May 23rd, 2024
‘Put Out More Flags’ is the title Evelyn Waugh came up with over sixty years ago for the Samuel Alito…

story, a story with all the sordid absurdity of Waugh’s novel (which features a character named Trumpington!).

And what will the third Alito flag be? I’m gonna predict he keeps a little ancestral home somewhere in the old country which flies this:

May 18th, 2024
Under-delivering? I’ll say.

“I don’t quite understand how we can be paying people who aren’t on the payroll or paying an invoice without checking it and how we can have care being delivered and not know they are under-delivering,” [said a Kent County councillor].

May 8th, 2024
Noem Goes Hoem

With her tail between her legs.

May 8th, 2024
Kristi Noem on her way to…

dispatch them.

May 8th, 2024
‘Asked last week if any of Mr. Kennedy’s health issues could compromise his fitness for the presidency, Stefanie Spear, a spokeswoman for the Kennedy campaign, told The Times, “That is a hilarious suggestion, given the competition.”’

And besides, the brain parasite is dead.

May 4th, 2024
King Lear by Kristi; Folsom Prison Blues by Kristi

Howl, howl, howl, howl! O you are a bad puppy!

As for your tongue, and eyes, I shoot them so,

That Heav’ns vault should crack. O good she is gone forever!

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A reader writes:

Folsom Prison Blues by Kristi

When I was just a baby,
my mama told me, “Kris,
don’t ever kill a puppy
your daughter’s gonna miss.”

But I shot a dog named Cricket
just to watch her die.
When that didn’t cure my bloodlust,
I gave the goat a try.

May 4th, 2024
‘Noem Book Dogged by New Claims of Inaccuracies’

Nice. Another one would be

NOEM HOUNDED BY LIES IN NEW BOOK

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Headlines for two of her lies:

Nikki Haley — Someone Should Put Down that Bitch

I DID KIM JONG UN DOGGY-STYLE

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From The Dakota Scout:

Gov. Kristi Noem blames ghostwriter, editor

for ‘small errors’ in upcoming book

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Noem statement via Fox News:

“They attacked me. And it was a hard decision. It was a choice between keeping my small children and other people safe, or a dangerous editor, and I chose the safety of my children. And South Dakota law states that ghostwriters who make errors can be put down.”

May 3rd, 2024
When you put on too much bronzer…

look out!

March 29th, 2024
‘The Guardian contacted Scott Yenor with a detailed request for comment on this story. [Almost all] of the reply was personal abuse.’

Idaho is mainly in the news lately for the collapse of its statewide ob/gyn facilities; but the Western Theocratic Territory commands attention for many other reasons. Heerespfarrer Yenor, for instance, inspires that state’s Christian nationalists from his academic appointment at Boise State, an actual university (though largely a jockshop), and this startles the Guardian newspaper.

I mean, the Guardian‘s startled that a respectable academic institition lends its reputation to a man whose howls about liberty, women, free thought, and other abominations I will not share here because obscenity laws forbid it.

Nobody’s startled by the bad boys hiding out in the brush outside of Boise, but, well, a professor.

March 26th, 2024
Certainly looks buttoned-down enough in this…

photograph… but also likes to shake his tush...

March 15th, 2024
Things that can bring a plane down.

[T]he plunge may have been caused by a flight attendant hitting a switch on the pilot’s seat while serving a meal, inadvertently activating a motorized feature and pushing the pilot forward into the controls. 

March 13th, 2024
As always, art gets there ever so much sooner than life.

Candace Owens’ theory that Brigitte Macron is actually her own brother recalls Buck Mulligan telling his British lodger about Stephen’s theory of Hamlet.

 “He proves by algebra that Hamlet’s grandson is Shakespeare’s grandfather and that he himself is the ghost of his own father.

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Owens is a fanatic Evangelical, which leads me to this godly cosmic convergence: Sex addict, voyeur, alcoholic, fraudster, Falwell Jr introduces her as an honored speaker at a Liberty University convocation.

The two of them together! There’s so much – intellectually, morally, spiritually – for Liberty students to be proud of.

Don’t miss her delight at “the gift of Kanye West,” another great Christian.

March 10th, 2024
Tradwife’s Pornshare more about her Masturbatory Anti-Biden Fantasies…

… than reality. But I guess it lit up the clits of MAGA.

March 5th, 2024
Struggling to say something snide about this.

Not there yet, but will write more when I arrive.

February 27th, 2024
Shockingly paltry amount.

I’ve been covering campus fraud for a long time; and if you’re lucky enough to be at NYU in a position of real financial responsibility, you should be able to steal at least ten million dollars if you simply put your mind to it.

Alvin Bragg seems to agree, because his office let a finance director at that university who managed to peel off only three million get off with probation plus a teeny weeny restitution.

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