Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman was detained for allegedly failing to adhere to hijab (headscarf) rules in Iran. She died at a morality police detainment center. Protests have broken out in Iran following Amini's death with thousands of women burning their veils and hijabs. President Ebrahim Raisi warned that protesters would be dealt with... Continue Reading →
Horton Hears A Race-Baiting
The race for Pennsylvania's open senate seat between John Fetterman and Mehmet Oz is becoming more intense...and hateful. Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman, the Democrat, advocated for the release of Dennis and Lee Horton, long-incarcerated brothers serving life sentences for second-degree murder in a 1993 armed robbery. The brothers' sentences were commuted last year by Governor... Continue Reading →
Wossamotta Trump
Donald Trump's demand that a Special Master be appointed to the declassification case is now backfiring in his fat orange stupid face. Trump's legal team waited several weeks after the FBI seized stolen government documents, many of them classified, from Mar-a-Lago, his country club in South Florida ripe for bedbugs and spies from hostile nations.... Continue Reading →
Brokeback Waters
As this article in The Tempest points out, right-wingers have been upset over a black Little Mermaid since at least 2019. Some conservatives are using the term "blackwashing," stealing the term "whitewashing," which is when a white actor plays a non-white character. I saw a few posts saying Disney should now do live remakes of... Continue Reading →
Great-Great-Fascist-Grandfather
Ron DeSantis may be a sniveling racist lying gaslighting homophobic fascist hypocrite, but his great-great-grandmother was a legit badass. Luigia Colucci left Italy at the height of World War I. She set sail on a steamliner named Patria for the United States with two daughters while pregnant in 1917. She arrived at Ellis Island on February 21,... Continue Reading →
Ixnay Abortionyay Anbay
Lindsey Graham has never been a leader or a man with convictions. He's a spineless coward who has the great fortune of being a United States Senator representing one of the least educated and most backward states in the nation. Graham spent the bulk of his career following Senator John McCain, a man with actual... Continue Reading →
Toxic Water or Toxic President?
The newly-passed PACT Act includes almost $300 billion in new financial benefits for veterans suffering from illnesses caused by burn pit smoke in Iraq and Afghanistan, Agent Orange spraying in Vietnam, and several other military toxic exposure events. It also contains provisions known the “Camp Lejeune Justice Act,” which allows civil suits against the government... Continue Reading →
MAGA Masters
This is my concern...or another one of my concerns. If a Trump-appointed judge can install a Special Master to go over every single document the FBI seized from Trump's bedbug-ridden country club (MAGA-Lard-O is it?) to decide what the Justice Department can and can't use as evidence (mostly can't here), then who will she pick?... Continue Reading →
Special Master’s Master
A federal judge intervened yesterday in the case of Donald Trump stealing government documents, many of which are classified, and appointed an independent arbiter, known as a "Special Master," to review the over 11,000 documents to determine which should be deemed attorney/client privilege and executive privilege. On paper, this sounds fair. Golly gee wilikers, this... Continue Reading →
Sympathy for the Symphony
I blogged some roughs this morning, made a YouTube video of them being drawn, wrote this cartoon, then drew it, and now it's after 3 p.m. on a Sunday. So, I'm taking the rest of the day off which means you're not getting a real column in today's blog. However... I don't want to hear... Continue Reading →