Our country is in the doldrums. The ancient mariner’s term for unanticipated stretches of light wind also applies to periods of contemporary economic stagnation. Stagnation, however, is not recession, just as doldrums are not a permanent predicament. The Fed and the laws of supply and demand are already conspiring to bring down prices. America is […]

Is the Cracker Barrel menu getting ‘woke’? Meat eaters rage on Facebook over addition of Impossible sausage — USA Today.com headline, Aug. 4, 2022 “Madge! MADGE! Come over here and tell me I ain’t seeing what I’m seeing on the Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Facebook page. “No, not the Stuffed Cheese Pancakes. This — […]

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 […]

Apparently, Republican ‘Blockheads’ in Congress intend to ignore their mandate to help govern the country for a majority of working-class Americans who are struggling to deal with today’s challenging economic, climate and healthcare issues. Senate Democrats on Sunday pushed through the $430 billion Inflation Reduction Act with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris casting the deciding […]

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) has reportedly suggested that Social Security and Medicare be eliminated as federal entitlement programs, instead becoming discretionary programs approved annually by Congress. It is outside the scope of this article to point out that Johnson remains one of Trump’s most avid supporters and Big Lie tellers.   Imagine Johnson’s proposal for […]

This is frightening on many levels when you look behind the words: Donald Trump is no George Washington. Nor is he a modern-day Abraham Lincoln. He’s not even close to Ronald Reagan. Barack Obama? Forgetabout it. Unlike almost any other president in American history, Trump is not an American patriot. Remember, a patriot is defined […]

During the 2016 campaign, I signed up for tickets to a Trump rally in New Jersey. I had no intention of going, but I was curious about the organizers’ claims that the demand for the free tickets had far outstripped the capacity of the venue. I filled out the online request form, had no difficulty […]

For better or worse, slamming President Joe Biden is popular these days. Almost three out of four Americans reportedly think our country needs someone else running it. If his popularity continues to tank, he will end up like Jimmy Carter, beloved and vilified in the same breath. I remember that feeling. I got it bad […]

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 […]

An oft-quoted Republican political commentator declared on live, prime-time television the other night that he couldn’t vote for President Joe Biden if he runs for re-election in 2024 — even if former President Donald J. Trump is the GOP’s standard-bearer — because of how “Biden is destroying our country.” “No way I’d vote for Biden. […]

Before being dubbed Fistpump McRunpants by fellow Republican Congressman Adam Kitziner (R) Illinois., for running away from rioters during the failed Jan 6. 2021 insurrection, Josh Hawley was a phony from Missouri whose glib bullshit made him the Show Me State’s junior senator. After graduating from Stanford University in 2002 and Yale Law in 2006, […]

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 […]

If Donald J. Trump is somehow re-elected president in 2024, he will always be within an arm’s reach of starting a nuclear war. Given his publicly witnessed and revealed penchant for temper tantrums and irrational behavior, his addiction to the loony fringe of American life, and his narcissistic personality, doing so cannot be dismissed. In […]

Pardon my interruption of all the loud praise for Wyoming Republican lawmaker Liz Cheney for her work as vice chair of the U.S. House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack. Yes, she and U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) deserve applause and heartfelt thanks from all of us for standing up to former president  Donald […]

A mass murderer guns down innocent Americans in Buffalo, N.Y., and there is much wailing from you all (again) about the need to do something to stop the madness. But nothing that would take away your guns or do away with your 2nd amendment rights. A mass murderer guns down innocent schoolchildren in Uvalde, Tex., […]

When my mother died, I was there to hold her hand, singing the United Methodist hymns she loved so much. Indeed, all of us were there — dad, sisters, hospice nurse. We prayed for her to be released, finally, from the pain she endured for far too long. And God listened to our prayers. Flashback […]

Monday was the 246th anniversary of American freedom for all. The concept isn’t working out so well these days. The nation’s most patriotic holiday was celebrated during an inauspicious beginning to the year, a year that truly defines what America has become. Abortion, gun ownership, wars, inflation, climate change, immigration, women’s right to privacy, and […]

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 […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: With this holiday post by the esteemed Macinelli, we’re giving notice that The Shinbone Star is back in business. We thought our job was done when Diaper Don toddled off to Mar-a-Lago, but recent events have shown just how wrong that assumption was. Though we haven’t been posting publicly, your favorite crew of […]