Charles Pierce

The most surreal day at any National Football League training camp is the day that the referees drop by to chat. Various of the league’s zebras stop in to discuss those rules that the NFL is planning to enforce with sufficient gusto as to cause members of the underground economy’s investor class to hurl the […]

Hey, it’s been nice having y’all here in the Commonwealth, God save it. Can y’all please go home now? It’s not that we mind having people wandering through Old North Church wearing sequined donkeys on their heads. We enjoy it. We encourage it. We teach it in our schools. Just ask Joe Scarborough, who wonders […]

I noticed in Newsweek last week, on a different page from that interesting tale about how we might not have elections this fall, a truly important story about how America’s hardworking ecdysiastical class is offering free lap dances at certain establishments as long as the customer agrees to register to vote. At last, I thought, […]

At first, I have to admit, I was a little worried about the gun. Not long ago, it was revealed that the president of the United States had taken as a souvenir the pistol found on Saddam Hussein when American forces pulled him, blinking and bearded, out of the earth. It was reported further that […]

(Herewith Inspired by The Wellstone Elegy: November 1, 2002, by Peggy Noonan, Journalist, Author, and Aquatic Mammal Divine.) My friend, I miss you and send you love. The week has been … something. I watched it from where I am, in theplace beyond. It’s wonderful here. I’m working as a lifeguard again, and Ilove it. […]

So anyway, I was cruising around Washington this week, looking for bargains and for the odd pundit to come mow my lawn. (It hadn’t been a very good month for pundits, what with Abu Ghraib still in the news and John Kerry still in the race, so I figured some of them could use the […]

(Being An Official Transcript Of NBC’s Meet The Press, May 2004) Mr. Russert: Welcome back to Meet The Press. Our guest is Jesus, often called The Christ, called by some the Messiah, the Redeemer, the Way, The Truth, and The Light. Mr. Christ, it’s good to have you here. Mr. Christ: It’s good to see […]

It has not been a good month for John Kerry, now that the full wrath of the Avignon presidency has landed upon him. He has been accused of not bleeding enough to earn his first medal, and of inconsistency in the way he treated his subsequent medals. As you may recall, back in 1971, Kerry […]