The World’s Top Business Cities Are Still Failing Working Women announces/pronounces/bellows “Bloomberg Equality + CityLab”, apparently a “thing”, though I certainly wasn’t aware of it until now. For the millions of working women in the world’s leading cities for doing business, daily life is often shaped by what they cannot do and how they’re excluded….
Author: Alan Vanneman
Let’s all hope Terry McAuliffe doesn’t get what he deserves for uncritically embracing Virginia’s all too woke education lobby
There was a time—there was a long time—during both the Clinton and Obama administrations when the Democratic neoliberal establishment did not much care for the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, regarding them, correctly, as enemies of educational reform, more interested in protecting bad teachers than helping struggling students. Well, that was…
Nice essay, George F. Will! But not, you know, perfect!
Hey, Georgie boy’s snappy retrospective of how a slightly pushy young lad from the sticks became the biggest goddamn Bow Tie the Beltway had ever seen—The pursuit of happiness is happiness—is not at all a bad read, informative and even touching at times, words I haven’t always used when discussing Mr. Will. I was particularly…
3 Moons— “Brilliant Corners”
No video, and obscure? I’m on it! Gaetano Partipilo, alto sax, Mauro Gargano, contrabbasso and Fabio Accardi, batteria. From their 2006 album Voyage. Posted by 3 Moons.
Yeah, well, that’s why they called her “Notorious”!
Alternate heads: “The Notorious Katie Couric” and “I didn’t even know Donald Trump had a cranky Jewish aunt!”. Yeah, the fairly shocking news that Saint Ruth’s attitude towards blacks was “We made it on our own; why can’t they?” and then sought to “take back” her own banal sentiments—almost like she didn’t believe in freedom…
Jonah Goldberg, cannons to the left of him, cannons to the right of him
A week or too ago I took an entirely justified crack at poor old Jonah Goldberg, deservedly lumping him together with the likes of Ross Douthat, Jack Shafer, Daniel Drezner and Ramesh Ponnuru as pussy-footing semi-Never Trumpers for acknowledging that the Big Guy himself was entirely unacceptable while denying that he constituted a real threat…
Johannes Mössinger New York Trio—“Brilliant Corners”
Another sound only, taken from the 2002 CD shown above. I can’t get a fix on the personnel, other than what’s shown on the cover. Johannes Mössinger plays the piano, and Joe Lovano plays sax. Posted by Johannes Mössinger
Colin Powell, a four-star disappointment
The death of Colin Powell at age 84 has brought forth lots of eulogies and a few accurate criticisms, like this one, posted at Forever Wars by Spencer Ackerman, author of Reign of Terror How The 9/11 Era Destabilized America And Produced Trump. Ackerman focuses almost exclusively on what one might call the “mysterious incident…
Sandra Oh and “The Chair”: Sorry, I can’t see the plot for the clichés!
I have not been “on campus” for (checks notes) 49 years, for which I thank God on my knees every fucking day—and that ain’t no lie. So I am not the best person to review The Chair, a Netflix mini-series that has gotten props for taking a reasonably honest look at political correctness, sexism, racism,…
Jeff Tain Watts—“Brilliant Corners”
Jeff Tain Watts, drums, David Budway, piano, Troy Roberts, sax, Neal Caine, bass. Again, no video, but too good to pass up. From the album Blue Vol. 1. Posted by Israel B