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The Daily Donnybrook, and other fine things

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Mike @Substack


New Eyrie posts go up every Monday and Friday, although the time of day may (and most likely will) vary. Mike’s latest Eyrie offering is available for perusal here: “OOOOOPS!”

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Recent Comments

  • tominor on A circus of error: “We had our bastard in Iran, and he had two jobs: don’t talk to Communists, and keep a lid on…” Apr 11, 12:19
  • STW on Remembering another Lost Cause: “Bruce Catton’s writings also should not be missed. Granted, there is a much more Northern tenor to his writing. (And,…” Apr 11, 10:55
  • tominor on The Daily Donnybrook, and other fine things: “If you’re looking for an intelligent take on the Iran situation, you can’t do better than this.  It seems like…” Apr 10, 09:14
  • kennycan on Marketing genius: “A lot of College Squads have hired the ugliest or fattest or flat chested cheerleaders (or a combination) due to…” Apr 10, 06:57
  • kennycan on YOICKS!: “Wow I didn’t realize that was her! Green was just Kirk’s type” Apr 8, 17:33

The Daily Donnybrook, and other fine things

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Welcome to Ye Aulde Colde Furye Blogge’s shiny new open-comments thread, where y’all can have at it as you wish, on any topic you like. All new posts will appear below this one. There will be blood…

Mike @Substack


New Eyrie posts go up every Monday and Friday, although the time of day may (and most likely will) vary. Mike’s latest Eyrie offering is available for perusal here: Lies, damned lies, and lies about Israel.

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Recent Comments

  • tominor on A circus of error: “We had our bastard in Iran, and he had two jobs: don’t talk to Communists, and keep a lid on…” Apr 11, 12:19
  • STW on Remembering another Lost Cause: “Bruce Catton’s writings also should not be missed. Granted, there is a much more Northern tenor to his writing. (And,…” Apr 11, 10:55
  • tominor on The Daily Donnybrook, and other fine things: “If you’re looking for an intelligent take on the Iran situation, you can’t do better than this.  It seems like…” Apr 10, 09:14
  • kennycan on Marketing genius: “A lot of College Squads have hired the ugliest or fattest or flat chested cheerleaders (or a combination) due to…” Apr 10, 06:57
  • kennycan on YOICKS!: “Wow I didn’t realize that was her! Green was just Kirk’s type” Apr 8, 17:33

Eyrie up!

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As mentioned over at Ye Aulde CF Adjunct, I got no clue how to embed YewToob vids at Substack, so I’m a-gonna post ‘em here so’s nobody has to miss anything, with a reciprocal link over yonder just to keep the wheels greased. Vid Numero Uno:

Annnnnnd the aforementioned Vid Dos.

See what I mean about that one being a perfect fit for the Zelensky situation?

Update! Related embed via Ed Driscoll, wherein Trump establishes the tone of his fractious meetup with Ukraine’s peewee dictator.


OOOOF!

The Daily Donnybrook, and other fine things

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Welcome to Ye Aulde Colde Furye Blogge’s shiny new open-comments thread, where y’all can have at it as you wish, on any topic you like. All new posts will appear below this one. There will be blood…

Mike @Substack


New Eyrie posts go up every Monday and Friday, although the time of day may (and most likely will) vary. Mike’s latest Eyrie offering is available for perusal here: Screamin’ meemie Monday!

Please do consider subscribing to The Eyrie, gang; subscribers receive email notification whenever each new post goes live. All Eyrie articles are getatable (yes, that’s really a word—trust me!) for one and all to read and enjoy totally free of charge, regardless of subscription status. However, a paid sub is required to unlock commenting privileges—an almighty incentive to kick loose and chip in if ever there was one. Thanks!

Recent Comments

  • tominor on A circus of error: “We had our bastard in Iran, and he had two jobs: don’t talk to Communists, and keep a lid on…” Apr 11, 12:19
  • STW on Remembering another Lost Cause: “Bruce Catton’s writings also should not be missed. Granted, there is a much more Northern tenor to his writing. (And,…” Apr 11, 10:55
  • tominor on The Daily Donnybrook, and other fine things: “If you’re looking for an intelligent take on the Iran situation, you can’t do better than this.  It seems like…” Apr 10, 09:14
  • kennycan on Marketing genius: “A lot of College Squads have hired the ugliest or fattest or flat chested cheerleaders (or a combination) due to…” Apr 10, 06:57
  • kennycan on YOICKS!: “Wow I didn’t realize that was her! Green was just Kirk’s type” Apr 8, 17:33

The Daily Donnybrook n Stuff

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Come and listen to my story bout a man name Mike,
A political blogger, kept his finger in the dike.
Then one day he was bein’ a good host
And he made up a fine way to let the readers post.

Comments, that is. Blogger tea.

Update! Muchos gracias to Steve for taking up my slack and covering for me here. Follows, the rest of the usual Donnybrook schtuff, if only to keep the all-important Eyrie link atop the main page.

Welcome to Ye Aulde Colde Furye Blogge’s shiny new open-comments thread, where y’all can have at it as you wish, on any topic you like. All new posts will appear below this one. There will be blood…

Mike @Substack


New Eyrie posts go up every Monday and Friday, although the time of day may (and most likely will) vary. Mike’s latest Eyrie offering is available for perusal here: Screamin’ meemie Monday!

Please do consider subscribing to The Eyrie, gang; subscribers receive email notification whenever each new post goes live. All Eyrie articles are getatable (yes, that’s really a word—trust me!) for one and all to read and enjoy totally free of charge, regardless of subscription status. However, a paid sub is required to unlock commenting privileges—an almighty incentive to kick loose and chip in if ever there was one. Thanks!

Recent Comments

  • tominor on A circus of error: “We had our bastard in Iran, and he had two jobs: don’t talk to Communists, and keep a lid on…” Apr 11, 12:19
  • STW on Remembering another Lost Cause: “Bruce Catton’s writings also should not be missed. Granted, there is a much more Northern tenor to his writing. (And,…” Apr 11, 10:55
  • tominor on The Daily Donnybrook, and other fine things: “If you’re looking for an intelligent take on the Iran situation, you can’t do better than this.  It seems like…” Apr 10, 09:14
  • kennycan on Marketing genius: “A lot of College Squads have hired the ugliest or fattest or flat chested cheerleaders (or a combination) due to…” Apr 10, 06:57
  • kennycan on YOICKS!: “Wow I didn’t realize that was her! Green was just Kirk’s type” Apr 8, 17:33

The Daily Donnybrook, and other fine things

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Welcome to Ye Aulde Colde Furye Blogge’s shiny new open-comments thread, where y’all can have at it as you wish, on any topic you like. All new posts will appear below this one. There will be blood…

Mike @Substack


New Eyrie posts go up every Monday and Friday, although the time of day may (and most likely will) vary. Mike’s latest Eyrie offering is available for perusal here: Screamin’ meemie Monday!

Please do consider subscribing to The Eyrie, gang; subscribers receive email notification whenever each new post goes live. All Eyrie articles are getatable (yes, that’s really a word—trust me!) for one and all to read and enjoy totally free of charge, regardless of subscription status. However, a paid sub is required to unlock commenting privileges—an almighty incentive to kick loose and chip in if ever there was one. Thanks!

Recent Comments

  • tominor on A circus of error: “We had our bastard in Iran, and he had two jobs: don’t talk to Communists, and keep a lid on…” Apr 11, 12:19
  • STW on Remembering another Lost Cause: “Bruce Catton’s writings also should not be missed. Granted, there is a much more Northern tenor to his writing. (And,…” Apr 11, 10:55
  • tominor on The Daily Donnybrook, and other fine things: “If you’re looking for an intelligent take on the Iran situation, you can’t do better than this.  It seems like…” Apr 10, 09:14
  • kennycan on Marketing genius: “A lot of College Squads have hired the ugliest or fattest or flat chested cheerleaders (or a combination) due to…” Apr 10, 06:57
  • kennycan on YOICKS!: “Wow I didn’t realize that was her! Green was just Kirk’s type” Apr 8, 17:33

Extry-special Eyrie

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As y’all know, apart from the link in the Donnybrook I stopped promoting the Eyrie here, intending to find out how my damp-feathered little Substack hatchling would do on its own. But today is gonna be an exception, because the article covered in the Eyrie post is…well, exceptional, actually. With a Kurt Schlichter post as its springboard, this one’s a must-read if ever there was one. My closer:

What could one POSSIBLY add to this pluperfect slice of logic, rationality, and undiluted righteousness? This one was penned by one Kurt Schlichter, and there’s plenty more of it yet, of which you absolutely must read the all. After doing so, I categorically defy you to even TRY to come up with a single word to argue with, up to and including “and” and “the.”

Don’t dare miss a word of it, peeps—meaning both the Eyrie piece and the Schlichter screed to which it refers.

The Daily Donnybrook, and other fine things

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Welcome to Ye Aulde Colde Furye Blogge’s shiny new open-comments thread, where y’all can have at it as you wish, on any topic you like. Do note that the official CF comments policy remains in effect here, as enumerated in the left sidebar. All new posts will appear below this one. There will be blood…

Mike @Substack


New Eyrie posts go up every Monday and Friday, although the time of day may (and most likely will) vary. Mike’s latest Eyrie offering is available for perusal here: Screamin’ meemie Monday!

Please do consider subscribing to The Eyrie, gang; subscribers receive email notification whenever each new post goes live. All Eyrie articles are getatable (yes, that’s really a word—trust me!) for one and all to read and enjoy totally free of charge, regardless of subscription status. However, a paid sub is required to unlock commenting privileges—an almighty incentive to kick loose and chip in if ever there was one. Thanks!

Like, wow

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DAY-UMMM! Yesterday’s Eyrie offering, Grim fairy tale, has, according to the regular 24-hour-statistics email from Substack, simply obliterated all previous records with an astounding 744 views! Usually it runs around 250-300 hits before topping out at maybe 350 or thereabouts. Got no idea what it might have been, but I must’ve done something right with this one. A crap-ton of new free subscribers came in over the transom yestiddy and today as well. So I got that going for me, as Bill Murray once said.

Great movie, great character, great line. Seen that flick so many times I can recite pretty much the whole script from memory at this point, line by line by line. I assure you all that I am in no way joking or stretching the truth here; stand still for long enough and I’m just liable to prove it to ya, in fact.

Update! Ahhh, I believe I just found the explanation for the sudden Eyrie influx: WRSA kindly threw me a little linky-love. Thanks so much to my good friend CA for the boost.

Updated update! Don’t believe me? Get a load of this screen-grab from said Substack e-mail missive, then.

Hey, I freely admit it, I find this pretty darned exciting.

Update to the updated update! Just for shits and giggles I moseyed over to my Substack CP to see what we’re up to now, if only for curiosity’s sake and nothing else: 825 views as of right this very minute. Apparently, dem WRSA links are the gift that just keeps on giving. Thanks again, CA!

Updates, forsooth! Now this is kinda curious:

EyrieStats 2.

Only 7% from WRSA? That can’t possibly be right. No way did such a huge uptick in hits derive from the same-old same-old ratio; the above traffic-source percentages are in line with what they normally are. Makes no sense to me, it’s too weird. Oh well, heck with it. It’s late, I’m tired, and ain’t up to researching this seeming anomaly further tonight.

The Daily Donnybrook, and other fine things

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Welcome to Ye Aulde Colde Furye Blogge’s shiny new open-comments thread, where y’all can have at it as you wish, on any topic you like. Do note that the official CF comments policy remains in effect here, as enumerated in the left sidebar. All new posts will appear below this one. There will be blood…

Mike @Substack


New Eyrie posts go up every Monday and Friday, although the time of day may (and most likely will) vary. Mike’s latest Eyrie offering is available for perusal here: Grim fairy tale.

Please do consider subscribing to The Eyrie, gang; subscribers receive email notification whenever each new post goes live. All Eyrie articles are getatable (yes, that’s really a word—trust me!) for one and all to read and enjoy totally free of charge, regardless of subscription status. However, a paid sub is required to unlock commenting privileges—an almighty incentive to kick loose and chip in if ever there was one. Thanks!

Recent Comments:

  • tominor on A circus of error: “We had our bastard in Iran, and he had two jobs: don’t talk to Communists, and keep a lid on…” Apr 11, 12:19
  • STW on Remembering another Lost Cause: “Bruce Catton’s writings also should not be missed. Granted, there is a much more Northern tenor to his writing. (And,…” Apr 11, 10:55
  • tominor on The Daily Donnybrook, and other fine things: “If you’re looking for an intelligent take on the Iran situation, you can’t do better than this.  It seems like…” Apr 10, 09:14
  • kennycan on Marketing genius: “A lot of College Squads have hired the ugliest or fattest or flat chested cheerleaders (or a combination) due to…” Apr 10, 06:57
  • kennycan on YOICKS!: “Wow I didn’t realize that was her! Green was just Kirk’s type” Apr 8, 17:33
  • Skyler the Weird on YOICKS!: “She was a Green Orion Slave Girl on Star Trek too. https://youtu.be/1H2QvmWLT4s?si=CNjKHBjENUZAffkR” Apr 7, 21:43
  • Barry on The Daily Donnybrook, and other fine things: “I find much of the substack BS, up to when I stopped reading. I do support nuking london however, preferably…” Apr 5, 21:35
  • SteveF on The Daily Donnybrook, and other fine things: “Interesting read: https://nofilterjustfacts.substack.com/p/the-empire-that-never-died-britain-conflict-money I would suggest nuking London but the English seem to be doing it to themselves. Instead of…” Apr 4, 16:07

In they come, out they go

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Having accumulated another YUUUGE surplusage of most excellent memery from various sources over recent weeks/months, I’m thinking this Friday’s Eyrie offering is gonna be another meme-blast, by way of clearing out the inventory a bit. Just sayin’, that’s all. As you were….

Update! What the hey, a cpl-three examples just to prime the pump for Friday.

That’s how many of the things I have on hand, I can afford to burn ‘em like this.

The Daily Donnybrook, and other fine things

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Welcome to Ye Aulde Colde Furye Blogge’s shiny new open-comments thread, where y’all can have at it as you wish, on any topic you like. Do note that the official CF comments policy remains in effect here, as enumerated in the left sidebar. All new posts will appear below this one. There will be blood…

Mike @Substack


New Eyrie posts go up every Monday and Friday, although the time of day may (and most likely will) vary. Mike’s latest Eyrie offering is available for perusal here: The EVIL that is…

Please do consider subscribing to The Eyrie, gang; subscribers receive email notification whenever each new post goes live. All Eyrie articles are getatable (yes, that’s really a word—trust me!) for one and all to read and enjoy totally free of charge, regardless of subscription status. However, a paid sub is required to unlock commenting privileges—an almighty incentive to kick loose and chip in if ever there was one. Thanks!

Recent Comments:

  • tominor on A circus of error: “We had our bastard in Iran, and he had two jobs: don’t talk to Communists, and keep a lid on…” Apr 11, 12:19
  • STW on Remembering another Lost Cause: “Bruce Catton’s writings also should not be missed. Granted, there is a much more Northern tenor to his writing. (And,…” Apr 11, 10:55
  • tominor on The Daily Donnybrook, and other fine things: “If you’re looking for an intelligent take on the Iran situation, you can’t do better than this.  It seems like…” Apr 10, 09:14
  • kennycan on Marketing genius: “A lot of College Squads have hired the ugliest or fattest or flat chested cheerleaders (or a combination) due to…” Apr 10, 06:57
  • kennycan on YOICKS!: “Wow I didn’t realize that was her! Green was just Kirk’s type” Apr 8, 17:33
  • Skyler the Weird on YOICKS!: “She was a Green Orion Slave Girl on Star Trek too. https://youtu.be/1H2QvmWLT4s?si=CNjKHBjENUZAffkR” Apr 7, 21:43
  • Barry on The Daily Donnybrook, and other fine things: “I find much of the substack BS, up to when I stopped reading. I do support nuking london however, preferably…” Apr 5, 21:35
  • SteveF on The Daily Donnybrook, and other fine things: “Interesting read: https://nofilterjustfacts.substack.com/p/the-empire-that-never-died-britain-conflict-money I would suggest nuking London but the English seem to be doing it to themselves. Instead of…” Apr 4, 16:07

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