It’s bad enough that practically in the blinking of an eye, America has become a fascist nation (okay, 1971-2016 is a little more than a blink, and it wasn’t that great before 1971, but you take my point): but we couldn’t even get the good fascists, the clever, Bond villain fascists with immaculately tailored suits…

What symmetry, as Senate Republicans turn up the volume to drown out this woman’s screams, just as Brett Kavanaugh and Mark Judge did all those years ago.

Yeah yeah: “Hello, everybody. This is Mrs. Norman Maine.” Whatever.

You’re absolutely right, and I knew better. My dumb careless bad.

Oh, grand: a fitting end for little mister Bring It On Donald, “may be bad for America but great for CBS,” under whose leadership CBS has veered so dangerously to the right, becoming part of the corporate press machine that elevated Donald to the presidency and has (since the downfall of Dan Rather) helped run…

So George is threatening everybody with the Genovese crime family. The Genovese family has been close to Donald Trump ever since Roy Cohn fixed him up with Fat Tony Salerno back in the day. Questions: Is George just fantasizing, or did the mob extend its protections to Zimmerman? If it extended its protections to…

The Republicans’ “slow-rolling coup d’etat” is all but complete. What began in 1987 with the takedown of the Fairness Doctrine (or more precisely, in 1985, with the granting of citizenship to Rupert Murdoch so that he could expand his propaganda empire in this country), took root with the Gingrich insurgency of 1994,…

The more these people chime in with this crap, the more I’m inclined to think the op-ed itself was one of those Bannon-style distractions: if not for the op-ed, the national press might have felt compelled to do at least a little bit of coverage of their boy Brett Kavanaugh and his appalling performance at these…

Fire hoses, police dogs, tear gas, night sticks, sniper rifles, Nixon’s “hard hats,” mass arrests and mayhem—-you know, the good old days, the glory days of Lester Maddox, George Wallace, Barry Goldwater, Cecil Price, and Fred Trump.

Minor Republican officials and candidates all over the country are suddenly being exposed for these kinds of really vile, insanely racist remarks.

Trolling or not trolling, she’s really just annoying. If she was an even remotely decent human woman—-a crusader for human rights or child welfare who just happens to prefer six-inch heels and expensive ugly clothes, and who, kidnapped by aliens, woke up to find she was married to that creepy Donald and had no choice…

In case anybody was still wondering about how it is that a young woman just out for a jog is vulnerable to male violence in this stinking, retrograde country, and nothing changes no matter who gets “deported” or “suspended,”or whatever, here we all are.

There’s a long list of TV comedies and movies in which spanking or beating of the female leads is one of the core jokes, often highly sexualized, always played for laughs. Look at John Ford’s oeuvre, including his most beloved movie, The Quiet Man, along with his doggos like the utterly horrid Donovan’s Reef.

It’s horrendous and heartbreaking.

But he’s not a woman, so it’s okay. Haven’t you ever had the bros brosplain this to you? with that sadder-but-wiser look on their faces? about how, Jeez, sorry Nature isn’t fair, but you chicks are the ones who get pregnant, that’s just the way it is, you can’t undo Nature (this is often shortly before they explain to…

The Mollie Tibbetts case, like the Shannan Watts case, like so heartbreakingly many others, is about male violence and entitlement. Period. It’s not about race. It’s not about immigration status. It’s not about ethnicity or faith. It’s about toxic maleness, and a culture that conditions men to dominate women through a…

It’s weird how many of the people who claim to be Vietnam vets, and who claim to be personally triggered by Fonda because of her alleged betrayal of McCain in Hanoi, are ardent Donald fans who shriek with laughter when the old fascist goon takes one of his cruel little potshots at the dying senator.

Indeed, she was an accomplished hostess, as officers’ wives had to be (and presumably still must be). But while she had always functioned more than ably within the closed world of the military and adapted to Ike’s post-war ambitions, she was not, at first, particularly happy about the media fishbowl that came with…

She’s a dreadful human. Really dreadful. Opportunistic, anomic, disturbingly empty. There appears to be no there there.

This guy Patrick Little? He too is absurd, but also, like Jason Kessler, not merely pathological, but pathologically evil: obsessed with “the Jewish conspiracy,” his imaginary friend Shlomo, and a not at all amusing lust for a Final Solution.