12/31/2021

Haiku Review of 2021: Blue Weekend

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I'm loving the pouring on of haikuing that's happening . Yeah, slap me with haiku. Tickle me with haiku. Peg me with haiku. Here...

Haiku Review of 2021: Pink Noise

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Once more, you have inundated the ol' inbox with a load of magical, mad, and messy little poems. Keep 'em pouring in until I'm s...
12/29/2021

Haiku Review of 2021: Smiling With No Teeth

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Remember how we thought this year absolutely had to be better than motherfucking 2020? The shock is that it objectively was a better year in...
12/28/2021

The Year of Unmagical Thinking

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If we hung out, sometimes you might ask me why, seemingly out of nowhere, I've gotten angry. It's not like there aren't thousand...
12/24/2021

The Rude Pundit's Annual Nativity-palooza, Now Including Weird-Ass Glass and Metal Ones

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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...
12/19/2021

The Bad Guys Are Winning and I've Lost Hope That They Can Be Stopped

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I've tried to write a bunch of different posts this week. We've had a wave of ludicrously sinister political news, like the texts of...
12/09/2021

They Really Thought They Could Overturn the 2020 Election

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In the lunatic Powerpoint that Donald Trump's former Chief of Staff and loyal cumrag Mark Meadows turned over to the committee investig...
12/02/2021

The Conservatives on the Supreme Court Want to Punish Women

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If things go as awfully as they very well may in 2024, we might end up with a Republican president and Congress. Surely, this will be the re...
11/24/2021

A Thanksgiving Poem from Indigenous America

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" Gia's Song "  by Nora Naranjo- Morse , a member of the Tewa tribe from Santa Clara Pueblo Thungjoo Kwa yaa na povi sah Thung...
11/23/2021

Be Thankful for the Health Care Workers Not Being Driven From Their Jobs By Anti-Vaxx Morons

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Last year, the country was filthy with tributes to health care workers - doctors, nurses, hospital staff - who had to deal with the coronavi...
11/17/2021

Hey, Parents, Most of You Are Too Fucking Dumb to Decide on Your Kid's School Curriculum

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A vile undercurrent has always existed whenever bullshit arguments erupt over What My Precious Angels Are Learning in School: that parents k...
11/11/2021

What We Can Learn from Germany on Teaching the Hard Past

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While the first history textbooks in postwar Germany were light on the subject of the Nazis, by the early 1960s, less than two decades after...
11/05/2021

The Fuck, Joe Manchin?

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Yesterday morning, Joe Manchin, Democratic senator from West Virginia and cockblocker extraordinaire, was on CNN's New Day (which would...
11/03/2021

Random Lessons from the Virginia Reaming

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Let's get a couple of things out of the way up top here. If you voted for Democrat Joe Biden for president in 2020 and then voted for Re...
10/28/2021

The GOP Supports Death Threats Against Officials They Disagree With

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At yesterday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with Attorney General Merrick Garland, it became clear that for the Republican Party,...