The Rude Pundit

Okay, fuck, enough. No more. I've read a couple of hundred three-line poems, some great, some gross, some good, some bad. Thanks to ever...

So far, I've gotten well over a hundred haiku from well over a hundred rude readers, and all I can say is "You motherfuckers really...

Oh, sweet, dear, suffering people of the rude-iverse, we come now to the end of a year that was as vicious as a drunk uncle after being accu...

Yeah, this year needs to be put down, Ol'Yeller-style. Even though next year is looking about as ominous as a funnel cloud over a corn f...

Like movies about suicidal snowmen and tortured ghosts and pole-frozen tongues, some things are a tradition around the rude house. Reruns ar...

I received this email from rude reader MP last week, and it seemed right to share this just before we gather once again with family members ...

Here's a little raft of hope to cling to as we head into the holidays, a potential route of resistance to the presidency of Donald Trump...

If a Republican were president right now and an incoming Democrat had won in an election where there was even a whiff of Russian interferenc...

Let's get one or two things straight from the outset here about the hacking of the email servers of the DNC and RNC: We don't know...

Let me clear my throat. When I first put myself in a self-imposed time out, one of the reasons was that I was really fucking pissed at mys...

I think my head is getting back in the game.

"Peace Path" by Heid E. Erdrich, an Ojibwe writer from North Dakota (now living in Minnesota) This path our people walked on...

A dear friend has a brother with Down Syndrome. This year, he voted for the first time, and he couldn't have been more excited to push a...

Karl Rove's former leather slave was finally used to a safe life. The nightmares had lessened at last, after years of drugs and brief ho...

One of the things I have always faulted President Obama for is that, when it comes to his domestic political enemies, he has sought to give ...

It hasn't stopped yet, this constant thrum of voices telling us that we need to " understand " the "pain" and the ...

"Yeah, and jobs in sending Morse code and driving carriages are coming back, too," my West Virginia pal Duke told me this morning....

Here's a story from a rude reader: "Back in summer 2015, I was at an American Legion event in [a rural area in the Northeast]. Af...

There is cold comfort in a number: more Americans voted for Hillary Clinton than for Donald Trump. We are supposed to hear this and take sol...

I walked into my local middle school to vote this morning. It wasn't too crowded, although it was definitely busier than usual. The tabl...