The Mongoose
"Systems diagnostics for a world in transition — politics, geopolitics, economics, and resistance, written by a small fierce mongoose with a Gaelic accent and a Shoggoth friend."
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Daily |
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| Issues | 291 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 3 days ago |
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The Rules of Acquisition
Lady T still watches CBS. I love her anyway.
Most mornings the network news plays in the other room while I’m at the desk, and through the wall I can follow the rhythm of it without hearing a word. A story starts, gets three...
If this goes on:
Last time we left Snuff at the door, with the moon getting fuller every night and the lane filling up with strangers who wouldn’t say which side they were on. I promised you a map. Here it is.
Robert Heinlein spent the early part of...
Crazy Nights in the Lonesome October
On the third of October, 1849, a man was found on a Baltimore street on election day, out of his head and wearing clothes that weren’t his. The hat was wrong. The coat was wrong. Nobody could get a straight account out of him....
The Working Man Comes Home to the Garden
In February I bought two concert tickets I couldn’t quite justify, wrote a whole essay arguing myself into it, and ended with a promise: We’ll see them in Denver. And wish them well.
Well. We saw them.
I’m writing this a little bef...
He Learned It From a Music Hall
Oct 2, 2026
The Helmet
Last night I was three pages from the end of a chapter in an old Mack Reynolds short story, “Off Course”, and laughed out loud. An alien named Dameri Tass lands, gets hauled before the great and go...
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WG-11 HVAC tech, Red State Republican who never voted for Trump, Scottish Gaelic author. Applies mongoose methodology to political analysis: patient observation, evidence over narrative. Counting down toward retirement. Beò an Rèabhlaid!
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