The Rude Pundit

Over in the Philadelphia Inquirer , the always smart Will Bunch has a column out this week that warns that our current Iran clusterfuck is ...

This week, we got word that the Justice Department is finding it impossible to move forward on the autopen case against former President Jo...

If rapist, convicted felon, and President Donald Trump had waddled up to the front of the House chamber last night and told the gathered Rep...

Over in Munich a week ago, Secretary of State and man who looks like what an old sweat sock smells like, Marco Rubio, gave a speech where h...

This has been a bad week for the future of (gestures at everything) the world. Decisions have been made that will fuck us for years, if not ...

One of the more unpleasant things about living in the NYC area used to be that you were damned to see shit with the Trump name on it. That c...

I’ve been trying to write something about the newly-released tranche of Jeffrey Epstein files for the past couple of hours, and every time I...

As I said nearly a year ago, it's clarifying when you decide that those who are doing harm are simply evil. You stop looking for explan...

It's Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, or "That day when conservatives say that one line from King and pretend that's all he ever sa...

1. The murder of Minneapolis resident Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross should be one of those pivot points in our history, much...

If you need a boost to start this new year right, even as we fall further into the Trump-fucked abyss, I encourage you to watch the entire i...

Last round here. Thanks for all the haiku from far and wide, from across seas and across borders. If yours didn't get picked, it was bec...

And still the haiku poured in, covering every topic under the Trump-eclipsed sun. Let's start today with a personal one from a long-tim...

Already, the email has been reamed out by the tide of haiku pouring in. Apparently, a year of oppression and rage and occasional joy has unl...

What a motherfucker of a year this was. I mean, seriously, it's like this year took all the mothers, lined them up, and fucked them one ...

Like movies about suicidal snowmen and tortured ghosts and pole-frozen tongues, some things are a tradition around the rude house. Beloved r...