Every newspaper I worked for had at least one guy who led a charmed life, who somehow managed to keep his job even though everything he touched turned to shit. Did he have dirty pictures of the publisher? Did he have a rich daddy who was a stockholder in the company? Was he dating the […]
Sometimes you get advice you know is good but just can’t follow because you’re a special kind of asshole. That would describe me, and it’s the reason why I can’t just look the other way when I see stupid people doing evil, stupid things. No doubt my life would be easier if I loved my […]
Whether you’re planning to vote by mail or have decided to brave the COVID breath of your fellow Americans by voting in person, many Democrats (and some enlightened Republicans) have circled Nov. 3 on their calendars as the day we can finally end Donald Trump. Nov. 3, for those of you who have been living […]
The path to hope is fraught with peril, a path I’ve already advised we dare not tread. Hope is the antithesis of my personal credo: expect the worst and you’ll never be disappointed. And yet, against better judgment, I cannot keep from hearing the people who talk about the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, Joe Biden, […]
Why would a trip for a gallon of milk and some stew beef have me humming an old Hank Williams Jr. tune? I live back in the woods you see My woman and the kids and the dogs and me I got a shotgun, a rifle and a four-wheel drive And a country boy can […]
Our sister paper, The Failing New York Times, reported late yesterday that President Donald Trump was briefed back in February that Russian President Vladimir Putin had placed a cash bounty on as many American service members as Taliban forces in Afghanistan could kill. Smart money says that three United States Marines were killed as part […]
People of conscience can remember exactly how they felt in the evening hours of Tuesday, Nov. 8. 2016. It was Election Day, and we were sickened as we watched that big map on our TV screens turn slowly red. But can you remember how you were feeling on Nov. 7, 2016? The challenge is a […]
Strike up the band! Supreme Court rules Donnie and his band of Nazis can’t end DACA program So much . . . losing! After the Supreme Court handed the Führer a defeat earlier this week by ruling that gay and transgender Americans are protected in the workplace by a 1960s civil rights law, the Supremes […]
Ever since moving back south of the Mason-Dixon Line after 25 years in New Jersey, I’ve felt a growing discomfort with the stench of the Confederacy. Not that New Jersey has anything to crow about. There are plenty of galoots up there who wave the rebel flag with even less justification than their fellow galoots […]
I have it on good authority that my last two posts on this site were a little over the top. Both were laced with profanity and both were met with stony silence from my immediate family, most of whom contend that it’s okay to disagree with Trumpers as long as you do it with unconditional […]
Chris Christie, that tub of grease who gained fame as the nasty-ass governor of New Jersey, says Americans need to embrace death by COVID-19 and die on their feet, just the way our forefathers did when they stormed the beaches at Normandy. Here’s the money quote: “The American people have gone through significant death before. […]
You know, I really didn’t plan to write today, but looking at some of these goddamned pictures was like putting my balls in a meat grinder and turning the crank. I don’t think I can adequately convey my contempt for these fucking “liberate” people. Set aside for a moment whether fewer Americans might have died […]
Wikipedia tells us that there have been three “Mutiny on the Bounty” movies, the first in 1935, starring Clark Gable and Charles Laughton; the second in 1962, starring Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard; and finally, the one in 1984, starring Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins. I have no idea which movie Donald Trump was referring […]
For the past three years and change, we Snowflakes have been bleating about Donald Trump and the possibility — no, the likelihood — that he would draw the country into some conflict that would cost thousands of lives. Sure, there was that dalliance with nuclear holocaust when Trump and his counterpart, North Korea’s Little Rocket […]
We’ve just about covered all the bases here at The Shinbone Star when it comes to Donald Trump and Trumpism. Still, even after 1,284 posts, new subject matter keeps rolling in. Like, for instance, enchiladas. Yes, we’ve touched on the Trumpian “taco bowls” that are served at the edifice in Midtown Manhattan that bears Trump’s […]
I’ve always known it would come to this. As far back as 2016, I knew Donald Trump would be the kinda guy who would keep an enemies list. What I didn’t know was that it would be his impeachment that would finally cause him whip it out. Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, his twin brother, Yegveny, […]
I want to state at the outset that I’m not a former Harvard Law professor, nor am I an expert on constitutional law. Maybe that’s why I’m unable to formulate a response to Alan Dershowitz, who stood before the U.S. Senate yesterday and claimed that if President Donald J. Trump believes his re-election is in […]
Slowly but surely, my excuses are being eliminated. For months I was virtually homeless, shuttling back and forth among grown children who put on a brave face about having to host Mom and Dad . . . again. Take it from me, you don’t want to write about Donald Trump when you don’t even have […]
As the author of more than 100 anti-Trump screeds since January 2017, you’d think I’d be ecstatic now that impeachment proceedings are finally taking place on Capitol Hill. Actually, I’m discouraged. It’s now more clear than ever that Trump’s Republican Party and the ordinary people who support him have drunk the Kool-Aid. A deadly poison is […]
