In The Mailbox: 09.05.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | September 5, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.05.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: What Would You Do If Cops Were 20 Minutes Away?
EBL: Scarborough Fair, also, Ohm and Volt
Twitchy: Alaska Supremes Uphold Seizure of $95,000 Plane Over Six-Pack Of Beer, San Fran Tool Chased Twice By Same Hoemless Dude, Asks X For Help & Flips Out Over Advice, and The Weiner Laptop Strikes Again!
Louder With Crowder: Tampon Tim Walz begins Democrat push for UK/Australia-like gun control, claiming they’re “just as free” as America, JD Vance goes to pray with parents of Minneapolis shooting victims, so of course, gross Democrats protest it, and Man celebrates his cheating ex moving out, hires a Mariachi to follow them around the apartment
Vox Popoli: The Media is Outdated, Trannifa, Psychiatrist, Heal Thyself, and Collapse by 2050
Cedar Sanderson: It’s A Series! Again!,
Weird Catholic: “Ever before my eyes”
Stoic Observations: SO Podcast 1 – Merit & Markets
Jim McCoy: Hairballs, Hiccups, & Hope
Upstream Reviews: An Inconvenient Presidency

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Dana Loesch: Trump Is Not Dead & Other News You Missed,
Don Surber: Being fired
Shark Tank: DeSantis Says He Won’t Support Renner For Governor

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In The Mailbox: 09.04.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | September 5, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.04.25 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

SOTD
Jim McCoy says check it out! The BasedCon V Based Book Sale
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

I must find this holy site.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Illustrated Spygate Scandal Part VI
357 Magnum: Gun-Free Zone or Defenseless Victim Zone?
EBL: MAGA Bombing Tren de Aragua Drug Runners, Fillet Fish Like This, Can a concrete highway barrier stop a bullet? As Gouda As It Gets, and Bari Weiss and CBS News?
Twitchy: Don Lemon Forgets His Trans Etiquette, Brave Scottish Lass Vindicated As Cops Arrest The Migrant Who Harmed Her Sister, and Scott Jennings Calls Gov. Tampon Timmy A “Broken Brained SOB”
Louder With Crowder: Parents in shock learning their five-year-old snuck out of the house; he wanted breakfast, so he walked to Chick-fil-A, also, Scott Jennings goes there after “piece of sh*t” Tampon Tim Walz celebrates Donald Trump death hoax
Vox Popoli: 2 PM Announcement, Not Without Odessa, The Last Day, and Softly, Softly Clucked the Conservative
Cedar Sanderson: Tarantella
Stoic Observations: Don’t Forget The Mafia
Jim McCoy: The System Apocalypse
Hans Schantz: Substack’s Supposed Nazi Problem

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: So Now We Have The “War” In “Drug War”
Don Surber: LGBT outlets lose ads
Glenn Reynolds: Saving Democracy
Matt Taibbi: The UK Earns Status As A Censorship State, also, Malcolm Gladwell Conquers Mt. Suck,
STUMP: Chicago Homicides – Why Are They Down In 2025?

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In The Mailbox: 09.04.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | September 4, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.04.25 (Afternoon Edition)

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I am embarked on a terrifying, soul-scarring literary journey for your benefit which will undoubtedly cost me additional decades in Purgatory and do serious damage to my sanity. Please pray for me and hit the tip jar, because the 55 gallon drums of brain bleach ain’t cheap. Full details on Saturday in lieu of the normal baseball posting.
Meanwhile, the BasedCon V Based Books Sale is underway!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Another Umbrella – Another Lockdown, also Labor Day Weekend in Chicago
EBL: Graham Greene RIP, Signing of the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri, Catch of the Day, Mel Brooks and Actors He Could Not Work With, and Where in the World is Greta Thunberg?
Twitchy: Karoline Leavitt Summarizes Why Democrats Were Freaking Out At RFK Jr. Hearing, Gaza Boy Activists Claimed Was Killed Found Safe & Hiding With His Mom, and Scott Jennings Points Out Judge Says Trump Is Right About Harvard Antisemitism
Louder With Crowder: CNN’s Kasie Hunt makes Trump’s point on tariffs for him, laments she’s now forced to “order from American companies”, Another bloody three-day weekend in Chicago as the woke Mayor and Governor virtue signal over Trump doing something about it, and Five ARMED police officers arrest comedian at airport for the “crime” of offensive (and hilarious) tweets about gender ideology
Vox Popoli: Game Theory and Foreign Insourcing, The Dragon and the Elephant, Hiding the Bodies: A Dialogue, Quotes to Contemplate, and The Churchians Strike Back
Upstream Reviews: Another sale is underway!, also, Drosselmayer – Curse of the Rat King

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: We Still Live By Lies About Afghanistan
Don Surber: How Lisa D. Cook’s case may end
Kausfiles: Ghislaine – “I see nothing, Nothing!”
Matt Taibbi: On The Ersatz Religion Of Transhumanism, The War On Humanity,

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A Return to Frontier Justice?

Posted on | September 3, 2025 | Comments Off on A Return to Frontier Justice?

“Ultimately, police exist not to protect the public from criminals, but to protect criminals from the public,” Professor Glenn Reynolds has said. As in so many cases, however, the advancements of civilization are generally taken for granted by the destructive agents of “progressivism.”

Most Americans have little appreciation for such rights as trial by jury, enshrined in our Bill of Rights more than two centuries ago, which still remain unknown in much of the world. Our justice system rests upon a foundation that took centuries for our distant ancestors to construct, but how many people have taken time to read Winston Churchill’s A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, which recounts this development?

Furthermore, however, the origins of modern police are so little known that, during the 2020 peak of “Black Lives Matter” mania, it was widely claimed (and apparently, believed by many) that our police forces originated as patrols to apprehend slaves — a hateful myth so far from the truth that it cannot be considered a mere error, but is rather a deliberate libel. The world’s first police force was established in England in 1829 under the guidance of Sir Robert Peel. In the U.S., “The first organized, publicly funded professional full-time police services were established in Boston in 1838, New York in 1844, and Philadelphia in 1854.” However, outside of large cities — which were the only places with sufficient tax revenue to support a full-time police force — law enforcement remained in the hands of the county sheriff, a title which itself derives from origins in England (the “reeve” of the “shire”).

On the American frontier, the agencies of law enforcement were so limited that the pioneers mainly had to rely on themselves to defend their lives and property, which is why the horse thief could expect no more “justice” than could be obtained with a long rope and a tall tree. The concept of “frontier justice” was behind the once-famous advice that Andrew Jackson got from his mother, which has been variously quoted, either: “Andy, never tell a lie, nor take what is not your own, nor sue for slander, settle those cases yourself.” Or: “Never bring a suit in law for assault and battery or for defamation. The law affords no remedy for such outrages that can satisfy the feelings of a true man.” In other words, there are times when you just have to whup somebody’s ass.

All of this is preamble to an online video, reportedly recorded in Australia, of a young fellow who decided to whup somebody’s ass. The algorithm won’t allow that video to be embedded, but what it shows is a Muslim youth who allegedly was seeking to have sex with an underage girl, but when he showed up at a park to meet her, was confronted by someone who, I suppose, was the girl’s older brother. A solid beatdown was delivered, probably sufficient to deter repeat offenses.

A reminder that the police exist primarily to protect criminals from vigilante justice. Lax law enforcement (and two-tier justice) will have consequences that liberals won’t like. https://t.co/3LhLmfKqOv

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) September 2, 2025

We have seen widespread unrest in the United Kingdom lately because the law enforcement establishment there has failed to protect young girls from such menaces, and if something isn’t done to correct this failure, I suspect we’ll see more such vigilante measures. You have been warned.

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In The Mailbox: 09.02.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | September 2, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.02.25 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links last month. Very much appreciated!
I wrote a Substack post about how my Washington Senators did this year.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

X: hard at work exposing the shitty state of England.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Illustrated Spygate Scandal Part IV, and Part V
EBL: The Infamous Scene That Took “Soul Train” off Air For Good, Villa Amore, A.I. Rising, Fall Is Coming, and The Most Condescending Man in the World
Twitchy: ABC News Shocked To Find Artwork Stolen By Nazis In Country Where Nazis Fled, That Thing That Never Happens Happened Again! and CNN Reporting On Chicago’s Bloody Labor Day Weekend Amazing – Not In A Good Way
Louder With Crowder: Radical democrats line street to protest JD Vance, but then his motorcade pulls this hilarious maneuver
Vox Popoli: Perhaps the 8th Try’s the Charm, Trump’s Tariffs Overturned, Line to Go, Credit Card Outage in France, and The Idealism of the Machine
Upstream Reviews: September New Releases, Promoting Indie Work Is Expensive – It Shouldn’t Be, Tenure 2 – Social Street Justice
Cedar Sanderson: Used Spaceship For Sale – Cheap, also, Dragon Month – Finale!
Defending The Wood Perilous: God Does Not Heal The Guilty
The Abbey of Misrule: The Sacred Forest, also, “Modernity Is A Heresy”
Stoic Observations: Seven Fights, also, TLDR Nation
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: The Heirs of Waterloo
Based Book Sale: What Are 2025’s Best Based Books?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Don Surber: More firings, please
Elizabeth Nickson: The Richest Companies On Earth Conspire To Steal Your Vote
STUMP: Summer Re-Runs – Lightning Strike Deaths, Safety Tips, & Trends

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Bad Causes Attract Bad People (and Why NPCs Can’t Resist ‘The Current Thing’)

Posted on | September 2, 2025 | Comments Off on Bad Causes Attract Bad People (and Why NPCs Can’t Resist ‘The Current Thing’)

Perhaps many readers have forgotten Kaitlyn Hunt:

You remember her? The teenage Florida lesbian who briefly became a liberal media cause célèbre after she was arrested in 2013 for having sex with a 14-year-old girl? The media bought into a #FreeKate narrative — promoted by Hunt’s parents — that she was a victim of homophobia, but Florida’s age of consent law was very clear and plenty of heterosexuals had been prosecuted for sex with minors. Furthermore, as more facts about the case came to light, it became evident that this allegedly innocent “romance” (as some in the media tried to paint it) was rather sordid, including meeting up for sex in the school restroom. The victim’s parents had tried to get Hunt to leave their daughter alone, but Hunt was obsessed with the girl.

That episode was what led me to formulate the maxim, “Bad causes attract bad people.” From the outset of the controversy, it was obvious to me that what the #FreeKate activists were doing was a de facto attempt to carve out a gay loophole in statutory rape laws. Many of those who initially supported leniency for Kaitlyn Hunt had been misled by media misrepresentations of the case and, once they learned the truth, quietly dropped out of the #FreeKate crusade. However, there was a hard core of True Believers who insisted that it was wrong for the teenage lesbian predator to be treated the same as any other sex offender, and they were all very bad people — deranged and demonic, objectively pro-evil.

The point that Max Nordau makes about pro-Palestinian enthusiasts (hat-tip Instapundit) is another example of how the “bad causes attract bad people” principle operates. How sociopathic do you have to be to take the side of the Hamas terrorists who began this war on October 7, 2023, by attacking innocent people attending a music festival? But of course, the “Free Palestine” nitwits will either (a) insist that the 10/7 attacks were justified as “resistance” against “occupiers,” or else (b) dishonestly claim that they are not actually supporting Hamas. Either way, however, they’ll (c) pretend that Israel is engaging in “genocide” in Gaza.

They are either dishonest or ignorant, except when they’re both.

? Rep. Rashida Tlaib at the People’s Conference for Palestine

At one of the most radical conferences in America, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib took the stage and lashed out at critics.

“Every genocide enabler, look at this room motherfuckers — we ain’t going anywhere.”

She then… pic.twitter.com/LMqSpTTuzZ

— Stu (@thestustustudio) August 31, 2025

The phrase “genocide enablers” is a deliberate lie. It is Hamas that has genocidal ambitions, and which bears the responsibility for the suffering caused by the war that they started on 10/7. But if you will just wait a few weeks or, at most a few months, you’ll find that the “progressive” cheerleaders for Palestine will have moved onto some other “cause” or “issue” to bother us about. During the #GamerGate controversy, gamers began using the term “NPC” to refer to the hive of armchair activists who mindlessly parrot left-wing talking points. They are called NPCs because of their similarity “non-player characters” in a video game — programmed to perform their roles, without any original thoughts of their own. NPCs are always excited about The Current Thing, a term describing “woke progressives who identify with an ever-changing constellation of causes that seemingly shift from day to day.”

Those who are now decrying “genocide” in Gaza were, just a few months ago, posting Ukrainian flags in their social media profiles. Before that, they were worked up about the J6 “insurrection,” and before that, Black Lives Matter, and before that, #MeToo. The causes come and go, according to the vogue of progressive concerns. From time to time, the NPCs return to a few favorite causes — climate change, gun control, abortion rights, etc. — but they’re constantly updating their agenda to fit the latest fashions. If you’re old enough to remember the 1970s or ’80s, you may recall the protests against nuclear power plants, or the “Live Aid” enthusiasm about African famine relief. The fact that this herd of bleating sheep wander from one cause to another reflects the nature of their interest in politics. They are engaged in moral grandstanding, trying to attract admiration for the Noble Courage of their Commitment to Social Justice. They are not actually interested in helping any alleged victims of oppression. No, it’s really all about them and their need to think of themselves as being brave and enlightened.

Ridicule them or ignore them. Just don’t become like them.

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Rule Five Sunday: Laundry Day

Posted on | September 1, 2025 | Comments Off on Rule Five Sunday: Laundry Day

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I sometimes think I should move out of this apartment and buy a house in Tonopah, so I wouldn’t have to go out to do laundry and instead could enjoy watching the appropriately-clad dryer at work.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Good Advice Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Outlander – Blood of my Blood, Emily Kimball, MAGA – Soros Prosecution, Celtic Warrior Women, The Ring, “Le Chant des Partisans”, Shantaram, Ariel Ekblaw, and “Do You”

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Abigail Ratchford, Fish Pic Friday – Dilla Andila, Tattoo Thursday, The Wednesday Wetness, Trump Dumps Fed Reserve Gov, Bans Flag Burning, Tuesday Tanlines, Getting to the Meat of the Matter, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News and Sunday Sunrise

BACON TIME: Rule Five Pew Pew

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FMJRA 2.0: Agonizing Reappraisal

Posted on | August 31, 2025 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Agonizing Reappraisal

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Well, after looking over the 1974 cards for my players (and those available to me as rookies) I posted my keepers:
SP Pat Dobson
SP Bill Lee
SP Carl Morton
SP Jim Kaat
RP Charlie Hough

1b Dave Kingman
2b Cookie Rojas
3b Bill Madlock
ss Ed Brinkman
cf Del Unser

I have Jim Sundberg behind the plate and Mike “The Human Rain Delay” Hargrove as rookies, which will allow me to have Kingman at DH for games in American League parks. On looking over the stats from the 1973 season, I noticed that I had winning records only against National League teams and on Astroturf, and for a moment I thought about telling Pete I was moving the team to Texas after all – but to Houston. Then the moment passed.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.