Welcome to Oceania!

When I was growing up, everyone had to read George Orwell’s 1984 in High School, and we were constantly warned about the horrors of such a dystopian and terrifying future world. I guess it was okay to teach about the dangers of being passive in the face of totalitarianism back when teachers could relate Winston […]

stand up for comedy

Satire and comedy should be controversial and even offensive if need be, in my opinion. The best humor is funny because it exposes serious flaws in our society – and humanity in general – with a good solid punch line. Humor is supposed to make us laugh, but also make us think about things like […]

deep state my ass!

President Trump continues to claim that the DEEP STATE is somehow out to “get him.” Oh, please. I’m sorry, but if the deep state wanted to get rid of Trump they would never have allowed him to be installed as president in the first place…er, I mean “elected.” If the deep state was out to […]

Rush release of NEW TOTALLY DIFFERENT phone conversation between his esteemed wisdomed greatest President of the United States ever and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. Totally not dictated by Donald Trump – or Stephen Miller – so get that out of your head right now.

(BEGIN TRANSCRIPT. This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. ) His Esteemed Wisdomed Greatest President of the United States Ever Donald Trump (hereafter HEWGPOUSEDT): Good afternoon, my friend. I hope you have been well. Zelensky (Hereafter “THAT GUY FROM UKRAINE”): Hello, my great friend. It is such an honor […]

oh the irony

Clearly, the words irony and hypocrisy don’t exist in president* tRump’s (admittedly) extremely limited vocabulary. Projection also seems to be a big thing with the president* and his fawning minions – like that national disgrace Lindsay Graham. Or maybe we should just call this phenom “Pot-calling-the-kettle-blackism”? Whatever sort of reality-based assessment we can make of […]

good riddance!

Goodbye, Sarah “Huckleberry-Hound” Sanders, we hardly knew ye. Thank god. Last week, Sarah Sanders announced she was stepping down as “president” tRump’s spokesdemon. She was an inveterate liar, only worse. She was an Uber-Christian, evangelical liar. Gosh, there must be what, like hundreds of passages about lying in the Buybull. I assume she should know […]

Umerkin values

California’s loathsome Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter’s wife Margaret pleaded guilty last week to conspiring with her husband to “knowingly and willingly” convert hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign funds for their own personal use. She has agreed to cooperate with State prosecutors in the case against her husband, Duncan “Donut” Hunter (as he is […]