Definitely a dark night at the club, specifically, the Poetry Jazz Café, last October, featuring Virginia MacDonald, clarinet, Ben Maclean, guitar, Leighton Harrell, bass, and Graham Villette, drums. Posted by Jacob C. For more on the Quartet, go here
Author: Alan Vanneman
George F. Will showing some signs of improvement. Emphasis on the “some”
Recently, I’ve slackened off making fun of George F. “the ‘F’ stands for ‘Frabjous’, son” Will, first because George has largely been a good boy, leaving the Republican Party in disgust with its abandonment of free market policies, doubling down on that disgust at the nomination of Donald Trump, and going the extra mile by…
Black Lives Matter, but so does the Magnificent Mile
Massive downtown looting in Chicago? You can bet that Fox News filmed every second of it and will be replaying that footage from now until election day and beyond. I don’t know if Chicago police “stood aside”, as they certainly did in the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles in 1992,1 but I do know…
NYT “America COVID-19 Culpa” soft-pedals Northeast Disaster
Yes, Donald Trump is an asshole, as the New York Times reports in its feature article “The Unique U.S. Failure to Control the Virus”, but there’s more to the story than that. Bill de Blasio isn’t so hot either! Near the end of its long “what went wrong” piece/morality tale, the Times acknowledges that the…
Carol Morgan–“Let’s Cool One”
There are a million guitar trio versions of this tune. Fortunately, Carol offers something a little different. Joel Frahm, tenor, Matt Wilson, drums, Martin Wind, bass. Circa 2011. Posted by Thomas LaRosa
This is why we can’t have nice things: Like peace
Over at the American Conservative, Barbara Boland fills us in on the sad news with her article Senate Hearing Farce: Venezuela Is A ‘Clear And Present Danger’. Yes, bipartisan ninnies agree, Venezuela, one of the saddest, weakest countries in the world, a country seemingly bent on starving itself to death, will bring down the mighty…
One nation under God? More like four! Or more!
Yes, we are many nations, something that is probably true of other countries as well, but I don’t live there, so I can’t comment on them. But I can comment on the U.S. Nation 1: The American Indians The American Indians are the first, smallest (about 1%), and saddest of the nations. They were here…
Johanna Jarl—“Let’s Cool One”
Johanna Jarl, with Fredrik Carlquist, tenor sax, and Tom Warburton. Bass. Johanna sings her own lyrics for this one. Recorded in Sitges, Spain, November 20, 2016. Posted by FC Jazz
Shorter Ted Yoho: “Yes! I am a f*cking b*tch! For Christ!
In the clip posted above, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) elegantly rips Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) a new one—which he clearly needs, for the dude is seriously full of it—for his flatulent non-apology apology, after accosting her on the Capitol steps for having dared to say something he didn’t like, calling her “disgusting” and accusing her…
Political Science: It isn’t rocket science
Over at New York magazine, pretty smart guy Eric Levitz (unless I’m confusing him with someone else, and I don’t think I am) interviews pretty smart guy David Shor, recently defenestrated from his position at Civis Analytics for, you know, analyzing stuff—i.e., posting a link to a study suggesting that violent demonstrations are, shockingly enough,…