Yes, I have joined the crowd. All previous posts—all 3,000 of ’em—will remain here and, for the sake of maintaining a complete record, I’ll also be posting the newbies here as well, or at least most of them. Enjoy!
The story of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison & Cowardice: What good is a Constitution if nobody uses it? Billable hours yes, freedom of speech no
Michael S. Schmidt, Matthew Goldstein, Jessica Silver-Greenberg, and Ben Protess have the story, How a Major Democratic Law Firm Ended Up Bowing to Trump, though why the New York Times needed four of its top journalists to “explain” why it took the 200-partner, $2 billion law firm known as “Paul Weiss” no more than two…
Schumer gets one right, Schumer gets one wrong
Poor old Chuck Schumer can’t catch a break these days and shouldn’t catch one either, the old fool. Schumer’s reputation as a crafty and/or soulless specialist in inside the Beltway inside baseball took a massive beating a couple of days ago when Mr. Inside found himself smeared all over the web as Senator Sellout after…
Yo, Democrats! Forget about the working class! Worry about the upper class!
Okay, that’s a bit compressed, but here’s the deal: Democrats are in just a bit of a tizzy following the 2024 presidential election results, worried in particular about the fall-off of support for Kamala versus Joe in 2020 among Hispanic men, black men, and the “working class” in general. Should we go left, as Bernie…
Is Amy Coney Barrett a damn FINO? (Fascist in name only) Or is she just, you know, a WOMAN!
A question, apparently, to be asked. The MAGAverse threw itself into a foamin’ at the mouth frenzy last week when Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined with Chief Justice John Roberts and the “Unholy Three”, aka “the Bitches”—Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Katanji Brown Jackson—to briefly check the Musk Trump administration’s attempt to claw…
Bret Stephens, starting to suspect that Donald Trump is not a very nice man
Considering the ungodly plethora of seriously bad people in the world these days—Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Xi Jinping, just to mention a few—why do I find it so necessary—or at least so convenient—to pick on New York Times columnist and Israel sycophant Bret Stephens? In the past, I think it was because his hypocrisies—his…
Socio-Politico-Economic Notes from all over
Okay, this is going to be a bit of a data dump on your asses. I’ve been trying to put the finishing touches on a new novel, as well as goofing off a little, and I was compiling stuff that I was going to get to any time now, and, well, this is the result….
Yo, Bret Stephens! We know you’re a pr*ck! You don’t have to prove it every day!
No, you don’t, Bret. In the course of a “on the one hand, on the other” take on Trump’s foreign policies, praising “toughness” but bemoaning the lack of interest in, you know, “freedom”, Bret is heartened by Trump’s “get tough” approach to Iran: “Iran suddenly seems interested in discussing its nuclear program after treating the…
The Return of Trump: America’s Shame It’s High Noon for America’s soul, and things are looking dark.
When I was all of seven years’ old, I was treated to the following homily via the famous Carl Foreman-scripted western High Noon: In the fifth century BC the citizens of Athens, having suffered grievously under a tyrant, managed to depose and banish him. However, when he returned some years later with an army of…
Shorter John Roberts/Amy Coney Barrett: We’re not 24/7 whores! We’re Monday, Wednesday, Friday whores!
It’s true! The U.S. Supreme Court is definitely not Donald Trump’s personal gumball machine! In a small but genuine triumph for judicial modesty and common sense, only four of the six Republican justices on the Supreme Court rolled over for His Donaldness, while the other, well, stood firm with the four Democrats on the Court,…
“The Message” of Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Good, the bad, and the Disingenuous
To say that Ta-Nehisi Coates’ most recent book, The Message, has been “controversial” is, well, “banal”, although the uproar has most unfortunately been upstaged by the re-election of Donald Trump. It’s more than a bit silly to be lecturing poor Mr. Coates on his sins—though they are, I’m afraid, substantial in their own right—when the…