12/31/2020

Haiku Review of 2020 (Part 3): It Is What It Is

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Goddamn, 2020 has brought out the haiku-ing. So far, I've gotten more of them than ever, like 300, which is a lot of fuckin' haiku. ...
12/30/2020

Haiku Review of 2020 (Part 2): The New Abnormal

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Sweet Jesus, it's like you've all been holding your haiku all year, denying yourself sweet release until the call went out yesterday...
12/29/2020

Haiku Review of 2020: Fetch the Bolt Cutters

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This motherfucking year. I mean, we were already on the express train to Fuckedsville even before COVID reared its spiky head and turbocharg...
12/28/2020

This Year's Madness Might Just Fade Soon

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Look, by just about any measure, 2020 was a clusterfuck inside a shit sandwich covered in stupid sauce. I was telling a pal of mine, "T...
12/24/2020

The Rude Pundit's Annual Nativity-palooza, Including the Most 2020 Nativity

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Like movies about suicidal snowmen and tortured ghosts and pole-frozen tongues, some things are a tradition around the rude house. Beloved r...
12/21/2020

One of the Big Lies in MAGA World: No, Democrats Did Not Try to Get the 2016 Election Overturned

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It's one of many articles of bad faith in MAGA world, the fact-free zone of delusion and conspiracy that Donald Trump and his enablers, ...
12/16/2020

Now Donald Trump Is Suing a State He Lost Bigly

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You will not be surprised that soon-to-be not-President Donald Trump hasn't given up his pursuit of a victory in the 2020 election throu...
12/10/2020

Note to Hopeful MAGA Cretins: You'll Be Much Happier If You Give Up Now. I Know.

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Hey, MAGA jerks,  I don't like you, and, from your tweets and messages, I've got a pretty good idea that you don't like me. Stil...
12/08/2020

We Cannot Overlook All the Ways That Trump and His Idiot Hordes Attack Democracy

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They never should have gotten away with "Lock her up."  One of the things we are learning is that the media and officials shouldn...
12/04/2020

Kelly Loeffler and the GOP's Bullshit Hyperbole

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According to Republican Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler, her run-off opponent for her seat, the affable and slightly left-of-center Democrat ...
12/01/2020

Trump's Continuing COVID Murder Spree

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Lemme tell you something fucked up: This past summer, a close friend of my niece died of COVID-19. He was 19 years-old and had asthma but wa...
11/26/2020

A Thanksgiving Poem from Indigenous America

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"A History of Red" by Linda Hogan, who is from the Chickasaw tribe First there was some other order of things never spoken but in...
11/24/2020

Getting Through the Next Two Months of Hope and Dread

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1. It is okay to feel hopeful in the wake of the ascertainment of the election of President-Elect Joe Biden, thus starting the transition f...
11/19/2020

Rudy Giuliani Is Sweating His Hair Color Off for America

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Goddamn, why can't we just be fucking done with Rudy Giuliani? At this point, his story should have ended in a fading Manhattan hotel ro...
11/17/2020

Holding Trump and the Right Accountable for Their Actions That Led to the Spread of Covid (Updated with Comments from a Real Lawyer)

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I've been thinking about how to walk the line between free speech and, in some way, sanctioning or punishing people whose speech directl...