Francis Fukuyama, who is probably my most favorite living neo-Hegelian, has sadly gone off the rails more than a little with this ecstatic, triumphalist treatise, Why Ukraine Will Win, which sounds to me a lot like the late Charlie Krauthammer on steroids and scotch circa 2004, rejoicing over the new American empire, on which, he…
Author: Alan Vanneman
“Don’t worry about the Iranians,” says Shay Khatiri. “They’re a bunch of sissies!”
Why should we bomb the Iranians? Hell, why shouldn’t we? That’s what Shay Khatiri says, over at the Bulwark . Sure, “the state of Iran’s nuclear program is unclear.” (Translation: we don’t even know if they’re thinking about building a bomb.) But, hey, you can’t be too careful. There’s sure to be something we can…
Yo, Joe! When Denouncing Donald Trump, It’s Considered Bad Form to Imitate Him!
Yeah, Uncle Joe was in rare form at his Independence Hall spectacular, complete with “dramatic” lighting and U. S. Marines in full dress uniform. I mean, who was the advertising wizard who came up with that one? But, seriously, folks, it’s a seriously dismal idea to use U. S. military as the backdrop for any…
Randi Weingarten doesn’t hate black children. She just doesn’t give a damn about them.
Throughout the COVID years, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, has had one solution to the difficulties of operating schools during the worst epidemic in a century: Shut ‘em down! Shut ‘em down! How has that affected the kids? Well, the results are in, and they’re uglier than Alan Vanneman on a…
Shorter Megan McArdle: “Yes, I am a lying hypocrite. Why do you ask?”
Alan Vanneman non-fave rave Megan McArdle has had a revelation: “It’s time for Republicans to save themselves”. According to Ms. Mc By mid-February 2016, it was clear that some kind of collective Republican action would be needed to keep Donald Trump from winning the nomination. Instead, everyone stood around hoping that someone else would do…
Wausau East High School Jazz Ensemble: “I Mean You”
Shaky video, nice audio, both technically and artistically. From the 2009 Wisconsin State Solo & Ensemble Performance. Posted by cheryle33
Chris Stirewalt, so not an ichthyologist
“I didn’t say what I thought: Morris is feasting on the carcass of journalism like a lamprey eel on a dead nurse shark.” So writes former Fox dude and now author Chris Stirewalt in Politico, What I Learned About Media Rage After Getting Fired From Fox, an excerpt, probably, from his new book, Broken News:…
Memo to Peter Beinart: Physician, heal thyself!
AV fave rave Daniel Larison has a post up1 quoting Peter Beinart from an interview Pete did with John Glaser of the Cato Institute as follows: We also don’t have…we don’t really have a learning process that I think then shapes the public debate. So one of the things that’s really frustrating to me, and…
Shorter Mitch Daniels: “No, I don’t have any balls. What’s your point?”
Politico may have set the record for “most inane political headline of the year” with this entry: “A Nice-Guy Conservative Emerges From Political Self-Exile”, which might be better titled “Eighty-year-old fat-assed conservative continues to hide his fat ass under the bed”, because that’s precisely what fat-assed former Indiana governor Mitch Daniels is doing. This sublimely…
The Democratic Party has a duty to ensure that the Republican Party will nominate Senate candidates who will defeat their Democratic opponents in November, Megan McArdle explains
Why are the Republicans putting up such shitty candidates for the Senate this year? So shitty that the Democrats might actually maintain control of the Senate in what should be a shitty year for them? Well, it’s all the Democrats’ fault, says Megan McArdle, who apparently likes to think of herself as the “thoughtful” (“thoughtful”…