Why Media Bias Matters

Posted on | April 11, 2025 | Comments Off on Why Media Bias Matters

Say hello to Noah Madrano and, while you’re at it, go ahead and say good-bye, because it’s highly unlikely you’re ever going to see him unless somehow you get sentenced to federal prison, where he’s going to be serving a 50-year sentence for “his heinous crimes”:

PORTLAND, Ore. — A Gladstone, Oregon man was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison today for abducting and sexually abusing a Canadian child he met through a music creation social media platform.
Noah Madrano, 43, was sentenced to 600 months in federal prison, a $5,000 fine, and a lifetime term of supervised release. The sum of restitution he must pay to his victim will be determined at a later date.
“The U.S. Attorney’s Office thanks the FBI special agents and Oregon City police officers who rescued the victim in Oregon and brought the defendant to justice,” said William M. Narus, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon. “This sentence is a result of the extraordinary efforts of the victim, the victim’s family, their community, and law enforcement here and in Canada.”
“The persistence with which Madrano pursued his heinous crimes — traveling internationally on multiple occasions to victimize a child he met online, and ultimately smuggling that victim across an international border, speaks to how predatory his actions genuinely were,” said FBI Portland Special Agent in Charge Douglas A. Olson. “Madrano will be in his mid-nineties when he is eligible for supervised release. His removal from our communities benefits everyone.”
According to court documents, Madrano met a child online whom he sexually exploited for more than a year. In May 2022, he traveled to Canada to meet the child in person, took the child to a hotel room, sexually abused the victim, and recorded his abuse. A few weeks later, on June 24, 2022, Madrano returned to Canada, where he abducted the child from outside a school and took the victim to another hotel room. At the hotel, Madrano sexually abused the child for several days and recorded videos of his abuse. On July 1, 2022, Madrano hid the child in the trunk of his vehicle and drove back to the United States. Once in Oregon, Madrano brought the victim to a hotel room, where he continued to sexually abuse the child.
In the early morning of July 2, 2022, FBI special agents and Oregon City police officers entered Madrano’s hotel room and found him inside with the victim. Madrano was arrested and the child was taken into protective custody, reunited with her parents, and returned to Canada.
On September 21, 2022, a federal grand jury in Portland returned a six-count indictment charging Madrano with sexually exploiting a child, traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, transporting a child with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, and possessing child pornography.
On January 13, 2025, Madrano pleaded guilty to sexually exploiting a child and transporting a child with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.

You may ask, what does this have to do with media bias? Well, I learned about the Noah Madrano case from Andy Ngo, who exclusive reported in 2022 that Madrano was involved with an Antifa-aligned radio station:

Following the disappearance of a Canadian child last month [i.e. June 2022], a 40-year-old Portland-area man and radio host on the left-wing station, KBOO, has been arrested for child trafficking and child rape. . . .
Madrano used male, female and nonbinary pronouns and the monikers, “Bud Jackson,” “NoMad” and “Noah Zark.” . . .
Until the publicity around Madrano’s arrest, he was a producer and co-host of the “Sub-Human Intellect Theater” (S.H.I.T.) monthly show at far-left self-described Antifa Portland radio station, KBOO-FM. The show’s other host is Karen Green, who has deleted all her social media accounts after the arrest of her co-host.
The Post Millennial can exclusively report that Madrano’s Twitter account has pro-pedophilia content. . . .
Portland left-wing radio station KBOO is one of three accounts that follows Noah Madrano on Twitter. The banner on his account appears to show a nude child. . . .
Madrano’s YouTube account under the username “Madnana42” also has content suggesting an interest in the violent sexual abuse of minors. A playlist on the account is titled, “Videos of teenagers literally getting raped.” The only video on the playlist is a Marilyn Manson music video of “Heart-Shaped Glasses.” Actress Rachel Evan Wood, who was 19 in the video, alleged this year that the sex in the 2007 music video was non-consensual. . . .
Outside of his disturbing personal social media accounts, Madrano had a long relationship with KBOO radio lasting over a decade. He was a program committee chairperson for the station from 2012–14. His show, which launched in 2012, uses the slogan, “Making radio sound like a child’s play.”
KBOO broadcasts far-left political content and one of its main membership programs is called the “Fight Fascism Power Pack” which gives donors a flash drive with access to content from violent group Rose City Antifa and Portland Antifa members, Alexander Reid Ross and Shane Burley. . . .
The last episode of his show, which has been deleted, featured a purported skit in which Madrano was having phone sex with an underage girl.

KBOO-FM is a “listener-supported, community radio station,” and you see what kind of values were “supported” by this “community.”

Now here’s where the media bias angle comes in. Because of Andy Ngo, you and I know that KBOO gave airtime to this predatory child rapist, who was not exactly secretive about his pedophilia. But guess what? In the Oregonian‘s article about Madrano being sentenced to prison, you’ll have to read down to the 28th paragraph before the reporter mentions Madrano’s association with KBOO radio. Many other media accounts don’t even mention Madrano’s connection to the “listener-supported, community radio station.” Just ask yourself how they’d play it if a similar crime was committed by someone with a right-wing MAGA connection. Daresay that would be mentioned in the first sentence of every article.

However much you hate the media, you don’t hate them enough.

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In The Mailbox: 04.10.25

Posted on | April 11, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.10.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Codex Comics just had their hard drive go splat, so they’re raising money by having a sale on their comics.
60% off storewide; I’d post an example but so far I haven’t found anything that wasn’t NSFW or real close.

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Gun from Gun Buyback Back on the Streets, also Lee Surrenders to Grant April 9th 1865 at Appomattox Court House
EBL: Winston Churchill Day, Unicorn Day, House passes a bill to restrict District Courts issuing national injunctions, Real Genius, and Ron Klain says Biden would have won – so why did Harris lose?
Twitchy: Sen. Schiff Upset That Trump Can Multitask, Labor Dept. Busts Fraud Wide Open And You Won’t Believe How Much There Is, and Rep. Crockett Says Trump Needs A Mental Test While Praising “Sharp As A Tack” Biden
Louder With Crowder: Rep. Jayapal (D-UH) declares deporting illegal immigrants is wrong because Americans can be just as bad, also, Woman gets shrill at CNN for calling her by the wrong pronouns… then wonders why Democrats are losing male voters
Vox Popoli: The Book is Always Better, He Could Not Be More Wrong, Claude Responds to Larry, and No One Ever Learns
Upstream Reviews: Galaxy Quest
Cedar Sanderson: Mysteries
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: The beatings will continue until morale improves
The Bugscuffle Gazette: And now, publishing stuff
Postcards From Barsoom: Roughly Translated From The Original Martian

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Substack – teaching Truth to Lies
American Conservative: Trucking Has an Immigrant Problem—and Trump Can Fix It
American Greatness: The Poverty of the Criticism of Trump’s Agenda, House Passes SAVE Act Requiring Proof of Citizenship to Vote, Trump Plans to Withhold All Federal Funding From Sanctuary City ‘Death Traps’, NC Court of Appeals Orders Recount of 65,000 Ballots in Contested 2024 State Supreme Court Election, and Rep. Greene Says DOGE Taking Aim at $10 Billion Wasted Annually On Empty Federal Buildings
American Thinker: There’s Nothing Free about ‘Free Trade’
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Red Thursday News
BattleSwarm: Murderer City?
Behind The Black: Juno enters and then recovers from safe mode, Lunar Outpost unveils its proposed “Eagle” manned lunar rover, Chinese scientists say the lunar far side appears dryer than the near side, Curiosity climbs into a new Martian canyon, and Congress: Let’s throw some more astronaut lives away so we can preen for the camera!
Cafe Hayek: How Protective Tariffs Work, also, Chatting with Drew Benson About Trade
CDR Salamander: All Hail The First Of Hopefully Many Maritime Orders
Chicago Boyz: Those Who Dare Not Be Named
Don Surber: World cheers Trump’s 10% tariff
First Street Journal: Throwing good money after bad
Gates Of Vienna: Infidels Must Drown in Their Own Blood!
The Geller Report: House Passes “No Rogue Rulings Act”, Colorado Passes Bill That Says Misgendering Your Child is “Child Abuse,” Allows State to Take Child Away, House Votes to Pass SAVE Act, Ayatollah Macron says France will Recognize a “Palestinian” State, and Whistleblower Tells Senate Committee that Meta (Facebook) Undermined US National Security to Collude with China
Hollywood In Toto: William Shatner Shreds Woke Mob Erasing History
The Lid: Where’s Moses?
Legal Insurrection: Gay Woman Vandalizes Pro-Life Display at Virginia Commonwealth U, Supreme Court Rules Trump to ‘Facilitate’ Return of Man Mistakenly Deported to El Salvador, Trump Signs Executive Order to ‘Make America’s Showers Great Again’, Maryland Delays Implementing Senseless, California-Style EV Mandate, and Florida Charges Trump Assassin Suspect With Attempted First Degree Murder & Terrorism
Matt Taibbi: Timeline – Panama Canal Politics, Policy & Tensions
Outkick: Nico Iamaleava NIL ‘Contract Negotiations’ Are Nothing New, But Making It Public Doesn’t Help The Situation, Auburn’s Bruce Pearl Named Chairman of U.S. Israel Education Association, Jack Nicklaus Takes Vicious Condescending Shot At Phil Mickelson At The Masters, Elizabeth Hurley Gives The Maldives All It Can Handle Modeling Bikinis, and Cubs Fans Go Viral For ‘Lady And The Tramp’-ing A Hot Dog, And Apparently Aren’t Even Together
Power Line: How Deep the Fraud, Voters Say Shut It Down, and How militant can you get?
Shark Tank: After House Approval, FL Senate Advances Fetal Wrongful Death Bill
Shot In The Dark: Ellison On Tape, also, Calculated Risk
STUMP: Congressional Mortality Has Consequences
This Ain’t Hell: Man who wished Kristi Noem agonizing demise, and threatened ICE agents, faces judge instead, also, Mixed messages from Washington
Victory Girls: Who Did Kash Patel Just Promote?
Watts Up With That: Kill Them All – Stop Wasting Our Money on Green Pipe Dreams, Genetic Scientists Mix Dire Wolf and Grey Wolf Genes, Producing Ethics Debates, and False, Axios, Atlanta’s Rainfall Increase Isn’t Attributable to Climate Change
The Federalist: Today In Republicans Being Useless: GOP Senators Salvage Democrats’ ‘Green’ Energy Bailouts, Here Are The Top 5 Factors Damaging Society By Killing Marriage, 208 Democrats Vote Against Legislation To Keep Noncitizens Out Of Elections, Look At Beef To Understand Why U.S. Trade Needs A Makeover, and The Laptop Class Disparages Manufacturing Because It Creates More Value Than They Do
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet – Clubland Q&A

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In The Mailbox: 04.09.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | April 10, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.09.25 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: You’re Fired: Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield Canned, Road to Appomattox, Supreme Court Reverses Judge Boasberg, and Markets Rebound
Twitchy: Tulsi Gabbard Threatens CNN With Defamation Lawsuit, One Third Of California Community College Applicants are FAKE, Taking Millions In Aid, and Dear Leftists – No Still Means No
Louder With Crowder: Senator Kennedy savages Occasional Cortex with zinger after zinger, declares launch of “Operation Let Her Speak”, 104% tariffs? Massive brawl erupts at a Chinese restaurant, and there is a lot to unpack, WH press secretary has bad news for reporters who still have their pronouns in their bio in 2025, AOC Called Out For Flying First Class On Oligarchy Tour, and Sunny Hostin doesn’t only think Black people can’t figure out how to vote with ID, but women can’t either
Vox Popoli: Trump and the Vaccine, Mailvox: Vox D.AI Responds, Why China Can’t Win the Trade War, and Model or Reality
Upstream Reviews: King Kobold Revived
Cedar Sanderson: You’ve Made Good
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Mid-Week Thoughts

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Average Life Expectancy + Abortion
American Conservative: Death of a Company Man
American Greatness: GiveSendGo Fundraiser For Texas Track Meet Stabber Surpasses $230K, Chuck Schumer Refuses to Condemn Attacks Against Tesla Amid Increasing Acceptance of Political Violence Among Dems, Sen. Rand Paul on Trump’s Tariffs: ‘Taxes Should Not Be Enacted By One Person’, Trump Administration Pulls Funding From Maine Department of Corrections Over Trans Inmate, and Mike Johnson Says No Rogue Rulings Act Will Keep District Court Judges ‘Within their Constitutional Lane’
American Thinker: Wisconsin’s Supreme Court Election Screams for Department of Justice Criminal Investigation
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Pool Shark News, also, Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Democrats Deploy Disability Dodge, also, Paxton Runs Against Cornyn
Behind The Black: Russia launches three astronauts to ISS, Space Force gives SpaceX launch originally contracted to ULA, Firefly wins Space Force contract to test orbital maneuvers with its Elytra space tug, Astronomers say potentially dangerous asteroid 2024 YR4 originally came from main asteroid belt, and Isaacman’s nomination hearing reveals nothing of note
Cafe Hayek: The Winning Continues, also, Rob Atkinson Serves Up a False Narrative
CDR Salamander: Eight Commandants, One Message
Da Tech Guy: The “Were there no graves in Egypt?” Republicans
Dana Loesch: “1923” Features A Valiant Pro-Life Message
Don Surber: TDS is so tedious
First Street Journal: Why doesn’t The Philadelphia Inquirer report the whole truth about the city’s public schools?
Gates Of Vienna: The Flag Is Still There, also, 160 Years Ago Today
The Geller Report: Trump Raises Tariffs on China to 125% But Announces 90-Day Pause For Other Countries Who Reached Out to Negotiate, 70 Countries Line Up to Trade/Tariff Talks With Trump, US Stocks Soar, Trump Assassin Tied to Ukraine: Sought to Buy Military Weapons from Ukraine to Kill Trump, Supreme Court Upholds Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act, and Supreme Court Sides With Trump, Upholds Mass Firing of Federal Employees
Hollywood In Toto: How Broad City Star ‘Microdosed’ on Harris Campaign’s Dime, Here’s How The Amateur Upends the Spy Thriller, John Lithgow Trashes Trump But Mum on Cancel Culture, Blacklist 2.0, Drop Is Either Best – or Worst – First-Date Movie, and Newsweek & Daily Mail Create Controversy Out of Thin Air
The Lid: Trump Admin. Ribs Leftists by Giving Andrew Jackson’s 200-Yr-Old Magnolia Tree the BEST Name EVER!
Legal Insurrection: Genetic Scientists Mix Dire Wolf and Grey Wolf Genes, Producing Ethics Debates, Radical Anti-American, Anti-Israel Profs Are Ruining Funding For Non-Political Scientists, USDA Issues Order to Expand Logging in National Forests Under Emergency Declaration, Chief Justice Pauses Ruling Forcing Trump to Reinstate NLRB, MSPB Employees, and Boston City Councilor Arrested on Corruption Charges Last Year Pleads Guilty, Will Resign
Matt Taibbi: Why Do Democrats Destroy Their Own?
Outkick: Caitlin Clark Let The Race Bullies Win , Roger Penske Extends Indianapolis 500 Invite To President Trump During Team Penske White House Visit, Avs Captain Gabriel Landeskog Could Play First Game In Three Years After AHL Conditioning Assignment, LeBron James Ken Doll Is Getting Destroyed On Social Media, and Danica Patrick Fills Out A Pair Of Golf Pants, ‘Masters Girl’ Gives A Sad Update & Cavinder Twins Go Baywatch!
Power Line: Columbia embarrassed, From my own mixed-up files, and Keith Ellison caught on tape!
Shark Tank: Patronis Praises Donalds’ Run For Governor
Shot In The Dark: Secret Location! Ssshhh!, Just Like Shakespeare Said, Ripping Off The Bandaid, and Girl Brawl
This Ain’t Hell: Another bomber found, Army COVID Retreads, President Trump wants a military parade for the Army’s 250th birthday- Media claims that the parade is for his birthday, High tech news, and Trump administration fires vice admiral from her position in NATO
Transterrestrial Musings: On the “Genocide” in Gaza, Thank You, Dr. Jill, and Today’s Hearing
Victory Girls: Crockett Asks Who Will Pick Cotton Without Illegal Labor, also, Activist Parent Calls Kids ‘Dead to Her’ – Exposing the Abuse Behind Performative Activism
Watts Up With That: Trump Signs Executive Order to Shield American Energy from State Overreach, The Green Agenda is Collapsing, Climate Geoengineers Dismayed They Have to Hide Experiments from the Public, and No, N.Y. Times, 80,000 Homes Will Not Be Lost to Flooding
The Federalist: How DEI Left Service Academies In A ‘State Of Decay,’ And How Trump Can Fix It, 5 Common Lies About The SAVE Act — And How To Refute Them, What A Waste – Federal Agencies Spent $4.6 Billion On Furniture For Empty Buildings, Democrat Senator Using ‘Abusive’ Holds To Block Trump Nominees Proves His Attacks On Tuberville Were Fake, and Trainwreck Tim Walz Took Minnesota From A $19 Billion Surplus To A $6 Billion Deficit
Mark Steyn: A Contemptible Man Punches Down

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Dow Jones Gains Nearly 3,000 Points After Trump Deports Gay Makeup Artist

Posted on | April 9, 2025 | Comments Off on Dow Jones Gains Nearly 3,000 Points After Trump Deports Gay Makeup Artist

Look, I’m not one of these All-Purpose Expert types who hangs around on social media all day pretending to know everything about whatever’s the big Democratic Party talking point at the current moment. Today’s economic “expert” was, just a few weeks ago, an “expert” on national security, and last October was an “expert” on election polling. Go back to 2014, and their area of expertise was the “campus rape epidemic,” but then in 2016, they suddenly acquired authoritative knowledge of Russian “election interference.” In 2020, they became experts on viral epidemiology before turning their attention to “systemic racism.”

So I don’t claim to know why the stock market suddenly boomed upward this afternoon, and I’m not sure the media does, either:

The stock market mounted one of its biggest rallies in history after President Donald Trump announced a pause in some of his “reciprocal” tariffs on the globe, causing a market that has been under extreme pressure for the past week to explode higher.
The S&P 500 skyrocketed 9.52% to settle at 5,456.90 for its biggest one-day gain since 2008. For the broad market index, it was the third-biggest gain in post-WWII history. The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 2,962.86 points, or 7.87%, to close at 40,608.45 for its biggest percentage advance since March 2020. The Nasdaq Composite jumped 12.16% to end at 17,124.97, notching its largest one-day jump since January 2001 and second-best day ever.
About 30 billion shares traded hands, making it the heaviest volume day on Wall Street in history, according to records that go back 18 years.
“I have authorized a 90 day PAUSE, and a substantially lowered Reciprocal Tariff during this period, of 10%, also effective immediately,” Trump posted on his Truth Social. Trump, in the same post, said he was raising the tariff on China higher again to 125%.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent later clarified that all countries except China would return to the 10% baseline tariff rate, down from the higher rates that previously shocked the markets, as negotiations take place.

OK, so the “experts” are telling us that this has something to do with tariff policy, and maybe they’re right. On the other hand . . .

A gay makeup artist who arrived in the US last year in search of asylum has been flown to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.
Andry José Hernández Romero was one of 238 Venezuelan migrants deported by the Trump administration on 15 March, reports CBS News.
The news follows a deal brokered between President Trump and El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele allowing the US to send deportees to the central American’s country maximum security Terrorism Confinement Center, known as CECOT, located in Tecoluca.
“Our client, who was in the middle of seeking asylum, just disappeared. One day he was there, and the next day we’re supposed to have court, and he wasn’t brought to court,” Lindsay Toczylowski, Hernandez Romero’s lawyer, told CBS’s 60 Minutes.
“It’s horrifying to see someone who we’ve met and know as a sweet, funny artist, in the most horrible conditions I could imagine.”
Lawyers and family members for the deportees say they have had no contact with the prisoners since they were deported. However, TIME photojournalist Philip Holsinger, who has been reporting from the ground at CECOT, has reportedly described hearing one young man say, “I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a stylist,” as he cried out for his mother, was slapped and had his head shaved.
Hernandez Romero’s crown tattoos are the only evidence US immigration officials have given in court to accuse him of being part of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang Trump is campaigning to eradicate. . . .
Meanwhile Hernández’s mother, Alexis Dolores Romero de Hernández, has been quoted by The Guardian as saying: “Everyone has these crowns, many people. But that doesn’t mean they’re involved in the Tren de Aragua … He’s never had problems with the law.”
She furthermore added: “Let my son go. Review his case file. He is not a gang member.”

Oh, don’t worry, the “sweet, funny artist” should be very popular among his fellow inmates in the Salvadoran maximum-security prison.

Every Democrat in Congress will run for reelection next year promising to protect the rights of gay Venezuelan makeup artists. Why, I can hear Jasmine Crockett now, saying she’s “done picking cotton” — and done doing her own makeup, too! But what about the rights of gay American makeup artists, huh? When you start importing gay makeup artists from Third World countries, it drives down the wages of native-born gay makeup artists. Or at least, that’s what some “experts” tell me.

Correlation is not causation, except when it is, but I’m not claiming to be an expert on cosmetic artistry or economics, either. All I know is that (a) Andry José Hernández Romero is now in a Salvadoran maximum security prison and (b) things look a lot better for the 401(k) balance.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc, as experts in Latin would say.

In completely unrelated news, Britney Spears is still crazy.

What substances cause this kind of behavior?

I don’t understand how the world just continues to watch one of the most famous people in the world, Britney Spears deteriorate like this and no one can help her. pic.twitter.com/WvMD0oFyqu

— Defender of the Republic ?? (@realdefender45) April 9, 2025

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In The Mailbox: 04.09.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | April 9, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.09.25 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: What Happens After You Defund the Police?
EBL: Lawrence…Lawrence of Arabia, also, How are the markets today?
Twitchy: Navy Admiral Refuses To Hang Trump & Hegseth Portraits, Gets Fired, She Must Have A Colt Following, and Straight Fire Thread Shows How Trump Exposed Politicians & Pundits
Louder With Crowder: CNN forced to admit Donald Trump is a “soaring eagle” delivering on his promises to Americans in “historic fashion”, Democrat leader Jasmine Crockett DEMANDS more illegal immigration because, quote, “we done picking cotton”, Teen athlete gives emotional testimony over trans student replacing her, being told her protest was like wearing a swastika, Scott Jennings calls out CNN’s hypocrisy on the economy, reminds them of Biden’s recession, and Meta engineer ADMITS company abuses H-1B Visa to favor foreign applicants over Americans
Vox Popoli: Recognizing Churchianity, Disinformation on US Tariffs, The Last Librarian, The Ultra-Rich Condemn Robin Hood, and 104 and Counting
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Speed Warping
Jim McCoy: Toil & Trouble
Gab: The Case For Bringing Back American Grit

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: G7’s Looks To Sea
Dana Loesch: RUMOR MILL – Is A Hot-Tempered Florida RINO Targeting A Charitable Organization?
Don Surber: Media uses an Army bash to bash Trump
Matt Taibbi: Timeline – A Recent History of Tariffs, also, Take The NPR “That’s Not Funny!” Challenge
STUMP: RIP Val Kilmer – Revisiting “How Young Is So Young To Die?”

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In The Mailbox: 04.07.25

Posted on | April 8, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.07.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

mood
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

“Truth is, kid…the game was rigged from the start.” – Benny, Fallout: New Vegas

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Stand and Deliver – A Movie You Probably Haven’t Seen, also Another Wrong-House SWAT Raid
Director Blue: When Lisa Met Pete
EBL: MAGA : Markets Continue To React To Trump Tariffs, Winsome Sears for Governor of Virginia, Bohemian Roberts with Norm Eisen, Interesting things you might not have known about Olivia Newton John, and The First Dire Wolf Howl in Over 10,000 Years?
Twitchy: An Assassination Culture Is Developing On The Far Left, Dollar Store Obama Claims MAGA Extremists Are Starving Tots For Tax Cuts , and Bill Maher & Andrew Cuomo Say The Quiet Part Out Loud About Jasmine Crockett – Cue The Screeching
Louder With Crowder: Two men shatter glass ceiling, make it to finals of WOMEN’S billiards tournament, Lunatics protested in American cities against Donald Trump and Elon Musk and here’s who funded them, JD Vance goes beast mode on Democrats who care more about illegal aliens than they do their American victims, California legislature axes two bills aimed at protecting women’s sports in spite of Trump’s executive order, and Pro-life journalists gets viciously assaulted by pro-abortion activist enraged over a basic question
Vox Popoli: Globalization is Over, Unthinkable Evacuations, It Was Roger All Along, I Did Warn Them, and The Seventh Librarian
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Ackshualllly Tariffs May Work
Upstream Reviews: The Big Sheep,
Draw & Talk Comics: Something I Need To Open Up About
Defending The Wood Perilous: Part One – We Live In a Fairytale
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Ugh. Monday.

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Ukraine and Gaza Bring Shame to America
American Greatness: The Poverty of the Criticism of Trump’s Agenda, Supreme Court Rules Trump May Use 1798 Law to Deport Illegal Alien Gang Members, DOGE Reports 2.1 Million Social Security Numbers Were Issued to Illegals in 2024–and Many of Those People Voted, Actions v. Words, and Trump Trolls California’s Democrat Senators During Dodgers White House Visit
American Thinker: We Didn’t Start the Trade War—We’ve Just Finally Joined It, The Fruits of Trump’s Audacious Policies, Trump’s Tariff Play – The Art of the Economic Reset, The Least Dangerous Branch No More, and The Hill of Lies
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Tank Cannon Vs. Head, Two Big Booms, and Are Trump’s Tariffs Working?
Behind The Black: Space Force awards SpaceX, ULA, and Blue Origin $13.7 billion in launch contracts, SpaceX launches another 28 Starlink satellites, Soil bacterium from Earth can both make and repair bricks made from Moon-materials, The mighty scale of Mars’ geology, and British MP proposes his government’s vast bureaucratic skills be given the power to regulate all space
Cafe Hayek: Freer Trade Would Satisfy Neither Trump Nor the NatCons, also, And Yet Another Open Letter to Oren Cass
Chicago Boyz: Tariffs and the Industrial Distribution World, also, James “20%” Carville
Da Tech Guy: Fan AI Fiction: Hogan’s Heroes in “The Desert Rats Great Escape” , also, It’s Amazing What You Can do if You Don’t Give a Damn What Your Enemies Think
Don Surber: Stay the course on tariffs
First Street Journal: The death of the Lexington Herald-Leader, also, That thing that never happens has happened again
Gates Of Vienna: Everybody Must Get Stoned, Welcome to Sharia City, Texas, Appomattox: Lest We Forget, Overthrowing Ludwig the Last, and The Wonderful Smell of a Burning Koran
The Geller Report: Introducing Hamid Patel, Britain’s New Education Boss, Enemy Within: Bombshell Study Reveals ‘Assassination Culture’, China’s Stock Market Sees Worst Crash, Largest One-Day Decline Since 1997, Massive Ramadan Terror Attack in Jerusalem Foiled, and CNBC FAKE NEWS HEADLINE Sends Markets Soaring Then Spiraling 1000s In Just Minutes
Hollywood In Toto: SNL Mocks Elon Musk But Not Democrats Torching Teslas, Neil Young – Poster Child for Free Speech Hypocrisy, Pro-Jewish Documentaries Wake Sleeping Culture, The Spirituality of White Lotus, or Why [Censored] Had to Die, and Indie in Name Only?
The Lid: Despite Media’s Attack on Tariffs Trump’s Approval Rating Rises, also, The Meaning of Aliyah: A Journey Toward Freedom and Responsibility
Legal Insurrection: U.S. Military Opposition to the Trump Administration A Matter of Concern, Missouri AG Threatens to Seize China-Owned Assets to Enforce $24B Judgment for Covid Pandemic, Five International Students at UMass Have Their Visas Revoked, SCOTUS Vacates Judge Boasberg’s TROs As To Tren de Aragua Under Alien Enemies Act, and D.C. Appeals Court Blocks Trump From Firing NLRB, MSPB Employees
Nebraska Energy Observer: Did you know about this?
Outkick: Caitlin Clark Effect Still Being Felt, As UConn’s Final Four Title Game Ratings Show, Florida Gators Overcome More Than Just Expectations To Win National Championship, Stephen A. Smith Running For President Is More Real Than It Sounds , HS Girl Gives Powerful Testimony About Being Replaced By Transgender Athlete, and Paige Spiranac Dusts Off Her Tiny Green Jacket, Nancy Mace Debuts A Crop Top & Tiffani Amber Has A Stalker
Power Line: Margin Call, Goodbye to Venezuelan Gang Members For Now, and Hands Off What?
Shark Tank: DeSantis Labels FL House “Obstructionists” In Latest Infighting
Shot In The Dark: Outbreak of Reason, also, Missing The Forest For The Dust
The Political Hat: Blog Downtime
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Hitler, the Nobel Prize and ‘Grease’

Posted on | April 7, 2025 | Comments Off on Hitler, the Nobel Prize and ‘Grease’

Truth is stranger than fiction, it is proverbially said, and such is the course of history that events and people can be connected in ways that you never imagined. Certainly I never dreamed that the hit musical Grease could be connected to a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and a World War II military intelligence officer, until yesterday I fell down one of those research rabbit-holes into which I’m so prone to stumble.

In 1933, the Nazis came to power in Germany, and Jews were purged from German universities. Among the victims of this purge was a physics professor at the University of Göttingen whose students had included a young fellow named Robert Oppenheimer — maybe you’ve heard of him. Among the professor’s assistants at Göttingen were such important physicists as Enrico Fermi and Edward Teller. The professor had been recommended for the 1928 Nobel Prize by Albert Einstein, but instead the honor went to one of his colleagues. When Hitler came to power and the professor was purged from the university, he emigrated to England, teaching first at Cambridge University before eventually taking a faculty position at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

Max Born

After relocating to the United Kingdom, Professor Max Born published Atomic Physics, which quickly became the standard textbook in the field. He retired at age 70 in 1952, and two years later — through the efforts of his peers and former students including Fermi — Max Born was finally awarded the Nobel Prize for his “fundamental research in Quantum Mechanics.” In retirement, he returned to his native Germany, where he died at age 87 in 1970. But that’s just half the story . . .

In 1935, the son of a school teacher from Cardiff, Wales, got his bachelor’s degree from Cambridge University, with honors in German and French. The young scholar’s name was Brinley, and his fluency in German soon made him very valuable to his country. When World War II broke out in 1939, Brinley joined the Royal Air Force, and was assigned to military intelligence (MI5). Among his duties was gathering information from captured German prisoners. He reportedly worked on the top-secret “Enigma” decryption project and was the officer who took Nazi henchman Rudolf Hess into custody. After the war, Brinley taught high school in Cambridge until 1954, when he moved to Australia, becoming a university dean and later a host of radio and TV programs.

Brinley Newton-John

Well, I said his name was Brinley, but I didn’t tell you that his surname was Newton-John, because that would have spoiled the surprise. You see, in 1937, Brinley “Brin” Newton-John married a girl named Irene Born, whom he had met when her father Max Born was teaching at Cambridge. In 1948, Brinley and Irene’s youngest daughter Olivia was born.

Irene Born and Brinley Newton-John, circa 1935

In her autobiography, Olivia Newton-John wrote:

“My parents might have never met at Cambridge University if my mum didn’t have such a keen ear for beautiful music. . . . One day, she heard a man singing in a deep baritone voice and she couldn’t take another step. She actually followed the voice. Mum always said she fell in love with the voice before she ever saw him. . . . Mum was brunette, classically beautiful , and carried herself in a most elegant way. Dad was six-foot-three, fair-haired, with movie-star good looks and that beautiful aristocratic voice. Need I say more? What a beautiful couple.”

Until I stumbled down this rabbit hole, I never would have guessed that Olivia Newton-John was half-Jewish, much less that her maternal grandfather was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist. That her father was MI5 during World War II and played a role in capturing Rudolf Hess — well, this is the whipped cream and cherry on the top.

Olivia Newton-John as Sandy in ‘Grease.’

So how did I end up down this rabbit hole? Blame the dadgum YouTube algorithm. Lying down for a Sunday afternoon nap, I was watching police videos — my usual bedtime habit — and was scrolling through when I saw a short video about Olivia Newton-John and clicked on it. The soundtrack of the clip was “Let Me Be There,” her 1973 top 10 hit that earned her a country music Grammy award. What I loved most about that song was the bass vocal harmony, and after watching that short video, I wanted to find out who had sang that part, so I did a Google search for the answer (Mike Sammes), but in checking Olivia Newton-John’s Wikipedia biography, I was startled to learn about her grandfather.

Wait, did I say “startled”? What I meant to say was, I got chills, they’re multiplying, and I’m losing control . . .

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Rule 5 Sunday: Eva Sinclair

Posted on | April 7, 2025 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Eva Sinclair

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