Vaughn Winchell

Thirty percent of Americans are just an intractable problem.

One other point I didn't make here: Allies like Britain believe the US is carrying out illegal bombings. Who are we effing kidding? Of course its reasonable to think Trump is issuing illegal orders! Why is this being treated as such a controversial suggestion?

Look, if it's in all caps, it must be true.

In the 2020 Dem primary, Joe Biden was my next-to-last choice as long as Tulsi Gabbard was in the race, for exactly this reason. Joe wanted to be all Lincoln-like and bind up the nation's wounds. I want Truth Commissions.

"Elise Stefanik is full of shit" should be a free space on everyone's bingo card.

Well played, Yale.

#TheGame

I'm afraid it's quite possible that both melania and donald are already being their best. That's it. They cannot be any better than this.

That's a lot of layers for the weather today in Washington.

What's donald hiding this time?

#HarvardFootball FINALLY starting to look like a team that's won 9 games this season! #TheGame #BeatYale #GoCrimson

This first half is super ugly for #Harvard. #BeatYale ...please. #TheGame

I don't mean to deny, however, that it's white voters who bear the blame for this damage. I'm just not convinced it's quickly reversible.

I don't think this is true in international relations.

By dumping trump in 2020 and then restoring him to the presidency in '24, American voters gave allies plenty of reason to decide that the US is an unreliable partner. I don't think that damage can be undone quickly. Maybe not in my lifetime.

I have no sympathy for this guy. All the HOA documents were conveyed to him between signing a contract and settlement. If he didn't know what the HOA would be like, it's his own f****** fault.

I think buying into an HOA and then flouting it is a particularly detestable kind of self-importance.

With apologies to my sister-in-law, whom I love, #BeatYale.

Yeah, it's an accident of the calendar that has caused American Jews to contort Hanukkah into some kind of Christmas manqué (and then caused non-Jews to think that's what Hanukkah is).

Deeply ironic for this to happen to a holiday focused (in part, at least) on the consequences of assimilation.

My neighbor already has his garish, whole-house, blue-and-white-lights Hanukkah display up.

Hanukkah is a minor holiday. It's literally categorized as a "minor festival."

And it won't start for another 4 weeks.

NYT opinion piece by Maureen Dowd is titled "Piggy Gets Polite."

The headline ALMOST got me to click on this #NYT opinion piece.

Fortunately, the byline stopped me. I'll bet it was the right decision. Not-reading Maureen Dowd usually works out well for me.

Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

BREAKING: AOC on MTG retiring:

"She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."

Don’t Tread on Frank: How One Man’s Yard Became a Battlefield

I don't hate HOAs, but people do, and I think I do understand why.

It takes a lot of really bad behavior to make your #HOA look like the good guy, but this guy in Alexandria, VA, has managed to do it.

I have a neighbor almost as bad as this guy.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...

Can you feel it? The economy is booming!

Sean Duffy Wants You to Stop Wearing PJs on the Plane

America doesn't have enough air traffic controllers.

There is a shortage of qualified pilots that will get worse before it gets better.

But the Secretary of Transportation says it'll get better if we will all just...um...wear Dockers on the plane.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/t...

Meme: Straight ahead: Pausing to consider the meaning of Cohen's lyrics Everyone, for some reason, takes the exit towards Singing "Hallelujah" again in religious contexts

hey guys i made a seasonal meme

#MTG is apparently horrified to discover that donald trump is who he has been all along.

apnews.com/article/marj...

I mean, on one hand, I guess. But on the other hand, she now seems shocked and outraged to have discovered that donald trumpbis exactly who he has always been.

Women Keep Ruining the Workplace!! Before they arrived, of course, everything was perfect.

“Before women, of course, the workplace was perfect,” @petridishes.bsky.social writes. "There were no women to ruin things, steal your ribs, or tempt you with forbidden snacks.”

I guess one way to distract people from your friendship with a sex criminal is to claim that you are friends with a political murderer.

I'm not 100% sure, but I *think* I might have worn that same get-up in Hello, Dolly! when I was 14. (That was 47 years ago.)

Trump's comments about Fuentes and Carlson could prolong a Republican rift over antisemitism President Donald Trump is facing criticism for not condemning antisemitism within the conservative movement.

Really, Mr. Klein, this kind of faux callowness just looks ridiculous on a man your age.

“We are disappointed in President Trump,” said Morton Klein, president of the conservative Zionist Organization of America, adding that he should “rethink and retract” his comments.

apnews.com/article/trum...

The follow up here is "does the President want active duty service members following illegal orders?"