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Eleven Days in 2017 You’d Like To Re-Choreograph
Defending Jeff Sessions … Again
Governor Huckabee and the end of analogous thought
Donald Trump takes credit for Americans’ renewed interest in Jesus
Thank you, Joan. Have a good year, too. Maybe 2018 will be better. Can’t see how it can be worse.
The 9th Annual Bad Penny Awards
Guns, death, and the end of conversation
On Nazis, the Tulsa Race Riot, and the ties that bind
Time to play WHICH IS MORE LIKELY
Morning After (News Wrap for Sunday, December 17, 2017)
10 Women in Gangster/Mob Movies
They love Israel more than they love Jews
Morning After (News Wrap for Sunday, December 10, 2017)
The war against the War on Christmas
“What was best for the country”
Obama travel ban against whites to take effect after Supreme Court ruling
Morning After (News Wrap for Sunday, December 3, 2017)
People who, inexplicably, still have a career, a life, a reputation
I think that’s exactly what they’re hoping for.
The victory over oneself is easier these days when the good angel never makes an appearance, never…
A little shame is good for every political party, especially today’s GOP
Mine, too, Gail. And I think your review of the situation is spot on.
Trump makes ‘Nigger Jim’ reference at White House event honoring NAACP
Morning After (The Sunday News Wrap)
12 worst (quasi) famous American kin of (sometimes execrable) famous Americans
Kellyanne Conway’s oldest daughter is 13.
Morning After (The Sunday News Wrap)
Top Ten Roy Moore Pick Up Lines to Underage Girls
Those four. “Trump re-elected in landslide” is another
The Book Not Yet Published (or written)
Morning After (The Sunday News Wrap)
“Orders of magnitude” may be the dumbest statement I’ve read since Friday.
ACA has been a Godsend, I truly believe that, but what Trump can do this country — and probably…
No. If Romney beats Obama, he gets re-elected, as will Trump.
I’m blaming David Blatt. As for my day tomorrow, I don’t see the improvement happening.
All excellent points, my friend, and maybe Trump will just turn out to be really fucking awful and…
President McCain could have prevented all of this
Not every president can stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot someone.
Morning After (The Sunday News Wrap)
The more I wrote the piece, Susan, the more I thought, “Damn, this isn’t funny.”
Future Days of Unraveling (Now with actual dates)
Would you like some whine with your shitty pizza?
Fathers, daughters, and husbands
Fallout from Obama’s Controversial Condolence Call to Soldier’s Widow Entering Second Week
Niemöller for Trump Supporters
Things to do on January 21, 2021
How did things ever get so far?
FOTP Friday List for … October 6, 2017
Gobsmacked: Steve Scalise Edition
Obama makes first trip to Texas after Hurricane Burl
FOTP Friday List for … September 29
Don’t let that bastard breathe
Good question. I’m not sure. It was in the link. Hmmmm
Noonan would launch this blog into orbit.
Top Ten Things Melania Trump says to her husband as they lie in bed, after a relatively uneventful…
Drug testing the poor. Still stupid after all these years.
Thanks. Promise. If we get out of this, Peggy and I will start dating again.
Thank you, Toni. As immodestly as I can be, I actually liked that line, too
Two pictures, two quotes, two Americas
Even in visiting hurricane-ravaged New Jersey, Obama keeps the focus on himself
Our long national nightmare gets to retire in peace
Top 10 Historical Songs (Plus 1)
Try to lighten up on the hyperbole, please, I’m getting diabetes.
Have you kissed a conservative today?
Obama under fire for vacation costs
An Oklahoma Representative longs for the land of cotton.
Top Ten possible conversation starters between Ivanka and Jared this Shabbat
As long as we’re telling fairytales
Trump, lunch, and understanding
In which Roosevelt didn’t blame the victims
Top Ten Songs from (and for) the Road
Pat on Eric’s dick and other defenses
“We’re coming for you” is confronting lies with truth?
We don’t give a sh*t, understand? We’re on vacation
… then they came for the reporters
Top Ten Texts Anthony Scaramucci Might Send His Wife In Hopes Of Getting Her Back
Sluts, Ewes, and Nobel Laureates
Best Nonfiction by Women (Last 100 years)
But then his pledge yesterday, amidst much fanfare, was just for theatrics — oh, wait.
Why we can’t have nice things, Part the Repugnant
The filleting of Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III
You, Don, are great, great man. Now, give me U.S.
The sepia-tinged amnesia of the GOP
The Conversation Yet To Be Had
In which we hold our Natalia Veselnitskaya jokes for a day
How Oklahoma is doing its part to destroy mankind
Jesus grifts in mysterious ways
Top Ten Stories we’d be following during the G-20 Summit if Hillary Clinton were President
The bathos of the bully on the beach
America gives Trump the finger
Before he was a fighter, he was a lover
Why we in Oklahoma can’t have nice things
Ten Stories We Might Be Reading On November 7, 2018
No matter how cynical you are, it’s never enough to keep up with John McCain
Newt Gingrich is a smart person’s idea of a schmuck
Sometimes you feel like lecturing, sometimes you don’t
FOTP Friday List for … June 16
Beautiful, my friend. And awful.
Your lack of patriotism is something up with which the Tulsa World will not put.
Like captive and trained seals
The Friedman Files Ep. 7 — We “Hope” You Listen to This Episode
Couldn’t happen to a more sanctimonious, dissembling, disingenuous and selectively amnesic racist…
We, unfortunately, know their answer as well. They’ll get their hats
Today, Welch would be a punchline
The Selective Indignation of Benjamin Netanyahu, Part the Infinity.
The Friedman Files Ep. 6 — The Week Before London
“We need to ride onto the battlefield and chop their heads off in November.”
Is it Ben Carson and Armstrong Williams or is it Not?
The Friedman Files, Ep. 5: Trump Goes International
FOTP Friday List for …. May 26
The continuing horribleness of the Trump Administration
Joe Lieberman’s selective indignation
Episode 4: How Has It Only Been Two Weeks
Random thoughts from two Germans in an elevator in Iceland
Letters from Iceland (Friday, May 12)
FOTP (presently d/b/a Friedman of the Fjords) Friday List for … May 12
If only the GOP had the balls of Arthur Kirkland
The bagels are not, actually. Real Honest-to-God cream cheese they don’t know from, however.
Hysterical. How do you say, “You win the Internet for today” in Icelandic?
Prostitution in Iceland, Horse Meat, and American Immaturity
Letters from Iceland (Now with Pictures)
Letters from Iceland (Wednesday Morning)
The Dickitude of Ben Carson. Now With Poor People.
If Jimmy Kimmel were a Republican
This man, these voters, this country
FOTP FRIDAY LIST FOR … APRIL 28
The White House Office of the Press Secretary
The Douche Doesn’t Fall Far From The Bag
The Cruelty Behind The Boorishness
Fuck you, Alex, and the performance artistry you rode in on
The Friedman Files Podcast Episode 1
“I took her out furniture shopping.”
For the love of Zyklon B, Alan, Shut Up
The Latest Dickitude from Oklahoma’s 1st and 2nd Congressional Representatives
A Trumpian Response to the 4 Questions
Is it Noonan in victory or is it not?
The most hugest man in the world
The Compliments That Stay With You
The real reason I won’t be throwing out the first pitch on opening day — by President Donald J.
Scott Pruitt’s Peculiar Fascination with Pot
It’s not easy being a son, Eric
Why I Want Donald Trump To Fail, Part 2
A Young Donald Trump Writes A Dying Woody Guthrie
Legislative Insanity, Part the Infinity
‘I’ll Criticize Judges,’ Trump Says, Hours After a Scolding for Doing Just That