10/28/2023

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson Hates Nearly All of Us

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Liquor laws in Louisiana are a clusterfuck. Because of a state supreme court decision decades ago, they are subject to the whims of a commun...
10/21/2023

Jim Jordan's Combover Can't Hide the Truth About Who He Is

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It's one of those questions you get when you're a man and men around you are going bald: Would you ever do a combover? The question ...
10/13/2023

I Locked Myself Out of Twitterx and Now Live on Threads, Which Shockingly Does Not Suck

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Higher than I should have been after an extra mango- "flavored" gummy, I went on the Twitterx a couple of weeks ago. A few people ...
10/06/2023

We're All Just Watching the Wheels Fall Off the GOP Clown Car

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Watching the wheels come off a clown car has its charms, teetering as it does on that tightrope between hilarious and terrifying. It's h...
10/03/2023

20 Years of Rude Punditry: This One's Kind of About You

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Possibly the wildest thing is when someone says they have been reading this here blog since the beginning or near the beginning and have bee...
9/30/2023

20 Years of Rude Punditry: The AMA Part of It

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If yesterday marked the 20th anniversary of the debut of this here blog (or "newsletter," if you wanna sound classy), today marks...
9/29/2023

20 Years of Rude Punditry: What the Hell Did I Do With My Life?

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So here we are, all together again, old friends who once had repeated orgies together, copious nights of copulation under the influence of e...
9/24/2023

John Fetterman's Shorts and Hoodie Are Not the Real Threats to Civility

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In the discourse around what hoodie and shorts aficionado Senator John Fetterman, a Pennsylvania Democrat, wears on the floor of the Senate,...
9/17/2023

MAGAism Was Always Terrorism

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In a forthcoming book by McKay Coppins, excerpted in The Atlantic , retiring Senator Mitt Romney, who, one should never forget, is an entire...
9/08/2023

Democrats Are Bitch-Slapping Republicans and It Feels So Good

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I know we like to insist that Democrats are generally milquetoast and rational to a fault when they respond to the wrongs that are done to t...
9/04/2023

A Poem for the Laborers

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" I Want " by Jordan Jace I want to write poems for construction workers and dreamers For revolutionaries For deadbeats and those ...
9/02/2023

They're Killing New College Because They Can

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The American right always has some fake intellectual to give cover to the destructive, hateful things it believes. They always find someone ...
8/25/2023

Two Extra Depressing Moments from the Republican Debate of the Damned

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1. Honestly, the conservadouche Fox "news" moderators, Bret Baier and Martha MacCullum, could have phrased things differently at t...
8/18/2023

The Georgia Indictment Is a Defense of the Workers Who Make Democracy Function

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One thing that comes across in the indictment of Donald Trump and the cabal of scoundrels, dregs, assholes, and Rudy Giuliani for racketeer...
8/11/2023

Why Doesn't the Right Defend Kai Cenat's Actions as Free Speech?

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This guy, Kai Cenat, has 6.5 million followers on Twitch, including 80,000 paid subscribers, and millions more following him on YouTube. He ...
8/03/2023

New Trump Indictment: Trump Didn't Give a Solitary Fuck About Anyone But Himself

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One thing that has always bugged the shit out of me with the reaction of Donald Trump, who really was president of the United States for a w...