1+ week, 2+ day ago   (288+ words) The announcement said the “last episode” of Mornings With Maria ran Thursday morning, leading folks who don’t watch Fox because they respect their brain cells to assume Bartiromo had been fired after leaving the set, but in fact she hasn’t…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (647+ words) Wonkette is supported by YOU! The fire began when the deep fryer caught fire after a hydraulic line to a cooking vat failed, with obvious problems with it not found because of the company’s indifferent safety culture. It spread very…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (996+ words) After the deaths of Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, and voice actor Peter “Optimus Prime” Cullen, we can’t help remembering this line from William Wordsworth’s long poem “The Excursion”: The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (631+ words) Donald Trump announced Friday night that in the interests of free-market capitalism, the US will take control of much of Venezuela’s oil fields, because that’s what you do after you invade countries and kidnap their leaders. Trump took to his…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (307+ words) It really has been a Talking Heads kind of week. Or century. Put a wiggle in your stride, Mr. Jones! You can also use the button below to donate an amount of your choice at Paypal, or we have a…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (516+ words) This week’s Wonkette movie night has been changed, in honor of Dolly Parton. Join ZiggyWiggy and all your other friends for Steel Magnolias, Saturday night at 9 p.m. Eastern. It is available with subscription on Paramount+; free with ads on Pluto…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (216+ words) On August 25, 1921, 10,000 miners and their supporters went to war with 3000 coal mine executives and their hired thugs — the largest labor insurgency in American history and the largest civil uprising since the Civil War began — in Logan County, West Virginia. The…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (671+ words) It is safe to say that no matter how dumb you were this weekend — maybe you got too drunk or spent too much time in the sun without applying and reapplying sunscreen — you didn’t do anything as dumb as start…...

3+ week, 2+ hour ago   (462+ words) Good morning! Where to even begin … So, uh, what’s going on with the ridiculously pathetic breakdown of trade talks between the United States and, um, Canada? Here’s a primer! [Washington Post] And Paul Krugman on why Trump is going to…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (825+ words) The tweet was notable for having at least 200 percent more embracing than Mike Johnson’s family. While he was at it, Johnson warned again of the threat posed to America by “mini-Mamdanis,” his term for Democratic candidates who embrace the communist…...