6/29/2017

Everything Is Bullshit Right Now

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This morning, the goddamned president of this country, a man who can be best described as "looking like a pot of rotting fondue, "...
6/27/2017

In Brief: Repealing Obamacare Will Wreck Some Towns and Cities (Updated)

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Yesterday, NPR did a story on Steubenville, Ohio, a former coal town in the eastern part of the state. The unemployment rate of 7% is above...
6/26/2017

Random Observations on the CBO Score of the Senate's "Health Care" Bill

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The Congressional Budget Office is out with its analysis of the Senate's bullshit version of the House's bullshit so-called "h...
6/22/2017

The Comey "Tapes" Lie: Chaos Is Trump's Greatest Weapon

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The first time Trump tweeted about it, it was fucked up enough: "James Comey better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conve...
6/20/2017

Note to Democrats: A Little Hyperbole Wouldn't Hurt in the Battle Against the AHCA

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Over on the right, there isn't a lie vomited out by Fox "news," Breitbart, or President Trump (all increasingly one and the sa...
6/19/2017

Don't Let the Bastards Murder the Affordable Care Act

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Let us say, and why not, that you've got a car you've had for a few years. It was given to you by a boyfriend you broke up with a wh...
6/16/2017

Sympathy for the President, a Weak, Sick Old Man

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In the wake of the shooting in Alexandria, Virginia, where Republican members of Congress were targeted by an angry, abusive left-wing gunma...
6/14/2017

Steve Scalise Supported the Lack of Laws and Regulations That Allowed His Shooting to Happen

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A good-sized chunk of Representative Steve Scalise's congressional career has been devoted to making guns easier to get. Scalise, a Lou...
6/12/2017

I Saw Shakespeare in the Park's Julius Caesar, and You're Wrong to Complain

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When I saw the Public Theatre's production of Julius Caesar at its Shakespeare in the Park last Saturday, complete with its modern dres...
6/09/2017

Random Observations on Comey's Testimony (and a "Thank You" to Trump Voters)

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1. Hey, there, Americans who voted for Donald Trump for president. I just wanna offer a hearty "thanks" for putting Trump in offic...
6/07/2017

A Brief Theory: Trump Tried to Get Comey to End Investigation Because It Had Worked Before

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Look at the language former FBI Director James Comey says that President Donald Trump used when entreating Comey to drop an investigation i...
6/06/2017

The White House Terrorist

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In the aftermath of the July 7, 2005 bombings in London, U.S. President George W. Bush gave fairly generic remarks about the need for vigil...
6/05/2017

Melania Watches: A Rude Pundit Video

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So I'm gonna be doing more video stuff, writing, directing, occasionally appearing. Here's the first in what I hope will be a series...
6/02/2017

Ignorant, Friendless, and Uncaring: Trump's Paris Agreement Decision Is a Reflection of Himself

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In President Trump's extravagantly stupid speech yesterday announcing that he was pulling the United States out of the Paris Climate Ac...
6/01/2017

Let Hillary Clinton Speak (and Listen to Her)

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Here's a one-sentence post-mortem that you can use to explain the 2016 election: Emails kept people home while racism got people to the ...
5/30/2017

Let the Nazi Scum Fuckers March in Portland

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As a reaction to the Nazi scum fucker who murdered two men and injured another on a train in Portland, Oregon, the mayor of that city in the...
5/29/2017

A Poem for Memorial Day

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"Parade" by Jennifer Pacanowski The funeral procession from Syracuse airport to Ithaca NY was over 50 miles long. Dragging his...
5/25/2017

American Wreckage: Trump Is Radically Degrading the United States

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Donald Trump was standing before one of the holy relics of the 21st-century: a twisted piece of the fallen World Trade Center, destroyed on ...
5/24/2017

Government of the Sick Fucks, by the Sick Fucks, and for the Sick Fucks (Part 1: Of)

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There is a genre of news story lately that has gotten old really damn fast. It's the "Hey, here's a fucking dumbass who voted f...