The Rude Pundit

Tonight would be a great time to join the Rude Pundit Patreon page at $3 a month. You get exclusive posts and audio goodness, like the just-...

I'm a very white person. My background is so European, it's painful: Russian, Polish, Swedish, and, in the only nod to a smidge of c...

Barring some last minute action, Alejandra Juarez, who has lived in the United States since she entered the country illegally in 1998, will ...

Yesterday, in his neverending quest to spend as little time as possible actually doing the goddamned work of being president, Donald Trump b...

In a continuation of the new genre in journalism that we'll call "Dumb Fucks Still Love Trump, Are Dumb," the Washington Post ...

I'm currently in a Twitter timeout for 12 hours. That happens when you say something that violates the Terms of Service for Twitter. App...

1. In another of its ongoing series "Do the Editors of the New York Times Really Think the Yokels Will Ever Love Them?" reporters...

1. I'm not gonna pretend to know the ins and outs of Russian/American relations in the Putin era. Yet, I know it ain't the Soviet Un...

Believe it or not, I have been entrusted with a position that puts me into a supervisory position over dozens of employees. I am their boss,...

You know what the problem with the story of the boy who cried, "Wolf" is? It ends with a fucking wolf eating the fucking sheep. Th...

Last night, I drank and ate with a couple of friends who are way, way richer and smarter than me. One of them is a journalist pal. And, on o...

One of the weirdest moments from last night's campaign rally for some fuckin' asshole GOP senate candidate in Great Falls, Montana (...

(I wrote this back in 2016, and, sadly, it still applies even more now.) One of the signers of the Declaration of Independence representin...

1. There is no MS-13 crisis . I know, I know, you want there to be one because scary Latinos are scary, but there isn't one. No matter h...

In order to support President Donald Trump, you must be a racist. That is clearly a truth at this point, since Trump continues to do and say...

Fighting dirty doesn't mean doing illegal shit. It does mean you might have to stretch laws and ethics to their breaking point. It defin...

Chess is a helluva game. It's meant to imitate war, of course, but in a civilized fashion. The best strategies are born of an instinct t...

Still working on it. I keep starting and stopping, deleting and revising, saying something terrible and then something sad and then somethin...

Let me take you back, way, way back, all the way to the ancient age of 2009 and 2010. A black Muslim man was uppity enough be president. E...

Last night, the New York Times posted an article titled "In Trump’s America, the Conversation Turns Ugly and Angry, Starting at the T...