Open Thread

Nothing typifies modern "journalism" better than this attempt to answer the rhetorical question, "Why are people glad that Facebook stock belly-flopped?" If we're going to answer that, how about, "Because…

Trumpworld's seams haven't come apart, but they're getting looser now that Trump Co.'s CFO has been subpoenaed. Mike Pompeo and John Bolton apparently see their job the same way their…

Media fecklessness has been on full display since yesterday as outlets fell over each other to breathlessly report that the Freedom Caucus moved to impeach Rod Rosenstein. Very few of…

Do Republican senators like tariffs? No! What will they do about them? Nothing! A number of Republicans who support America's idea of "free trade" have questioned Trump's call for $12…

At this point, Trump is like a drunken frat boy lying on the floor in a puddle of his own piss loudly declaring, "I'm all right!" A lot of Republicans…

I'm going to go ahead and state the obvious here: When you hold a news conference and afterwards 49% of Americans think you committed treason, it doesn't leave you a…

Is Donald Trump trying to goad Joe Biden into running for president? Sure seems that way. He just repeated his claim that Biden is the Democrat he'd most like as…

Having just arrived back from the land of Les Bleus, I thought I'd take a look at how Trump's open treason was playing with the folks back home. As my…

I'm not denying that Scott Pruitt's downfall is satisfying. We all want to see these bastards get theirs, and as Amanda Marcotte says, liberals needed something to celebrate after the…

The headline is my crack at showing the proper level of civility apparently required when pointing out to certain of our fellow citizens that they are monsters -- a notion…

Most people prefer simple narratives to complex ones, which is why Nicholas Sparks sells a lot more novels than, say, David Foster Wallace. It's also why, amid the falling debris…

Anyone who thinks the controversy over Trump's immigration policies will cost Republicans bigly in November had better sober up. The issue is doing exactly what Trump wants -- firing up…