Wagging his steel in Putin’s face
Why must they laugh at Scott Walker’s mighty sword? He singled out China and Russia as needing to face American muscle. “The United States needs a foreign policy that puts steel in the face of our...
View ArticleLittle Ben Shapiro files charges against the big bad trangender lady
Apparently going on CNN and taunting a transgender woman by calling her ‘Sir’ is pretty awesome. Until she’s had quite enough and tells you to STFU, and then clearly some sort of crime has been...
View ArticleU.S. Army to gun nuts: No thank you
They may not have been born with the sort of courage that compels a man to drive down to the Army station and sign up for a tour of duty in Afghanistan – there’s that UEI auto tech scholarship maybe...
View ArticleBobby Jindal, totally awesome
Louisiana Governor and presidential hopeful Bobby Jindal in April: In June: So at the end of the month… Jindal immediately released a statement saying he would institute the language through an...
View ArticleRoss Douthat’s worst editorial ever
Cheap. Tawdry. Craven. Insulting. Stupefying. It’s difficult to settle upon a single word or phrase that sums up the faceslap that Ross Dothat just posted in the NYT’s op-ed section. Trying to take...
View ArticleTheater shooter John Houser: Not much a drifter, very much a conservative
If you want to find out something about the Lafayette, Louisiana, theater tragedy you can get on the google and learn that shooter John Russell Houser was something of a ‘mentally ill drifter’ from...
View ArticleCamille Paglia on legitimate rape (…it’s French)
So Bill Clinton is just like Bill Cosby, is he? Camille Paglia, the political and cultural critic, has been a brave and brilliant provocateur on Salon for almost 20 years now. Of course the former...
View ArticleZees Frenchman he is, how you say, fail
On the heels of Camille Paglia’s assessment that the Cosby-style rape of Monica Lewinsky would have been a more sophisticated affair, literally, had Bill Clinton been a proper fan of le style français...
View ArticleDigital Cheetos du Goldberg (please like me on Facebook)
The highbrows over at National Review, in between sips of bitteroot, pinkies askew, are all murmuring in agreement that it’s time for all you Facebook Instagrams to calm the heck down. Walter Palmer,...
View ArticleSeven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool.
Can you imagine a bunch of us liberals lavishing a great deal of our precious time and money on, say, a woman who decided not to get married, or start a family? Or on some hard-workin’ guy who happened...
View ArticleMister Gas Man, you’re gouging me
Driving back from San Francisco yesterday I got a little look inside the world of high-volume gasoline sales. You could also say I got a little look inside the world of ‘America’, given the gouging,...
View ArticleStephen Hawking, Ashton Kutcher, and The Biggest Event In Human History
It’s not everyday I come across a bona fide scam. This was sitting in a Washington Post sidebar. Stephen Hawking says what? The Biggest Event In Human History, eh? Is it Cal Jam III? Well I wouldn’t...
View ArticleTo be as decent (or deadly) as Ruth Marcus
Sometime in September Congress will have to vote on Obama’s anti-nuke agreement with Iran. And the Republicans have been kind enough to tell us their innermost thoughts about that. They’ve pointed out...
View ArticleWishing for mortal tragedy is not a Hot Take
Kristen McQueary writes for the Tribune. Envy isn’t a rational response to the upcoming 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. But…I find myself wishing for a storm in Chicago — an unpredictable,...
View ArticleGreat Fails Montana
I don’t hold out for Red State America figuring it out any time soon. Though they are good people, hard working and honest as the day is long, these folks aren’t exactly hip to what’s going on. That...
View ArticleTed Cruz the apocalyptic beast
A vicious man on the campaign trail. In June we were hit with this horrible news: Beau Biden, a former Delaware attorney general, died on Saturday of brain cancer at age 46. President Barack Obama is...
View ArticleOur American Dream being a nightmare
I’m listening to a late night CBS news broadcast try to make sense of Vester Flanagan’s shooting of three people in Virginia. To hear them tell it he was a dangerous man on a quest for fame. In his fax...
View ArticleReactionary gay black pony rides
Right-wing media are doing everything they can to jump on shooter Vester Flanagan’s back and ride him to the cursed clubhouse. How often do they get a gay black misanthrope to flog America with? When’s...
View ArticleWe’d be better off without such leadership, Madame
If there’s one thing that’s familiar about politicians it’s that they love to put their own needs above everybody else’s. What’s less familiar is the occasion when the selfish ass ends up being a...
View ArticleDamon Wayans a la Zapp Branigan
HULLO EVERYBODY I’m Damon Wayans and I’m funny as fuck. Or at least I used to be that way a long time ago on a Fox comedy thing with a lot of other talented people. But don’t you for a second think...
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