Well, I certainly do. I mean, I wonder about a lot of things, and one of the things I wonder about is Dan’s article in the WashPost from a month or two back, which he called “The most pessimistic article I have read in 2021”, a “depressing read” (says Dan) found in a recent issue…
Author: Alan Vanneman
Joe Biden does something right, and no one notices
Okay, all Uncle Joe and his State Department did was recognize that the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline connecting Russia with western Europe was a done deal (95% done, in fact) and thus will not impose sanctions on the Europeans for defying us, but in today’s xenophobic mindset, where everyone, but everyone, likes to hate…
Spin, Span, & Spun, political notes from all over: Glenn & Jen do Liz, and NR does Elise, the Whore who went to Harvard
Glenn smears Liz for smearing Russia Glenn Greenwald, amoozin’ yet confoosin’ as ever, launches a furious attack on the recently defenestrated Liz Cheney, claiming that Cheney lied about her perpetration of the “Russians paid for dead Americans in Afghanistan” hustle cooked up by the CIA and used by Cheney and other various assorted warmongers to…
Rotterdam Jazz Lab—“Rhythm-a-ning”
Daniel Follmann, Koos van der Hout (trombones); Michael Simon (trumpet); Ruud Bergamin, Stanislav Mitrovic, Kurt Schwab (reeds); Bart Egeter (piano and arranger), Dan Simon (bass), Julius Schulz (drums). Video by Anton de Vries. Recorded live July 7, 2017, at the Galerie Kralingen, Rotterdam. Posted by Rotterdam Jazz Lab
Joe Biden, last seen sinking deeper into the Blobby bog
Daniel Larison has an excellent—“excellent” as in “deeply depressing”—take on President Biden’s stumbling—“stumbling” as in “clearly and severely wrong-headed”—Iranian “policy”, which is, in fact, so bad that I’ve exhausted a whole week’s supply of quotation marks in one goddamn sentence, which means I’ll have to take out a loan, something I can scarcely afford to…
Hail to thee, Blithe Spirits! Well, one of them, anyway.
Almost seven years ago, writing in the Bright Lights Film Journal, in a piece rather enigmatically entitled “We’ll Roll in the Hey Nonny Nonny!” Antic Antiques to Keep a Drowsy Emperor Awake, if He’s Not Too Sleepy, I wrote about first my fascination and then my frustration with the 1945 film version of Noël Coward’s…
Hermano Faltz—“Rhythm-a-ning”
Priscilla Odinmah, vocal, Hermano Faltz, guitar, Iury Batista, bass. Posted by Hermano Faltz
You say “Gelasian”, I say “Gelasian”, let’s call the whole thing off.
Over at the National Review, Michael Brendan Dougherty assures us that The Realignment Won’t Purge Libertarians, to the effect, I guess, that the new, improved, Trumpified Republican Party won’t, or at least shouldn’t, exclude anti-woke libertarians “who emphasize free speech and inquiry” over tradition, particularly when it comes to religious matters. Trumpy conservatives like himself…
President Biden proposes a $2.3 trillion infrastructure package. What could go wrong? Well, I can think of a few things.
Sure I can. For example, suppose we spend that $2,300,000,000,000 and end up with 1,000,000+ $2,000,000 bike shelters, like the one at the East Falls Church, Va. Metro station. Since that shed, the time that I visited it, was only utilized to, you know, 2% capacity, a lot of people—mostly Republicans, of course—might think we…
Mark Aanderud Trio—“Rhythm-a-ning”
With Martin Leiton, bass and Marc Miralta, drums. Posted by Mark Aanderud