Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. You don’t want to hear about the election unless you had a big worm crawl in your brain and prompt you to vote incorrectly (which might earn you a cabinet post) and I don’t want to talk about it. Especially since my week would’ve sucked even…

Isaac Hayes in New York City in 1972. Photo by Anthony Barboza/Getty Images. You ever wonder what horrors are ensconced in Donald Trump’s personal playlist? That’s a trick question. I seriously doubt he understands what a playlist is. It’s not even his rapidly-advancing age. He almost certainly doesn’t understand…

A woman holds the portrait of Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, accused of “corruption on Earth” during the demonstration against Iranian repression in Lyon, France on Jan. 8, 2023. Photo by Robert Deyrail/Gamma-Rapho. I’m more confused than usual this week, and not just by people making six-point turnarounds to back…

Insert Foot picks Neal Schon’s side while lamenting the probable end of Journey. Merry Christmas. Journey is dead.  I don’t want to screw up Jesus’ birthday for fans, but Jonathan Cain has attached himself to the flaming orange Hindenburg that is Donald Trump, and Neal Schon – the other…

Elon Musk, pictured considering whether to record an EDM song. It was a bad week for bullies, which made a great week for the rest of us.  Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. Two of the world’s worst had terrible weeks, during which many of their followers finally screwed their brains on…

Lady Justice being cut apart, courtesy Chuck Todd/chucktodd.net. It creeps me out to infinity that Brett Kavanaugh can decide what happens to my daughter’s uterus. Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. Well … not in California. Not yet. Say what you want about California, but we recognized the arrival of the 21st century.…

Original photo: Ukrainians and Israelis who support them gather during a protest against Russian attacks on Ukraine, on Feb. 26, 2022, in Tel Aviv. Photo: Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency. Excuse me if I’m annoyed and seemingly jumping around topically today, but I’m kind of fed up with American exceptionalism (exceptional…

INSERT FOOT, Laura Jane Grace and Four Seasons Total Landscaping Day. Laura Jane Grace, who fronts punk band Against Me!, just announced she’ll play a solo set at Four Seasons Total Landscaping in Philadelphia on Aug 21. Admitting your career is over so blatantly seems kind of weird. But…

A gallows erected by pro-Trump rioters outside the United States Capitol building in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021. Courtesy: Tyler Merbler. All of this was entirely avoidable. Those words have rung in my ears well beyond the last four years, but they have become deafening as a result of…

Insert Foot Vs. the mob in the U.S. Capitol. Original photo: Supporters of President Donald Trump roam under the Capitol Rotunda after invading the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Saul LOEB / AFP via Getty Images. Anyone else wonder why so many of the…