Charles P. Pierce

1 week ago | esquire.com | Charles P. Pierce

It is possible that federal judge James Boasberg is very protective of his last nerve and that he’s quite had enough of this administration’s jumping on it, and it is also possible that having the president hosting a Summit of the Tinhorns the other day in the White House at which everybody had a good laugh at the federal judiciary wasn’t the best long-term strategy either. From The Washington Post: Chief U.S. District Judge James E.

1 week ago | esquire.com | Charles P. Pierce

I'm telling you, and I've said this before, when the DOGE and pony show appeared in their workplaces, federal employees should have stacked sandbags around their cubicles and locked and barricaded their offices. They should have hung bedsheets out their windows proclaiming their resistance, the way the AIM occupiers did at Alcatraz long ago. Let the bastards at least work to take over. Because nobody listens to me, look what happened.

1 week ago | esquire.com | Charles P. Pierce

The New American Golden Age is something of a crapshoot—in every sense of the word, including the literal. From NBC News:An E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce ripped across 15 states in November, sickening dozens of people, including a 9-year-old boy in Indiana who nearly died of kidney failure and a 57-year-old Missouri woman who fell ill after attending a funeral lunch. One person died. That sounds bad.

1 week ago | esquire.com | Charles P. Pierce

Good god. The president is showing unmistakable signs of dementia-related complications that seem to involve settling old scores, real and imagined. And the guy he's put in charge of dismantling the federal government is an absolute freak who has wandered into government service from a Ray Bradbury story. God bless America, 'cause we gon' need it. From The Wall Street Journal, and with my profound apologies for making you take a shower in the middle of the day.

1 week ago | esquire.com | Charles P. Pierce

David Hogg is exactly what we expect from a citizen touched by unthinkable tragedy. Having survived the 2018 massacre at Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, he immediately dove into constructive political action, first on serious gun reform, and then within Democratic party politics, rising to his present position as DNC vice-chairman. Which makes it difficult to point out that his latest project couldn't be more ill-advised and, worse, incredibly ill-timed.