On Thursday, the Wyoming state Senate failed to pass a bill that would have ended the use of the death penalty in the state. While some of the state’s senators likely had the typical reasons for supporting the death penalty (tough on crime, blah blah blah), one woman, Republican Lynn Hutchings of Cheyenne, offered up…
The real national emergency is the fact that I drank nine cans of Diet Dr. Pepper today and still feel alive!
After engineering the longest government shutdown in history over his fixation on a border wall, it appeared that Donald Trump would back down from the idea and sign a bipartisan agreement that doesn’t fund a concrete barrier but includes $1.375 billion for border fencing as well as an increase in funding for…
The question of what Donald Trump calls himself is one that I have never asked myself, but on Thursday, the answer was revealed. In former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe’s upcoming book The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump, he shares this pleasant phone call he received one day…
On Tuesday night, the crowd who had gathered for the annual Westminster Dog Show had a clear champion in their hearts, chanting “Bean, Bean, Bean!” in support of a frisky Sussex spaniel. Others were rooting for Burns, a longhaired dachshund, and a breed that has never won the award for top dog. They were, alas,…
On Sunday night, Representative Ilhan Omar tweeted “It’s all about the Benjamins baby” in response to a statement by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy that he would “take action” against Omar as well as Representative Rashida Tlaib over their criticism of the actions of the Israeli government, criticisms that he…
Amid reports that Amazon is considering pulling out (pun definitely intended) of New York City for its planned second headquarters, the mystery of who leaked Jeff Bezos’s dick pics to the National Enquirer is getting stranger and stranger.
The Jeff Bezos sexting and dick pic saga, a line that brings me little joy to type as we slog through 2019, is continuing. It now appears that it was Michael Sanchez, the brother of Bezos’s girlfriend Lauren Sanchez, who sent the texts to the National Enquirer, according to people who work for the tabloid’s parent…
Hope everyone is staying warm and cozy.
For the first time in the history of the Super Bowl, men will not only be destroying each other’s bodies on the field in order to make their billionaire owners even more wealthy, but dancing as part of one team’s (poorly compensated) cheerleading squad.
Eric Trump went on Fox News Tuesday night to shill like an idiot for his idiot father, but I could barely focus on the words spilling out of his thin, chapped lips due to the beard that has tenuously sprouted on the lower third of his face.
Earlier this week, a video clip of Kamala Harris speaking in 2010 at an event hosted by the Commonwealth Club started making the rounds. The clip shows Harris, who was then the district attorney of San Francisco, championing her efforts to combat chronic school truancy by prosecuting parents of students who habitually…
Yet another former Trump administration lackey has published a tell-all memoir; this time, it’s Cliff Sims, who worked as a communications staffer in the White House before leaving and writing Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House, which is out on Tuesday.
Do you know who Marianne Williamson is? Perhaps like me, you know the New Age spiritual leader and author solely because of this quote from her 1992 bestselling book A Return to Love, a quote which is often mistakenly attributed to Nelson Mandela:
One of the only not truly awful outcomes from Donald Trump’s temper tantrum over his border wall has been watching the meltdown of conservative ghoul Ann Coulter happen in realtime.
It’s Day 34 of the government shutdown. How are you doing?
The walking, speaking corpse that is Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who is reportedly worth about $700 million and yet still allegedly feels compelled to snag Sweet’N Low packets when he visits restaurants in addition to allegedly stealing $120 million from his investors back in the day, was on CNBC Thursday morning…
Vanity Fair released the cover of its annual Hollywood issue is out today, and for the first time ever in the issue’s 25-year history, the majority of its featured stars are actors of color, including a healthy number of women of color.
Texas Representative Sheila Jackson Lee has announced she will resign as the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation in the wake of mounting criticism over a lawsuit filed by a former aide, in which the aide claims Jackson Lee fired her after she alleged she had been sexually assaulted by a former staff…
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