Politics

Election hacking has been a pretty hot topic recently. Now that we know it is possible, you know, controlling the fate of a governed body…

Let it be said that I had this, at least, in common with Johnny Thunders: we both supported Jesse Jackson’s candidacy in 1988. I was…

We think of the era of below-the-belt satirical media with a left-wing edge as a thing that was more or less invented in the postwar…

Eduardo Ugarte, Luis Buñuel, Jose Lopez Rubio, Leonor and Tono at Charlie Chaplin’s house, 1930 Whenever someone voices alarm about the “war on Christmas,” I…

Derek Riggs’ original artwork for the ‘Sanctuary’ single sleeve Who doesn’t love the metamorphoses of Iron Maiden’s cover star, Eddie? (Don’t answer that.) To flip…

There’s not really much to say here except that Born Miserable replaced the real Donald Trump in photos with the Disney animatronic Donald Trump, posted…

Ajit Pai, who is on the fast track to becoming this season’s Martin Shkreli, has gotten major press the past few days as the FCC…

Satan’s Muses Don’t know much about art history. Don’t know much about graphology. Don’t know much about comic books. Don’t know much about the way…

A couple of years ago I wrote here about the turd-related Christmas traditions of the Catalans. Each December 8th, on the Feast of the Immaculate…

A year to the day in the making, Tim Heidecker’s Donald Trump protest numbers have been collected together as a new album Too Dumb For…