raffish adj. 1.Cheaply or showily vulgar in appearance or nature; tawdry 2.Characterized by a carefree or fun-loving unconventionality; rakish [Probably from dialectal raff, rubbish, from Middle English raf, perhaps of Scandinavian origin]

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News! September 24, 2002!
raffish.org is being reworked. I am going to dump all of the stuff I find online involving politics and media that is raffish here. I'm going to define raffish pretty liberally. Deal with it.