8/01/2016

These Motherfuckers: Voting Rights Edition

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Guest post by Jon Green (late of Americablog) (I'm in Ireland, likely drunk .) It was easy to miss  amid the conventionpalooza of the la...
7/29/2016

DNC Day 4: Hillary Clinton Is Not Here to Entertain You

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How do we measure HIllary Clinton's speech last night? She is not a great orator, like so many of the speakers who came before her at th...
7/28/2016

DNC Night 3: Obama, Biden, and Bloomberg Aren't Fucking Around

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The point of the speeches at the Democratic National Convention last night was simple: Donald Trump is in way, way over his idiotically coif...
7/27/2016

DNC Day Two: Bill Clinton and Others Show Us That Bodies Are at Stake

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(I'm in Ireland, so blogger will be erratic but consistent. Yeah, you heard me.) Here is what former president Bill Clinton did last n...
7/26/2016

Random Observations on the First Night of the DNC in Philadelphia

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1. There was more diversity and hope in the first night of the Democratic National Convention than in all four nights of the Republican one....
7/25/2016

Trump, Russia, Clinton, Email, and the Great Cosmic Jokes of This Stupid, Stupid Election

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It's like we're living in the middle of a two-part cosmic fucking joke with this story that Russia may very well have hacked the De...
7/22/2016

RNC Day Four: We Beheld What We May Become

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If I could pinpoint one thing in Donald Trump's sweaty, screechy, masturbatory "Tales of American Armageddon" last night that ...
7/21/2016

RNC Day Three: Notes on a Traitor

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Yesterday, over on the Twitter machine, I made a simple suggestion to Texas Senator Ted Cruz. Couching it in terms of his crushingly awful ...
7/20/2016

RNC Day Two: The Motherfucker and the Prick

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Part 1: The Motherfucker The Fat Man strode onto stage at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland last night absolutely cocky in hi...
7/19/2016

RNC Day One: Random Observations on a Pathetic Parade

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1. If the first night of the Republican National Convention is remembered for anything other than the insistent invocation of the United Sta...
7/18/2016

Trump Voters Own This Awfulness and They Should Be Ashamed of Themselves

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The mea culpas are coming fast and furious as we approach Thursday's anointment of Trump as the GOP's idiot king. We're getting...