The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.22.13

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Critics Say Iran Deal Will Allow Spread Of Nukes Former IAEA head Olli Heinonen: “If you can’t enforce this kind of simple thing, what’s the meaning of the Security Council?” Senate Democrats Vote To Curb Filibusters An admission of defeat At Least 26 Dead In Latvian Supermarket Collapse Death […]

Also, Troll, You Misspelled ‘Syphilis’

Between 5:21 and 5:23 p.m. ET, someone using my name and the bogus e-mail address “dumbwhitetrash@racistshit.com” posted four insulting comments on an earlier thread, one of which mentioned my 14-year-old son by name. Wombat whacked them with the troll hammer, but not before the IP address (46.182.106.190) was traced to a proxy server in Amsterdam, […]

Alleged Pederast Harry Reid Disregards Senate Rules, and Also Craves Boy Flesh

EXCLUSIVE—MUST CREDIT ACE OF SPADES HQ: Harry Reid's Office Responds To Rumors That He's A Pederast http://t.co/G3i7NwbH — AoSHQ (@AoSHQ) August 3, 2012 HARRY REID DOESN’T DENY PEDERASTY ALLEGATIONS. http://t.co/9n1kctlC — Instapundit.com (@instapundit) August 3, 2012 @TwitchyTeam @AceofSpadesHQ @DrewMTips Does anyone remember an official *denial* by the Senator from NAMBLA? http://t.co/6WToinQmqU — Robert Stacy McCain […]

Our Moral Superiors: @Peter_Turchin’s Career of Selfish Academic Decadence

The Myth of Progress, which imagines history generally as a more or less steady advancement toward enlightenment, is dependent upon our willingness to ignore the possibility of decadence. Are we really more “enlightened” than the Founding Fathers? Do we see, in the general social and cultural trends around us, evidence of our moral and intellectual […]

Hey – Maybe It’s Just A Sandwich

— Wombat-socho “There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.” -George Orwell Which is about as good an introduction as we’re going to get for the mind-numbingly ridiculous The McRib: Enjoy Your Symptom, an essay for The Atlantic scrawled by one Ian Bogost, whose surname is reminiscent not […]

‘Community Liaison,’ IYKWIMAITYD

Officer Chris Wilson was the Phoenix Police Department’s “community liaison to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community” until August 2012, when he was arrested and charged with having sex with two teenage boys: Officer Christopher J. Wilson, 43 . . . faces 10 felony counts of sexual assault with a 14-year-old and a 17-year-old, […]

LIVE AT FIVESEVEN: 11.21.13

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Loya Jirga Meets To Consider US-Afghan Security Pact 15,000 NATO troops to remain in Afghanistan after 2014 Rep. Trey Radel Takes Leave of Absence Pleads guilty to possession, enters rehab Norks Detain 85-Year-Old Korean War Vet Pulled off plane before departure POLITICS Second Wave Of Health Plan Cancellations Looms […]

Kook Update: Roger Shuler

Crazy people like Roger Shuler have rights, even in Alabama. You may or may not remember Bill Schmalfeldt’s personal hero, Alabama crazy-blogger Roger Shuler, who got locked up last month for contempt of court after publishing unsubstantiated defamation against evil Republicans who (in Roger’s delusional mind) are conspiring with Karl Rove to silence courageous truth-teller […]

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