I got upset yesterday – angry, sad, depressed, all the above – and I’m asking myself what made yesterday different from the many times I’ve felt the same emotions since November 8, 2016. As I write this, that date was exactly 2,501 days ago, and any way you slice it, that’s a long time to […]
We recently returned from a vacation to the Deep South that I’ve decided to write about as a series of vignettes. I realize that’s not much of an inducement to keep reading, but I hope you’ll bear with me. Since our home is now in Virginia — former capital of the Confederacy — one might […]
We here at The Shinbone Star like to give credit where credit is due, and that’s why we’re not going to rehash everything our sister paper (and to be fair, other media outlets not named Fox) reported last night and this morning about the FBI exercising a search warrant at the home of former President […]
I went to the doctor earlier this week, one of those once-a-year sessions they schedule for codgers like me to gauge our health and determine just how many marbles we’ve lost. The good news is that I’m still upright, and was even able to recall the three test words I was told to remember, but […]
So, the January 6 Committee is done for now, taking a well-deserved break until September. What they’ve given us so far has been must-see television, but nothing readers of The Shinbone Star haven’t known for the past six years – Donald Trump is a crook, a charlatan, a scumbag and a traitor. But even with […]
You’ve probably heard one or more of these from well-meaning doofuses: “It’s not good to hate!” “It’s bad for your health to be angry all the time!” “Just stop watching the news!” Well, here’s my response: “Fuck off! Hate is perfectly appropriate when it’s directed with surgical precision toward the Disciples of Diaper Don and […]
Four years ago when The Shinbone Star started its mission to oppose the demagogue who had seized control of our nation, I didn’t know just how hard it would be. In fact I expected it to fail. Back then, the names Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had not entered my thought processes. I only knew […]
With the U.S. House of Representatives just voting to impeach Donald Trump a record second time, our pathetic orange führer has learned the hard way that inciting a violent insurrection against your own government is generally not considered a good thing. No student of history or much of anything else, Trump is reportedly a lot […]
Even accounting for the fact that my country is led by a flaming dick like none the world has ever seen, that headline in our sister paper, The New York Times, is one I thought I’d never see. Let’s break it down because even after sitting in front of the television all day and watching […]
By GLENN REDUS (with DUTTON PEABODY) As the founder of this iteration of The Shinbone Star, some staff members thought it would be appropriate that I be the one to provide some kind of mission accomplished statement. So here it is: Donald Trump lost the election! Yay! While I am acceding to their request and […]
IT’S OVER!!!!! BIDEN WINS!!!
SHAME! Minutes ago, millions of Americans watched the president of the United States stand in the West Wing of the White House and undermine democracy, making the unsubstantiated claim that there is massive fraud in an ongoing election that trends indicate he could lose. Democratic challenger Joe Biden currently leads Trump in the Electoral College […]
News organizations with more cred (but less fun) than The Shinbone Star have been warning that Democrats watching Election Night coverage might be dismayed by what they called a “red mirage” that would signal that a ball-busting second term for impeached President Donald Trump appeared imminent. Even armed with that information, I was seeing less […]
With the U.S. presidential election just 11 days away, America finally got to hear the opposing candidates debate thanks to moderator Kristen Welker, who managed to keep the proceedings civil enough for prospective voters to actually listen to the president’s lies in real time. In stark contrast to the first debate in which Donald Trump […]
I remember growing up and saying something like, “I HATE turnips,” and my mother would pipe up and say, “Hate is such an ugly word, you should just say, ‘I don’t like turnips,’ or ‘I really wish you wouldn’t give me turnips anymore.’ ” Well screw that! I’m an adult now, with enough years (and […]
Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic challenger Sen. Kamala Harris held their much-anticipated debate Wednesday night, and while Harris managed to stick to the truth and to the debate rules, Pence was so noxious that he even attracted a fly. Literally. Since shortly after Harris was named to be Joe Biden’s running mate in the […]
As I sit pondering just how low I can go with news that the Marmalade Messiah and a goodly number of his retinue have tested positive for coronavirus, the internet is rife with rumor that the whole thing could be another Trump Trick, a Republican Hoax, an Escape Plan. And that’s it, my friends, a […]
I loved me some Ruth Bader Ginsburg, even have a little action figure of her dressed in judicial robes and wielding a gavel. But even a flaming liberal like me knows the United States of America will never be ruled by a dying wish, even one from so august a personage as The Notorious RBG. […]
I have a friend of long standing who, last week, gave me some great advice. I had lamented to her in an e-mail that I was feeling overwhelmed by the news. What news? It had just been revealed that President Donald Trump had intentionally misled the American people about the severity of COVID-19. Fires fueled […]
Night One of the Republican National Convention, I fully intended to watch. As an ex-journalist and creator of The Shinbone Star, I felt reporting on the event was my duty, kinda like the guy tasked with emptying the port-o-cans the morning after the city’s Fourth of July picnic and fireworks extravaganza. In the end I […]
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