THOMAS ADCOCK is the U. S. correspondent for the Berlin-based “CulturMag,” an international journal of art and commentary. You can read his latest here:

Year 2018

TRUMP-DRUNK: ‘End Times’ for ‘Pipsqueak Putin’ — Bigots, boobs & bible bullies, Aus! Weg mit Dir! 05/15/18

http://culturmag.de/crimemag/kolumne-thomas-adcock-trump-drunk/108888

 

DEJA VU: Thugs, Lies & Fevered Fantasies  — ‘The corpse of McCarthy-Hooverism still stirs’ harder!’04/14/18

http://culturmag.de/crimemag/thomas-adcocks-kolumne-deja-vu/108550

WOKE: The Never Again Generation— ‘We are not afraid…we will not be silenced…our voices are loud!’03/14/18

http://culturmag.de/crimemag/kolumne-thomas-adcock-woke/107942

CHEESEBURGER NATION: Make America Grody Again— ‘Spank me, Stormy…harder, harder!’02/15/18

http://culturmag.de/crimemag/kolumne-thomas-adcock-2/107661

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Year 2017

SHUNNED: Trump’s Looming Irrelevance— ‘Nobody likes you!’…Scram!’12/16/17

http://culturmag.de/crimemag/kolumne-thomas-adcock-trumps-looming-irrelevance/105330

Of Guns and Sex Assaults in America: HIGH TIDE OF HYPOCRISY — ‘Prayer works!’…‘Fake news!’11/15/17

http://culturmag.de/crimemag/kolumne-thomas-adcock-high-tide-of-hypocrisy/104328

Donald  & Darla: CRUELTY IN THE AGE OF TRUMP — ‘Risen on the wings of derision’ 10/19/17

http://culturmag.de/crimemag/kolumne-thomas-adcock/103504

America to Dumb Blond: ‘GO TO HELL’ — Dwindling fan base ‘drawn like flies to sewage’ 09/19/17

http://culturmag.de/crimemag/kolumne-thomas-adcock-go-to-hell/102969

SHOOT!Guns, Guns Everywhere — …but not a bedpan or straightjacket to spare 08/15/17

http://culturmag.de/crimemag/kolumne-thomas-adcock-shoot/102711

DON’T ASK! The War on American Media — Reporters risk beatings by Trump’s violent minions06/14/17

http://culturmag.de/crimemag/kolumne-thomas-adcock-the-war-on-american-media/101974

 ‘FREMDSCHÄMEN’: Regarding the Crumbling Trump Regime —Dreams of a Righteous Coup d’état 05/14/17

http://culturmag.de/crimemag/kolumne-thomas-adcock-fremdschaemen/101335 

BANANA REPUBLIC: Manly Trump Plays with Missiles—‘Wonder Boy’ plays with everything else 04/15/17

http://culturmag.de/crimemag/kolumne-thomas-adcock-banana-republic/100763 

TRUMP’S ‘FOURTH REICH’: Echos of Hitler & Stalin—‘Lugenpresse!’ … ‘Vrag Naroda!’ in the ridicule’ 03/15/17

http://culturmag.de/crimemag/kolumne-thomas-adcock-trumps-fourth-reich/99876

COMEDY AS A WEAPON: How to Dump Trump—‘Participate in the ridicule’ 02/15/17

http://culturmag.de/crimemag/kolumne-thomas-adcock-comedy-as-a-weapon/98978

NEW YEAR’S REVOLUTION: Women to Twitter Pig: ‘Pussy Grabs Back’—Phase One of mass protest against ‘Rump’ 01/14/17

http://culturmag.de/crimemag/kolumne-thomas-adcock-new-years-revolution/98479

Year 2016

TRIUMPH of THE ‘TRUMPANZEES’: Vulgarian Victory Launches Post-Truth Era—Dim bulb voters:‘What, me stupid?’ 12/15/16

http://culturmag.de/crimemag/kolumne-thomas-adcock-triumph-of-the-trumpanzees/97372

DARK DAYS IN THE U.S.A.: ‘White America Has Lost Its Mind’—The Resistible Rise of Donald Trump 11/17/16

http://culturmag.de/crimemag/kolumne-thomas-adcock-dark-days-in-the-u-s-a/96929

 

NOVEMBER SURPRISE: Justice Delayed, but Not Denied—Make the Graybar Hotel great again 10/03/16

http://culturmag.de/litmag/kolumne-thomas-adcock-november-surprise/95740

GOEBBELS ENVY: Donald Does the ‘Long Con’—Set the dial for ‘alt-right’ TV 09/15/16

http://culturmag.de/crimemag/kolumne-thomas-adcock-goebbels-envy/95298

CONGRESS AT WORK: Keeping the U.S.A. Safe for Massacres—Potential Assassination Foretold? 08/01/16

http://culturmag.de/litmag/essay-thomas-adcock-congress-at-work-keeping-the-u-s-a-safe-for-massacre/94903

FEAR & LOATHING IN OHIO: Donald Trump’s Fascist Bacchanal—True Believers: Death to Hillary Clinton! 07/30/16

http://culturmag.de/crimemag/essay-thomas-adcock-fear-loathing-in-ohio-donald-trumps-fascist-bacchanal/94498

WHY IS THIS MAN LAUGHING? ‘Are Americans, Like, Stupid?’ The genius & menace of ‘Glorious Leader’  06/15/16

http://culturmag.de/crimemag/kolumne-thomas-adcock-why-is-this-man-laughing/94164

TOILET PANIC! Right-Wingers in Sexual Panic – Ted Cruz thrills the hateful faithful 05/17/16

http://culturmag.de/crimemag/kolumne-thomas-adcock-toilet-panic/93423

HOW AMERICA GOT PUNK’D: Bang! Bang! You’re Dead in Cleveland 04/15/16

http://culturmag.de/allgemein/kolumne-thomas-adcock-how-america-got-punkd/92646

BIGOTS, BIBLES & BOMBS: America’s Dangerous Political Season— The beast is loose 03/15/16

http://culturmag.de/crimemag/kolumne-thomas-adcock-bigots-bibles-bombs/92050

THE ORTHODOXY OF UNREALITY: America Through the Looking Glass— ‘We don’t need no stinkin’ facts’ 02/15/16

http://culturmag.de/crimemag/kolumne-thomas-adcock-the-orthodoxy-of-unreality/91467

‘ONWARD CHRISTIAN (SUCKERS), MARCHING AS TO WAR—Muslim-hating madness & daily massacres in Jesusland 01/20/16

http://culturmag.de/crimemag/thomas-adcock-onward-christian-suckers/91215

 Year 2015 

• THE ‘TIT SQUAD’: Cops battle a scourge of naked lady parts—10/04/15

• GERMANY AT GROUND ZERO: America vs. Vulgarian vs. the ‘Evil Empire’ —Berlin days of ‘Over the wall, under the gun’ 09/06/15

• EIN SCHWEINEHUND FOR PRESIDENT? Vulgarian is Top Choice of U.S.A. Know-Nothings – Donald J. Trump: ‘I’m, like, a very smart person’ 09/05/15

• WHITE POWER! Massacre at Holy City U.S.A. – ‘We’re not worth the air they don’t want us to breathe’ 06/27/15

• BERNIE FOR PRESIDENT: The ‘Burlington Revolution’ goes national  06/13/15

• Apologies to Stephen Sondheim: WEDNESDAY IN THE PARK WITH KORMAN—Male friendship: a chummy salve for the manful soul  06/03/15

• FREE EDWARD SNOWDEN: ‘Speaking truth is not a crime’ 05/20/15

• ALL GOD’S JESTERS ‘GOTTA SING: The marriage of moneychangers & Jesus jumpers 05/16/15

• POLICE STATE NATION: A Cursed Flag, Flying High 04/18/15

• AMERICAN SEDITION: The Plot of ’09 Thickens  Powerful white men aim to destroy a black president 03/28/15

• THE STRAIGHTEN-UP MAN & THE CHINESE TAKE-OUT JOINT: A cautionary neighborhood tale 03/18/15

• THEATRE OF DISTRACTION: ‘Let Me Entertain You’—Blather & twaddle vs. what ails America 01/28/15

• WAR CRIMES: WHAT, ME WORRY?—‘It’s Good to be the King’—C.I.A. thugs, killer cops & white supremacy 01/17/15

 

Year 2014

• AMERICAN THUGS: The Few, the Proud, the Repugnant—High time to clean out the pigpens 12/13/14

• Ach du Scheiße! Welcome to Reaganistan Of Pugnacity & Pussycrats 11/19/14

• ‘BUTT-KICKING’ TIME: U.S.A. to Repugnant Party—‘Here’s your hat, what’s your hurry?’ 10/29/14

• HENNY-PENNY POLITICS: Fear! Bombs! Fear! Bombs! etc., etc. 10/18/14

• VICTORY FOR THE FILTHY RICH: Old Fools Lie, Young Suckers Die…Meanwhile, the One Percent goes shopping 09/20/14

•  SINGING THE U.S.A. BLUES: The ‘banality of injustice’ …An Echo of the Battle of The Bogside 08/30/14

• HEADS ARE EXPLODING…and other casualties in the ‘War on Whites’ 08/16/14

• ‘GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR, YOUR HUDDLED MASSES…’ 08/02/14

• “’DESCENT INTO MADNESS’—War pimps, Fox television & ammo-sexuals” 07/23/14

• “’ENOUGH, ALREADY!’ America’s Disgust with Piggy Plutocrats & Repugnant Pols—Payback time this November” 05/10/14

• “HOMEFRONT TERRORISTS & Their Cheerleaders” (‘If you’re white, you’re all right’) 04/26/14

• “IMPEACH U.S. WAR CRIMINALS…With help from Hollywood, via ‘Reality TV’” (better late than never) 04/12/14

• “OFF WITH THEIR HEADS: Peewees pucker up for the billionaires” 03/29/14

• “’VAGINAPHOBIA’: Scourge of American Right-Wing Scaredy-Cats” 03/22/14

• “WHO LIES? WHO DIES? Who Pays? Who Profits?” 03/08/14

• “’LET THEM EAT NOTHING’: Three blind mice of callous conduct 03/01/14

• “THEY WALK AMONG US: Almighty Joker sends ‘Pod People’ to Earth” 02/15/14

• “NEWS FLASH! Rich get richer, poor get poorer” 02/01/14

• “BLUTO FOR PRESIDENT?” 01/22/14

• “WE WON’T WAIT. We’ll Do It Now.” Happy New Year! Exit the ‘Raw Deal’ in 2014 01/15/14

• “WHO’S AFRAID OF A PAF? Dead End for the Red Bogeyman”  01/11/14

 

Year 2013

• “DANGEROUS PEOPLE: At the vanguard of times a-changin’ in America” 12/07/13

• “AMERIKANISCHE SCHADENFREUDE: Toronto’s Mayor is not an American—thanks heavens…Canada’s own Tea Party problem, eh?” 11/23/13

• “Darkness Lifted: Bum’s Rush for the spawn of Ronald Reagan—At long last, really & truly, ‘Morning in America’”  11/13/13

• “So Leave, Already!” – The modern case for Southern secession  11.02.13

• “The Racketeer & the Christian Taliban”  10.19.13

•  “Another Day, Another Massacre — Gun Industry shills to America: ‘Ho-hum’” 09.28.13

• “Left Turn in the Big Apple — ‘Start Spreading the News’” 09.18.13

• “The Lone Ranger Rides Again — Heigh-ho the derry-o, the Cheese stands alone” 09.07.13

• “Send in the Clowns — Republican Genius on Parade” 08.28.13

• “Thrown-Away City — Detroit & the Death of Democracy’” 08.17.13

• “The Law is a Ass — a Idiot!” The U.S. Supreme KKKourt & Other Venues of Legal Hubris   08.10.13

• “This Week’s Crazy Talk in the ‘Hew-Hess-Hay’” 06.29.13

• “Annals of American Panic, Paranoia & Profiteering” 06.22.13

• “The F-Words: F**r of F****ism”  06.08.13

• “Two Shades of Evil in the U.S.A.: Respectable & Repugnant”  05.18.13

• “The Party of Mass Murder: G.O.P. = Guns Over People”  04.27.13

• “Citizen-Stranger in a Strange Land: On Being a Foreign Correspondent at Home” 04.24.13

 

•  “Execution, American-Style: How the Government Commits Pre-Meditated Homicide

PART 1 (04.06.13)

PART 2 (04.20.13)

 

• “Suicide by Stupidity: How the Republican Party is Killing Itself” 03.13.13

• “The 10 Dumbest Members of the U.S. Congress” 03.16.13

 

• “American Blood Money, Inc.”

PART 1 (02.09.13):

PART 2 (02.16.13):

 

• “America in 2013: Toward a ‘More Perfect’ Union?”

PART 1 (01.21.13):

 PART 2 (01.23.13):

 

Year 2012

• “Merry Murderous Christmas” 12.22.12

•  “The American Spirit of Optimism: Rx for Lousy Times” 09.15.12

 

SPECIAL: Campaign Diary 2012

#1 – “The New Sarah Palin” 09.18.12

#2 – “G.O.P., R.I.P.” 09.25.12

#3 – “War, Inc.” 10.02.12

#4 – “James Crow Jr., Esq.” 10.09.12

#5 – “Jesus Christ for President” 10.16.12

#6 – “Stop! … Thief!” 10.23.12

#7 – “Runnin’ Scared” 10.30.12

#8 – “Unfinished Business” 11.06.12

#9 – “Aftermath” 11.13.12

#10 – “The South Shall Rise Again!” 11.20.12