Yeah, I was all ready to go with a rather belated piece, to be called “The Cowards of Lafayette Park”, sniggering at Gen. Mark Milley—“General Sphere”, I was going to call him—but now I’m going to have to scratch that joke, because the general has said the following, in a prerecorded speech to students at…
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Safety First! For sure!
The leadership of the New York Times has justly received a full measure of ridicule for bowing to “woke” fears that a meretricious, right-wing opinion piece by meretricious, right-wing Sen. Tom Cotton might somehow endanger the lives of black Times staffers, even though, “arguably”, allowing street violence and looting might threaten their lives as well….
Colin Powell can talk! I did not see this coming!
Yes, four-star general of the army Colin Powell can talk! I did not know this! And, as it turns out, he’s pretty good at it!, blasting Donald Trump for “drifting away from the Constitution,” “lying all the time”, demonizing immigrants, and grotesquely exploiting the death of George Floyd in a typically Trumpian orgy of self-congratulation….
When does it stop getting worse?
The good news is, the awareness of the prevalence of police brutality in these United States has reached such a point that even Donald Trump feels compelled to express sympathy for its victims. The bad news is, everything else. Unsurprisingly, El Trumpo stayed on message for approximately two seconds, before veering off to denounce, you…
Daniel Drezner can’t spell
Dan, Dan, that Amazin’ Man, gives me another reason to make fun of him, thanks to the headline he’s given to his latest post at the Post, “Why Mike Pompeo is a colossal prig”. You see where I’m going with this one, right? Mikey, aka our secretary of state, may well be “one who offends…
Shorter Bill Barr: “Let it be said of me that in Donald Trump’s first administration I released the guilty. And let it be said of me that in Donald Trump’s second administration I jailed the innocent.”
Over at Lawfare, Robert S. Litt, former associate attorney general (under Clinton) and former general counsel for the Director of National Intelligence (under Obama), makes short work of Attorney General William Barr’s thimble and pea sleight of hand that converted Michael Flynn’s arrant lies into airy nothingness on the grounds that they could not be…
Yo Max Boot! Congratulations on exposing Phyllis Schlafly! Now try exposing yourself! (Well, you know what I mean!)
What is the deal with Max Boot and why do I keep making fun of him? Well, for one thing, his name is really short and fits easily in a headline. Another is that, well, he has a habit of falling short of the truth—the whole truth, that is. El Maxo is a very solid…
Maine Senator Susan Collins is very, very stupid
At first I thought I would come up with something witty for this head, you know, the way I usually do, but then I figured, why should I bust my ass for the likes of Susan “Dumb Little Bitch from Maine” Collins? Amirite or Amirite? Back in the day, a fairly recent day, Susan said…
Are we having fun yet? Why living at the end of history has become the living end
When I went to first grade, I learned to print my name and hide under my desk in case of a nuclear blast. When I went to the movies, I saw news reels of U.S. above-ground atomic weapons tests in Nevada. (Nobody worried about fallout then.) In 1968, my parents could stand on their front…
Mysterious chuckling reported in the vicinity of Karl Marx’s grave
Yeah, Herr Karl got a lot of things wrong, but his prediction that economic collapses would prove endemic to capitalism has yet to fail. Six months ago, if someone had asked you how likely it was that a mysterious epidemic arising in a major country would give rise to fears of a major global economic…