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12/31/2024
Haiku Review of 2024: Slow Haikus
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Okay, one more round. While the vast majority of the haikus couldn't get past the election (which, well, we never will), a few other sub...
12/29/2024
Haiku Review of 2024: What We Do in the Haiku
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Man, you all are pissed off in your haikus this year. I got a whole lotta variations on "Fuck you, [insert name]" and "We...
12/28/2024
Haiku Review of 2024: Some Haiku Somewhere
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Keep 'em coming, motherfuckers. Once again, I asked and you have already sent a shitload of haiku. Coming in from sea to dingy sea, you...
12/27/2024
Haiku Review of 2024: 20th Anniversary of Reducing the Fuckery to a Size We Can Handle
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That's right. Back in 2004 , I did my own review of the year through the delicate poem with the incisive power of a stiletto made of met...
12/24/2024
The Rude Pundit's Annual Nativity-palooza, Now with Bonus Cultural Insensitivity
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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...
12/20/2024
The Immigrant "Invasion" Is Just WMDs All Over Again
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There is no immigrant invasion at the southern border of the United States. That needs to be said at the outset any time you wanna talk abou...
12/08/2024
Sorry, CNN and MSNBC, But It's Not Us. It's You
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I haven't watched CNN or MSNBC for a single second in the month since the 2024 presidential election. I've been a loyal viewer of CN...
12/01/2024
Note to Democrats: We Have to See You Fight, Even If It's a Losing Cause
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Since the (re)election of Donald Trump, it's natural that Democrats would engage in some self-reflection. Of course, it's not like R...
11/27/2024
A Thanksgiving Poem from Indigenous America
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" after Sacred Water " by Kinsale Drake , a Dine' and a member of the Navajo nation I. we inherit: every gathering pool a bles...
11/23/2024
Democrats Must Stand Up for the Rights of Transgender People, Including Trans Youths
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It wasn't that long ago, less than ten years, in fact, where, in a confirmation hearing for Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch, Sen....
11/13/2024
Biden Will Be Remembered More for What He Didn't Do Than What He Did
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Other than the election and everything related to it, one thing stuck in my craw this past week, and it stuck there hard, so much so that I ...
11/06/2024
America Is a Floating Island of Garbage
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Pundits and political commentators and randos on social media will come up with a thousand ways to explain what happened last night. Some of...
11/01/2024
Donald Trump Will Want to Kill Us If He's Elected (and He Can Do It)
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Kamala Harris has been very clear about the threat that a second Donald Trump presidency will pose to many people. She is never more passion...
10/25/2024
We Need to Be Done With Donald Trump
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One of the most stunning things about the last near-decade now is how much the country has been contorted by one man. We're in this fuck...
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