During Trump University professor Donald Trump’s weekend lecture in Fascist 101, he said something so egregious, something so reeking in criminality, something so steeped in cesspool stench, that it actually got major play in the mainstream media. While...
By Chris Satullo Back in 2004, a wise man named George Lakoff wrote these words: “Facts bounce off frames.” Translation: Once we humans find a satisfying narrative to explain the world and our place in it, we cling to it stubbornly. Usually this is because a)...
I’ll take a wild guess that you cringe every time your phone buzzes with a news alert. This week has been particularly busy (although, given what awaits us during the next eight months, it will surely look tame in retrospect). If you’ve had trouble keeping...
There are lots of thankless odious jobs in America – sanitation worker, septic tank repairman – but surely none are worse than cleaning up Donald Trump’s serial excrement. That goes double for his top female acolytes, who are tasked with defending a...
If you haven’t had a chance to catch Katie Britt’s fake emotional mishmash – her failed audition for an eighth grade production of The Stepford Wives – you’re in for a treat. But if your time is too precious to waste on the junior...