Vox Popoli: The Vaxx’s 5X Kill Effect, September 1 Paywall, Punjabis United Against America, Time to Move On, and The Fictional Western
Cedar Sanderson: Housekeeping In Space, also, Dragon Month – Four
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Publishing stuff, also, Big Brother riding shotgun
Stoic Observations: The Old School
Upstream Reviews: The Bluecoats – Navy Blues
Jim McCoy: Deathbringer

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Trump’s Doomed Venezuela Militarism
American Greatness: Gaza Part One: The Situation, We Need to Rethink AI Before It Destroys What It Means to Be Human, and Dear Prudence, Won’t You Come Out to Play?
American Thinker: The Incompetence of the USA’s Most ‘Prestigious’ Papers, also, Progressivism’s Fatal Flaw: Rejecting America
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: “Do You Know Who I Am?” 2025 Edition, Texas Redistricting Passes Senate, Headed To Abbott’s Desk, and Democrat Forbidden Words For 2025 (Plus Additions)
Behind The Black: Tenth orbital test flight of Superheavy/Starship scrubbed due to weather, Wind-eroded terrain on the edge of Mars’ largest volcanic ash field, Contact re-established with Jupiter probe Juice after a month, India completes 1st complete Gaganyaan capsule parachute drop test, and Misconduct alleged in management of Square Kilometer Array in Australia
Cafe Hayek: Trump’s Trade Policy Puts Americans Last, A Note on Tariffs and Inflation, and Further Reflections on Protectionism and (Measured) Inflation
CDR Salamander: The Fourth Summer of War – On Midrats, Can Everyone In The Caribbean Just Chill For A While?
Chicago Boyz: Back to the Future, also, Democratic Governors Hate Democracy
Da Tech Guy: A Silly Monty Python Test. Does “Tits” equal “Traffic”?
Dana Loesch: We’re Arguing About Flag Burning Again
Don Surber: DEI harms black women
Elizabeth Nickson: Barring The Anomaly Of Trump, All Elections Are Stolen,
First Street Journal: The solution to SEPTA’s woes is simple
Gates Of Vienna: A Potpourri of Cultural Enrichment in Europe, Welcome to Mahomet, and Blood-Soaked Cultural Enrichment on a Dresden Tram
The Geller Report: ‘Sending People to Other Parts of the World and Ruling the World Was All Part of the Plan’, Texas Democrats Slink Back -Time to Lock Them Up and Throw Away the Key, and UK Has Fallen – The Flag of England is Now Considered Hate Speech
Hollywood In Toto: Carolla, Dr. Drew Decode Comey’s Cringe Swiftie Video, What Lies Beneath Would Make Alfred Hitchcock Proud, Luis Guzmán Says Latino Trump Voters Are ‘Ignorant’, and Can Weapons Break Genre Movie Curse?
Legal Insurrection: Grok AI Mistakes Ukraine for Gaza, The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact – Eighty-Six Years Later, Professor Jonathan Turley on ‘The Judicial Calvinball of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’, ‘Unexpected’ Slowdown in Arctic Sea Ice Melt Stuns Researchers, and Poll Finds Support for DEI Policies in California is Slipping
Matt Taibbi: Sow The Wind, Reap The Whirlwind, also, World Grossed Out As Yuppie-Chatbot Mating Surges
Outkick: Kenny Pickett Headed To Las Vegas Raiders As Geno Smith’s New Backup, Son of NFL WR GOAT Jerry Rice Done With Chargers, For Now, Ron Washington Underwent Quadruple Bypass Surgery And Still Wants To Run An MLB Team, Clock Is Ticking On WNBA CBA Talks, And No One Is Budging, and Marlins Pitcher Tyler Phillips Gives Horrifying Postgame Interview After Earning Save
Power Line: The case of Mahamud Mahamed, The sound and the fury, and Can a Wimp Be Elected Mayor of NYC?
Shark Tank: Lt. Governor Collins Faces Heavy Lifting If He Runs Against Donalds In 2026
Shot In The Dark: Return To Sender
STUMP: The Week In Meep – Diving Boards, Servant of God Nicholas Black Elk, and Beethoven’s 9th, also, Summer Re-Runs – Water Can Be Dangerous – Be Careful Out There
This Ain’t Hell: New Award for Mexican Border Service, ICE paying recruiting bonuses, Stolen Valor Russian Style, Spy Sailor Convicted, and Howard Augustine Wheeler, 86, passes Wednesday
Transterrestrial Musings: 
Victory Girls: School Starts and Another Season of Boys on Girls’ Teams, Cracker Barrel Rebrand Is A Dog That Won’t Hunt, and Jasmine Crockett: From Congress To Content Creator?
Watts Up With That: Green Jobs Make Us Poorer, New Scientist claims “We could get most metals for clean energy without opening new mines”, and STEVE MILLOY: Rescinding Key Obama EPA Finding May Prove Tougher Than Trump Admin Thought
The Federalist: Big Beautiful Bill Will Save Taxpayers From Paying Millions To Fund Medicaid For Dead People, DNC Chair Says Democrats Need To Stop Playing By The Rules, Wednesday Season 2 Rejects The ‘Family’ Part Of The Addams Family, Sorry, Not Sorry: Cracker Barrel Doubles Down On Unpopular Rebrand, and East Asia’s Political Turmoil Could Hamper Trump’s Bid To Counter Red China
Mark Steyn: On the Town – And the Living Is Easy, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo – Desperate Times and Desperate Measures, There’s A Kind of Hush (All Over the World) with Peter Noone and Herman’s Hermits, and The Great Big Convoy

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The ‘Green Energy’ Boondoggle Fails Every Time It Encounters Reality

Posted on | August 25, 2025 | Comments Off on The ‘Green Energy’ Boondoggle Fails Every Time It Encounters Reality

“Fossil fuels — BAD! Green energy — GOOD!” This is the sum total of left-wing ideas on the subject, no matter how much “science” they claim to justify their prejudice, and no facts will persuade them:

School districts throughout the United States are ditching electric school buses, manufactured by a Canadian company that has fallen into bankruptcy, for diesel school buses, citing the difficulty in getting electric buses repaired.
The return to diesel school buses comes as Quebec-based Lion Electric, which the Biden administration awarded $159 million “to manufacture 435 school buses between 2022 and 2024,” has fallen into bankruptcy, according to the Washington Free Beacon. As a result, the company has “warned school districts that its dire financial straits prevent it from servicing” the electric school buses.
Several superintendents explained to the outlet that while they would try to keep the “electric fleet” of school buses operating “for as long as possible,” they would eventually have to “return to diesel” due to diesel school buses being more affordable.
“We are going to keep our electric fleet on the roads for as long as possible,” Mike Leskowich, who serves as the superintendent of the Homer Community School District in Michigan, told the outlet. Leskowich’s school district “received $2.8 million in federal funding to procure seven Lion buses in 2022.”
“Eventually, however, we will return to diesel, as the cost of the vehicle is far less than electric,” Leskowich added. . . .

The Washington Free Beacon reported earlier this year that Lion, then nearing bankruptcy, had yet to deliver $95 million worth of the electric buses it pledged to produce as part of the Biden administration’s $5 billion Clean School Bus program. Since then, Lion was sold for just $6 million during bankruptcy proceedings after being valued at $4.7 billion as recently as June 2021. The company also permanently shuttered multiple manufacturing plants, fired the majority of its employees, and told consumers that it could no longer honor warranties and purchase orders in the United States.

Travis Fisher, who works as the director of energy and environmental policy studies at the Cato Institute, explained to the outlet that this was “yet another example that perhaps there will be large bumps in the road” in switching to electric vehicles (EVs).

Repair costs aren’t something that “green energy” enthusiasts are capable of calculating, just like they never ponder whether the process of manufacturing wind turbines, solar panels, batteries, etc., produces carbon emissions and other pollution in such quantities as to completely offset the alleged “planet-saving” benefits. Such basic issues — the whole cost/benefit aspect of their carbon-free pipe dreams — don’t make any impression on them, the same way it’s useless to try explaining to a Scientologist that L. Ron Hubbard was a mediocre science-fiction writer who cooked up a scam to defraud his dimwit followers.

The alleged “climate crisis” is a hoax, and even if it weren’t, the measures proposed by the “green energy” cultists — e.g., government-subsidized electric school buses — would do nothing to solve the problem. Meanwhile, here’s some simple arithmetic: Divide $159 million by 435 and you discover that the Biden administration spent $365,517.24 per electric bus. You can buy a Ferrari with 819 horsepower for less.



 

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Rule 5 Sunday: The Last Champion of Cracker Barrel

Posted on | August 25, 2025 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

How about them barrels?

When you’ve changed the menu from fresh traditional food to precooked preheated predigested slop…when you’ve changed the funky old architecture to some Brutalist nightmare…when the stock price is crashing like RCA in 1929…there’s only one woman in these United States who can save you. Light the Sydney Signal!
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A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Ele Bertoli, VA Stocking Smallmouth, Fish Pic Friday – Fishing with Nayma, Euphorie, Stricter Striped Bass Regulations in the Works, The Wednesday Wetness, Great White Sharks have Races?, Tattoo Tuesday, Where Did the Swans Go?, Putin Comes to America, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday

BACON TIME: Rule Five Butt It’s Friday

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What ‘White Privilege’ Looks Like

Posted on | August 24, 2025 | Comments Off on What ‘White Privilege’ Looks Like

Devon Hogan Flanagan (right) in Newport, Rhode Island

This was one of those “viral video” stories that I was going to let pass by without comment, until I got the details from Miranda Devine’s column in the New York Post. First of all, you have to know that this incident took place at “the upscale Clarke Cooke House,” which just happens to be the swankiest restaurant in Newport, Rhode Island. Reservations are required, and apparently Devon Hogan Flanagan and her friend from college days, Veronica Hannan, got so drunk and rowdy that management asked them to leave. Everybody knows that Flanagan works for the state Attorney General’s office — because she kept shouting “I’m an AG” while they were putting her in cuffs — but her friend Hannan is also rather upscale, with a corporate job in New York.

Like a dozen other similar incidents I’ve watched on YouTube, the only reason anyone got arrested is because they refused to do what the cops told them. It’s like those “sovereign citizen” idiots who think they can litigate their rights during a traffic stop. No, son — just take the ticket and go to court. In the case of Devon Flanagan and Veronica Hannan, all they had to do was leave peacefully, but they couldn’t seem to do that:

The incident unfolded around 9:51 p.m. last Thursday, Aug. 14, when Flanagan, 34, her friend from college Veronica Hannan, who’s a senior manager at PepsiCo, and Veronica’s poor husband, financial adviser Dan Hannan, were asked to leave Clarke Cooke House for reasons unknown. Judging by the belligerence of the women, it’s not hard to guess why.
The bodycam begins as police arrive to find the women out in front of the restaurant. Flanagan, wearing a short red jumpsuit, is wagging her finger and demanding that the officer stop the bodycam: “Protocol is you turn it off if a citizen requests you turn it off.”

(First, notice the time — it’s not even 10 o’clock yet, and they’re already so hammered they’re getting thrown out. Second, no, it’s not “protocol” for cops to turn off their bodycam any time a suspect requests it.)

The cop tries to be reasonable: “So they want you guys to leave. Let’s just leave. Let’s make it easy.”
But Flanagan is determined to pull rank. Veronica, in a yellow body-hugging satin dress, keeps telling the cop Flanagan is a lawyer.
Poor Dan implores: “Can we all talk?” He is nattily dressed in a brown suit, because Clarke Cooke House, judged by Food & Wine Magazine as “by far the most sophisticated restaurant in Newport,” has a dress code: “Gentlemen, please, jackets required.” . . .

(See? It’s a swanky place in a swanky town. Newport, Rhode Island, isn’t Gainesville, Georgia, and the Clarke Cooke House is not Pelican Pete’s Tiki Bar. A certain level of decorum is expected.)

“OK, so you’re trespassing so we gotta leave now, unless you want to be in handcuffs,” the cop says.
“We’re not trespassing,” Flanagan responds sternly, as if she is lecturing a witness in court. “You haven’t notified us that we’re trespassing, number one.”
“What did I just tell you,” says the cop. “You’re trespassing. Let’s go. I don’t want to arrest you guys.” . . .

(He’s giving them the choice — you can go peaceably now, or you can go in handcuffs later. Your choice.)

But no, Flanagan was going to teach this cop some respect.
“You’re not going to arrest us. Number two, the protocol is …”
She keeps lecturing him. Veronica wags her finger in his face. Poor Dan is squirming in the background.
“Your protocol is if I ask you to turn off the bodycam, you have to turn it off and that’s your protocol,” Flanagan insists, infuriated that this cop isn’t obeying her instruction
“She’s a f–king lawyer so she knows,” says Veronica.
The cop’s patience is wearing thin. “Well, that’s bulls–t lawyer stuff so that’s not true. We gotta go.”
Flanagan lets fly with her trump card: “I’m an AG. I’m an AG.”
“Good for you,” says the cop. “I don’t give a s–t.” . . .

(Yeah, gonna be the handcuffs, isn’t it?)

The last we see of Flanagan is in the back of the cruiser shrieking: “Buddy, you’re going to regret this. You’re going to regret it. I’m an A …”
The door slamming in her face before she gets out the 12th “I’m an AG” is one of the most satisfying moments in bodycam history.

Cut. Scene. But wait — there’s one more thing:

Charles Glasser at Instapundit points out that Flanagan’s friend Veronica Hannan “is carrying a Chloé Woody Medium Canvas Tote. It sells for $1,390.00 at Bloomingdale’s.” My wife doesn’t have a $1,300 purse. Does your wife have a $1,300 purse? And you know what? I bet that cop’s wife doesn’t have a $1,300 purse, either. All these progressive types want to lecture us about “white privilege,” well, here’s a textbook case. The cop ought to have tased these snooty bitches, and called it “social justice.”

Flanagan’s boss, a Democrat who worked in the Obama administration, is not too happy with his employee:

Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan, who was arrested for trespassing, was placed on paid leave after the incident while the Rhode Island Attorney General’s office reviewed the matter. Starting Monday, Flanagan will go on unpaid leave, the office told Fox News Digital. . . .
In a subsequent radio interview after Flanagan’s arrest, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha called it “inexcusable behavior” that will likely result in “strong, strong sanction[s].”  . . .
“I’ve got 110 lawyers. She embarrassed all of them. . . .
“I’m not sure what she was thinking. Clearly, she was not thinking straight,” said Neronha. . . .
“She’s humiliated herself,” Neronha added. “Regardless of what happens vis-a-vis her employment with us, she’s going to have a long time coming back from this. It’s just really unfortunate.”

Maybe she could learn to code . . .



 

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FMJRA 2.0: Preparing For The Draft

Posted on | August 24, 2025 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Preparing For The Draft

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I’m actually feeling pretty good about the upcoming 1974 draft in Pete’s league. Aside from having given away my second-round pick for Steve Braun (boy, that was dumb) I have a solid front four and a stud reliever, plus a solid infield bolstered by rookies Mike Hargrove at first and Jim Sundberg behind the plate. Having Hargrove allows me to keep Dave Kingman in the DH slot, where he can continue jacking homers into the outfield stands at RFK. All I need to do is fill in the bullpen, the outfield corners, and the bench. We’re still looking for managers for the Expos and White Sox, so if you’re interested, let me or Pete know; there are also four expansion possibilities if you don’t like Montreal or the Pale Hose.
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Why Has She Never Met a Good Man?

Posted on | August 23, 2025 | Comments Off on Why Has She Never Met a Good Man?

Here is the transcript of her video rant:

“I’ve never once met a good man — my entire life, going on almost 32 years, OK? I’ve never met one genuinely good man. Every single man I have encountered has done something absolutely horrific and minimized it. Every single man that I’ve encountered is a liar, is a perv, and does not see women as humans. Every single man that I’ve ever encountered is so far up the patriarchy booty-butt, they genuinely think that it’s OK for them to not grow past the mental age of 12. They genuinely think that having a job is all that they need to do. I’ve never met a good man — not my father, I don’t consider him a good man. My brothers? Really not good men. My ex — baby daddy — not a good man.His dad? Horrible man. His two brothers, one of them is halfway decent, but still don’t consider him good, uh-uh. His sister’s husband? Really shitty. All of my male family members, horrible people. All of my past male colleagues, all of my male instructors, professors, all of them are fucking horrible — horrible! There is no such thing as a good man. And if you think you’re a good man, please explain why.”

We must begin by stipulating that “good man” is a relative term — if we could rank all 3.5 billion men on the planet from best to worst, maybe I could claim to be in the top billion or so, depending on how you’re grading them, but I don’t want to brag, because a good man is humble.

The replies to “Dr. Jebra Faushay” (who is, in case you didn’t realize it, a satirist) are both enlightening and humorous, although sometimes cruel, but before we go there, let me offer some sincere and well-meaning advice. When it comes to the choice of romantic partners, it’s very much like real estate — location, location, location. And by this, I mean not just your GPS coordinates, but where you are located in terms of your socioeconomic class, your race and religion, your interests and affinities.

This is something that drew my attention when examining the phenomenon of “incels.” Over and over again, we see that it’s not just that the “incel” can’t get a girlfriend, but that he also doesn’t have any real male friends, either. In other words, the “incel” lacks social skills — or maybe just has a bad attitude — and this isolates them from other people. And in studying such people, you find that they don’t have the sort of interests and affinities that would help them fix their problems. They don’t end up in dark places by accident, OK? If you’re holed up in your room watching zombie movies, playing video games and masturbating to online porn, these habits aren’t likely to improve your popularity.

What is true of guys who become “incels” is likewise true of misfit women like the one ranting on video about never meeting a “good man.” Somehow, this woman has excluded herself from the social millieu where she might have encountered a better class of men. Notice she speaks of her ex as her “baby daddy,” meaning that she has an ex-boyfriend who wouldn’t marry her after she got pregnant. The phrase “baby daddy” originated in urban underclass culture about 25 or 30 years ago, and the first thing I might say to this woman if she were seeking my advice (which obviously she never would) is, “Why are you running around with trash?”

Far be it from me to endorse snobbery, but if the old adage is true that “you can judge a man by the company he keeps,” the wise man will avoid associating with trash. There is a “crabs-in-the-bucket” problem with such associates, where your loser friends will drag you down because your ambition for a better life is seen as a negative reflection on them.

Also: Never trust somebody who speaks ill of their own family.

When this woman trashes her own father and her brothers? Oh, that’s what poker players call a “tell.” The apple never falls far from the tree, and if someone starts telling me that their parents and siblings are bad people, this certainly does not improve my estimate of their character.

Even if you grew up in a good family, you could examine your parents and point out their flaws and failures, their shortcomings and limitations, but why would you do that in public? Why would you trash your own family’s reputation that way? You think that makes you look good?

Well, these are a few of my thoughts after watching that woman’s video, but the replies to Jebra Faushay’s post are full of humorous (if not necessarily constructive) criticism. Enjoy!



 

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