I've been rich, and I've been poor, and believe me, rich is better   Sophie Tucker You all know that I've been following politics with more avidity than the Cubs box scores for some 50 years now. And politics ebbs and...
There are certain sects in right-wingnuttia that I think of as the Shock Troops. They take to the airwaves to spew the worst sociopathic garbage that one can conceive of. They are virulent women haters, and anti-Semitism is high...
"Death by a thousand cuts," is how Kanye West, or Ye, describes how he has been torn down, day after day. The fact that 999 of them are self inflicted seems to escape the man entirely, and that's what...
We're seeing a confluence of strange elements coming together right now, forming an alarming kind of political conjunction. MAGA is seeking to become more powerful as Donald Trump seeks to return to the White House. MAGAs' "power" comes from...
Awww, poor Traitor Tot. He is in a place he's never been in his life. Legally he's up shit creek. The House Ways and Means Committee is burning out House break room microwaves to make enough popcorn to last...
One of the most common misperceptions about the Republican Party is that it really wasn't that bad until crazy far-right voters put Donald Trump into the Oval Office. That is not only a lie, it's a dangerous rewriting of...
There comes a point when something can no longer be called a "coincidence" or a "blunder." We've hit that point -- passed it, really -- with the Trump administration and the campaign (they are one and the same, of...
I'm not even going to ask you the question, it's that obvious. If you're human, mor than 4 years ikd, and your parents don't keep you locked in the closet and shove a food tray through the trap door, of course you've...
Well, I suppose this news story at least makes it perfectly clear what ex-New Jersey Governor and once prominent Trump supporter Chris Christie absolutely cannot defend. Finally, after the Orangeutan has called Mexican immigrants rapists, bragged about grabbing women...
Alec Baldwin has been known to be feisty. He's not exactly a guy who hides his feelings. He even had to agree to receive anger management counseling in 2019 after a very heated spat over a parking space in...

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