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 Problematic Triumph of Bari Weiss: Is the new head of CBS late to the party? It sure looks like it!
Poor Bari Weiss! She’s rich, definitely, getting $150 million for the Free Press, which she and her sister Suzi and her wife Nellie Bowles created from nothing, and she’s “powerful”, definitely, now head of CBS news, one of the most storied media powerhouses around, but so what? Just as Bari Weiss grasped the controls of…
The murder of Charlie Kirk was a hideous tragedy and a horrifying crime. But Charlie Kirk was an unscrupulous, racist mouthpiece for MAGA “rage”
The left-wing morons celebrating his death are disgusting; but so is Donald Trump and he’s president and they aren’t. Charlie Kirk’s murder was a horrifying crime and a great personal tragedy for his family. The now-familiar pattern of “passionate” lefties either finding a convenient moral in the murder of a right-wing big-shot—when they don’t celebrate…
Yo, virtue-signaling “progressive” leotards*! Uber and Lyft drivers are not exploited!
It’s become a “thing” for left-thinking “progressives” to exclaim, with suitably “passionate” outrage, “Did you know that Uber and Lyft drivers receive only 25% of price of a trip?” Well, I do now, of course, but here’s the good news for the righteously enraged: You can do something about that all by yourself! Yes, yes,…
Yo, Megan McArdle! Haven’t you heard? A deceitful inconsistency is the hobgoblin of very little minds! Very little minds like yours!
In a recent column, Some mortgage fraud is inevitable. But Lisa Cook needs to come clean., WashPost opinionator Megan McArdle had this to say about the recent uncovering of apparent “mortgage fraud” (a federal felony) on the part of Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserves Board of Governors, whom President Trump is currently…
Marta Giulioni—“I Mean You” Can Marta cook in the kitchen? Oh yeah!
Marta with Nico Tangherlini, piano, Riccardo Trasselli, bass, and Jacopo Ausili, drums. Posted by Marta
Coming soon, to a theater (of war) near you! I feel safer already! Unfortunately, I am safer.
I live in Washington, DC and I can assure you that our mayor, Muriel Bowser, can be usefully compared to water, in that she always follows the path of least resistance. See, Mayor Bowser would like to do more about DC’s falling yet still sky-high murder rate (down from 274 murders in 2023 to 187…
Political Notes from All Over
Vive Le Résistance! But what is it? And where is it? And who is it? Good questions! Maybe too good! According to reports from, well, you know, “around”, many Democrats are licking their chops looking forward to the 2026 mid-term elections, anticipating another “Blue Wave” election, similar to the big win in 2006, which presaged…
Much Ado about Béatrice et Bénédict. Can Berlioz Beat Bill? No, but it’s closer than you might think!
(Editor’s note: The performance shown above was taped back in 1977. Go here for a contemporary performance— Béatrice strips down to her slip for this one—but with French subtitles only. My review is based on a 2016 Glyndebourne production available via subscription from “Marquee TV” on Amazon Video. I particularly liked Stéphanie d’Oustrac in the…
Zohran Mamdani is full of ideas, and every single one of them is bad. Who’s worse, Andy, Eric, or Zohran? Is it OK if I just move to Hoboken?
Over at the New York Times, the ever-talkative Eric Klein has a loong and generally quite informative interview with MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes under the title Mamdani, Trump and the End of the Old Politics. And so we know where Zohran is coming from: free buses, government-run grocery stores, rent control, and universal child care,…
Sit down by the waters of Washington and weep, for America has fallen The worst man in American history is the most powerful man in American history.
Unlike any other president in American history, Donald Trump faces both an utterly supine Congress and an utterly supine Supreme Court. Never before has either branch come close to defaulting so thoroughly in the performance of its constitutional duties as an independent branch of government as both have today. One would find more defiance—and more…