As you can see (and may have heard), things are going great guns for St. Timothy of the Wobbly Underthrown Pass. He is 5-1 since taking over from Orton the Castoff, and there have even been rumors of MVP consideration. It truly is an almost-but-not-quite-there Christmas miracle. Today he will face the Vikings who have [...]

Shorter Ross Douthat: Someone should tell the stupid drum-pounding Occupy Wall Street hippies that the real 1% are those selfish bastards who want to protect workers rights and are trying to save the environment as if they think the Earth belongs to them or something.

One of these weeks I’m going to substitute Bristol Palin’s tit-shimmy gif just to bring you people back to earth. And now… Rubicon – K.M.F.D.M. Life In The Factory – Drive-By Truckers Waltz – Hem Olympians – Fuck Buttons Superman Lover – Johnny “Guitar” Watson Vampire Blues – Neil Young By His Grace – Van [...]

Industrialist rentboy Gov. Scott Walker, having given away all of the Wisconsin’s remaining money to his corporatist sugar daddies, needs to fill the state coffers again and he figured the best place to get his hands on some green is from the people who hate his guts, which is pretty much everyone in the state [...]

While Herman Cain stalls for time, extending out his campaign because he has books to unload, his campaign attempts a Hail Mary pass (Mary being someone Herman hasn’t banged … or at least she hasn’t come forward yet. It’s early.) by creating a Women For Herman Cain website  where women testify about how much they [...]

I fully expect all of you to attend  the FDL Book Salon this Sunday, 12/4 (2PM-ish, Pacific time) when I will be hosting Mr James Wolcott and discussing his book, Lucking Out: My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in Seventies New York where we will talk about the four P’s (punk, Patti, porn, and Pauline) [...]

Now that we are beginning to believe that Wembley might suffer from epilepsy, I have turned into one of those obsessive owners/pet parents who hovers around their petchild watching out for any signs of something gang aft agley. I was never this way with my human child, but then we were very fortunate that, besides [...]

Slightly shorter Katie “Rape Apologist/Sexual Harassment Is Enlivening” Roiphe: I have this perfectly lovely and brilliant “friend” who writes these amazing essays after which, for reasons that escape me, my “friend” is mercilessly attacked online by mobs of disrespectful nobodies for supposedly being a smug pretentious over-privileged purveyor of unfounded sociological twaddle. Since I find [...]