2/23/2025

Judge Ana Reyes's Reaming of Trump Administration Lawyers Is About More Than Transgender Rights

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In a DC courtroom this past week, Judge Ana C. Reyes of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia held a hearing in the ...
2/16/2025

The Simplest Explanation: They Are Evil

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"Evil" is a hard concept to get your head around. We can get close to it when we say things like "The cruelty is the point,...
2/09/2025

Democrats Need to Stop Being Afraid of Being Democrats

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In Kamala Harris's speech accepting the Democratic nomination for president in Chicago in August, one key word and its variations were ...
2/02/2025

Note to Democrats: We're Freaking the Fuck Out and You're Not Helping Us Enough

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I know so many people who are scared to death or freaking the fuck out about all of the ways that the administration of Donald Trump (aka ...
1/24/2025

Week One in the Death of America: There Is No United States Without Diversity

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If you're like me, you're sitting there thinking, "What the actual fuck is even happening?" in reaction to the wave of nat...
1/20/2025

Martin Luther King Would Still Fuck Trump's Shit Up (Into the American Twilight Edition)

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I don't have the bandwidth to go deeply into the complete fucking over of everything Martin Luther King, Jr. lived and died for with tod...
1/18/2025

Informing Ourselves to Death: Trump's Win and American Stupidity (Part 2)

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(Part 1 is here .) We've seen definite signs of the abject stupidity of the American voter in 2024 in so many ways. There are the states...
1/12/2025

Informing Ourselves to Death: Another Explanation of Why Harris Lost (Part 1)

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We keep getting "deep dives" into why Kamala Harris lost and Donald Trump won. They can be big reasons , like racism and sexism, o...
1/03/2025

To Make It Through the Next Four Years, Stop Hoping Someone Saves Us

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Even though I've bailed on Uncle Elroy's Phantasmagorical Hellscape of Incel Nazis and Rapey Transphobes, I keep my ear to the socia...
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...