D'Anne Witkowski
Creep of the Week: Donald Trump
Well, the Mueller report is out and to hear Donald Trump tell it the entire thing contained only a hand-lettered note on wide-ruled notebook paper that read, "I like you, do you like me? Circle YES or NO." I, like many people, believe the entire [...]
Creep of the Week: Brenton Harrison Tarrant
"Let's get this party started." That's how Brenton Harrison Tarrant kicked off his livestream video of his massacre at the first of two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. I want to say this: "It goes without saying that Tarrant is a vile person [...]
Creep of the Week: Marc Short
This week's column comes to you from both the "But People Can Change" Department and the "Yeah, but no" Department. Think back to who you were an undergrad in college. I'm going to make an educated guess and say that you were insufferable. Granted, [...]
Creep of the Week: Pat Robertson
You know those online ads that promise, "One weird trick to lose belly fat" next to an image of, say, a crudely drawn banana? Even if you don't know what exactly those ads are trying to communicate, you know not to click them. But not Grandpa [...]
Creep of the Week: Randy Garber
Oh, hey, did you hear that in Kansas lawmakers are trying to establish the LGBTQ community as a religion? Or, more specifically, they're trying to argue that LGBTQ people are actually secular humanists so that Kansas doesn't have to recognize [...]
Creep of the Week: Eric Porterfield
Eric Porterfield is blind, literally. According to his website, Blind Faith Ministries, he lost his eyesight in 2006. But Porterfield is also figuratively blind, in that he apparently is either ignorant of, or refuses to see, the horrifically [...]
Creep of the Week: James Greene Sr.
By the time this column runs, Donald Trump's State of the Union address will be over and done with. But as I'm writing this there's a good 24 hours before the SOTU. I can't stomach the 24-hour breathless "news" coverage the event is already getting, [...]
Creep of the Week: Donald Trump
Donald Trump is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad president. This is something that has been clear to the majority of Americans from the get-go. Trump's white evangelical Christian base, however, is largely sticking with him, though poll [...]
Creep of the Week: Steve King
I shall begin this week's column with a limerick: There once was a Republican named Steve who was racist like you wouldn't believe but the media ignored him because white supremacy bores them and focused on Rashida Tlaib. If you've been paying [...]
Creep of the Week: Stedfast Baptist Church
Welcome to this episode of "Christian Hypocracy: Anti-Gay Christian Edition." It's been a while since we've done one of these so let's start off 2019 old-school style and call out an anti-LGBTQ public figure who turns out to not be so morally [...]
Creep of the Week: Mass Resistance
Just about every LGBTQ person has a story about something that confirmed for them that they were LGBTQ. For me it was Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman. That is, you might say, my root. For the next generation of LGBTQ folks their root will be Drag Queen [...]
Creep of the Week: Michigan Republicans
You know, even though our country seems more divided than ever before, at least we can count on our elected leaders to respect the system of government that we've created and have been trying to get right for 240 some years. Key word is "trying" [...]