OkCupid’s pro-choice badge is corporate vice-signaling
Cockburn was intrigued to learn that OkCupid, the dating app service, now offers a ‘pro-choice’ badge for its users’ profiles.…
Are any of the Hunter Biden emails fake?
Oh, those Hunter Biden emails? At least some of them are real, according to a new book. Politico staffers casually smuggled…
Harry and Meghan, maskless in Manhattan
Aspiring hermits Prince Harry and Meghan Markle retreated to the notably reclusive borough of Manhattan today to visit the One…
Apocalypse, please: Climate Night looms
Does humanity deserve a prolonged existence on Earth? Cockburn begs the question after learning that tonight is Climate Night on…
Trudeau in blackface row (again)
Justin Trudeau’s snap election has just gone from bad to worse. The incumbent Canadian prime minister decided last month to…
California recall candidate Larry Elder gets egged
Absent from most headlines on Wednesday was the egging of California recall candidate Larry Elder during a trip to the…
Can China save us from Prince Harry?
Cockburn is a traditional sort. He is favorably disposed toward anything that has existed for a long time, even things…
The grim rise of antivax death porn
America is a porned-out society. Half of young men and a fifth of young women admit to viewing porn in…
What can’t civil rights law do?
The Biden administration fired a stern warning to five states on Monday afternoon, warning them that forcing all students to…
Seven times Joe Biden claimed ‘America is back’
It’s been a sobering two weeks for fans of America’s septuagenarian president. Even before he took office, Joe Biden was…
Kamala Havana?
It was supposed to be a welcome break from serving as the Biden administration’s stooge. Instead of being the mascot…
Bill Kristol and the political defector grift
Did you hear? Bill Kristol is turning his back on the Republican party! Yes, again. On Tuesday morning, the erstwhile Weekly Standard founder…
What exactly was the plan in Afghanistan?
The collapse of the Afghan army and state was so rapid and so total that, mercifully, talking heads have already…
Did ‘gender studies’ lose Afghanistan?
Twenty years of war in Afghanistan are over. What comes next is 20 years, or even more, of recriminations and…
Who wins the Afghanistan Dumbest Take Award?
It’s a national disgrace, a catastrophe nearly two decades in the making. In a just society, everyone involved would be…
Meet the CRT grifters
The American right nominally has the support of half the country, but it is its own persistent self-inflicted curse that…
Is there anything ‘new’ or ‘shocking’ about the latest Hunter Biden scandal?
The prodigal son returns without his pants. Hunter Biden, the male heir of the 46th president, was caught hanging brain…
Caitlyn Jenner is trapped in the wrong Twitter account
Caitlyn Jenner’s Twitter account is having an identity crisis. It’s not particularly rare for a political campaign to create fake…
Where’s Joe Biden?
Forget about Hunter, where’s Joe? Biden took a long weekend at his Delaware retreat but hasn’t been seen since Saturday…
Cuomo isn’t resigning. Why should he?
The Andrew Cuomo groping scandal has finally claimed some scalps. Just not Andrew Cuomo’s. Instead, it is MeToo’s enforcers who…
Britney is Catholic — but you shouldn’t be shocked
Pop sensation and slave-4-her-father Britney Spears sent papists into a frenzy on Thursday night by mentioning her Catholic faith to…
U.S. journalism wins gold in mental gymnastics
From softball to women’s soccer to the mixed relay, the United States has had an underwhelming Olympics. But fear not,…
The return of mask mandate mania
Masks and COVID tests are here to stay for kids returning to school in LA. On Thursday, the Los Angeles…
Has Mike Lindell lost it?
What is it about Donald Trump that his closest associates seem to all go irredeemably insane? On Thursday, the CEO…
GOP House staffers on mask mandate: ‘lol no’
Underpaid and over-opinionated: Republican House staffers are not putting up with a new mask mandate. On Tuesday, the US House…
