Edward Belfar
@embelfar.bsky.social
Author of the 2024 Independent Press Award-winning novel A Very Innocent Man (Flexible Press, 2023) and the short-story collection Wanderers (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2012). Website: https://www.edwardbelfar.com/index.htm
Especially when it's the people who would presume to write the laws governing the health care system.
November 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Especially when it's the people who would presume to write the laws governing the health care system.
Not even dad-joke worthy.
November 8, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Not even dad-joke worthy.
He now owns the two longest shutdowns.
November 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
He now owns the two longest shutdowns.
He's overqualified for the current administration.
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
He's overqualified for the current administration.
He's muttering to himself, "Rosebud."
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
He's muttering to himself, "Rosebud."
I do feel badly for the worm.
November 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I do feel badly for the worm.
That would have been a real journalist's logical follow-up question.
November 3, 2025 at 1:22 AM
That would have been a real journalist's logical follow-up question.
Especially his racist rants.
November 1, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Especially his racist rants.
It was woke, son. Woke, I say. If there's one thing I cain't stand, it's woke.
November 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
It was woke, son. Woke, I say. If there's one thing I cain't stand, it's woke.
I ain't got no time for a hundred indecisions and a hundred visions and revisions before the taking of toast and tea.
October 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I ain't got no time for a hundred indecisions and a hundred visions and revisions before the taking of toast and tea.
Maybe she doesn't hold that against him.
October 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Maybe she doesn't hold that against him.
But do the trees talk back to her?
October 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
But do the trees talk back to her?
Kennedy was a Rhodes scholar, but it's possible that after decades of pretending to be dum as a post, he has become so.
October 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Kennedy was a Rhodes scholar, but it's possible that after decades of pretending to be dum as a post, he has become so.
Henceforth, all MAGA will insist that it's a giraffe, and those who say otherwise will be accused of perpetrating a giraffe, giraffe, giraffe hoax.
October 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Henceforth, all MAGA will insist that it's a giraffe, and those who say otherwise will be accused of perpetrating a giraffe, giraffe, giraffe hoax.
Yes. The monuments a dictator builds to himself should be obliterated when he's gone.
October 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Yes. The monuments a dictator builds to himself should be obliterated when he's gone.
Judging by the images, it will be, in keeping with the Trump aesthetic, a vulgar, trashy, hideous monstrosity. Everything he touches turns to shit.
October 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Judging by the images, it will be, in keeping with the Trump aesthetic, a vulgar, trashy, hideous monstrosity. Everything he touches turns to shit.
Also, Chaplin's use of Wagner in the floating globe scene of The Great Dictator.
October 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Also, Chaplin's use of Wagner in the floating globe scene of The Great Dictator.
I think I'm going to be sick.
October 24, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I think I'm going to be sick.
In fairness to Percy, on whom I did my dissertation, the novel Lancelot is not typical of work. It's his worst novel, and the murderous Lancelot Lamar is his most repellent character. An oft-repeated refrain of Lancelot's that may have resonated with Vaught is, "I cannot tolerate this age."
October 23, 2025 at 2:33 AM
In fairness to Percy, on whom I did my dissertation, the novel Lancelot is not typical of work. It's his worst novel, and the murderous Lancelot Lamar is his most repellent character. An oft-repeated refrain of Lancelot's that may have resonated with Vaught is, "I cannot tolerate this age."
Also, a delivery of $50,000 in a pizza box is definitely ethical.
October 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Also, a delivery of $50,000 in a pizza box is definitely ethical.
I hope that reporting the comment will.
October 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I hope that reporting the comment will.