Proudly lowering the level of political discourse
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As a rude young man, I was given a piece of advice that has stuck with me. It's simple in its wording, but it has helped me immensely throughout my life. Three words: "Don't fuck crazy." It means just don't bone someone who is obviously insane. It's the best way to avoid shit that could make your life miserable. Now, you might one day meet someone and think, "Okay, he seems crazy, but not so…
There was another way this all could have gone that I think about quite a bit. I think about the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, when virtually everyone was scared to death of a new form of a virus that we knew almost nothing about and the medical community and governments were trying anything to keep us safe, like masking, like social distancing, like wiping our groceries, things that worked and…
Rapist President Donald Trump bombed at his White House Correspondents Dinner speech/stand-up routine as hard as he keeps threatening to bomb Iran. He completely decimated comedy. He died horribly, just not permanently. The WHCD (motto: "Democracy dies because of us") itself is a completely idiotic vestige of a time long since dead, when journalists and politicos would drink and leak and fuck and…
So, hey, remember when I went dark for like a month last year? That's because I wrote and directed a play at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Now that play, Midnight in Nashville , is running for a couple of weeks in London (the one in England!) from August 26 to September 7 at the Glitch theatre near Waterloo station. All shows at 7 p.m. Same awesome two actors from Edinburgh (who happen to be…
Sure, we are rightly aghast at President Donald "Dumpster Load" Trump's simpering whine of a speech last Thursday about totally fake election interference, setting up both an excuse when Republicans likely have their voluminous asses handed to them in November and a justification for all the fuckery they're going to attempt to mess with the election or to overturn it after the fact. We can get…
Whenever I hear some shrunken-soul member of the supposed left-wing pundit class opine about how Democrats need to "appeal to white working class voters," I think, "What the fuck are Democrats doing that shouldn't appeal to them?" Of course, the answer is that they need to be a little more racist, a little more homo/transphobic, a little less "woke" (whatever the fuck they think that means), a…
In some ways, President Donald Trump has finally achieved his goal of returning to the New York City of the 1980s when a freewheeling Trump did whatever he wanted, was invited on the big talk shows, was a regular at the great restaurants. But not that part. No, what he has done in Washington, D.C. is recreate the Manhattan of his younger years, when the city was still a wreck, still in its…
When three Democratic candidates supported by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a Democrat, won their Democratic primaries last week, the reaction of the center and right of the Democratic Party was, at least in the telling of political media, a deranged fucking freak-out . Driven, as such things are, by nutzoid conservative media declaring, in essence, that the savage Hottentots have overrun…
Donald Trump never wants anything "fixed." He wants it remade in his image. It doesn't matter if what he's doing to something helps it or not. What matters is he can slap his shitty name on it and pretend it's his. It's even better when he can take something someone else built or had dedicated to them and take credit after doing nothing or very little or just fucking it up completely. I think a…
My political theory is simple: most people are fucking idiots. They have the attention span of sugar-filled toddlers given free rein in a wrecked Toys R Us who, after they are done screaming for a while, fall asleep on the pile of moldy dolls they stacked up. They don't care if their rampage hurts them or anyone else as long as they get to rampage, and when they wake up from their naps, they are…
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