In The Mailbox: 03.13.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | March 13, 2025 | No Comments

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Better late than never

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Top 20 Violent Anti-Musk Protests
EBL: The Way, Donna Gail Manson and Ted Bundy, The Shift, and Rule Britannia!
Twitchy: Jasmine Crockett Explains What Trump & DOGE Can’t Do If There’s A Federal Shutdown, Hamas Simp Squad Stages Pathetic Protest In NYC, and John Fetterman Tells Democrats To Knock Off The Shutdown Charade, Leftist Loon Melts Down Like Snowflake In Microwave
Louder With Crowder: Rosie O’Donnell flees America for Europe where she claims citizens have “rights” and offers advice to other anti-Trumpers, MSNBC Democrat lashes out at Trump supporters, makes insulting claims why they’d never buy a Tesla, Disney forced to scale back Hollywood premiere over “Snow White” due to controversy surrounding… Gal Gadot and Here’s How Trump Keeps Winning
Vox Popoli: Appreciate Immigrants, They’re Not Stopping, It’s Not Paranoia, Canada Folds, and Who Advises These Morons?
Cedar Sanderson: Where Have The Fairies Gone?
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Flexible Impact Weapons, Part 1
Stoic Observations: Ugly Duckling
Wright’s Writing Corner: Starquest Book Two!
Gab: The Parallel Polis
Postcards From Barsoom: HBD&D

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CDR Salamander: Does Israel Have The Key To Modernity’s Fatal Flaw?
Don Surber: Pax Trump
Glenn Reynolds: The Rout Continues, But Be Ready For The Counterattacks
STUMP: Iowa Actuaries Education Day

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Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner: So I Guess I’m a San Francisco 49ers Fan Now

Posted on | March 13, 2025 | No Comments

Recall that I wasn’t much of a pro football fan until 2021, when Alabama quarterback Mac Jones got drafted in the first round by the New England Patriots. Four years later, he’s heading to the Golden Gate:

Free agent quarterback Mac Jones, who wanted an opportunity to work with coach Kyle Shanahan, has agreed to terms with the San Francisco 49ers on a two-year deal worth $7 million with $5 million guaranteed, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Wednesday.
Jones, 26, appeared in 10 games last season for the Jacksonville Jaguars, including seven starts in place of injured Trevor Lawrence. He completed 65.3% of his passes for 1,672 yards and eight touchdowns, along with eight interceptions. The Jaguars went 2-5 in his starts, averaging just 15 points per game.
Jacksonville sent a 2024 sixth-round pick to the New England Patriots last March for Jones, who grew up in Jacksonville. He beat out C.J. Beathard in training camp to be Lawrence’s backup.
New England selected Jones, a former star at Alabama, with the 15th pick in the 2021 NFL draft — the same one that saw the Jaguars take Lawrence with the first pick. Jones made the Pro Bowl as an alternate as a rookie after throwing for 3,801 yards and 22 touchdowns and leading the Patriots to a 10-7 record and a playoff berth.
But Jones never duplicated that success. New England offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels left to coach the Las Vegas Raiders, and coach Bill Belichick tabbed longtime defensive coach Matt Patricia to be the offensive playcaller and longtime special teams coach Joe Judge to be the quarterbacks coach in 2022. Jones struggled to develop and was just 6-8 in 14 starts, finishing 288-of-442 passing for 2,997 yards with 14 touchdowns and 11 interceptions.
The following season, Belichick brought back Bill O’Brien to run the offense, but Jones struggled again (224-of-345 for 2,120 yards, 10 TDs, 12 INTs) and was replaced by Bailey Zappe after 11 games.

This is an adequate summary of Mac’s pro career to date, but it’s worth remembering that he was the best quarterback Nick Saban ever coached at Alabama, and it’s not even close. His senior year, Jones set an NCAA record for highest completion percentage, completing 311 of 402 passes (77.4%) for 4,500 yard, throwing for 41 touchdowns with just four interceptions, as the Crimson Tide went undefeated and won the National Championship. He had a stellar rookie year, and if things have gone south from there, the question is how much of that is Mac’s fault. The Patriots dumped him and drafted Drake Maye, but then went 4-13 in their first post-Jones season, which was the same record the Jaguars had last year — and Mac was the starting quarterback in two of Jacksonville’s wins, which makes him even with Trevor Lawrence. In terms of completion percentage, Jones was at 65.3% compared to 60.6% for Lawrence, so obviously Mac still has potential at quarterback.

49ers signing QB Mac Jones to 2-year, $7M deal. (via @RapSheet) pic.twitter.com/PpIuenTbmh

— NFL (@NFL) March 13, 2025

The San Francisco sports media sees the Niners’ acquisition of Jones on a cheap two-year deal as a signal to their young starting QB Brock Purdy that he shouldn’t consider holding out in his current negotiations for a contract extension. Purdy “was selected by the 49ers with the final pick in the 2022 NFL draft, becoming that year’s Mr. Irrelevant,” as Wikipedia says, and Purdy was outstanding in 2022 and 2023, but San Francisco went 6-11 last year. Talk of Purdy getting a fat contract — the number $40 million has been thrown around a lot — looks kind of silly now, with a former first-round pick like Mac Jones signing for a paltry $7 million to be Purdy’s backup QB. It is by no means certain that Purdy will even keep the starting job; when you compare the two quarterbacks statistically, they’re quite similar. I’m not the only one who sees it this way:

In fact, how do we really know that Purdy is better than Jones? He’s more mobile than Jones, but he doesn’t have a better arm than him. All we know for sure is that Purdy has played on better teams than Jones.
If Purdy holds out and decides not to show up to OTAs without a contract extension, the 49ers would have an opportunity to see what Jones looks like running the first-string offense.

So there you go — we’re still 175 days away from the start of the NFL season, and anything could happen before then, but for now, I’m a San Francisco 49ers fan. We’ll wait and see. Roll Tide!

In all seriousness, this is why I like the 49ers signing of QB Mac Jones. pic.twitter.com/TmeDM6RENa

— Chase Senior (@Chase_Senior) March 13, 2025

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In The Mailbox: 03.12.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | March 12, 2025 | No Comments

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Europe Finally Increases Defense Spending
EBL: Rubio, Waltz announce 30 Day Ceasefire in Ukraine War, Alawites, Christians Slaughtered by Syrian Jihadis, The Monkees and Frank Zappa, and We Live In Time
Twitchy: Tom Homan’s Epic Reaction To Lefty Loons Melting Down Right In Front Of Him, State Rep Says “Maybe They Might Want To Call Me A Monkey”, and Contrary To Public Sentiment, Sen. Merkin Muffley (D-OR) Paints Fired Federal Workers As Victims
Louder With Crowder: Uh-oh, Sandy! Occasional Cortex gets nailed with an ethics complaint having to do with her dancing, Latest Democrat starlet insults Americans who didn’t vote for their party, say they don’t have “fully developed brains”, Novice podcaster Don Lemon declares America is in both a recession AND a dictatorship, Dylan Mulvaney (remember that guy) declares they’re a woman no matter what its passport says, and NYC leftist sees a happy family driving in a Cybertruck, so he reacts as any unhinged lunatic would
Vox Popoli: US Troops in Europe, The Collapse Begins, The Actual Autocratic Antidemocracy, The Return of the OG Trucker, and Webtoons in Decline
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Gym thoughts
Jim McCoy: Top Ten Pilots In SF
Upstream Reviews: Avengers – Earth’s Mightiest Heroes

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Don Surber: How Trump thwarted the Democrats

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In The Mailbox: 03.11.25

Posted on | March 12, 2025 | No Comments

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Considering updating my post “We Have Always Been The Party of No” post from a few years back, which Google can’t seem to find…is there any interest in that?
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OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Top 20 Arabella Network Revelations
EBL: Ice Cold Catch, J.D. Vance Is Everywhere, Battle of the Aegates Islands, House of David, and The Benevolent Dictators : Silent Revolution
Twitchy: Move Over 9/11, There’s Something Scarier, The (Bad) Luck of the Irish, and Are Taxpayers Footing The Bill For Occasional Cortex’s Dance Classes?
Louder With Crowder: Blue-haired mom defends trans “daughter” being in the locker room because “90% of the time it’s flaccid”, A California council woman’s illegal immigrant husband (with a criminal record) gets deported, and she doesn’t handle it well, Alejandro Mayorkas resurfaces, declares he’s “very proud” of Biden’s open border policies, Pro-Ukraine protestors accost JD Vance’s 3-year-old daughter while out with her dad, yet Vance still responds with class, and Former NIH director drops the newest CRINGE leftist protest anthem at something called the “Stand Up For Science” rally
Vox Popoli: Resurrecting the Iron Curtain, Odds and False Ends, Bond. Jane Bond, Fake Democracy in France, and Projecting on Putin
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Throwback Post, One Of My Better Works, and We Read History Books,
Bacon Time: Steak & Shake
Upstream Reviews: Fountable 1,
Defending The Wood Perilous: Go, Grok, Go!
Gab: Censorship Demands From Israel
Toni Airaksinen: Harvard Finally Fires Librarian Who Tore Down Jewish Hostage Posters

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Baldilocks: Can We Set The Captive(s) Free?
CDR Salamander: Mid-March Midrats Melee, also, Japan Gets CG(X) Right
Don Surber: Can’t spell Triumph without Trump,
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Notes from a cluttered mind
STUMP: The Week In Meep – Death To DST,

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Rule 5 Sunday: South American Cowgirl

Posted on | March 10, 2025 | No Comments

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I really need to take better notes on who these gals are and where I find them on X.
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Colombia? Brazil? Argentina? Yo no se.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Ask Animal Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Surprised By Oxford, “Little Latin Lupe Lu”, Cabrini, Homestead, MAGA – President Trump’s Speech To Congress, Dolly Parton’s Husband Carl Dean RIP, Brave Dark, and The Last Rifleman

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Ainsley Rodriguez, Gone Fishin’, Fish Pic Friday – Riley Kolich, You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive, Chesapeake Bay Salmon, Revisited, The Wednesday Wetness, Tattoo Tuesday, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News and Palm Sunday

FLAPPR: Serious Matters & Unfolding Trends For March

BACON TIME: Rule 5 – A Trip To Hooterville

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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The ‘Investigative Journalist’ Grift and the Dangerous ‘Viral’ Style of Ian Carroll

Posted on | March 9, 2025 | No Comments

Y’all remember Barrett Brown, don’t you? He first popped onto my radar in late 2009. Just about the time I was finished with the Charles Johnson/LGF affair, Barrett Brown decides to do some kind of thing “exposing” me as a dangerous neo-Confederate white supremacist, to which my basic response was: I’m watching you, boy. About three years later, after he had made a name for himself as the spokesman for the “Anonymous” hacker conspiracy, Barrett Brown had a meltdown on YouTube, threatening an FBI agent and eventually earning himself a stint in federal prison. We don’t hear much about Barrett Brown these days; last year he published a memoir that didn’t do anything to revive his career as a self-proclaimed “investigative journalist.” Anyway . . .

So everybody now is talking about Ian Carroll, who was a guest on Joe Rogan’s podcast this week, and the chatter on X was sufficiently annoying that I found myself wondering, “Who the fuck is this guy?”

Good luck finding any actual biography of Ian Carroll. You can find denunciations of him, or find hagiography of him, but like the basic stuff — age, hometown, education, career background — just doesn’t seem to exist. If you can turn it up with a Google search, please put the result in the comments. Meanwhile, this is from a Substack article about him:

“I was a GameStop investor right after that initial short squeeze moment in the limelight,” he says in a sit-down interview with Robert Breedlove. “And I was pretty ignorant, like I was just a dude snowboarding, and rock climbing, and running around the woods up in the Northwest with political opinions that were given to me that I didn’t really have any basis for.” His journey into investigative journalism only took root when events such as Covid-19, the 2020 elections, and the GameStop ordeal primed him to question everything. From the corruption of the financial system, the concentration of power in a handful of news media conglomerates, and how the whole market is built out of lies, Carroll’s passions quickly shifted away from his teaching background toward wanting to help disseminate all of the information he was independently learning with an engaged audience.
While many investigative journalists are known to privately conduct research into a particular topic of interest before organizing and publishing their findings in a column, book, or commentary that informs readers and viewers alike, Carroll’s process is a little different. And that may be the reason why his research intensive work rapidly amassed approximately 300,000 followers per month in his first few months of sharing his deep-dives on TikTok.

In an era when what gets labeled a “conspiracy theory” this week turns out to be established fact next week, we can understand the market demand for “deep dives on TikTok” about such topics, but excuse me for noticing the resemblance between Ian Carroll’s oeuvre and the kind of stuff you used to see in Lyndon Larouche pamphlets. It cannot be classified as “right” or “left,” reflecting a worldview (and appealing to an audience) that is not ideologically coherent, defined mainly by an attitude of suspicion. Some might label it “populist,” but as I consider myself a populist, I don’t want to get lumped into a category with this stuff.

It’s easy to go “viral” on TikTok if you look like you’re auditioning for the role of Jack Sparrow in a remake of Pirates of the Caribbean, OK? And Ian Carroll has a regular-guy vibe that is appealing — up until you realize he is describing Israel as Jeffrey Epstein’s “handlers.”

See, Pam Bondi is part of the Zionist plot to conceal the REAL TRUTH that Jeffrey Epstein was an “asset” of the Mossad, and insofar as you refuse to agree with this claim, you’re part of the cover-up, too!

Do I know what may be in the FBI’s Epstein files? No, I don’t, and neither does Ian Carroll, but he’s read a book by Whitney Webb that purports to expose links between Epstein and the “intelligence community,” which for all I know may actually be the case, but isn’t it a stretch to claim that U.S. aid to Israel constitutes payment to Esptein’s “handlers”?

Much of the speculation around Epstein stems from a 2019 article by Vicky Ward in the Daily Beast. It involves Alexander Acosta, who was U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida in the George W. Bush administration, and who became Secretary of Labor in the first Trump administration. Acosta was the federal prosecutor who made what was called a “sweetheart deal” with Epstein in 2007, under which federal charges were dropped in exchange for Epstein agreeing to plead guilty to two state charges in Florida, for which he served a total of 13 months in county jail. Vicky Ward had “spent many months” in 2002 working on a Vanity Fair story about Epstein, and says her publisher Graydon Carter was pressured directly by Epstein to exclude from the resulting feature article any mention of Epstein’s notorious sexual appetites.

Ward’s 2019 Daily Beast article begins thus:

A couple of years ago, I was interviewing a former senior White House official when the name Jeffrey Epstein came up.
Unaware of my personal history with Epstein, this person assured me that the New York financier was no serious harm to anyone. He was a good guy. A charming guy. Useful, too. He knew a lot of rich Arabs, including the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, and, further, he had clever ideas about creating bond issues for them. “OK, so he has a girl problem,” this person threw on, almost as an afterthought.
Epstein’s name, I was told, had been raised by the Trump transition team when Alexander Acosta, the former U.S. attorney in Miami who’d infamously cut Epstein a non-prosecution plea deal back in 2007, was being interviewed for the job of labor secretary. The plea deal put a hard stop to a separate federal investigation of alleged sex crimes with minors and trafficking.
“Is the Epstein case going to cause a problem [for confirmation hearings]?” Acosta had been asked. Acosta had explained, breezily, apparently, that back in the day he’d had just one meeting on the Epstein case. He’d cut the non-prosecution deal with one of Epstein’s attorneys because he had “been told” to back off, that Epstein was above his pay grade. “I was told Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone,” he told his interviewers in the Trump transition, who evidently thought that was a sufficient answer and went ahead and hired Acosta.

Pause for a minute and think about 2019. This was three years after Trump had defeated Hillary Clinton and, for a lot of people, the name Jeffrey Epstein was associated with Bill Clinton. The Democrat pushback against any attempt by Republicans to exploit this scandal was to point out that it was under a Republican administration (George W. Bush) that Epstein got his “sweetheart deal,” and Alexander Acosta’s role in that deal eventually forced him to resign as Trump’s Labor Secretary. So part of what Ward was doing with this 2019 article — published just after Epstein was again arrested on sex-trafficking charges — was making sure that everybody remembered that Republican angle to the story.

Now look closely at the sourcing of Ward’s story — it is at best third-hand, involving an unnamed “former senior White House official,” who says that this business about how somebody told Acosta that Epstein “belonged to intelligence” was what Acosta told “the Trump transition team” when they’d asked him about the plea deal circa 2016-2017.

There is a reason why hearsay is inadmissable as evidence in court.

Vicky Ward’s source says Acosta says somebody told him Epstein was “intelligence,” and that’s why Epstein got his “sweetheart deal.”

This may actually be true, of course, but it’s not proof.

Far be it from me to deny that in 2007, when Epstein and his lawyers were desperate to get him off the hook, they played every card they had in their hands, leveraging every connection Epstein had made over the years of his association with powerful people. Could it be that someone in the “intelligence community” (e.g., John Brennan) exerted pressure on the Justice Department to go easy on Epstein because of whatever value he had as an “asset”? Certainly this is possible, but there is a lack of specificity to the story as we have it. Who was it that told Acosta “Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone.”? Has this person ever been identified by name? Has some congressional committee called Acosta to testify under oath about this? If so, how did I miss that?

Maybe there’s something in Whitney Webb’s book that nails this down, but excuse my skepticism, because if it were known as a fact that Epstein’s “intelligence” value was behind that 2007 plea deal, I’m pretty sure the full story — naming names, citing court documents — would be atop the results for any Google search on the subject.

Look, I spent a decade as an assistant editor on the national desk at The Washington Times and know a thing or two about investigative journalism, OK? At times, my job was to serve as a go-between with reporters and senior editors. My bosses would read the draft of a story and say, “Hey, we need more to back this up — can we get a source to go on the record?” So I’d go back to the reporter to explain this problem, and see what could be done, then go back to my bosses to let them know the situation — were we going to have the story nailed down in time for the next day’s paper, or should it be taken off the schedule? Based on that experience, I can assure you that if I had OK’d a story as thinly sourced as Vicky Ward’s tale about Acosta and the “intelligence” angle on Esptein, Wes Pruden would have fired me and kicked me down the stairs.

The whole thing hangs on an anonymous source telling a story he claims to have heard second-hand — Wes Pruden would not be amused.

How far is it from actual investigative journalism to what Ian Carroll is doing with his TikTok videos claiming that Pam Bondi is engaged in a cover-up to protect Epstein’s Israeli “handlers”? Sure, you can get a lot of online traffic making claims like that, especially with your Pirates of the Caribbean look and your regular-guy “just asking questions” style, but it’s not really journalism. Part of the problem, of course, is that the mainstream media have so damaged their own credibility that the entire business of journalism is in disrepute. When the Washington Post, the New York Times and the Associated Press have all been exposed as partisan propaganda operations, who can you trust? If many thousands of people put their faith in a “viral” TikTok video by a guy making shadowy insinuations about “Zionists,” whose fault is that?

I’m one of a handful of people who both (a) once worked for Wes Pruden and (b) was personal friends with Andrew Breitbart, and when you add in (c) my @rsmccain account was one of the first banned by Twitter — and still banned to this day — my credentials as an alternative media personality are pretty solid. So why am I not chatting with Joe Rogan?

Am I the victim of a conspiracy? Are they — and you know who they are, right? — trying to suppress the truth? Maybe I should start posting TikTok videos blaming the Mossad and the CIA for every random nuisance in my life. Unfortunately, I don’t have that swashbuckling Pirates of the Caribbean look, and my voice is an Appalachian twang, so there’s zero chance of my becoming a “viral” TikTok sensation.

Instead, I’m here where I’ve always been, and I’m worried that people on “our” side (because, whatever his faults, Ian Carroll is on the MAGA bandwagon) are doing an “edgy” thing of flirting with Jew-haters because that’s how you attract alienated young people in an era when pro-Hamas rallies are all the rage in the Ivy League. This is dangerous, and while I try to avoid playing “hate speech” hall-monitor (being hate-listed by the SPLC myself), nevertheless I am not blind to what’s going on.

People need to wake the hell up. The stakes are very high.

UPDATE: One thing we must be aware of is that “ops” are going on everywhere, all the time. If it’s not the CIA running an op, it’s MI5, or the GRU, or various Chinese agencies, etc. That whole thing about “Russian interference” in the 2016 election was a sort of meta-op — an op about an op — and it can be difficult to know if today’s “News” is actually somebody’s propaganda operation. At times I wonder if some of the commenters on this blog are actually foreign intelligence operatives, as for example the one below who says this:

Whitney Webb has never done any research. She simply does a copy and paste of Ryan Dawson’s work amd calls it her own. Israel is a criminal enerprise and a virulent enemy of the United States. There are reams of publicly available documents proving this.
If you give half a shit about the truth, you can find Dawson’s work and learn something about this subject.

Ah, so I could “learn something” from the work of Ryan Dawson. Well, let me see what Ryan Dawson has to say, for example:

Or this, for example:

Ryan Dawson is a fair and objective reporter, said nobody ever.

Let me encourage readers to investigate for themselves exactly who Ryan Dawson is. The accusation that Whitney Webb has been doing “a copy and paste of Ryan Dawson’s work” is certainly interesting, and by “interesting,” of course I mean, potentially libelous.

Maybe I should order Whitney Webb’s books from Amazon, and see whether it’s fair to accuse her of plagiarizing a Holocaust denier, but the real point I wish to make is that we do not know what other people’s motives are. If Jeffrey Epstein was on the Mossad’s payroll, who else is on the payrolls of foreign intelligence agencies? And if some journalists are actually paid government operatives (which is what the USAID revelations seem to show), then shouldn’t we be suspicious when a guy nobody ever heard of before 2020 suddenly becomes a “viral” phenomenon by repeating wild conspiracy theories? Some of y’all may be overdue for the 30,000-mile maintenance checkup on your bullshit detectors, but mine is quite finely tuned, thank you.

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FMJRA 2.0: Return to Mediocrity

Posted on | March 9, 2025 | No Comments

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SOTD
Took two out of three from the Daytraders at Lida Junction on the way back to Tonopah Tuesday; Pat Dobson got one of his two wins this week and Coleman evened up his record at 6-6. Didn’t do so well against the Twins on Friday, losing two very close games before our hitters lit up Stan Bahnsen for eight runs in a blowout that earned Dobson his second win. This puts us at 27-34, a game and a half ahead of the A’s and ten games behind the division-leading Red Sox. We face the Cardinals for the first time on Tuesday.
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