Calvin Candie from "Django Unchained." As a slave owner and unhinged sadist, he's pretty much the slime of humanity, but damn if DiCaprio didn't lavish him with sleazy charm. He's one of the many things about that movie that fascinate me, him and that damn white cake.

I just call him "that hick from Tulare."

The now infamous Devin Nunes, one of many sleazy Congressmen that occupy my home region, now finds himself even more besieged given today’s revelations. It’s being reported that two Trump administration officials helped him access material which subsequently lead Nunes to claim that the names of Trump associates were…

Uh, everything's under control. Situation normal. We had a slight Russian malfunction.

*Robert Browning angrily retweets Stephen King's home address*

If they wanted to convince Nolan, they should really stop wearing hockey pads.

Still trying to erase that movie's existence from my mind. If there ever were things that cannot be unseen…

No basis in fact, but damn if Seward's Folly still doesn't roll off the tongue.

On the international front, today was noteworthy for being the official start of Brexit, with UK Prime Minister Theresa May sending a six-page letter to EU Council President Donald Tusk. The letter stated, among other things, “We are leaving the European Union, but we are not leaving Europe.” Reassuring indeed. Back…

I'm flightless, Doctor. I can only do so much.

Unfortunately, I'm not all that familiar with current dystopian depictions, at least not enough to point out any that wouldn't hold up given how current events are unfolding. The Orwellian nightmare and the Huxley pleasure party are still the main dystopias for me, clichéd as that is. I used to think that the latter…

To be fair, large swathes of Congress would also be surprised to learn that Russia had anything to do with our last election.

While Trump has been busy this week ensuring that Internet service providers will be able to sell information about their customers’ web browsing histories to interested buyers, his Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, has had more prosaic goals in mind. Specifically, Sessions warned cities and states nationwide on Monday…

Even they couldn't stomach the thought of hosting one of his beauty pageants.

In a show of solidarity with abusive employers, Trump signed a bill earlier today that repealed the “Fair Play and Safe Workplaces” rule. This Obama-era regulation ensured that federal contractors and companies with a known record of violating wage and safety laws lost their government contracts if they didn’t comply…

While Trumpcare has fortunately gone down in flames for the moment, even that wasn’t enough to keep its namesake from spreading his particular brand of havoc this week, namely by appointing Roger Severino as the head of the Civil Rights Office at the Department of Health and Human Services. Previously, Severino used…

Today seemed appropriate to delve into another member of Trump’s circle of psychos, sycophants, and overall freaks. The person in question is Roger Stone, a man with a penchant for natty suits, Nixon tattoos, and wild conspiracy theories. He’s been a Republican strategist for decades, all the way back to Nixon himself…

I'm still holding out for Trump and Ivanka drifting down the Amazon.

The man survived a Siberian prison by wearing a dead man's coat. Of course he would find Trump fascinating.

I'm reserving hope for now, given how insane the political atmosphere has become, but if there's any justice still left, it needs to happen.