Feb 12, 2021
As it becomes increasingly clear – barring a miracle – that most Senate Republicans seem poised to excuse a fascist insurrection, certain horrors long past are beginning to impinge on the present. I don’t mean to suggest that history is perfectly...
Feb 11, 2021
The Senate GOP’s Coward Caucus is infested with abetters of home-grown fascism and is poised to exonerate the goon most responsible for the rabble violence that occurred on the day that will live in infamy. But you’d think they’d at least open their...
Feb 10, 2021
Remember back when you were a kid (bear with me if you weren’t this kind of kid) and you were up against a term paper deadline but because you were lazy or overwhelmed you hadn’t done a lick of research, so you just decided to wing it with swollen prose like “The...
Feb 8, 2021
Liz Cheney, who rightly eviscerates the insurrectionist in exile, comes with many caveats. She told Fox News yesterday that Republicans should renounce Trumpism and become “the party of truth” – which was a tad ironic, given all the serial lies her...
Feb 7, 2021
Uncle Joe can twist the knife when he needs to. He did it on Friday, while touting his economic rescue plan to speedily alleviate “the enormous pain” of the pandemic: “I believe the American people are looking right now to their government for help,...