1/31/2018

The State of the Union Is Nasty, Brutish, and White

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When President Donald Trump undulated up to the lectern in front of the Congress, his cabinet, and a few Supreme Court justices, along with ...
1/29/2018

What Did That Dumb Orange Motherfucker Say to That Dumb British Motherbuggerer?

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President Donald Trump being interviewed by Piers Morgan is like watching Komodo dragons fucking, all squawks and scratching and poisoned d...
1/26/2018

Kentucky Governor Cares So Much About Coal Country That He Wants to Make Sure Kids Never Leave There

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Coal isn't coming back. Ever. It's a dwindling industry that is going the way of the telegraph and tall bicycles. You can lie and sa...
1/24/2018

Trump Defenders Have a Bugnuts Meta-Conspiracy to Explain It All (Updated)

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There is a simple number for figuring out exactly how batshit a conspiracy theory is: how many people would have to be in on it? If a conspi...

Another Goddamn Podcast Has Arrived

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A new phase of rudeness has begun with Another Goddamn Podcast (or AGD Podcast , if you're at a job with tight-asses). It's me tell...
1/22/2018

On Immigration: The Wall That's Really Going to Be Needed

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Not for one single second should anyone trust Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on his vaguely-worded fake promise to bring up a bill f...
1/17/2018

Another Pro-Trump Letter to the New York Times

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(The New York Times has published an entire page of pro-Donald Trump letters to the editor because, apparently, a story every other week a...
1/16/2018

A Shit Fight in a Monkey House

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Let's see if we can get this right: 1. The Washington Post reported that, in a meeting with members of Congress over a deal on immigr...
1/15/2018

Martin Luther King Would Fuck Trump's Shit Up (Africa Edition)

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While conservatives continue their annual desperate attempt to colonize the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., King stubbornly remains a re...
1/12/2018

America the Shithole

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It's not even surprising anymore when President Donald Trump, an angry pumpkin on top of a very large pumpkin on top of a smaller pumpki...
1/10/2018

Treatment of Louisiana Teacher Is Just a Literal Version of How All Teachers in the State Are Treated

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If you watch the full tape of the part of the meeting of the Vermilion Parish School Board in Abbeville, Louisiana, when middle school teac...
1/09/2018

Prove That Trump Isn't a Fucking Moron

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Michael Wolff's book Fire and Fury is filled with quotes from people stating, quite simply, that Donald Trump, ersatz president of the ...
1/04/2018

Puerto Rico Is Suffering for Our Sins

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Before we forget about it completely in the fog of Michael Wolff's book about the fog that Donald Trump apparently exists in, let's ...
1/03/2018

Gauging the Level of Screwed: The Fusion GPS Editorial Is More Important Than the Wolff Book Excerpts

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Look, we already knew that Donald Trump was a shitty human being. Anyone who paid any attention to him knew that his entire life was devoted...
1/02/2018

What Did That Dumb Orange Motherfucker Say Now (and Are We Gonna Get Nukey)?

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Apparently, "much work to do," as President Donald Trump proclaimed he would be heading back to DC for after spending most of the...
1/01/2018

The Haiku Review of 2017: Atomic Haiku

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The now-dead 2017 inspired more rage haiku than anyone should ever read. Like in the neighborhood of 250 entries. Great huge thanks for all ...
12/30/2017

The Haiku Review of 2017, Part 3: The Shape of Haiku

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So...many...haiku. Rude readers have been in a poetry-writing mood, like angry teens whose parents make them take a phone timeout. You have ...
12/29/2017

The Haiku Review of 2017, Part 2: Call Me By Your Haiku

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Yesterday, I put out the call for rude readers to submit their summary of 2017 in tender little haiku form. And, holy shit, as you have ever...
12/28/2017

The Haiku Review of 2017: Adios, You Motherfucker of a Year

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One of the few traditions around these parts of Left Blogsylvania is that we kick the ass of the year out the door in the least wordy way po...
12/27/2017

Things That Made 2017 Worth Living Through

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As bad as 2016 was (and, fuck, do you remember how bad that was?), 2017 made 2016 look like a goddamn orgy on a fluffy cloud. From Trump...