There are a lot of people out there whose entire sex education consists of having read the rape scene in Atlas Shrugged when they were sixteen. And they thought it was right sexy. Plus such an insight into What Women Want.

Oh God, gag, ugh. No more. For the love of heaven, no more.

That old lard-stuffed Dreamsicle is so lucky to be played by Gary Cole, an actually good looking and sexy older man. Certainly way better than the vile old tinted fascist deserves.

50 Shades of Gray isn’t running for president? 50 Shades of Gray isn’t besties with Vladimir Putin? 50 Shades of Gray doesn’t have two horrible sons who like to be photographed with mutilated animals?

As I’ve said before: NBC is in this kind of thing up to its eyeballs. Trump—a notorious abuser of women, with several charges of actual rape oozing around in the background—worked for them, is still close to corporate NBC/Comcast including network news chairman Andy Lack, and has received incredibly positive treatment…

This dreadful woman, a long time right wing grifter who has rented herself out as a culture warrior on a range of issues from pro-Big Tobacco to anti-choice, was boosted into national prominence by the odious Andrew Sullivan during his brief inglorious reign as editor of The New Republic. We wouldn’t even be hearing…

Considering that until surprisingly recently NBC also kind of employed the colossaly abusive Donald Trump himself, and that Trump has clearly maintained close and cordial relationships with network executives like Andy Lack and—until recently, at least—on-air political personalities like Joe Scarborough, Billy seems…

The great blessing for the US is that Trump is too witless to be Hitler, while Charles Koch, who is clever enough, has all the charisma of an empty banana peel. We have been spared our own Hitler (so far) by mere luck, rather than whatever it is we imagine American virtue to be.

Scott Baio?

I really hope somebody at the “debate” brings home the two critical realities of this whole crazy moment:

This matters. There were a few Republicans who refused to support the guy before it was safe, some all the way back to the beginning—some of them for pretty decent reasons, others out of more obscure motives, but hey, at least they were on the right side. There are so, so few of them that it actually wouldn’t take a…

At least Tic Tac has an answer if anybody asks them why now, instead of back when the fetid old son of a bitch was smearing Mexicans and Muslims, sending his sons on white supremacist radio shows, accepting the support of anti-Semites and Klansmen, etc.

Poor Taylor Swift. First, those creepy alt-right boys, then this guy.

Bobby, you BASTARD. My withered old heart is brimming over with tears.

She’s an outstanding actor and simply gorgeous for anyone of any age, but especially gorgeous for an old broad (and I say this with the utmost respect, being an old broad myself, although considerably less well-preserved).

The real story is no longer even remotely that this deranged, colossally ignorant, mendacious, and malicious man has somehow become the nominee of a major party. The Republican Party is nothing but a racist con job and money-laundering operation anyhow, it has been running on fumes for a generation. So yeah, whatever.…

Well, it’s sure all of a piece, around the world from Europe to the antipodes, and right here at home as well. Poland, Hungary (and God help them, because they’re descending into outright fascism), Germany, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and, of course, the good old US of A.

I would not be able to eat food prepared in that kitchen. The one photo made me actually, I don’t know, seasick or something. That is the worst kitchen I have ever seen.

God, I remember this. I loved this story. Everybody did. I’d forgotten all about it, including the part about Prince Frederick von Anhalt. That he existed at all was completely weird. These were the kinds of characters Christopher Hitchens was talking about when he referred once upon a time to the “international…

Yes. This guy would be nothing but a trust fund brat with a crappy reality TV show, some foundering real estate holdings, and a lot of Russian “financial partners,” if it were not for Republican voters. He is a fascistic old creep, but they are a friggin’ lynch mob. If they were capable of a sense of shame, they would…