A Never-Trump Press in Near Panic

“All the News That’s Fit to Print” proclaims the masthead of The New York Times. “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” echoes The Washington Post. “The people have a right to know,” the professors at ...

Witch Doctors Choke On Trump’s Tea Leaves

When a witch doctor reads the leaves in a sucker’s, I mean customer’s, teacup (a process known as “tasseography”), it’s essential that the mark, I mean “sitter,” has actually handled the cup. Say what you will about ...

Urinating on the Taliban: Where Are They Now?

Justin Ropke is dead. He was an Afghanistan war vet who got addicted to heroin and"€”like pretty much everyone who enjoys that drug"€”he OD"€™d. I know of him because he was allegedly involved in the "€œurinating on the ...

Like White on Rice

On Sunday, Mike Cernovich proved that Trump's wiretapping allegations are true. In a piece he wrote for Medium he told the world that "€œSusan Rice, who served as the National Security Adviser under President Obama, has been ...

Vladimir Putin

The Russian Deflection

From where I"€™m sitting"€”and if you want to get technical, it's on a cushioned chair in front of a computer on a farm in Georgia"€”the only way that Russia could possibly have "€œundermined American democracy"€ during the ...

The King of Hatefacts

Oh, no! Steve King gone done it now! He said, "€œWe can"€™t restore our civilization with somebody else's babies."€ Then he doubled down by claiming that blacks and Hispanics would be at each other's throats if whites ever became ...

Intersectional Feminist Catfights Turn Me On

If it was only white women who had voted in the past presidential election, Donald Trump still would have won. The only difference would be that he would also have won the popular vote, and by a 12-point margin. Trump garnered 53% of ...

The Pizzagates of Hell

In the past few weeks, I"€™ve had a good dozen people ask me about "€œPizzagate."€ "€œSo whaddya think, Dave? Is it a real scandal? Is there a "€˜there"€™ there?"€ My best answer is this: If you"€™re an American who is ...

The Price of Bread

Who would be a politician? It is like living in permanent fear of ambush, with everyone waiting to pounce on the first stupid thing that you say or do. To be a politician, therefore, you must be prepared to endure a thousand ...

Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s Malice in Blunderland

If you want to understand Hillary Clinton's campaign for president, a good place to start is the current libel trial against Rolling Stone for publishing Sabrina Rubin Erdely's ridiculous hate hoax article, "€œA Rape on Campus: A ...

Gay Talese

The Gay Talese Affair

How long has The New Yorker been coughing up blood? Not that the magazine ever possessed the talismanic qualities for me that it does for its cultlike subscribers"€”many of whom, let's be honest, use their (mostly unread) copies as ...

The Kindergarten Narrative

Last week I talked about that ingrate Aziz Ansari and how nobody stops to question Indians when they complain about racism, even though they represent the wealthiest ethnic group in the country. Nobody even notices they"€™re Indian. ...


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