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Habanero Hitler Confirms the Obvious: Hillary Clinton’s Name Will Never Completely Go Away, Even if You Want it To
It’s easy to lose sight of this in light of his bevy of controversies, conceived hour after hour, but many folks seem to forget that Donald Trump never intended to go away. Months before Election Day, Vanity Fair published a story asking whether that carrot-juice-induced, piss-colored con man’s end game was a television network. Moreover,…
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Was Marsha P. Johnson Killed Because of Her LGBT Activism?
At one point in the Netflix documentary The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, an incarcerated transgender woman named Kitty asks another, Victoria Cruz, who is an activist and counselor for domestic abuse: “What happens when a flower gets wilted? Does it just die away and it’s forgotten?” The question serves as subtext for the…
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The So-Called Christians Defending Sweet Potato Saddam Are Begging to Be Jumped by Jesus
Last weekend the president of the United States turned his sights away from a humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory ravaged by Hurricane Maria, to a subject more in line with his interests: black football players daring to exercise their right to peaceful protest. During the following weekend, that spoiled, queso-colored white supremacist…
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Steve Bannon’s 60 Minutes Interview Proved Anthony Scaramucci Right
If there were ever a political equivalent of the sentiment “She think she cute!” it is undoubtedly Steve Bannon. Last night, President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist gave his first televised interview to 60 Minutes. The main takeaway from Bannon’s often contentious exchanges with interviewer Charlie Rose is something most of us had long concluded:…
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I Love Watching Insecure With Twitter and I Hate Watching Insecure With Twitter
I like to watch certain shows alongside social media because it gives me the chance to see what other people are thinking without being burdened by the sound of their voices interrupting the dialogue. This has long been true for me when it comes to reality shows like Love & Hip Hop and The Real…
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How Petrified Should We Be for Hurricane Victims Now That Ben Carson Is the Head of HUD?
As the waters recede in parts of Houston, Beaumont, Port Arthur and other areas of Texas impacted by the horrific Hurricane Harvey, the agony of recovery efforts has begun. Approximately 100,000 homes have been damaged, and the varying degrees of insurance—notably the lack of flood insurance in the flood-stricken Houston—present a unique conundrum for storm…
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Someone Tell the Democrats to Stop Acting Like the Political Equivalent of Unseasoned Chicken
Leave it to the donkey party to act an ass and see an opportunity dangled before it and stupidly squander time debating whether or not an obvious winning strategy is worth pursuing. Politico reports that Democrats are torn over how to handle what happened in Charlottesville, Va., the debate over Confederate monuments in general and…
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After Getting the Boot, Bannon Wants to Go to War? Great, Let Them Hos Fight
Does anyone think that big walking cold sore Stephen Bannon willfully let go of the most powerful position he will ever hold? On the departure of now-former White House chief strategist Bannon, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement: White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Steve Bannon have mutually…
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Issa Didn’t Cheat on Lawrence in Real Life, and Angela Valdes Didn’t Snitch on Ghost. So Stop Sending the Actors Hate Mail
I hate Tariq St. Patrick and want him to die already. After four seasons of watching him behave like an ungrateful, bitchy, ho-ass child (minors can get cursed at after they hit puberty), any Power scene featuring him now physically angers me. Not even Assistant U.S. Attorney Angela Valdes has had that impact on me,…
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I Want Better for Halle Berry
Earlier this summer, Halle Berry downplayed her greatest achievement as an actor. Speaking at a panel at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in June, Berry addressed the 2016 Oscar nominations, which were widely criticized for their lack of diversity, and while doing so, she shooed away the significance of her 2002 Oscar win…
