If we pool our money we can save up for tumbrils and guillotines for the kind of people who drop a grand for a dog bed, in a suffering world.

Maybe people should start slipping photos of Gerri Santoro in with the condoms, the wine coolers, and the super-giant-print leatherette Bibles. Just as a reminder.

Clinton would have done lasting damage to the country if he’d knuckled under and resigned. The Republican smear and agitprop machine had already done a lot of damage to constitutional order and democratic norms over the previous two decades, going back to the Powell Memorandum, as it was gearing up for business.

In order even to guess what the mystery rejected policies might have been, I’d have to read the Times, which I’ve refused to do since I canceled my subscription over a year ago in a belated fit of rage at their unconscionable (and deeply, mind-blowingly dishonest) anti-Clinton coverage throughout the 2016 campaign.

Les Moonves deserves to be remembered for precisely three things:

Now that Donald has pissed off Charles Koch, these people are going to have to find some other dark money billionaire front organization to buy up massive quantities of these loony right-wing books (they give them away on National Review cruises and jam them into the foundations of new skyscrapers and stuff), so it…

Whatever points the mad Archduke of Queens is trying to score with his Jew-hating chums (especially his new chums overseas, who have quite the history of that sort of thing), the fact remains that in the very small world of Upper East Side trust fund brats, Jared and Ivanka each married the only person around who…

I cannot figure out a way, within statute and precedent, that she could have decided otherwise, in a way that wouldn’t have ended up making it all but impossible for decent people to protest indecent things. This reveals one of the (many) great flaws and weaknesses of our constitutional system: any law or ruling that…

Jeez. Shon Hopwood. This is so Trump.

I’m sorry, these Master Race people are very horrible and creepy, and this Kjjjjrssttttjjjjjjn Njjjjjlsjjjjjjn is one of the worst, despite her fine Norwegian Blood and her luminous blondness, and to make matters still worse these blood-and-soil obsessed fascists do seem to own the government and have a lot of armed…

New York is a company town: the business is high level finance and big ticket real estate. The New York Times is a company newspaper. To the extent that we identify “right wing” with pro-corporate, anti-worker, elitist, and, when necessary, pro-authoritarian, the New York Times is for sure a right wing newspaper.

There are so many awful stories, but one of the most awful realities is that the rate of abortion doesn’t actually go down when reactionary theocrats impose reactionary, theocratic laws: the rate of safe, legal abortion goes down.

Meanwhile, there’s this, from the Peck’s Bad Boy of the cool, hip, Bannon/Mercer right:https://observer.com/2018/06/milo-yiannopoulos-encourages-vigilantes-start-gunning-journalists-down/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Tucker’s mother abandoned him and his equally hideous brother Buckley when Tucker was only six.

People don’t do nuance any more, and besides, the Steve Bannon crew, highly paid liars without souls, are like those cynical old publicists who used to scan terrible reviews of the godawful movies they were charged with promoting to find a few random phrases that sounded like highest praise.

I was angry and outraged and offended by so many of the “civility” remarks in this New York Times-inspired feeding frenzy (in 2016 the Times changed the tone of the campaign through relentless attacks on Hillary’s clothes, emails, husband, history, and fundraising: in 2018, they seem to be going for a shortcut as they…

Just when you think it can’t get any worse than Melania Trump and Sarah Sanders, the reactionaries remind you that they have Rebekah Mercer, too.

Charles Koch, the octogenarian trust fund brat, fossil fuel heir, and actual Bond villain, is spending a shit-ton of his inheritance on cultivating and developing a fascist youth movement in our dying university system.

The benefits of costly food scams notwithstanding, oh Ivana: I hate being old too, but that thing that happens to the pruned, starved, sculpted, Restylaned, cold-skim-on-the-cafe-society face is just too creepy.

Because of a weird bone deformity compounded by searingly awful arthritis I literally cannot wear heels at all, except for very clunky, blocky ones with big thick Cuban heels—-the minute I try to stand up in a pair of normal heels, this absolutely savage pain tears through my feet, and there’s no point in my…