A couple of weeks ago I raised the interesting question of whether Rep. Matt Gaetz, who comes across as a walking parody of “Florida Man”, complete with nudie pics on the cellphone, is being framed as a sex trafficking pedophile, when in fact his only “crime” is, well, being a “Florida man”. Well, the sometimes…
Author: Alan Vanneman
Roy Jenkins was part of the solution, and part of the problem. Was that part of the problem?
Roy Jenkins had a fascinating life. Born in 1920 in Abersychan, a mining community in Wales, he came from a strongly “Labour” family—his father, Arthur Jenkins, was a leading official in the Union of Mineworkers, eventually becoming a member of Parliament. Jenkins himself was elected to Parliament at the age of 28, working his way…
“Jazz Children”—“Rhythm-a-ning”
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got five strings: Russian chicks shred Monk. Ilya Bondarenko and Tatiana Zhmendak, both 11, with Natalia Lebedeva, piano, Constantine Ionenko, bass, and Alexei Fantaev, drums. At the Fourth International Children’s Jazz Festival “Okeshkin Jazz” 2/06/2013. Posted by Illia Bondarenko
Matt Gaetz: Screwer or Screwee?
Is it a crime to like dames? Is it a crime to like to have a good time? With dames? Is it a crime to buy, you know, airline tickets, and hotel rooms, and dinners for a good-lookin’ dame who might be feelin’ romantic the same time as you? Is it? Well, it might be…
White & Case is ON THE CASE!
A couple of years ago, I took a wistful, backward glance at the hapless schmo I once was back in the day, while working (briefly) as a file clerk for the Washington, DC law firm of Arnold & Porter circa 1976, a retrospective that tangentially included information on the “White & Case case”, which I…
B3 Groove—“Rhythm-a-Ning”
“B3 Groove” at the Hammond. Posted by B3 Groove
The New York Times, searching for metaphors in the Suez Canal
In the past few days, the New York Times has run three articles—In Suez Canal, Stuck Ship Is a Warning About Excessive Globalization by Peter S. Goodman, Why the World’s Container Ships Grew So Big by Nirja Chokshi, and The Stuck Container Ship on the Suez Canal Was a Metaphor by Marc Levinson—all claiming that…
What’s emptier than a DC bike lane? The new Falls Church bike shed!
It’s true! Check out the abfab, brand-spanking new, state of the art bike shed at the East Falls Church Metro Station, where high tech elegance and environmental correctness blend in perfect harmony, offering safe and secure storage for a hundred bikes, at a cost of, well, $20,000 a bike. Sure, when I visited the shed…
Yo, Harvard! Some little girl needs her nose wiped!
Yeah, Snotty Little Lizzie needs her nose wiped. As you may have heard, Massachusetts Senator and Harvard Professor Elizabeth Warren got into a bitch-slapping Twitter fight following a senate hearing devoted to the iniquities of Silicon giants like Facebook, Google, and Amazon. After Lizzie posted a clip from the hearing, complaining about folks like Amazon…
Danny Zeitlin—“Rhythm-a-Ning”
Danny taking a deep dive. Posted by Jazz Video Guy.