You thought back when Stephen Colbert skewered Bush at the Washington Correspondents' Dinner, somebody got fired for inviting him, right? I sure as fuck did. But as it happens, his victims might not have even realized he was being mean.
Seriously. This is un-fucking-believable. A significant number of conservatives polled think Colbert is only pretending to [...]

Ahh yes. That special day of the year when even Americans who don't normally run around pumping up how wonderful and flawless and fantabulous their country is, get misty-eyed when they hear the national anthem.
Also, the day when people who genuinely don't give a fuck get a day off of work to play with explosives [...]

… if public schools taught anything resembling history—Or, American Exceptionalism is a crock of shit.
American schools are shit at teaching anything resembling an in-depth study of history. Of course, to a certain extent, any nation's schools are going to teach history from their own bias and perspective, but after meeting and talking with people of [...]

Sometimes it's hard to come up with a full-length, balls-to-the-wall rant, but a lot of "too long for Twitter, too short for a whole post" ideas float in and out of my head all the time. Here's 10 things every adult really ought to know, but a lot of people are apparently just too fucking [...]