Is there anyone in Washington, DC who’s had her honor betrayed more often than Maine Sen. Susan Collins? Poor Susan just can’t resist a smooth line and a little masculine swagger, can she? Not from Donald “We don’t have to impeach him because he’s learned his lesson” Trump, and now those Supreme Court cut ups…
Author: Alan Vanneman
Anthony Fauci is giving “Science” a bad name
Waaay back in June 2020, that notorious right-wing rag the New York Times printed a withering article, The C.D.C. Waited ‘Its Entire Existence for This Moment.’ What Went Wrong?. An extended subhead gave the following judgment: The technology was old, the data poor, the bureaucracy slow, the guidance confusing, the administration not in agreement. The…
Better Call Saul … and tell him that Vince Gilligan is an *sshole!
Yeah, series creator Vince Gilligan, or maybe series star and executive producer Bob Odenkirk, who, I assume, are largely responsible for the endless flow of pretentious crap that is, for the most part, the sum and substance of the Breaking Bad spinoff Better Call Saul, the AMC cult fav/mega hit, whose sixth and final season…
Los Medanos College Jazz Studio Band—“Bright Mississippi”
Featuring Dylan K. Allard, Ryan Glick, Isaac Fernando Fematt, Isaias Ruiz, Nick Perez, Daniel Justo Sanchez, and “others”. Posted by Philip Gangi
A confusion of neocons: Hey, Israel, where the f*ck art thou?
Yeah, Israel! Inquiring minds like the WashPost’s Max Boot (Israel can’t stay neutral in Ukraine’s battle between good and evil) and Josh Rogin (As Russian atrocities mount in Ukraine, Israel must take sides) want to know! How long, O Israel? How long? How long can you not take sides in the greatest moral issue of…
Ukrainians brave, Russians cowards! Ukraine good, Russia bad! Well, yeah, but couldn’t I get a little nuance on the side?
War, no matter what anyone wants to tell you, is not a morality play, where one side is ever brave and virtuous, and the other ever sneering and evil. And, to amplify that point a little, we shouldn’t end up fighting World War III just because the Russian invasion of Ukraine is deeply immoral. The…
The Benedict Strategy, Spinoza Edition
I don’t know if you’re up on Rod Dreher, who moans and groans with varying degrees of accuracy regarding the woke folks over at the American Conservative. Rod, a floridly passionate Christian, seems to have undergone several denominational makeovers, rejecting the Catholic Church to settle, I think, somewhere in the fields of Eastern Orthodoxy. Awhile…
Woody Allen’s Autobiography: Words of Wisdom from the Nothing Man
Woody Allen is not large, but he contains multitudes, and some of them show up in his “controversial” autobiography, Apropos of Nothing, which the powers of righteous wokitude finally allowed to be published back in 2020, which I got around to reading in 2021 and am now “reviewing” in 2022. I have read many autobiographies,…
Psycho or senile? Uncle Joe puts his foot in it.
Yeah, Uncle Joe should not have said, speaking of Vladimir Putin, “This man cannot remain in power”. Okay, it appears to have been an adlib, which is slightly less worse than being scripted, and it’s precisely the sort of thing the clearly non-senile Barack Obama used to say as well. But you’d think American presidents…
Andrew Sullivan gets it wrong twice!
Over at Andrew Sullivan’s substack blog, the Weekly Dish, Andy has a strange post, strangely titled The Strange Rebirth Of Imperial Russia, expressing bewilderment over the fact that Russian bad ass Vladimir Putin actually seems to be longing for the good old days, when Imperial Russia styled itself the “Third Rome”, independent of, and superior…