The Rectification of Names

  In the email from rightwing poll aggregator Real Clear Politics: Sweet Christ, Carl, you're still fretting about how four and a half y...

  Director of Central Intelligence lies to Senator Ossoff. Unsurprisingly, Pete Hegseth's first instinct was to lie about the thing, bra...

One of my nephews—a good and smart kid (actually past 30 and becoming a father next month but they're all forever kids to me), but...

  " It's part of a wider strategy to obfuscate MAGA antisemitism and an increasingly fascist regime   Gift link to the piece. ...

  This may be more obvious than I think, but this week's votes on a continuing resolution to keep the government going past Friday...

  He doesn't look  like an African explorer called Dr. Spaulding. He looks like a Commie from the Lower East Side. Duck Soup, 1933. Th...

  Prime Minister Winston Churchill in "siren suit" visiting the White ...

Watching King Abdullah and Marco Rubio squirm in their seats while Trump continues on about his Gaza plan is quite something. ...

  From Michael Meschke's production of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi , St...

Image from The New York Times of the US Navy Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The "Migrant Tent Camp" at lower left is an area that ...

  Image by Markerarts via Butt Flood Designs . One thing to remember about Stephen Bannon's celebrated tactical principle of "...

Dominance and Submission. Photo by Reuters/Jonathan Drake via Hawaii Tribune-Herald . There's way too much going on. Two bogus emerg...

Is that the Mar-a-Lago Cuckoo? From Sun Valley Serenade (1941), with the Glenn Miller Orchestra and the always unbearably smug-faced...

Sorry about this piece of AI dreck, I saw it and couldn't resist it. I think the source has something to do with crypto, I won't lin...

Screenshot via ABC News , October 2023 I'll get to Carter in a moment. But first I have a few words to say about Hu Yaobang, the popular...

The civil war has started, apparently, but it's all on their side. I mean, they're fighting over who owns Trump, at least initi...

  I've felt a kind of proprietary interest in Jimmy Carter for all these years—pretty sure I've mentioned this before—because he...

Supermercado Batocchio, in Resistencia, Argentina.   Batocchio's annual Jon Swift Roundup (the Best Posts of the Year, Chosen by the Bl...

One thing I think people are missing is the significance of the scene in the president-elect's box at the Army-Navy football game ...

Saw something yesterday that tempted me to go have a look at something written by enemy of democracy Curtis Yarvin, the artist formerly know...