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The second bomb scare this week for New Truth Media means the editorial staff is being redirected to the coffee shop two blocks over. Brad McCauliffe, lead writer and videographer, shoves his way through a line of protesters, knocking over a sign that reads â€... More »
CANDIDATES ANONYMOUS (a short screenplay about a very long campaign) By Mollie Fermaglich FADE IN: INT. – Basement of a Washington D.C. church – Evening Modest, poorly lit large space. A tall coffee urn sits on a long aluminum table on one side of th... More »
By Karen Rile WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump made an unprecedented foray into the Olympic sports world today, tweeting that the US Biathlon team will adopt AK-47 assault rifles for use in competition going forward. The announcement provoked shockwaves t... More »
My catalogue of pals stretches beyond Bush, Trump, and the Emperor Bokassa’s personal crocodile. For I am everywhere, and always have been: helped Claus Von Bulow rewrite his Tinder profile the day they switched his wife off; had the Cle... More »
Harold Bloom was America’s best known literary critic for at least 30 years. Reading Bloom’s books were often a guilty pleasure for me. He wrote effusively in superlatives about his favorite writers, the writers of the “traditional” Wes... More »
Priyanka, age 36, mother of two, head completely shaved, sits in her small metal home, waiting for a pot of water to boil over an open stovetop. One of her children is out in search of scrap metal, while her baby sleeps on a thin mat, behind a sullen curtain. ... More »
Yeah, I’m gonna wear sweatpants to the Gol’ Corral I’m gonna eat ‘til I can’t no more I’m gonna wear sweatpants to the Gol’ Corral I’m gonna eat ‘til I can’t no more (Yum, Yum) Prime rib’s in the ... More »
Step 1: Begin honing your detective skills by watching the fifty-two movie and series versions of Sherlock Holmes, totaling approximately seventy-five hours of binge watching, or pick up a used copy of The Official Nancy Drew Handbook, by Penny Warner, where a... More »
(The year is 2021, or if the Democrats go down to defeat in the 2020 presidential election, 2025.) Welcome to the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library located in the lobby of Trump Tower Moscow right next to Comrade Mitch McConnell’s Vodka Bar. To make your ... More »
For most of my childhood, the reflection in the mirror startled me: in my mind, I was blonde and blue-eyed, an admittedly far-fetched feat in my Jewish-Gipsy family. Then puberty swept in, carrying gifts of fainting-grade menstrual pains and a sizable butt. So... More »
(Books referenced in this piece: The Library Book by Susan Orlean The Great American Novel by Philip Roth A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need by Andrew Tobias) What are you reading these ... More »