J. RiddleBiden, Trump & Wherein They’re the Same: An EditorialWhen, in February, Jon Stewart returned to the Daily Show, he offered a monologue in which he ruminated on the advanced ages of Joe Biden…14 min read·May 17, 2024----
J. RiddleComic Book Movies & What Ails ’Em 3: Better, Not BiggerThis past August marked the 25th anniversary of the release of Stephen Norrington’s BLADE. Starring Wesley Snipes as the titular…51 min read·Apr 25, 2024----
J. RiddleFlogging the 2016 Corpse: An Examination of a Failure To Reexamine Clinton-SandersMaybe 2016 will just never end at all. Maybe years, even decades, after this writer is dead and gone, people will still be taking to social…42 min read·Mar 20, 2024----
J. RiddleQuoth THE RAVEN (1963) ForevermoreCinemarchaeology Dept. — On this day — 25 January — in 1963, Roger Corman’s THE RAVEN first hit the screen. On paper, the film is an…9 min read·Jan 25, 2024----
J. RiddleWith “Friends” Like These: The Clintonite Right As the Defender of Liberal DemocracyOn 5 Jan., Joe Biden held a big-money fundraiser in Boston and — seemingly forgetting where he was and what he was doing there — told the…7 min read·Dec 23, 2023----
J. Riddle“The Clintonite Right Is An Unsustainable Trend”: An EditorialIt’s one of those paradoxical features of American “liberal democracy” — and one of the signs of its fundamental dysfunction — that…13 min read·Dec 18, 2023----
J. RiddleThe Needle & the Bernie Done 2: Healthcare TooIn February, I assembled, from a Twitter thread, a piece countering claims by Hillary Clinton’s personality cult — still hanging in there…9 min read·Aug 21, 2023----
J. RiddleBiden’s Fundraising: Covering the Hype, Bailing on the RealityA day before filing its fundraising data with the FEC, Joe Biden’s campaign released a video that made some extravagant claims about its…8 min read·Jul 19, 2023----
J. RiddleVoter-Blaming vs. Liberal Democracy: An EditorialLooking over Twitter yesterday, I came across a Twit-snit in which an angry Clintonite was raging against those she characterized as white…7 min read·Jun 5, 2023----
J. RiddleNo, Bernie Sanders Isn’t Responsible For Louis DeJoy As Postmaster GeneralLast Summer on Twitter, I took some time to correct yet another of those well-circulated Clinton cult myths I always find myself skewering…3 min read·May 28, 2023----