The Rude Pundit

"Peace Path" by Heid E. Erdrich, an Ojibwe writer from North Dakota (now living in Minnesota) This path our people walked one hun...

A dear friend has a brother with Down Syndrome. This year, he voted for the first time, and he couldn't have been more excited to push a...

Karl Rove's former leather slave was finally used to a safe life. The nightmares had lessened at last, after years of drugs and brief ho...

One of the things I have always faulted President Obama for is that, when it comes to his domestic political enemies, he has sought to give ...

It hasn't stopped yet, this constant thrum of voices telling us that we need to " understand " the "pain" and the ...

"Yeah, and jobs in sending Morse code and driving carriages are coming back, too," my West Virginia pal Duke told me this morning....

Here's a story from a rude reader: "Back in summer 2015, I was at an American Legion event in [a rural area in the Northeast]. Afte...

There is cold comfort in a number: more Americans voted for Hillary Clinton than for Donald Trump. We are supposed to hear this and take sol...

I walked into my local middle school to vote this morning. It wasn't too crowded, although it was definitely busier than usual. The tabl...

Yeah, yeah, it's been a hell of a day. Back tonight with more Clinton-winning rudeness.

From Deborah S.: To quote the late, great Amy Winehouse, “What kind of fuckery is this?” Seriously, what the fucking fuckery is this? I was...

And so we come to the end of this indecent campaign, one that has degraded us as a nation and as individuals, one that has amped up to ear-s...

If you want to waste some time in sad bemusement, you can read recent columns by open-hearted progressives and depressed conservatives, desp...

Barring some event that causes mass brain damage and brings about the Even Greater Stupiding of voters, Hillary Clinton is going to be elect...

One of the ugliest things in this ugly campaign has been the upsurge in anti-Semitism in support of Republican candidate and rotting buttern...

"Today we live in a world of terror, madmen, and missiles," the Republican candidate says in the ad . "Our military is challe...

Let us say, and why not, that one day you decide to put up a "Hillary Clinton for President" or "I'm with her" sign ...

The ugly ending of this ugly election just got even uglier. Like rotting armadillo ugly. Oh, we were lulled briefly into a sense that the wh...

Jason Chaffetz, a proud Republican congressman from Utah and a man who looks like a shit-flecked, tossed-out toilet scrub brush, announced p...

"I have a story for you," the millennial told me. I was all ears. This millennial, a young man, call him "Colin" because...