Eh. I teach satire, for a living, and have for the past fifteen years.

The command of the form that is generally demonstrated here is about what I expect from 100-level students making their first foray into it--not the sort of folks who claim the mantle of “professional” (when it’s convenient, anyway; when it’s not,…

One of the writers here accidentally penning a self-own and tripping over their own dick? I am shocked. Shocked I say!

Look, do media outlets feel forced at times to select stories that they know will perform well by whatever metric they’re using that week to determine whether or not their writers get to keep their jobs? Sure. Do most reputable ones make a habit of lying to their readers? No.

I have never really considered Splinter to be journalism, more aggregation with commentary.

Confirmation bias is a helluva drug.

As is irony. In this post, Splinter is effectively claiming that Inhofe told future officers not to read Splinter, when Inhofe was railing against all mainstream media in general (which Splinter has made a concerted effort to distance itself from).

The publication was never once…

Anticipating anything approaching baseline journalistic standards here is like believing the “purge” was legitimately carried out to get rid of trolls, as opposed to salting the earth from which legitimate criticism of freshman-year-of-college writing practices was launched.

Shocking: Splinter Delivers Piping Hot Take On Speech They’ve Obviously Not Read The Content Of, Are Not Mentioned In.

The guy’s an anti-journalist shitwagon, but this take? This is sort’ve making his argument for him (which is exactly what you should be striving not to do) through misrepresentation of facts in order…

Splinter is good.

Weird. I was waiting for Inhofe to mention Splinter by name in his comments.

President Obama: He made it hard for the economically-anxious working class of the Midwest to grab their bootstraps!!

The Mueller what? Sorry, we need more pieces on AOC!

Okay, in my fantasy, he gets arrested and imprisoned and THEY LET HIM KEEP HIS PHONE. I want to read everything about how much it sucks there for him.

Can’t Evers just fire most of these appointees, though? Obviously, not any of the judicial ones, so that sucks. But the assorted department executives and commission seats should be easy enough to fix once he takes office.  

Six words in favor of Wisconsin: Beer Battered Deep Fried Cheese Curds.

Well the Packers did finally fire Mike McCarthy.

Normally, a story of an emotionally and physically abusive father is a tragic story. In the Trumps’ case? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I say instead of sending his dumbass to prison, we air-drop him into Yellowstone and hunt him for sport.

Who the fuck does Don Jr. think he’s kidding by acting like he spends any time or effort being a father to his children?

CDL here. This case is obviously high-profile, so a different set of constraints exist. But to get credit for substantial assistance, you must be cooperating fully, equivocally, and materially. It’s a pretty high bar. A substantial assistance departure from the sentencing guidelines means you were both willing and…

It means he was very cooperative, and very useful.