“Oh, the tyranny of kings and of despots!  Oh, fear ye, thou plodding huddled masses, thy masters’ mandate—the divine, minority opulence of the moneyed incorporation, the gentried landowner and the martial dictate of fascist rule—shall forestall thy happiness and render thy inalienable liberty and prosperity but the illusory whims of an unjust world!” Or something… Read more

How about this weather we’re having, huh? I’m going to be that guy this week. Your unconscionably annoying neighbor. That guy who just perpetuates awkward anywhere, any time of day, and has absolutely no shame about it. Who’s actually a horrible influence on your kids, too, for the thirty seconds he talks to them, shirtless… Read more

President Joe Biden visited the Middle East for the first time on Saturday. It only took him 544 days since becoming president to get around to it. He’d been sending a message by abstaining—or trying to—in regard to Saudi and Israeli domestic policy, which, on occasion, can lead to the equivalent of a human rights… Read more

Some of the biggest news this week was the mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois.  You’ve likely heard about it.  It happened on Monday, during a Fourth of July parade.  On Friday, someone walked up behind former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe and shot him dead with a homemade shotgun, while he was speaking in… Read more

I just have to say, what a great time it’s been to start a column summarizing the most important news of the week.  And by ‘great’, I mean ‘Jesus f—ing Christ, what the hell is happening to the legal fabric of this country’? Read more

Well, they did it.  Roe v. Wade was finally overturned on Friday.  After a months-long ballyhoo, incontinence control, outrage and roid rage on the part of both the left and right (and the Court, itself), the decision was handed down by, you guessed it, a 6 to 3 majority. So, that’s done.  There are other… Read more