Charles Pierce

It’s been a couple of weeks now, and I’m still worried about Bianca. You may have missed it. At a recent press availability — to call it a “conference” would be roughly akin to calling a beer commercial a drama — President George W. Bush called on someone named “Bianca.” There was no answer. “Is […]

Recently, on a radio program, I was asked a question about a Dutch couple who returned home one night to discover two children whom they did not recognize sitting alone in a car outside the house. Concerned, the couple asked the children where their parents were. “Oh,” one of the children replied. ”They’re inside, robbing […]

One of the very first reactions that the president of the United States had to the devastation of the city of New Orleans was to recall publicly how he used to overindulge himself there. Of course, that was back before he began channeling the spirit of Lyndon Johnson through the accountants at Halliburton. That was […]

I am sorry I am not a double-super-secret Beltway reporter with double-super-secret access to all the double-super-secret people who know all the double-super-secret secrets. I am sorry about this because it means that I will not be part of the noble work involved in tailoring the shining armor of the First Amendment until it fits […]

Still more baffling moments from life in these United States, as Reader’s Digest likes to say. Ralph Reed’s connection to the Gospels, to name one. You may remember Reed — the tiny-domed, replicant-looking fellow who used to front for the Christian Coalition. (Look at him quickly, and you’d swear you were seeing Frank Luntz’s inner […]

I am not one to diminish the ineffable emotional delight inherent in the sight of Senator Bill Frist standing at his podium looking like a lost kitten in the rain. (Somewhere in Colorado Springs, there’s a thumbscrew with his name on it.) There is also some undeniable comedy gold in watching the various exotic fauna […]

by Charles P. Pierce I am confused here by John Bolton, the two-tone cannon rolling madly across the deck of the Bush administration. I hear first that Bolton was an angry boss and a devious employee. Now comes Larry Flynt — Obligatory Serious Journalist Disclaimer: Remember, this is Larry Flynt and not a serious public […]

I spent five years of my life in Wisconsin and I am still fond of the place. So much so that I got very concerned about the recent proposal that Wisconsinites be allowed to go hunting for what is apparently an overpopulation of feral cats. (I presume these are four-legged feral cats, and not the […]

There are mice in my attic. Not to put too fine a point on it, but the mice seem to be a lot smarter than I am, and self-sacrificing, too. I have laid traps up there like I was Jacques Marquette around the Great Lakes, for pity’s sake, and I only ever catch one of […]

As we all know, the corn is as high as an elephant’s eye, and they’re doing fine in Oklahoma. Oklahoma’s OK, L-A,-H-O-M-A. Not only that, but right now the state is represented in the U.S. Senate by two of the most entertaining primates ever to sit in that august body. It is a remarkable achievement. […]