Phil Nugent

Marco Rubio Is More Dangerous Than Pete Hegseth While the secretary of Defense bombs boats, the secretary of State plots an entire war.

"This was always one of the major dangers of Trump — that he’d end up empowering the worst and most destructive elements of the Republican Party." I would propose that this is like saying that one of the dangers of cutting your dick off is that you might up covered in blood and without a dick.

YouTube video by Steve Cropper - Topic Think

R.I.P. Steve Cropper

Olivia Nuzzi’s Tell-Nothing Memoir Can “American Canto” turn scandal into literature?

I am trying to impose a one-man moratorium on posting any more links to writing about Olivia Nuzzi, but then I got to this: "This morning, I went whale watching, and the guide recommended that we 'keep our eyes on the horizon and look for blow.' (This is also a good way to find RFK Jr.)."

The nice thing about Ryan Lizza is that you never wonder, "Why don't the many people who must love him and care deeply about his well-being talk to him about the self-destructive folly of a life devoted to revenge? Make him watch MUNICH or something."

People will knowingly describe their frenemies' wedding announcements and commencement addresses as "Trump administration enough for your ass?"

Future generations will use the expression "Trump administration" to convey that feeling when you think "It's funny, as parody goes, but don't you think it's a little broad and on the nose oh fuck it's real!?"

Seventy years ago. If it wasn’t always obvious to you that seventy years is really not that long ago, it ought to be now.

Now Playing: STRANGER THINGS. Jeez, even the ones who are supposed to be grown-ups have started looking a little old for their roles.

Looking for a movie to see and feeling my heart swell with joy and excitement over the degree to which grieving fathers have taken over the holiday multiplex.

Tuck in!

The moment I live for and eagerly await all year has arrived: the moment during the last hour of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade when you can tell that the announcers are obviously over it.

He wouldn’t be allowed within a million miles of schools and hospitals. Or cameras.

My wife just laughed at a Batman/Not Bateman commercial. For months, whenever one of these has appeared, she’s said, “Oh God, this again,” but today, she laughed. This is what the holidays are all about.

Cynthia Erivo is on the parade route, singing “Feeling Good” with piano accompaniment. Every few notes, her voice breaks into a stutter or does a Donald Duck thing.This morning’s first major reminder that I am old is that I genuinely have no idea if this is a technical glitch or what the kids like.

Maureen Dowd’s deranged wing nut brother is extremely grateful for Zohran Mamdani.

(Except for Olbermann. I don’t mind knowing of the existence of Keith Olbermann. Don’t let anybody tell you the Golden Age of SportsCenter wasn’t all that.)

They are just extremely weird people, and in an ideal world with a different system exemplifying a different set of values, I never would have heard of any of them.

The Pillsbury Dough Boy float at the Macy's Parade

He is risen

If this hypothetical writer had a name that rhymed with "Floss Glarkin", that would be the cherry on top.

Then we could all make a fun drinking game out of checking to see how many paragraphs it takes whenever he writes about anything before he slips in the parenthetical acknowledgment that when he ran for office, Zohran Mamdani was his campaign manager.

New York magazine should hire a politics writer who once ran for office with Zohran Mandarin as his campaign manager.

Erika Kirk says Turning Point's support of JD Vance in 2028 is 'in the works' Erika Kirk said on Monday that Turning Point's support of Vice President JD Vance in a possible 2028 presidential election bid is "in the works."

JD Vance is the worst living person born in the United States. I know there are people who see grounds for hilarity in his presidential aspirations and his connections. They remind me of all the liberals who turned cartwheels down Main Street when Trump secured the nomination in 2016.

And he was a towering Ferengi. Let there be no loose talk suggesting that I made light of Tracey Walter’s Ferengi game.

Happy birthday, Tracey Walter. Is he the premier “that guy” actor of his times? A case could be. It was made eloquently by Google when I asked it for a picture of Tracey Walter. I was first shown a picture of Eli Wallach and then one of a person,who might possibly be Tracey Walter,playing a Ferengi.

Happy birthday, Elvis Ramone

You don’t even want to know what the turkey Trump pardoned was convicted of.

YouTube video by HEY-U Mediagroup Jimmy Cliff - Vietnam [Live 2005]

R.I.P. Jimmy Cliff

Kristen Bell and Brian Cox among actors shocked they’re attached to Fox News podcast The 52-episode Christian podcast was announced with a number of actors involved yet many claim they had no idea about it

Dealing in dirt, and stealing in the name of the Lord