June 5 marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy and controversy still rages about the circumstances of his death. Kennedy was shot in the head in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles...
My mentor and hero Charlie Pierce over at Esquire has a blurb that is just too good to miss, or too bad, really doesn't matter, when someone throws you a softball, for godsake hit it!
Down Arkansas way, a 47...
Political runs a fascinating article on Mother's Day about the possible causes of Trump's often described narcissism, sociopathic and/or psychopathic nature, paranoia, conspiracy obsession, and just all around general meanness. The article notes that Trump distrusts psychologists and any...
I'll be honest, I am not loving this. As the unplanned dismissal rate in the Trump administration rises like the "Viet Cong body count" in an old Pentagon press release, more and more media analysts are bemoaning the fact...
When I got up this morning to the news that the DNC was suing the Trump campaign and a bunch of Russians for oodles of money in damages, I was flummoxed. My initial thought was “Why in the hell are they doing something so stupid?” My reasoning came down to two simple problems with the […]
Ya know, there are some people that you can just blow off, and not take any heat. But then again, there are some people that it is better not to irritate. For instance, telling your principal after a schoolyard fight that his mother dresses him funny is not a good way to keep your parents from […]
