In The Mailbox: 06.04.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | June 5, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.04.25 (Evening Edition)

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Mother Defends Her Daughter
EBL: Chinese spies/saboteurs bring harmful fungi to US, Supreme Court Significantly Narrows NEPA Environmental Reviews, Blue Cheese, Decker Sisters Murdered, and Comrade Brennan worried about Trump coming after him
Twitchy: Charges Dropped Against Deputy Who Punched A “Woman” He Met At A Club, CNN Mocks Republicans Wanting To Investigate Biden Because “It’s A Very Backward-Looking Exercise”, and Meep! Meep! DeSantis Drops ACME Anvil – Congress Should Strip Deportation-Hindering Courts’ Power
Louder With Crowder: Teen who was suspended from school for calling illegal aliens “illegal aliens” now has a sizable settlement and a public apology, 13-year-old secret service agent honored by Trump gets bad news, but he’s still more concerned with helping other kids, Nothing to see here, just the Democrat Minority Leader THREATENING to dox ICE officials for enforcing the law, Democrat Congresswoman demands we stop deporting illegal immigrants because we need them to, quote, “wipe our @$$es”, and Remember that female Olympic boxer who people claimed wasn’t a man?
Vox Popoli: There is No Joe Biden, From Kill Chain to Kill Web, Civilian Infrastructure is Fair Game, RIP Jim Marshall, and US Intelligence Reportedly Backed Kiev Strikes
Cedar Sanderson: A Mother’s Duty
Stoic Observations: Negative Liberty In Stoic Marriage
Toni Airaksinen: How Columbia University Hamas Supporters Led Me To Convert To Judaism

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Greasy Pole – The Get off the Internet episode
American Conservative: Where Is Netanyahu’s Blame for Hamas?
American Greatness: Rep. Hakeem Jeffries Threatens ICE Agents with Doxxing Over Immigration Enforcement, How California Has Destroyed Its Middle Class, Riley Gaines Calls Out Male Pitcher Who Dominated Minnesota [Girls] Softball State Championship, Paxton Smokes Cornyn 50-28 Percent in Latest 2026 GOP Primary Poll, and ‘Genocide in Gaza’ Is a Blood Libel Lie, and the People Spreading It Are Encouraging Terror Attacks in the USA
American Thinker: The Maturing of Defense Secretary Hegseth, also, The Media’s Catch-22: Exposing Joe Biden Would Have Assured Trump’s Re-election
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Terrorist Dirtbag News, also, Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Ukraine Hits Kerch Strait Bridge Again, also, Choke Point Choked Out?
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites, Two giant clusters of galaxies on target for second collision, Japanese lunar lander startup Ispace signs deal to build lander for ESA, Orbital tug startup Impulse raises $300 million in private investment capital, and Understanding Trump’s proposed NASA cuts, in the larger context of the overall federal budget
Cafe Hayek: Michael Shermer Talks With Phil Gramm and Me, also, An American Enterprise Institute Discussion of “The Triumph of Economic Freedom”
CDR Salamander: Increase Navy Accountability With One Simple Trick
Chicago Boyz: An Event from the End of History
Don Surber: How the Pride war was won
First Street Journal: Another Park Slope liberal cannot see what is right in front of her
Gates Of Vienna: Cabinet Schoof Has Resigned, also, Judgment in Düsseldorf
The Geller Report: BOULDER Firebombing Muslim’s Terrorist Declaration, Congress Nears Move To Designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a Terrorist Organization, Colorado Muslim Terrorist’s Family Detained for Deportation, ‘AGROTERRORISM’: DOJ Charges Chinese Nationals With Smuggling Dangerous Pathogen into US, and President Trump Confirms US Nuclear Agreement with Iran WON’T Allow Any Uranium Enrichment
Hollywood In Toto: SHOCK: Orwell’s ‘1984’ Slapped with Trigger Warning, ‘Daily Show’ Owes Megyn Kelly Huge Apology, The Phoenician Scheme Is Exactly What You Expect, Why the Fiery But Not So Peaceful Ballerina Rocks, and Did Mountainhead Eerily Predict Boulder Terrorist Attack?
The Lid: Financial Giant Citi Finally Ending Discrimination and De-Banking of Conservatives
Legal Insurrection: In 8-0 Ruling, Supreme Court Significantly Narrows NEPA Environmental Reviews, Dept. Education: Columbia “fails to meet the standards for accreditation”, Penn Medicine Will No Longer Perform ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ Surgeries on Minors, Colorado Judge Blocks Trump From Deporting Terror Suspect’s Family, and Grassley Releases Documents Regarding FBI Targeting Catholics Under Biden
Matt Taibbi: The Memory-Holing Of Everything, Even George Orwell
Outkick: Parents Call Out Unfairness As Trans Pitcher Throws Shutout In Minnesota Softball State Quarterfinals, Chipper Jones Has Turned Into The College Baseball Fun Police During The NCAA Tourney, Ex-NHL Star Theo Fleury Rips The State Of The Canadian Government, Thanks Elon Musk For Saving Free Speech, Hooters Begins Closing Stores Across The United States, Including The Legendary Tallahassee Location, and Oilers Boob Flasher Is Ready For Game 1, Kelly Stafford Stuffed In A Dress & Fake Outrage At Wake’s Coach
Power Line: Dutch elections, Reimagine there’s no Star Tribune, Hudson’s Bay closes after 355 years, and Mass Murder at USAID?
Shark Tank: Santa Ono Rejected As UF President
Shot In The Dark: Open Letter To MPR’s Jon Collins – Year 5, Twin Cities Left – Bring Back The Good Old Days, In Defense of the Brain, Opportunity Knocks
The Political Hat: Washington State’s War On Clergy, also, Blowing Up The Rules
This Ain’t Hell: Seattle church event “swarmed” by protesters, so Mayor blames Christians, SECDEF to rename USNS Harvey Milk, Supremes get gutless…again, Army Recruiting Soars, and Arizona governor vetoes anti-CCP bill aimed at protecting US bases
Victory Girls: The Intifada Is Here And The Left Is Becoming The Joke, also, Fungus Among Us – Thank China
Watts Up With That: Ed Miliband STRIKES Again | Plans For “Net Zero Tax” On Household Gas Bills SLAMMED, Trump Admin Walks Back Biden Rule ‘Smothering’ Alaskan Oil, Permian Basin – The Energizer Bunny of Oil, Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy Releases Report Exposing No Viable Path Forward for California’s High-Speed Rail Boondoggle, and Heat Hysteria In Germany: Authorities Recommend No Beer, Barbecues On Hot Days!
The Federalist: Turn This New York Times Immigration Story Inside Out And It’s Perfect, ABC News Uses Antisemitic Attack To Parrot Hamas Front Group’s Talking Points On ‘Islamophobia’, WI Judge Charged With Helping Illegal Alien Evade ICE Has A Case Of Judicial Privilege, 100 Years Ago, The Supreme Court Recognized Parental Rights. They Need To Do The Same Today, and Christopher Wray Lied To Congress Over Extent Of FBI’s Anti-Catholic Surveillance
Mark Steyn: Molotov Man Meets Awareness-Raisers, also, War: What For?

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In The Mailbox: 06.04.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | June 4, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.04.25 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Call For Authors: Summer 2025 Based Books Sale
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: There is Not Enough Copper for Net Zero
EBL: Elegy for Dunkirk : Atonement, also, Casey at the Bat*
Twitchy: Elon Musk Calls The Big Beautiful Bill A Disgusting Abomination, If You Thought Democrat Rhetoric On Immigration Was Racist Wait’ll You See This, and Missoula MT Votes To Make The Pride Flag An Official Flag
Louder With Crowder: TikToker melts down over rent in her Democrat-run city… she can’t find an apartment for under $6,000 a month, Eric Swalwell chows down on a taco like it’s a Chinese spy in an embarrassing attempt to troll Trump, Weird Tim Walz needs his teen son to explain to him why dudes love Trump and think Democrats suck at life, Jake Tapper goes back to his day job, blames conservatives for an anti-Semitic illegal launching a terror attack, and Trump Threatens Newsom Over Failure To Protect Women’s Sports
Vox Popoli: The Book People Speak, Strategic Drone Attacks, The Journey Begins, An Irrelevant Innovation, and Superchats are Back
Stoic Observations: The Last Action Hero
Bugscuffle Gazette: When dogs go rabid
Defending The Wood Perilous: The Glory That Is God’s
Gab: A Robot Version of “You” Is Closer Than You Think
Upstream Reviews: Free The Darkness

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: U.S. Navy Shipyards – What They Took From Us
Dana Loesch: Transparency Is Important
Don Surber: June’s media lies so far
Matt Taibbi: Ending The World To Own Trump
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Talking About Other Tax Issues

*For your amusement, here’s Bill James’ similar paean to knuckleball pitcher Charlie Hough.

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In The Mailbox: 06.02.25

Posted on | June 3, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.02.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links last month!
Doug Hagin’s trying to get his knee fixed and climb up from the bottom of Maslow’s Pyramid.
I don’t remember if I mentioned this Friday, but Son of Silvercon’s first guest of Honor, Maggie Hogarth,
has a kickstarter going on for an anthology about cool aliens.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Nellie Ohr Coverup & the FBI’s “Black Hole” Filing System
357 Magnum: Good Guy With a Gun Stops Bad Guy With a Gun
EBL: Etna Eruption, Levanta Pascual – Spanish Reconquista, Pro-Palestinian Terrorist Lights People On Fire In Boulder, Colorado, Gabrielle Cuccia gets fired at Pentagon, and Loretta Swit, RIP
Twitchy: Fraternities Not Eager To Host Dems’ New “Code Talker”, WaPo – Drop In Fentanyl Seizures At Border Sure Is A Mystery, and Deranged Former Sportscaster Calls Out Stephen Miller
Louder With Crowder: Hawaii signs new bill that will charge tourists for Climate Change, Woke activist finds out assault & battery with a trans flag is illegal, cries when they/them is arrested, CNN’s polling analyst is discombobulated over how Trump is destroying Democrats in key metrics, Old lady from Martha’s Vineyard swears Trump’s border czar is going to deport her… for being an American Citizen, and Got Gay Fatigue? Pride Month is Cringe & America is Fed Up!
Vox Popoli: A Chilling Warning, Fake Reviews on Amazon, The Next Serial, Immigration and Illiteracy, and Five Down, Six to Go
The Abbey of Misrule: The Voivode’s Mosque
Based Book Sale: Results of the North American Fantasy Book Sale
Born Lucky: Sohrab Ahmari & the “Trumpian Right”
Cedar Sanderson: Expectations, also, Come Into My Garden
Upstream Reviews: Iron Chamber of Memory
Bugscuffle Gazette: Next Novel Release
Stoic Observations: Launching FBT Voices Microsites
Jim McCoy: My Dragon Awards Ballot

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott:
American Conservative: Ukraine Launches Massive Drone Attack on Russian Air Bases, also,Trump’s Iran Deal Framework Reportedly Allows Uranium Enrichment
American Greatness: Who Really Are the Lawless and the Dictatorial?
American Thinker: Trump Is Changing the World (Whether You Like Him or Not), The Fracturing of the Marxist Democrat Party, Ingratitude and Ignorance Are Driving The Destruction of The Greatest Civilization In Human History, Bumbling Biden Was Still a Tyrant, and President Autopen and the Crime of Forgery
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: How Democrats Ruined Cities, Huge – Ukraine Destroys 40 Russian Bombers, and More Frio Vote Fraud Ring Suspects Named
Behind The Black: Judge rules that SpaceX’s lawsuit against the California Coastal Commission can go forward, Trump budget proposes putting a final end to the delayed and blocked Thirty Meter Telescope, Trump is withdrawing Jared Isaacman’s nomination for NASA administrator, Texas legislature gives Starbase power to close Boca Chica beaches, and In demanding an investigation by SpaceX into the Starship failure on this week’s test flight, the FAA puffs up its chest and pounds it like a chimpanzee
Cafe Hayek: J.P. Morgan (Likely) Paid More, Trump Continues to Reveal Deep Misunderstanding of International Trade, and There Is No Such Thing As Free Tariff-Induced Domestic Production
CDR Salamander: It’s A Midrats Free For All! also, Ukrainian Drones Are Tapping Us On Our Shoulder
Chicago Boyz: Retrotech: Technology in 1925–Calculating and Information Management Systems, Pride and the Fall, and Boulder and Inflection Points
Da Tech Guy: CNN Discovers Pot Can Be Bad For You? Who Knew…except for anybody with a Brain & Memory, also, Indulgence Calendar for June today and Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser
Dana Loesch: Terror Attack In Boulder, also, Monday Night Thoughts
Don Surber: Trump Economics Works
First Street Journal: The activists can’t just leave decent things alone, also, World War III Watch: Britain goes all out neocon
Gates Of Vienna: Thor Must Have Been Angry, Islam and Desertification, and What a Surprise!
The Geller Report: Muslim Migrants Devastate Paris – Mass Rioting, Burning, Lynchings, Etc., Trump Reduces US Goods Trade Deficit By HALF, Falls 46 Percent in April, COLORADO – HORRIFYING ISLAMIC TERROR ATTACK, Corrupt Democrat Rep. Jerrold Nadler’s Aide Detained by DHS Agents in Manhattan Office, and Attorney General Eliminates Far-Left American Bar Association’s Role in Vetting Judicial Nominees
Hollywood In Toto: Reeves’ Constantine – From Dud to Cult Favorite, Mountainhead Misfire Targets Elon Musk, Tech Bros, How Happy Gilmore 2 Trumped Bill & Ted Face the Music, You Won’t Believe Why Patti LuPone is Under Cancel Culture Fire, and Late-Night Liars Hide Biden’s Decline (Again!)
The Lid: Bono Joins Media with Lie that Trump Cuts to USAID is ‘Killing Hundreds of Thousands of Kids’
Legal Insurrection: White House Withdraws Jared Isaacman’s Nomination as NASA Chief, Biden Admin Emails Acknowledged Cancer Risks From East Palestine Toxic Train Derailment, Wisconsin Judge, Indicted for Helping Illegal Alien Evade ICE, Gets Support from 138 Retired Judges, Supreme Court Turns Down Challenge to ‘Assault Weapon,’ Magazine Ban Cases, and Poland’s Conservative Karol Nawrocki Scores Surprise Win in Presidential Election
Outkick: Florida’s Kevin O’Sullivan Apologizes For Cussing Out NCAA Tourney Staff, Coastal Carolina Coach Destroys Him, Deion Sanders Goes After The People Who Were ‘Lying’ About Shedeur Sanders Before NFL Draft, Colorado Rockies Reach 10th Win of the Season – In June, Why Bill Simmons Can’t Stand The Attention OutKick And Pablo Torre Are Receiving, and WNBA Still Silent On Brittney Griner’s Apparent ‘Trash F-ing White Girl’ Comment
Power Line: Missing foreigners, It’s True: Democrats Are Crazy, and Is Paris burning? (2025 ed.)
Shark Tank: FL GOP Chair Slams Miami Democrat Rodriguez’ Attorney General Bid
Shot In The Dark: First Day of Summer!
STUMP: On Advanced Prostate Cancer – Some Personal Thoughts On Biden’s & Scott Adams’ Announcements
This Ain’t Hell: Marine scores first combined win in Marine competition since 1959, Trump Pardons Covid Convicted Army Doc, Loretta Swit dead at 87, Trump administration uncovers food stamp bribe and fraud scheme, and Man throws Molotov cocktails at Jewish protesters in Colorado
Transterrestrial Musings: Five Years Ago, The Jews, and Blue Origin Speaks
Victory Girls: PBS Lawsuit Demands Our Tax Dollars Pay For Their “Free Speech”, also, Tim Walz Tries The Tough Guy Act, Wants To Bully Donald Trump
Watts Up With That: McKibben’s Math Misstep – Exposing Alarmism’s Historic Innumeracy in Rolling Stone, Showdown looms for Empire Wind, Augusta Chronicle’s Climate Myth: Invasive Species in Georgia Not Driven by Warming, and The Scorching Hot German Summer of 1911
The Federalist: Latest FBI Revelations Show The Mueller Special Counsel Was A Cover-Up, And Much More, Boulder Attack Shows Why Trump Is Right To Revoke Visas For Anti-American Views, Even Trash Isn’t Safe From California’s Regulatory Overkill, Trump Isn’t Destroying Harvard – Harvard Has Destroyed Itself, and Remember When Rolling Stone Called Pro-Hamas Terrorists Entering The U.S. A ‘Conspiracy Theory?’
Mark Steyn: Cold Comfort – John Wayne in Island in the Sky, Possibilities and Tomorrows, Sunday, and A Long Cosy Relationship

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Rule 5 Sunday: Lewis Grizzard Memorial Post

Posted on | June 2, 2025 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Has Lewis Grizzard* really been dead for 21+ years? Doesn’t seem possible. He was a funny guy, and what reminded me of him was seeing this pic and thinking of his differentiation between “naked” and “nekkid”: “Naked is when you don’t have any clothes on; nekkid is when you don’t have any clothes on – and you’re up to something.” This gal is clearly on her way to being nekkid. Thanks to @rule5tweets on X.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Ten Commandments Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, 1956 DeSoto Delightful Delovely, OMD – “Joan of Arc”, Pirates of the Caribbean Horologist, Anti MAGA Tariff Traitors, Eat More Chicken, Rick Derringer – “Hang On Sloopy”, Pee Wee As Himself, Memorial Day, and Marisa Tomei

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Rachel Jones, MDDNR Looking at New(er) Striper Regs, Fish Pic Friday – Kelly Black, I Don’t Mind, The Wednesday Wetness, Largemouth Taxonomists Reclassify Largemouth Bass, Tattoo Tuesday, The Monday Morning Stimulus, The Chesapeake Mermaid, Palm Sunday and Will Oysters Clean Baltimore Harbor?

BACON TIME: Rule Five Butt It’s Friday

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

*Sportswriter, comedian, good ol’ boy, and popularizer of the curse “May you go to hell and change planes in Atlanta!” Also responsible for the joke about Furman Bisher and the Houston hooker, which never fails to cheer folks up.

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Terror Attack in Colorado: Fire-Bomber Targets Pro-Israel Demonstration UPDATE: Illegal Alien From Egypt!

Posted on | June 1, 2025 | 2 Comments

Multiple sources say Mohamad Soliman is the name of the perpetrator, but I don’t know if we have an official confirmation of that name. At any rate, this was a particularly gruesome attack:

A suspect is in custody after an attack Sunday on Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado. At least five people were injured and witnesses said the suspect threw Molotov cocktails that burned some or all of the victims, who were part of a march for Israeli hostages.
The FBI called it a targeted terrorist attack but Boulder Police Chief Stephen Redfearn said at a news conference a little over two hours after the attack that it was too early in the investigation to make that determination. . . .
As a result of the attack, which happened at 1:26 p.m. local time, three blocks of Pearl Street have been evacuated and remained closed to the public as of 6 p.m. Investigators said there is a vehicle of interest in that zone, but it’s not clear whether it belongs to the suspect.
The people who were injured were outside the historic Boulder County Courthouse at 13th Street and Pearl Street. A burn scar could be seen in the space in front of the building. Witnesses said they saw people writhing on the ground and people running with water to try to help immediately afterward. UCHealth confirmed that two victims were flown by helicopter to its burn unit.
A walk to remember the Israeli hostages who remain in Gaza was taking place in Boulder’s downtown. Two sources said witnesses told investigators the suspect allegedly yelled “End Zionist!,” during the attack.
FBI Director Kash Patel and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino described the incident as a terrorist attack and said around 3:30 p.m. that FBI agents are at the scene. Boulder police said the attack is under investigation and are working to determine if that is the case, and that it’s too early to speculate on the attacker’s motive.

Yeah, a guy named “Mohamad” throws fire bombs at Jews, yelling about Zionism, but “it’s too early to speculate on the attacker’s motive.”

Boulder, CO – Mohamad Soliman is filmed screaming “end Zionists” and rambles about Palestine as he paces holding two fluid filled containers. https://t.co/hwXA6AeKte pic.twitter.com/Vt4H0ltNcX

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) June 1, 2025

UPDATE: In a press conference just now, the FBI Special Agent in Charge named Soliman as the suspect, so now that’s confirmed.

UPDATE II: Wow. Just . . . wow:

BREAKING: Three senior DHS sources tell @FoxNews that the Boulder terror suspect is an Egyptian national in the U.S. illegally as a visa overstay who entered the U.S. during the Biden administration. I’m told Mohamed Sabry Soliman arrived at LAX on 8/27/22 on a B1/B2 nonimmigrant…

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 2, 2025

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FMJRA 2.0: The Agony of Defeat

Posted on | June 1, 2025 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: The Agony of Defeat

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Much like Vinko Bogataj, immortalized forever as the epitome of miserable defeat, the Senators staggered to a miserable 1-5 finish this week, losing two of three to the Bravos at the Launching Pad before coming home and getting swept in three hard-fought games by Pete’s Brewers. The only win this week was Game #2 of the Atlanta series, where Joe Coleman gave up just three runs for his 14th win as the Senators teed off on Fergie Jenkins and then added two more runs off the bullpen for the 7-3 win. This leaves us tied with Boston at 61-69, eleven games behind the Brewers, one behind the Twins, and just 2.5 games behind the A’s. This coming week brings us a two-game set against the Angels (3-5) and three games against the Day Traders, who we swept last time we played them.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

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Blast From the Blogging Past: Saint Pancake and the Anti-Israel Cause
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FMJRA 2.0: Indians Scalped!
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Rule 5 Sunday: Country Girl in Carhartts
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Conclusions in Search of Evidence: Sex and the Modern Female Journalist
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May 27: A Date That Will Live in Hilarity
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In The Mailbox: 05.27.25 (Leftover Linkagery)
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In The Mailbox: 05.27.25 (Evening Edition)
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Nothing Is ‘Secret’ Anymore

Posted on | May 31, 2025 | 1 Comment

The Glenn Greenwald scandal is an important reminder about the reality of life in the Information Age. This was the subject of a lecture I gave my then-14-year-old son Jefferson in 2013. The day the second Anthony Weiner scandal broke — while the disgraced ex-congressman was a candidate for mayor of New York City — it just so happened that Jeff needed a ride to an extra class he was taking at a school on the other side of town. We were riding along when something came on the radio about the story and I snapped off the radio and began ranting; “Nothing is private! Nothing is secret! Everything you do on the Internet, there’s a permanent record of it out there somewhere!”

The resulting lecture may have been 20 minutes or however long it took us to reach our destination, but I remember telling Jeff never to write anything in an email, DM or text message that he wouldn’t want to see as a headline on the front page of the New York Times.

It goes without saying that you should never “send nudes,” and never record a sex video. Online dating apps? You’re crazy!

Because I write a lot about crime, I’ve come to realize that video surveillance is now nearly ubiquitous, and this is very important. One of the reasons that Sean “Diddy” Combs is now on trial is because a surveillance camera in a hotel corridor caught him abusing his girlfriend. If video surveillance had been so widespread in 1994, O.J. Simpson almost certainly would have been convicted. Now think about what this means if you’re trying to get away with some kind of sexual shenanigans.

One of the most basic defenses against any accusation is alibi — you weren’t at the scene of the crime at the time it allegedly happened. Video surveillance makes it well-nigh impossible to get away with a phony alibi, so you move to what is typically the next line of defense — it’s a “he-said/she-said” case. The whole “campus rape epidemic” hysteria circa 2014 involved cases like this, where the college girl claimed she’d been raped, and the guy insisted it was consensual sex. This was why so many universities denied the accused male students due process, treating rape accusations as a student disciplinary violation and “trying” these cases in campus tribunals where the accused did not have the basic protections he would have had in a criminal trial. Getting a rape conviction in a courtroom, when it involves two drunk college students who stumbled back to a dorm room together after a party, would be nearly impossible. Such circumstances imply consent — what did she think was going to happen? — and it would take strong corroborating evidence for a prosecutor to make a rape accusation stick in a case like that (which was at least 90% of the “campus rape epidemic” hysteria) in a court of law.

Ah, but could your text messages be evidence? Such messages were brought to light in several of those “he-said/she-said” campus rape accusation cases, including the infamous “Mattress Girl” case at Columbia University. Paul Nungesser was able to produce text message exchanges with that lying slut Emma Sulkowicz which helped vindicate him, and forced Columbia to settle a lawsuit with Nungesser.

Do you understand why I felt the need to go off on that rant to my 14-year-old son in 2013? Young people today do not live in the same world I grew up in. Technology has changed the world in ways that we could never have imagined back in the 1970s. People nowadays go to prison because of types of evidence that did not even exist 30 years ago and people are destroying their livelihoods and reputations because of their online behavior. The “sexting” scandals that wrecked Anthony Weiner’s career is one example, and this weird sex video scandal with Glenn Greenwald is another. Why would smart people do such stupid things?

Glenn Greenwald video.? ? pic.twitter.com/5zLMdRG7q6

— ?Laurie (@Laurieluvsmolly) May 30, 2025

Let us consider Glenn Greenwald’s response:

Journalist Glenn Greenwald angrily lashed out at his political enemies after a sex tape showing him in a compromising position spread on social media.
In a post to X on Friday morning, Greenwald said the clips were published without his ‘knowledge or consent’, and that he planned to take legal action.
The 58-year-old, who is also a lawyer, added that the leaking of the videos was done so by ‘political enemies’ to ‘advance a political agenda’.
‘Last night’s videos were released online depicting behavior in my private life. Some were distorted and others were not.
‘They were published without my knowledge or consent and its publication was therefore criminal.
‘Though we do not yet know exactly who is responsible, we are close to knowing, and the motive was a maliciously political one,’ he said.

Excuse me, Mr. Greenwald, but we actually do know who is responsible, and that person is you. What I mean to say is, your “sex tape” can never be leaked, if you don’t record a “sex tape.” While it is almost certainly true that your “political enemies” published this video — obviously, your friends wouldn’t do that — your enemies are not responsible for you being so stupid as to make that video in the first place.

By the way, Mr. Greenwald, since we are both journalists, can we agree that “sex tape” is an obsolete term? Digital recording has long since replaced videotape, and therefore there is no “tape” involved. Also, I hate when reporters use the verb “film” to describe the act of recording a video, e.g., “he filmed himself engaged in sodomy,” No, dammit! He’s not Cecile B. DeMille, and this wasn’t 35mm Kodak. Nothing was filmed! Nor was anything taped! Stop using those words! But I digress . . .

My point is that stupid is as stupid does, and how stupid do you have to be, as a controversial public figure, to think that you can record a sex video and there’s zero chance of it ever being leaked?

“The shame is part of the kink” — is that what it’s about? Some sort of masochistic craving for humiliation? Well, if so, Greenwald got the ultimate payoff, didn’t he? The whole BDSM world makes no sense to me, and never did. Being neither a sadist nor a masochist, I can’t comprehend either partner’s pleasure in such perverse transactions. Also (and I’ve said this many times before) there is a reason why some things are called “fantasies,” because if you try to do them in real life, the consequences are usually bad. There are many erotic possibilities which might be exciting to imagine, but which simply aren’t practical in real life. Trying to turn your kinkiest fantasies into a “lifestyle” probably isn’t going to work out as well as you hope, and may lead to your death or imprisonment.

Google “dog + sex + video + arrest” sometime and go through the headlines. First of all, you’d be surprised at how frequently police arrest someone for having sex with dogs. It’s at least once a month that such an arrest makes the news, and sometimes there are three or four such stories a month. The second thing, however, is that in almost every case, people record video of themselves having sex with dogs. Usually, it’s the video that leads to their arrest — they share it on social media or whatever, somebody reports them to the cops and, hey, there’s no “allegedly” about their crime. It’s all right there in the video. These dog-sex freaks have literally created the evidence that sends them to prison.

Florida influencer arrested
for having sex with dog for $500,
posting it on Instagram: Sheriff

Florida ‘influencer’ Logan Guminski

For $500, was it worth it? And did this “influencer” blame her disgrace on her enemies, the way Greenwald did? Because such an excuse would scarcely make more sense in her case than in his case. The important question is not how the video came to public attention, but rather why the video ever existed in the first place. Stop recording this stuff!

But people never ask for my advice, and when I volunteer advice, they ignore it, so I don’t know why I even bother offering helpful advice like this. When the next big “sex tape” scandal happens, I’ll just say I told you so, and why the hell do I keep seeing the phrase “sex tape” in headlines? It’s 2025, there is no videotape anymore! Nobody listens to me . . .

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