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The Beef Beef

August 27, 2026August 27, 2026 Peter Adrastos Athas

1984: Where’s the beef?
2026: Where’s the beef from?
Continue reading The Beef Beef

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Compulsion (1959)

August 23, 2026August 23, 2026 Peter Adrastos Athas

Ripped from the 1920s headlines: A fictionalized take on the Leopold and Loeb case. Starring Orson Welles, Dean Stockwell, Diane Varsi, Bradford Dillman, EG Marshall, and Martin Milner. Directed by Richard Fleischer. Continue reading Compulsion (1959)

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MAGA’s Hot Stove League

August 17, 2026August 17, 2026 Peter Adrastos Athas

MAGA is power drunk on greed and gold. Continue reading MAGA’s Hot Stove League

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Exhuming Hoover

August 11, 2026August 11, 2026 Peter Adrastos Athas

Donald Trump meets Herbert Hoover, economic calamity ensues. Continue reading Exhuming Hoover

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Saturday Odds & Sods: Jupiter Hollow

August 8, 2026August 7, 2026 Peter Adrastos Athas

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. Continue reading Saturday Odds & Sods: Jupiter Hollow

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Stuck On 2020

August 3, 2026August 3, 2026 Peter Adrastos Athas

The BIG LIE goes on and on and on. Continue reading Stuck On 2020

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Saturday Odds & Sods: Heat Wave

August 1, 2026July 31, 2026 Peter Adrastos Athas

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. Continue reading Saturday Odds & Sods: Heat Wave

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The Third Red Scare

July 30, 2026July 30, 2026 Peter Adrastos Athas

MAGA wants you to be afraid of reds under the bed. Repeat after me: There is no red menace. Continue reading The Third Red Scare

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Saturday Odds & Sods: Summertime

July 25, 2026July 24, 2026 Peter Adrastos Athas

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. Continue reading Saturday Odds & Sods: Summertime

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The Outsider Obsession

July 20, 2026July 20, 2026 Peter Adrastos Athas

Adrastos on outsider candidates, past and present in the wake of the Platner shipwreck. Continue reading The Outsider Obsession

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Angel Face (1952)

July 12, 2026July 12, 2026 Peter Adrastos Athas

Tagline: The men she loved, she destroyed. Continue reading Angel Face (1952)

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Saturday Odds & Sods: Pretending

July 11, 2026July 10, 2026 Peter Adrastos Athas

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. Continue reading Saturday Odds & Sods: Pretending

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Irked In July

July 9, 2026July 9, 2026 Peter Adrastos Athas

Our monthly exercise in vexatious venting about irksome things. Continue reading Irked In July

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MAGA, History, and America At 250

July 2, 2026July 2, 2026 cassandraisright

Under consideration: deep questions like “were the Salem witches guilty?”. Continue reading MAGA, History, and America At 250

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The Crackpot Court

July 2, 2026July 2, 2026 Peter Adrastos Athas

SCOTUS upholds birthright citizenship 5-3-1. Kavanaugh provides a loophole for future challenges. Thanks for nothing, Justice Bro. Continue reading The Crackpot Court

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Tricky JD’s Watergate Revisionism

June 30, 2026June 30, 2026 Peter Adrastos Athas

Let me make one thing perfectly clear: Richard Nixon was a crook. So is Donald Trump. Continue reading Tricky JD’s Watergate Revisionism

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Saturday Odds & Sods: A Rose For Emily

June 27, 2026June 27, 2026 Peter Adrastos Athas

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. Continue reading Saturday Odds & Sods: A Rose For Emily

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The Big Brag

June 18, 2026June 18, 2026 Peter Adrastos Athas

You say Big Lie; I say Big Brag. Let’s call the whole thing off. Continue reading The Big Brag

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Deliver The Body

June 16, 2026June 16, 2026 Peter Adrastos Athas

Suspend Stephen Miller and JD Vance, not the writ of habeas corpus. Continue reading Deliver The Body

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It’s Not The Cage Fight, It’s The Corruption, Stupid

June 15, 2026June 15, 2026 Peter Adrastos Athas

The Insult Comedian turns 80 and brings what John McCain called “human cockfighting” to the White House. Continue reading It’s Not The Cage Fight, It’s The Corruption, Stupid

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Shecky’s Quick Hitters: June Swoon Edition

June 11, 2026June 11, 2026 Peter Adrastos Athas

Taking a jab at Spencer Pratfall, the 60 Minutes mishigas, the Broadview Six, Todd Blanche & the Epstein cover up, JD Vance’s distancing act, and the Nixon Revival. Continue reading Shecky’s Quick Hitters: June Swoon Edition

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It’s The Incompetence, Stupid

June 9, 2026June 9, 2026 Peter Adrastos Athas

MAGA is a fucked up movement led by dipshits and dunces. Continue reading It’s The Incompetence, Stupid

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Greg Bovino Goes Full Metal Fascist

June 8, 2026June 8, 2026 Peter Adrastos Athas

Nothing is normal, everything is political, nothing is sacred. Continue reading Greg Bovino Goes Full Metal Fascist

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The Fallacy Of Mending Broken Eggs

June 5, 2026June 5, 2026 JCO

The old America is gone. The Democrats’ job is not to try to fix it, but to create a new one. Continue reading The Fallacy Of Mending Broken Eggs

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Corporate Personhood: The Ruling That Wasn’t

June 2, 2026June 2, 2026 rcb30

Fourteenth Amendment protection for corporations was (very) intentionally not part of this 1886 SCOTUS decision. So how did one Chief Justice and a court employee let things get so off the rails? Continue reading Corporate Personhood: The Ruling That Wasn’t