The Rude Pundit

The quote is from a just-released recording of former President Bill Clinton speaking to a group of business people in Melbourne, Australia...

Speaker of the House John "If You Don't Think I'm Drunk All the Time, You're Not Paying Attention" Boehner had one of ...

Oh, dear, dumb, oppressed right-wingers, searching hither and thither for places to call home, good god, but you come up with some stupid, s...

Last week, for three days, Andrew William Smith, aka @presbyhippy, aka Teacher Preacher, aka Teacher on the Radio, took over this here blog ...

That up there is a canal that is used "for routing flood water" through the farms of Merced County, California. In 2006, it wa...

[Rude Pundit is still on vacation. @presbyhippy Andrew William Smith still filling in.] I was a teenage pacifist. Weaned on Martin Luthe...

[Your regular Pundit is on vacation! This is @Presbyhippy filling in!] It came across my social media feed the other day that several st...

[Your regular Pundit is on vacation! This is @Presbyhippy filling in!] Hello my name is Andrew, and I have problem with hippies and Je...

The Rude Pundit has been feeling stabby as fuck lately and is taking a few days off to rest, relax, and recharge. That means drinking, sexua...

That screenshot shows two New York City cops trying to convince the corpse of Eric Garner that he's not dead. Garner, 43 and black, ...

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman is like your uncle who phones you up and tells you about this awesome new thing he's found cal...

According to the UN's Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, as of the end of the brief cease-fire by Israel to allow ...

Here on the left, we like to think that because we believe in the better angels of humanity, that people aren't as vile as they so often...

Earlier this week, former Senator and losing GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum was the main speaker at two reelection rallies for Ka...

Last Friday, the Guardian featured a long article by science reporter Robin McKie. The title is pretty much a succinct summary of the enti...

This past Friday, bored while waiting around for someone at a pretty empty bar, the Rude Pundit got into a brief Twitter slap fight with co...

Trying to recover from an evening drowning the sorrows of Argentinean friends.  So enjoy the Rude Pundit on this morning's Stephanie Mi...

That up there happened yesterday in London. Similar marches occurred all over Great Britain. It's a strike and protest from anywhere...

The other night on the Fox "news" program Sean Hannity's Phantasmagorium of Spite and Fear , with guest host Eric Bolling, Se...

Yeah, of course, we knew - we always knew, right? - that the National Security Agency and the FBI were spying on American citizens without a...