Regular readers here know that I’ve often praised the online forum Kiwi Farms as an invaluable source of information on “LOLcows,” which is their term for idiots who make fools of themselves online, as I explained in October 2023: Some of us are old enough to remember when, 15 or 20 years ago, Silicon Valley […]| The Other McCain
— compiled by Wombat-socho Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Campus Lockdown Over Black Umbrella EBL: The Best Way to Fillet Spanish Mackerel, Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, William Wallace takes revenge! Euthanizing of a dangerous bee hive, […]| The Other McCain
— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM Director Blue: The Illustrated Spygate Scandal Part III 357 Magnum: “Free Health Care” – You Get What You Pay For EBL: MAGA Soros Prosecution Twitchy: Charlamagne Tha God Torches Dems For Biden Coverup Sham, Blake Lively’s Ridiculous Legal Blunder, and Redditors Call For […]| The Other McCain
— compiled by Wombat-socho Been unwell the last couple of days. Hope to get caught up tomorrow. Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM EBL: Celtic Warrior Women, Deranged Trump Hating Troon Attacks Minneapolis Catholic Church and Students, Cutting Ora King Salmon into Sushi, Free Scotland From Tyranny, and The Real McKenzies : […]| The Other McCain
— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Another Cargo Line Stops Shipping EVs Director Blue: The Illustrated Spygate Scandal Part II EBL: Jackie Mason’s Lecture At Oxford University, Why You Should Eat This Shark, FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ATTACK AT ABBEY GATE, Le chant des partisans, and President […]| The Other McCain
Every website on the planet is full of commentary about the massacre at Annunciation Catholic Church School in Minneapolis, and I’ll just briefly quote from the New York Post article: The deranged gunman who slaughtered two children and injured at least 17 others at a Catholic school in Minneapolis has been identified as a transgender […]| The Other McCain
Make Middle-Aged Singers Great Again! 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 […]| The Other McCain
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. […]| The Other McCain
— compiled by Wombat-socho Call for Authors! The BasedCon Based Books Sale Is Nigh! Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. 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 […]| The Other McCain
“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 prej…| The Other McCain
— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM Director Blue: The Global Warming Scam Implodes, Thirty Degrees Below Zero, 357 Magnum: The UKR…| The Other McCain
— compiled by Wombat-socho The Reds took it to seven games, but in the end Al Bumbry and Rich Coggins were unstoppable and the O’s won the World Series in the 1973 season of Pete’…| The Other McCain
— compiled by Wombat-socho can’t sleep wordpress will eat me Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Lies about Electric Vehicles EBL: A Machu Picchu Pro…| The Other McCain
Snellville, Georgia, used to be the kind of podunk town that was frequently a punch-line in Lewis Grizzard’s columns, mainly because there’s just something funny-sounding about that nam…| The Other McCain
— compiled by Wombat-socho I was going to do this earlier today but I took one look at Instapundit and decided otherwise. Also, if you can help out my fellow former linguist Juliette Ochieng …| The Other McCain
— compiled by Wombat-socho I probably should have done this yesterday, but I didn’t. Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM Director Blue: How We Lost The War On P…| The Other McCain
Saturday night I fell asleep watching a documentary on Prime Video (Closed for Storm, about an abandoned amusement park in New Orleans) and when I woke up about 2 a.m., another documentary was play…| The Other McCain
— compiled by Wombat-socho As I write this the Cincinnati Reds & Baltimore Orioles are tied at two games apiece for the World Championship in Pete’s Dynasty League Baseball League. …| The Other McCain
Two Quarterbacks, Two Sacks| theothermccain.com
After six months of enduring the off-season — forced to subside on nothing but speculation and rumors from NFL commentators — we are finally approaching real football, as the pre-season…| The Other McCain
— compiled by Wombat-socho Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: The Alligator Has…| The Other McCain
— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Good Guys 3, Bad Guys 0 EBL: Robert Mueller is now in memory care, State Department Officer …| The Other McCain
— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: You Are Not Protected By Your Zip Code EBL: Saved by Hiroshima, Ted F**king Williams, and Wo…| The Other McCain
— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Science Isn’t What You Think It Is EBL: MAGA Epstein Subpoena Storm, The World’s…| The Other McCain
— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM Director Blue: Top 20 Posts of Interest 357 Magnum: Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0 EBL: Governor Abbott Warns T…| The Other McCain
— compiled by Wombat-socho Maybe not as Goth as, say, Ally Slayter, but she’ll do, she’ll do. Post title from the Most Pretentious Card Game Ever Made, which is unfortunately out …| The Other McCain
How long have I been a Beatles fans? Since the mid-1970s, when there was a sort of reverb echo of “Beatlemania.” Born in 1959, I’d been much too young to take notice of the Beatle…| The Other McCain
Of course I’m kidding. We’ve all known from the get-go who was really behind the “Russian collusion” hoax, but I just had to use that line from The Godfather now, because th…| The Other McCain
"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." -- Arthur Koestler| The Other McCain
Nothing Is ‘Secret’ Anymore| theothermccain.com
In The Mailbox: 07.14.25| theothermccain.com
— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM Director Blue: Do Wind & Solar Power Make Any Financial Sense Whatsoever?, The Biden Autopen Conspiracy 3…| The Other McCain
— compiled by Wombat-socho This week’s appetizer thanks to @Rule5Tweets on X. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt. ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Secret Service Scre…| The Other McCain
Bad news this week for Gov. Gavin Newsom: Ten illegal migrant youths, most of them unaccompanied, were found at a California marijuana farm during a tense immigration raid on Thursday, prompting fe…| The Other McCain
— compiled by Wombat-socho Ironically, though both Pittsburgh and I wanted to play our last series hands-on, the Dynasty League computers had other ideas, and we logged in Thursday night to f…| The Other McCain
— compiled by Wombat-socho Finally caught up. Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM EBL: The World&…| The Other McCain
— compiled by Wombat-socho I got sufficiently bogged down in other stuff that I almost forgot to do this post. Super Plumber Sisters Kickstarter is live! Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.…| The Other McCain
— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Spanish Battery Recycling Plant Fire, also Self-Defense Might Be Legal in New Jersey EB…| The Other McCain
— compiled by Wombat-socho The Epic Indie Summer Book Sale is on! Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Alcohol Can Be Hazardous to Your Health EBL: Commodor…| The Other McCain
— compiled by Wombat-socho Obligatory seriousness about the America Party Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM Director Blue: Reimagining Security Clearances 357 Magnum:&nbs…| The Other McCain
Never go full Zimbabwe. You can order a $10 trillion Zimbabwe note online for under $25, which is still more than its actual value as currency, but rather reflects what it’s worth as a collec…| The Other McCain
‘An Earth-Shattering Kaboom’: Israel Wipes Out Top Iranian Military Leaders UPDATE: ‘Decapitation Strike’ — List| theothermccain.com
Wednesday I spoke to a colleague who said to me in a very matter-of-fact way that Iran was going to get hit soon. He isn’t some kind of security-clearance type, but he does have a few “…| The Other McCain
— compiled by Wombat-socho Reminder that pre-registration for Son of Silvercon closes Saturday, so if you want your military/N3F/veteran discount, get to the website and either hit the PayPal…| The Other McCain
— compiled by Wombat-socho There’s a new Starquest Kickstarter! Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM Director Blue: Civil Unrest Inc. EBL: Last Breath, Sly Stone…| The Other McCain
— compiled by Wombat-socho Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM Director Blue: Dear Kash Patel…,Top 20 Scenes From The Democrat Insurrection In LA, 357 Magnum:&n…| The Other McCain
Dana Pico was thrashing Philadelphia Inquirer liberal columnist Will Bunch, who loves Kilmar Abrego Garcia more than he loves his own mother, and it got me thinking about the utterly reflexive natu…| The Other McCain
— compiled by Wombat-socho This one at least looks good enough to be forgiven for the kind of crappy driving Jeep owners are prone to. Thanks to @kbdabear on X. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon V…| The Other McCain
All the experts have assured us that election fraud is impossible. No election is ever “rigged” or “stolen” in America, and anyone who says otherwise is emphatically denounc…| The Other McCain
— compiled by Wombat-socho Well, that week turned out very differently than I expected. First, we swept the two-game series against the Angels against whom we were 3-5, with Blue Moon Odom no…| The Other McCain
— compiled by Wombat-socho Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts. Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Why EV Battery Fi…| The Other McCain
BERRIEN SPRINGS, Michigan Apologies for the lack of blog content this week, but my wife and I have been on the road, and won’t return home until Tuesday. On Sunday, our youngest daughter Reag…| The Other McCain
— compiled by Wombat-socho Posting this early since I need to get packed up and leave early tomorrow for Vegas en route to DC, where I’ll be putting the Surface Pro to the test as a blo…| The Other McCain
Probably I need to go ahead and write that column I’ve been kicking around in my head for the past couple of weeks, based on Sidney Blumenthal’s idea of The Permanent Campaign, but not …| The Other McCain
