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Eleven Days in 2017 You’d Like To Re-Choreograph

You raise a good point

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

Grifting for Jesus

Guns, death, and the end of conversation

We are Niemöller

On Nazis, the Tulsa Race Riot, and the ties that bind

American voices

American voices

Time to play WHICH IS MORE LIKELY

Dearest Mr. President,

A son’s cry

The Court of Appalled

Morning After (News Wrap for Sunday, December 17, 2017)

10 Women in Gangster/Mob Movies

Courting Disaster

And the horse you rode in on

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”

All Jews are going to hell

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.

“Stinking Career” is Right

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.

Shitfuck!

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.

Joan Didion on Charles Manson

Morning After (The Sunday News Wrap)

Top Ten Roy Moore Pick Up Lines to Underage Girls

Tax Cuts can be killers

Those four. “Trump re-elected in landslide” is another

The Book Not Yet Published (or written)

Why we’re not always outraged

Morning After (The Sunday News Wrap)

“Orders of magnitude” may be the dumbest statement I’ve read since Friday.

Top Angels in America

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.

This could work.

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

So, God, Nu?

Not every president can stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot someone.

Morning After (The Sunday News Wrap)

Thank you, Joan

‘We have to do better’

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?

How bad were Kelly’s comments

Fathers, daughters, and husbands

The Morning After

The Best from Trump Country

The brilliant and the banal

Affirmation and existence

Fallout from Obama’s Controversial Condolence Call to Soldier’s Widow Entering Second Week

Morning After

Top Ten On Your Tombstone

Scrapbooking for Jesus

This is why

Niemöller for Trump Supporters

Morning After

Things to do on January 21, 2021

Player Prayer Requirements

Tweet Tweet

How did things ever get so far?

Morning After

FOTP Friday List for … October 6, 2017

Gobsmacked: Steve Scalise Edition

Obama makes first trip to Texas after Hurricane Burl

The NRA and death

Morning After

FOTP Friday List for … September 29

No Country for One Man

Penniless

Don’t let that bastard breathe

Morning After

11 Trump People Out and About

I choose to find God in this

Verisimilitude

Goebbels Wows Crowd

Morning After

Top 12 Steely Dan Songs

Profiles in Pablum

No good deed goes unpunished

Good question. I’m not sure. It was in the link. Hmmmm

Noonan would launch this blog into orbit.

9/11 without Americans

Thanks. Fixed

Morning After

You may be right

Top Ten Things Melania Trump says to her husband as they lie in bed, after a relatively uneventful…

Is it Noonan or is it Not?

Drug testing the poor. Still stupid after all these years.

Man of Candor

The Art of the Duplicity

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

Dearest America

Worst American Televangelists

Two pictures, two quotes, two Americas

Even in visiting hurricane-ravaged New Jersey, Obama keeps the focus on himself

F*cktheNewYorkTimes12

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

Is it Ben Carson or is Not?

Rather in the Time of Cholera

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

Satire and Shelby

The Devil’s in the Dermis

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?

Black Lives Advertised

We don’t give a sh*t, understand? We’re on vacation

… then they came for the reporters

A huge slut walk, huge.

Or Bjork

Top Ten Texts Anthony Scaramucci Might Send His Wife In Hopes Of Getting Her Back

The Bynum lunch, Part 2

Butt for a tax

The killing of Khalid Jabara

Walls falling in

Send in the clones

Above the fray

The deep end

The right-wing hand-wring

Is it Trump or is it Not?

Tikkun Olam

Sluts, Ewes, and Nobel Laureates

Something specious in the air

What if Trump Did That?

Is it Noonan or is it Not

Best Nonfiction by Women (Last 100 years)

The Senator from Arizona

But then his pledge yesterday, amidst much fanfare, was just for theatrics — oh, wait.

The Endowing of John McCain

Why we can’t have nice things, Part the Repugnant

Is it Carson or is Not?

Top Ten Linda Ronstadt Songs

The deep end

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

Top Ten Tori Amos Songs

In which we hold our Natalia Veselnitskaya jokes for a day

Pussy, Pardons and Pride

How Oklahoma is doing its part to destroy mankind

#11. It’s the alternate

Jesus grifts in mysterious ways

Top Ten Stories we’d be following during the G-20 Summit if Hillary Clinton were President

California Whine

The bathos of the bully on the beach

American Memory

America gives Trump the finger

Before he was a fighter, he was a lover

Allah is Lord over Plano

Time to play … Trump or False

This has to stop

Why we in Oklahoma can’t have nice things

Bobby The Big Dog

The lesson in bumpers

Ten Stories We Might Be Reading On November 7, 2018

Stupid is as stupid votes

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.

The Hitler Interview

Like captive and trained seals

Nu?

The Friedman Files Ep. 7 — We “Hope” You Listen to This Episode

FOTP Friday List for … June 9

But for a knee

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

FOTP Friday List for … June 2

“We need to ride onto the battlefield and chop their heads off in November.”

Poetry In The Time Of Trump

Is it Ben Carson and Armstrong Williams or is it Not?

The Friedman Files, Ep. 5: Trump Goes International

Where’s the Outrage?

FOTP Friday List for …. May 26

None at all. None. At. All.

The continuing horribleness of the Trump Administration

Hamming up the budget

You want him on that wall

Joe Lieberman’s selective indignation

Episode 4: How Has It Only Been Two Weeks

FOTP Friday List for … May 19

A killing

Goodbye To All This

The Shvitz in Iceland

On hotdogs and inclusion

Random thoughts from two Germans in an elevator in Iceland

Only in Europe

Signs That Do Not Speak To Us

Nut sacks and Norsemen

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

The son doesn’t forgive

“Chicken? It’s okay, yes?”

Letters from Iceland (Now with Pictures)

Letters from Iceland

Letters from Iceland (Wednesday Morning)

Letters from Iceland

Letters from Iceland

L’Chaim

Friedman Files Episode 3

Friday List for … May 5

The Dickitude of Ben Carson. Now With Poor People.

If Jimmy Kimmel were a Republican

This man, these voters, this country

Christians and Monsters

The Friedman Files Ep. 2

The Viking Ship

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 State We’re In

The Friedman Files Podcast Episode 1

“I took her out furniture shopping.”

Holding Hands

Evil Embraces

Chutzpah and Chocolate Cake

Jesus, take the schpiel

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

The Mastermind

Is it Noonan in victory or is it not?

The Inexplicable John McCain

The books on the table

Today’s Quiz: Who said it?

The most hugest man in the world

Walls Falling In

The con and its cast

The Compliments That Stay With You

But for a suit

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

A Profile in Miscalculation

Legislative Insanity, Part the Infinity

‘I’ll Criticize Judges,’ Trump Says, Hours After a Scolding for Doing Just That

The Best and Worst of Days

Evil is a light sleeper