12/30/2023

Haiku Review of 2023: No Reason to Believe Maybe This Year Will Be Better Than the Last

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More haiku than I can shake a cherry tree branch at. Here's another round of readers looking back on this fucked up year, which came aft...
12/29/2023

Haiku Review of 2023: The Haiku Before the Storm

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Once again, I asked and you sent a fuckton of haiku. Coming in from sea to shining sea, even across a sea or two, you've once again defi...
12/28/2023

Haiku Review of 2023: American Fiction

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Welcome to the end of one more motherfucker of a year in this stupid age we're damned to live through. It was a year of repetition, of s...
12/24/2023

The Rude Pundit's Annual Nativity-palooza, Now with Bonus Folk Horror

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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...
12/23/2023

If You Support Donald Trump, You're a Nazi

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I said what I said. I've been thinking, as former president and current inevitable doom of the republic Donald Trump proudly goes full ...
12/10/2023

The Republican Strategy: Make Everyone Think Democrats Are as Fucking Awful as They Are

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There is one thing tying together a bunch of shit that Republicans are doing right now. They know that the GOP brand is tarnished with insur...
12/03/2023

I Applied for a Job in a New Trump Administration.

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As you might have heard, allies of Donald Trump are gearing things up for a new administration for when (they assume) Trump wins back the pr...
11/26/2023

Stop Normalizing Trump-Inspired Death Threats

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Over on the online version of the conservative magazine American Spectator (motto: "We're batshit right-wingers but also pretentiou...
11/22/2023

A Poem for Thanksgiving from Indigenous America

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For Calling The Spirit Back From Wandering The Earth In Its Human Feet by Joy Harjo, who is from the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Put down that b...
11/19/2023

The Media Won't Make Republicans Own Trump's Fascist Rhetoric

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You are never gonna put a stake in the heart of Trumpism in this country. That bullshit is here to stay until its followers die of some illn...
11/08/2023

Democrats Win Just About Everything Everywhere All at Once

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In last night's absolute ass-reaming of Republicans, Democrats proved that the best strategy is just to be fucking Democrats. That means...
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...