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A Letter from the Rude Pundit to Joshua Boston, Gun Owner and Fellow Epistolarian : "Dear Joshua Boston, "First, let me compliment...

Photo of a Moment of Calm Hope in Hopeless Pakistan : That's 12 year-old Sadia Mukhteya up there . She is from a rural area of Pakistan ...

A Slow Head Shake for the House of Representatives Over the Failure of the Violence Against Women Act : From a late 2012 report from the or...

Fiscal Cliff-Leaping: The Hopeful Politics of Capitulation : Like the confused feelings one has sitting alone after a particularly intense o...

The Rude Readers' Haiku Review of 2012 (The End) : That's it. After today, we're done with haiku for a while, and we're done...

Rude Readers' Haiku Review of 2012 : Damn, you're all some haiku-writin' motherfuckers. The Rude Pundit asked for and received a...

A Haiku Review of 2012, Part 2: Gun Crazy : (Yesterday, the Rude Pundit began his annual attempt to encompass the year in as few words as p...

A Haiku Review of 2012 (and an Invitation to Haiku, Too) : For something like the 78th time in a row, the Rude Pundit is ending a year by go...

Things That Brought the Rude Pundit Unmitigated Joy in 2012 : The Rude Pundit is giving his brain and soul a day off from thinking about pus...

Continuing a Christmas Tradition (Now with Zombies) : Like movies about Bedford Falls suicides and pole-frozen tongues and eyes almost shot ...

We've Probably Lost a Few Elves Already : That's the North Pole up there where the lines converge in that picture, where we tell our...

In Brief: Four Lines from Wayne LaPierre's "News Conference" That Apply to Wayne LaPierre and the NRA : 1. "[O]ur society...

A Teacher Speaks About Trying to Return to Normal, Post-Newtown : The Rude Pundit has spent this week on the issue of guns because a crazy s...

What to Do: A Post on Gun Laws That Will Piss Off Guntards : If at its news conference tomorrow, the NRA says it will support some new gun l...

Guns and the Constitution: "Keep and Bear," Not "Buy and Sell" : In 1989, now- deceased conservative megahero and Amish...

On Guns, the Crazies Make the Laws : As a nation, when it comes to our safety, we have allowed ourselves to be led by the craziest, most par...

Guns and Minds : I've had a gun pointed in my face by a mugger on a dark New Orleans street. I have pointed a gun at an intruder in my a...

Away in a Manger, 2012 : A mere 42 miles separates the Gaza town of Beit Lahiya from Bethlehem, the city where Christian legend says that a...

Antonin Scalia Doesn't Give a Damn About Your Little Problems : There are few things in this world that are surely going to happen, but ...

The Ideological Bankruptcy of the Republican Party (Part 1) : As conservatives continue to lick their wounded asses and try to figure out ju...