May 8 Open Thread: Pervs ❤️ New York
Calling all pervs -- there's a government job for you in New York, at least if you're a male Democrat. Eliot Spitzer's call girl problem looks tame next to Anthony…
May 7 Open Thread: Anything Trump Can Do, He Can Do Trumpier
If you're having a race to the bottom, you shouldn't invite a guy who makes his living underground. Don Blankenship, America's most lethal boss, went ballistic this morning when Trump…
Open Thread, May 6: Approaching the Event Horizon
Sorry for the interruption, I had a lot of gardening to catch up on. I also developed a theory that Donald Trump is a black hole of such massive proportions…
Open Thread May 4: No More Fucks to Give
Sorry, but I've run out of fucks to give. I think it was Trump's Dr. Bizarro that tipped me over the edge, actually admitting that he didn't write the statement…
Who’s Against Taking Guns From the Mentally Ill? That Answers Itself
You might have heard of a fella name of Earl Lofland, Earl R. Lofland, Earl R. Lofland of Clayton, Del. This fella seems to harbor a grudge of long standing…
May 1 Open Thread: Refuse to Lose, Even After You’ve Lost
To everyone else, "refuse to lose" is a sales-motivational cliche. To Republicans, it's an operating system. So even if you're Roy Moore, and you lost not just the election but…
Pete Schwartzkopf Rips Dover Downs a New One
As El Somnambulo predicted last week, the casino giveway relief bill that sailed through the state Senate on a 17-3 vote faces a tougher road in the House, where its…
April 30 Open Thread: Won’t Someone Think of the Trumpkins?
Washington is running out of fainting couches, as dozens of media figures have joined conservative snowflakes in expressing shock, shock at Michelle Wolf's routine Saturday night at the White House…
Lynching Memorial Opens to Near-Universal Praise
Last Thursday the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, better known as the lynching memorial, opened to wide coverage and effusive praise from all quarters -- well, almost all quarters.…
April 29 Open Thread: NRA Convention Bans Guns for Veep
The jokes write themselves. The NRA convention, the ultimate gathering of self-defined good guys with guns, has banned their fetish objects for a speech by VP Mike Pence because the…
April 28 Open Thread: Pew Says Democrats No Longer Want Compromise
Somebody please show this Pew Research graph to Chris Coons: It shows that, while Democratic voters used to value compromise more than Republicans, but over the past year that's no…
Democratic Leaders to Liberal Candidates: Get Lost, We Prefer Moderates
Liberals have realized for a long time now that the leadership of the Democratic Party is beholden to business interests and therefore is only as liberal as corporate America will…
April 27 Open Thread: The More He Talks, the More He Accidentally Reveals
Pundits are still buzzing over Trump's disastrous phone-in interview on yesterday's "Fox & Friends," which triggered two court filings by the end of the day. Prosecutors are in luck; Kellyanne…