Tweetle Dumb
So I wake up on Sunday morning, grab the smartphone like a chain smoker grabbing a pack of cigarettes off the night stand, open up Twitter to scan the headlines. . .and all of a sudden it’s Groundhog...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Democrats
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Okay, that isn’t quite accurate. Given the dumpster fire that is modern politics, I should say it’s more like just the worst of times—but I...
View ArticleGreat White Dork
Some posts just write themselves. So Twitter blew up again last night. If you’re at all familiar with that social media platform, you know such a thing isn’t at all unusual—point of fact, Twitter...
View ArticleBeer, Bros and Barstool Sports: Masculinity is Alive and Well
I can hear the guffaws from the locker room already: “Giller is writing about sports? What’s the matter, did the VCR finally chew up his old VHS copy of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan?” Yeah, yeah,...
View ArticleJoe and the Giant Impeachment
Ah, impeachment. I remember back in the days of Bill Clinton, when I cheered it on. To be sure, he deserved it—the man had, after all, whipped it out in front of Paula Jones years before and...
View ArticleImpeachment as a Panic Move
In case you haven’t figured it out yet, the degenerate state of our politics these days largely comes down to two things: One, the people running the show aren’t nearly as smart as they would have you...
View ArticleThere Is A Deep State After All
The revelation that a CIA officer is likely the whistleblower who blew the whistle on Donald Trump’s phone call with the Ukrainian president brought to mind something I saw shortly after the President...
View ArticleTheater of the Absurd
The headlines this morning reminded me of an old song: There’s a man who lives a live of dangerTo everyone he meets, he stays a strangerWith every leak he makes another impeachment story breaksOdds...
View ArticleOur Corporate Overlords
Just so we’re clear on the subject, I don’t support a private prison system. Whereas the private sector invariably does things better than government ever could, in my view prisons fall into a gray...
View ArticleRashida Tlaib: Willing Dupe
I think we can all agree that Michigan Representative Rashida Tlaib is crazier than the ex-girlfriend in a Miranda Lambert song. Her antics with the DC Mean Girls clique have already become the stuff...
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