Roy Edroso

Kissing your cousin through a screen

I watched the Oscars on Sunday night as I do every year, and at first I was as dispirited as I have been whenever someone invites me to a “virtual” event. From the beginning of the pandemic, I’ve been impatient about that; I’ve wanted to do the thing…

Fuck the Founders

By now it’s pretty obvious that when conservatives swoon over the Founders, it’s not because they respect the rights their Constitution was supposed to preserve, but because, like themselves, the Founders considered women and blacks to be sub-human.…

Listen to the warm

(The Oscars are this weekend and, as I do every year, I’m reviewing the Best Picture contenders before the ceremony. So far for 2021 I have Mank, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Judas and the Black Messiah,Nomadland, Promising Young Woman and The Father…

Let justice be done

I never like to see anyone go to prison, even if, by the corrupt terms of our society, they quote unquote deserve it. I do believe in justice and that it’s necessary for a functioning society, but I prefer restorative to retributive justice; I also…

Andrew at the office

[The second floor of some swell Adams Morgan townhouse, decorated like a Starbucks. In front of a grand bay window, before a minimalistic desk with a Tizio lamp and an Apple Pro Display XDR, seated in an Aeron chair is ANDREW SULLIVAN dressed in silk…

Final Exit

(The Oscars are next weekend and, as I do every year, I’m reviewing the Best Picture contenders before the ceremony. So far for 2021 I have Mank, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Judas and the Black Messiah, Nomadland and Promising Young Woman handled.…

Peggy's last spin

Back when I first started reeling in disgust from Peggy Noonan in the early 21st Century, I called her the Crazy Jesus Lady, not only because of her fulsome hallucinations of Elian’s Magic Dolphins and “the face of the Evil One” at the World Trade…

Served cold

(The Oscars are in ten days, yay! And as I do every year I’m reviewing the Best Picture contenders before the ceremony. So far for 2021 I have Mank, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Judas and the Black Messiah, and Nomadland handled. Watch this…

J.D. Vance's Day

5:30 am Walk dogs Casper and Pippin. 6:00 am Pilates in the exercise room, followed by a quick sauna and shower. 6:45 am Breakfast with wife by the pool house. 7:30 am Call with Peter Thiel about their Narya Capital Management investment firm and…

The next round of police excuses for killing unarmed black men

Shadow resembled Slender Man. After pumping seven bullets into 45-year-old cab driver Charles Willis’ body outside the Wilmington, Georgia man’s home, where he’d been called to investigate illegal fireworks, Officer Tom Fred explained that due to the…

The latest celebrity New York mayoral candidates

Heather Mac Donald. The longtime conservative City Journal writer is running on an “Black Crime Matters” ticket. “I’ve been warning you people,” she said when announcing her candidacy at the 92nd Street Y, “just because they’ve been laying low a few…

How Dylan got into politics

The week after the election Dylan, full of enthusiasm, offered his services to the country Democratic committee, or rather to the Democratic committeewoman Marge Dunn, an angular librarian who had raised a child by herself to manhood and, a year…

Why vote? and other great thoughts

Democrats, whom I never tire of pointing out are microcephalic (look it up, idiots), are once again shrieking and mewling that the many new laws passed by Republicans in order to (so they bleat, and whine) deprive such pathetic creatures as are…

Never the twain

[Zoom meeting, four participants: Two white men wearing business suits, and two wearing dress shirts and bib overalls, though the overalls are clean and the men seem well-groomed.] MAN IN SUIT ONE: Great, we’re all on. OK. Let’s start. This is Jim…

My father Matt Gaetz is a wonderful man who is innocent of all charges

It hurts when you see a loved one smeared in the press and you know that person is really good and loving and innocent of all charges. Sometimes it makes you want to hide yourself and ignore what is happening, especially when you are shy and you…

A League of Their Own

Fellow Citizens and Stakeholders: We are pleased to report that with $470 million in capitalization* so far the Anti-Woke League (AWOL) Project is already successful on the basis of accrued interest alone. In addition we expect massive attention…

Horseman pass by

You may be surprised to hear it, but most of the time I don’t feel old. I’m usually too busy working, or paying too close attention to art or literature or news or the internet, to notice. It’s not that I’m so devoted to these things, or have such…

Hardcore break!

Longtime readers may remember my “This is Hardcore” irregular series reviewing rightwing rageporn your aged relatives get in their email that makes them donate to people like Marjorie Taylor Greene or, for that matter, to the less flamboyant but…

Solving the world's problems

[The old-fashioned, lace-curtain, oak-paneled rectory seen in “Feast Day,” “Opus Duh,” and “A Few Drinks After Work.” The usual characters are having drinks: ROSS DOUTHAT (B&B), Attorney General BILL BARR (single malt), Supreme Court Associate…

Trading Post

© 2020 Gage Skidmore, used under a Creative Commons license [The great hall at Mar-a-Lago where, as seen in previous episodes, former president TRUMP receives visitors. TRUMP is on his giant gold-painted throne, playing with his phone; his flunky…