When newsrooms need to lock their doors, their ability to serve their readers and viewers is sadly impeded I became a journalist, in part, because I was able to walk through the […]
Journalism shouldn’t be dangerous — but it is now
Big Rock Candy Mountain
From Let Them Eat Cake, it’s Neo-Feudal Society!
Prayer, or even fake prayer, is a magic get out of jail free card
Everything is wrong with this story I’m not even sure who the most stupid party is in this story. NBC reports (if you can call it that): Supreme Court sends back appeal […]
Meet your newest die-hard I’m so blue it hurts Democrat
Sometimes even I can’t tell when I’m writing satire I do napkin math. I like sloppy numbers. I especially like sloppy big numbers, where the margin of error could be in the […]
Border proposal: a high-speed commuter rail line
It’s not enough to complain and resist. We need forward-thinking ideas. I had an idea at work earlier. Good or bad, at least it’s an idea, something Democratic leadership seems to be […]
Trump’s GOP: the Family Feud party
Welcome to the GOP Family Feud, where there’s no answer so bad it won’t elicit enthusiastic, unanimous support. Ever watch Family Feud? It seems like this moment happens in every show. The […]
Starfish! Hero of the Realm!
We need a new kind of hero today, one in keeping with the spirit of the times, a hero with today’s very best virtues. The greatest virtues. Heroic virtues like you’ve never […]
(Our) forbidden planet
Maybe we didn’t have any respect for facts, but we had volume. We didn’t really need the Russians. We were doing fine at self-destruction all by ourselves. One of my favorite movies, […]
SS Huckabee, the horse she rode in on, and let’s not stop there
If you cannot see that Trump has more in common, character-wise, with Biff Tannen than not, you’re not trying. That’s what makes everyone else think you’re really, simply just lying to them. […]
Police state media: does CBS know what “misdemeanor” means?
At the time Rose was executed in the street by unaccountable violent police state power, the crime in which he was in commission was the crime of…fleeing. He was fleeing. I really […]
