Monday, December 31, 2018
Baghdad Cafe
Americans in Paris
No Other Niche
Republicans want there to be only one viable niche left—theirs. That is the imaginary niche of apex predators a generation or two removed from actually having to hunt.
They inhabit a restaurant where they are served endlessly for doing nothing. Productivity only soils the hands of losers. Republicans underpay, exploit and revile them.
Working niches are no longer viable. Therefore, none of it is viable. That is the Republican myth--that neverending exploitation, of people and resources, is sustainable.
Saturday, December 29, 2018
None Dare Call It Treason
Huge Shocker
Friday, December 28, 2018
Making Adultery Great Again
It testifies to the great American economy and to the honor and generosity of its citizens that we can afford to pour pasta down the throat of Newt Gingrich. Callista, too! They must be making invaluable contributions to intercultural and culinary understanding and furthering the principles of chastity, decency, and care for the poor.
And, thank God, Newt is finally too hideously fat, ugly and out-of-shape to pursue another affair. Or, so we assume. How many would that be? I lost count.
Trump's Wa-Wa
Little Donnie Trump wants his wa-wa. Donnie is throwing a huge tantrum over his wa-wa. But Donnie is super rich and a racist running a country so this isn't just any wa-wa. And it isn't just any tantrum.
Donnie is lashing out in every direction, as oblivious to the results as any spoiled child. His world is himself. For fuck's sake, somebody find a viable pacifier. The wail is hard to bear. And he's dangerous.
Wednesday, December 26, 2018
No Exit
Ask them what they have in store for us now that their leader and example of patriotism and virtue, Trump, is in charge. Ask them how he represents their standards of democracy and decency.
Tuesday, December 25, 2018
A Geneology of Immorality
Monday, December 24, 2018
The Circle is Unbroken
Friday, December 21, 2018
Let’s Get Real
Thursday, December 20, 2018
Sappy Holidays
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
Free Stuff
Paul Ryan: An Incredible Fraud
How to Cook Wolves
DefCon Trump
Are We “Great Again” Yet?
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Privilege for Everyone
Monday, December 17, 2018
Huge Hissy Fight
Hate, Actually
Extraordinary Rendering
From Russia With Predictable Intent
America would never do that.
Sunday, December 16, 2018
Oh, Glorious Day! Die, Americans!
Death to America!
The judge, appointed by Bush, is another hideous hack, true believer and incompetent with the usual array of Republican fixations and obsessions but it all comes down to cutting taxes on the rich and screwing everyone else. It is so extreme they would rather put a match to the money than spend it on average citizens.
This they did very effectively in the Middle East, where trillions have gone up in smoke. They begrudge lesser people everything--jobs, voting rights and even life itself. Out of respect and decency, I ask only that they kill us without the gloating and celebration. Is it so much to ask? We are still citizens, after all.
Thursday, December 13, 2018
All About Eve
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Broke It
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
The Liar in Winter
Things are looking bad for Trump and Trump, a vain man, is looking bad--old, haggard, stooped and spent. His eyes are vacant and his jaws seem ready to unhinge and fly away with him, Donald dangling below like flying monkey-prey. He strikes out and struggles to maintain his power.
His world is ending. Hairy, hoary, bloated and boastful, Donald still thinks only of himself. He tries to keep control out of habit and instinct, maybe fearing his successor will be a tyrant as well or expose him as a loser, exacting justice for his crimes. Republicans fear justice more than anything.
Kanye for Chief of Staff
Oh, My God! The Emails!
Sunday, December 9, 2018
John Kelly Heads for the Door
Antics Roadshow
Trump is Toast
Friday, December 7, 2018
You Could Be a Roux
Perverse Mueller Outcome
Rogue Species Threatens Planet
The representative then commented on her ass and tits and asked her to accompany him to a hotel owned by him and bragged about his greatness and immense wealth. When further pressed about planetary annihilation he said he would be dead anyway and that his heirs and family would have enough money to save themselves and who gave a shit about a bunch of bugs, beasts, birds and poor people anyway.
Thursday, December 6, 2018
Dying is for Losers
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
What Child is This?
In the Spirit of Donald Trump...
The New Usual
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
China Syndrome
Monday, December 3, 2018
George H. W. Bush and the Roots of Sociopathic Rule
By this they are instilled with a lack of circumspection and conscience. How they behave doesn’t matter, the issue having been decided definitively by higher authority. Evangelicals can't imagine that they are wrong in their beliefs. God tells them they are right. Blue bloods like the Bushes also can't imagine that they aren’t infinitely deserving, existentially correct and incapable of materially significant error, by fate and cultural conditioning.
Not that this is ever consciously doubted or questioned. That’s the point. It leads to Trump, in whom the quality of action is so severed from reality behaving horribly is a good thing. Trump’s depravity and incompetence are signs. He was in some way chosen. He has never soiled his hands with work but his soul was blackened with corruption from birth. Let’s remember the real role George H. W. Bush played in the destruction of America.
Sunday, December 2, 2018
Gateway to Hate
Trump Presidency Gas Bags Its Way to Calamity
Saturday, December 1, 2018
The Man with the Bag
Friday, November 30, 2018
Sariah Law
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Trump and the Cherry Tree
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Eyes on Trump
Monday, November 26, 2018
Raiders of the Lost Can of Worms
Mercilessly Ugly and Irresponsible
It can’t be done justice. Therefore, “mercilessly ugly and irresponsible” is my glancing blow for today at all the indefinable insanity.
Friday, November 23, 2018
The One True Church of Trump
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Your Order Has Shipped!
Monday, November 19, 2018
House of Turds
Is it any wonder they are so sensitive about their dignity? They trail Trump around, or Bush before him, cleaning up mess after hideous mess. How dare anyone malign, challenge or insult them as they tail Master Donald with reams of two-ply, sani-wipes and powder with which to dust his white-ass ass?
Americans always were derivative--a nation of imposters, charlatans and wannabes aspiring to some kind of borrowed authenticity. Even that eludes us. It isn’t novel to suggest we are a people destined to track to and converge on a lowest common aspect. But who ever thought the lowest would be so low?
God help us--we inhabit episodes of Maury and Jerry Springer. And reruns, no less. It is so unworthy it calls into question the survival and possibility of dignity. Go now, and marvel at every lie of Sarah Sanders. Her brother is said to have once hung a dog from a tree, you know. Maury, are you there?
Sunday, November 18, 2018
You Might Never Wake Up
I Am at Peace
Saturday, November 17, 2018
Someone to Gloat Over Me . . .
Friday, November 16, 2018
The New Gelded Age
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Trumpolini and the Midterm Meltdown
How does a fascist respond to defeat? Denial. Insults. Lies. Accusations and inflammatory, divisive rhetoric.
Fascists respond to defeat with threats. Fascists isolate themselves and their followers and preach revenge.
Trump is a fascist. His followers and acolytes are fascists. The Republican Party is the American Fascist Party.
Way to go, boys. We are shadows of our past selves, vain and unrecognizable, trailing a troll into the abyss.
Sunday, November 11, 2018
The Peoples Temple of Trump
Saturday, November 10, 2018
Inherit the Whine
Friday, November 9, 2018
I Had a Dream
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Prepare Yourselves
Well, Americans, sit back now and watch as your country is destroyed by the hideous piece of shit Donald Trump. Whatever the reality Trump thinks his disgraceful fear-mongering and appeals to assorted forms of tribal hatred served him well in the midterms.
That means we are going to get plenty more of it. The end of life as we have known it is here. Hold on to your hats.
Election Disaster
Americans have rejected righteousness. They have given up on justice and decency. We are witnessing the spiraling of a society into ruin, a national fall from grace.
Republicans are an identity movement, defined only by resentment. Their stand for nothing but their own dominance. There are no principles or rational policies.
Sunday, November 4, 2018
Bridge Over Troubled WaWa
Saturday, November 3, 2018
The Rapture is Upon Us
Monday, October 29, 2018
Friday, October 26, 2018
Assholes to Ashes
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Only the Good Die at All
The City of God
Monday, October 22, 2018
He Stoops to Conquer
The toxic atmosphere is reduced to the point of survivability but the poison still has an effect. They fall like flies, every hint and reminder of decency fleeing in moral panic. The shells of men are left standing like the discarded husks of morphing insects.
Bodies are enlisted as souls are compromised. Ghouls and zombies stalk the halls of a “white” house. Evil can never really be “incarnated” because the inherent innocence of creation resists its full incorporation, hence the “casting out” of demons.
Cast out the demon Donald. Remove him from your life, for the survival of your soul. Evil is always in the world, whatever its appearance of dormancy. When conditions are right it grows and spreads, fungus-like. Refuse this evil its preferred conditions of fear.
Refuse to be its host. Keep the faith. Your body might not survive the demon’s onslaught but the soul can. I know, it isn’t fair. Nobody did anything to deserve this but it is a reality—the reality of the soul-sucking purity and intensity of the evil of Donald Trump.
Monday, October 15, 2018
Terrifying Stuff
Thursday, October 11, 2018
Suspend Everything
Sunday, October 7, 2018
Living in the CSA
Rather, every defense mechanism has failed and unconscious drives are running the show, not merely "informing" daily life but compelling these organisms on to the murderous flameout demanded by the dark matter they have projected onto minorities and other false vessels for their fears--the fear of justice for their own inhuman corruption.
It is an inversion in which the larger qualities of conscience and humanity are defeated and ruled by a demented, personal, rogue, Satanic government of lies seething with the seeds of its own destruction. The criminally insane have taken over the asylum. We have been hijacked by terrorists and defeated by a mob now looting our corpses.
Now, Trump may be the most incredible liar ever but it is a personal attribute. He isn't part of a social movement or an example of mass psychosis or hysteria. He's an outlier elected opportunistically by greedy people, idiots and religious fanatics. Sarah, by contrast, is an icon and cultural phenomenon, their Greek goddess and patroness of lies. And there will never be an accounting. There will never be justice. Not within that context.
I’m here to tell you that the Confederacy has won the Civil War. They never stopped fighting and now they have won, racism having been subsumed to class hatred and classism having routed democracy, equal protection, inalienable rights and the rule of law. Understand Sarah as speaking for the CSA. Understand Sarah as a clarion of the army of the apocalypse.
Thursday, October 4, 2018
America is Suffering
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Answerable Only to God, If Anyone
It seems that the White House and Sarah Sanders might be ending the whole institution of press briefings.
And why not?
Sarah has made it clear that she answers only to God with whom she has a personal relationship ensuring her salvation. So, why pretend to care what the American people, her employers, think?
How perfectly this fits with an executive branch that answers to no one.
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Almost Gone!
Get a last shot at democracy while you can! Vote in the next election! Someday soon you will remember the experience and marvel at the naiveté of the poor fools, you included, who thought our democracy was unassailable and permanent.
Fail and Flail
Sunday, September 30, 2018
Raw Kavanaugh
Friday, September 28, 2018
The Horror Show Continues
There will never be an end to Republican lies, their quest for power and insistence on ideological purity. I couldn't watch the Kavanaugh spectacle but he proved to be, as I suspected, a pure political hack.
He embodies lying and hypocrisy in a way perfected by Republicans. It guarantees the incapacity of conscience. They have found a way to turn conscience off. Or, many ways, it might be more accurate to say.
Rewards are administered for ideological alignment and punishments for waywardness. Weak, striving, self-serving vermin like Kavanaugh will never stray. He is a partisan, political person to his core and emptied of integrity.
Kavanaugh is aghast that he is accused of sexual assault but it was done in an entirely legal, forthright and appropriate way. He pursued Bill Clinton like an avenging troll in that irregular, rankly partisan investigation.
Later, of course, he discovered he had principles of respect for executive authority and immunity from judgement under George Bush whose crimes defy enumeration.
Thursday, September 27, 2018
The Great Pout
Republicans, after controlling things for decades, still believe or at least pretend to believe that they are put-upon, maligned and disadvantaged. We see in Trump the apotheosis of everything Republican—the aggrieved attitude, the aggression, the greed, the resentment, the delusional grandeur and attachment to melodrama and the sense of a mission to right the wrongs of being disrespected.
What a mess of mistaken, retributive folly. Republicans need to believe that incompetence will never be exposed and uprooted and that justice will never be had. They deny any responsibility. They have never gotten over being uncool in college or some other form of delusional insecurity. Kavanaugh, no? Behold, the Great Pouter prepares to preside:
Get the attitude. Donald is in the lion's den. It is a den aspiring to decency and accountability, the things he most fears and resists. Fear not, Don-boy. Bush destroyed the world and walked away. I doubt you will ever get what you deserve, as a crook and a coward and a bully, to be stripped of everything and put in jail.