Studio producer: Boys! Are you buzzing? Beatle John: No thanks! We've got the car!  -- from " Help! " Having survived - barely...

I woke up this morning to reports of the US Embassy in Baghdad under siege by protesters angered up by recent military strikes on Shiite st...

Every end of the year, Batocchio hosts a blog round-up of recommended reads in honor of political blogger Jon Swift . I am honored to be o...

Just saying IO SATURNALIA and that hopefully I'll be posting some thoughts on stuff soon. It's been a hectic week and the need to ...

trump, for some reason encouraged by people other than his lawyers, sent a six-page letter to Speaker Pelosi which can charitably be called...

An honest-to-Saturn Impeachment process that forces an obstructionist Republican Senate to sincerely consider the reasons to remove donald t...

So despite some early hopes that the youth vote turnout would flip enough districts in the UK, the British General Election right now is sho...

This is just one step, there are more to come, but the Democrats in the U.S. House announced two articles of Impeachment on President Loser...

Didn't know about it until earlier this week that trump was going over to Europe to hang out with our nation's NATO allies, and I al...

There's not much to say this year as we're all preparing for the nightmarish political landscape of a Presidential election cycle. ...

Ahhh, SCHADENFREUDE is the tastiest freude . Via Emptywheel: During the break in Yovanovitch’s testimony, the jury in Roger Stone’s trial...

(Update 11/15/19) : A big thanks to Batocchio for linking me again to Crooks & Liars' Mike's Blog Round-Up! If any of you are ...

Oh man, trump's only been in the Sunshine State as an official resident for less than two months and already his crooked family is f-cki...

From Flanders Field, this. In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row,     That mark our place; and in the s...

Oh dear Gods. trump really wants to keep trying this (via Sports Illustrated which apparently can't stick to sports like SOME compromi...

This is the last person we need to turn himself into a Florida Man . NOOOOOoooooooooooo. Via Elliott Hannon at Slate : Donald Trump has...

I'm digging in my heels and getting sh-t done. I promise. Like the last 12 times. It's gonna be a book about aliens! And t...

It'd probably sound and look a lot like this: And it didn't end there, as reported via NBC News (by Richie Duchon): Some ...

By the by, I finished reading the Mueller Report . Well, the parts of it that weren't redacted . There's not much to say about ...

Okay, I know there's a ton of spinoffs out there and there's no way the story will end here... But this is the official Canon seri...