Okay, that takes a little unpacking. What I mean is that I support the “de-Confederation” of American monuments (for the most part) but not the removal of statues of that racist tyrant and sometime jailbird, Christopher Columbus. I’ve already defended the remembrance of Chris, several times, despite the numerous brutalities and casual cruelties he heaped…
Author: Alan Vanneman
I was going to make fun of General Milley for being fat. But now I can’t.
Yeah, I was all ready to go with a rather belated piece, to be called “The Cowards of Lafayette Park”, sniggering at Gen. Mark Milley—“General Sphere”, I was going to call him—but now I’m going to have to scratch that joke, because the general has said the following, in a prerecorded speech to students at…
2018 04 26 Rio Americano Spring Concert—“Let’s Cool One”
Josh Murray, band director, Rio Americano High School, Sacramento, CA. Posted by parker95608
Safety First! For sure!
The leadership of the New York Times has justly received a full measure of ridicule for bowing to “woke” fears that a meretricious, right-wing opinion piece by meretricious, right-wing Sen. Tom Cotton might somehow endanger the lives of black Times staffers, even though, “arguably”, allowing street violence and looting might threaten their lives as well….
Colin Powell can talk! I did not see this coming!
Yes, four-star general of the army Colin Powell can talk! I did not know this! And, as it turns out, he’s pretty good at it!, blasting Donald Trump for “drifting away from the Constitution,” “lying all the time”, demonizing immigrants, and grotesquely exploiting the death of George Floyd in a typically Trumpian orgy of self-congratulation….
Anne Applebaum’s analysis of “collaborationism” is theologically incoherent, an offended Ramesh Ponnuru exclaims
Yeah, a lot of people talkin’ ‘bout Heaven ain’t goin’ there, and two of them are Attorney General William Barr and talkin’ if not squawkin’ head Ramesh Ponnuru. A recent article in the Atlantic by Anne Applebaum, “History Will Judge the Complicit”, has been getting a lot of play, and Ramesh, it seems, is a…
Paul Krugman is smarter than I thought!
Okay, perhaps I should have said “Paul Krugman has a far more sophisticated grasp of the uniquely divided nature of the American working class than he had demonstrated in many of his previous public comments”, but heads like that don’t get the clicks, and I don’t have to tell you that “Literature R Us”, frequently…
When does it stop getting worse?
The good news is, the awareness of the prevalence of police brutality in these United States has reached such a point that even Donald Trump feels compelled to express sympathy for its victims. The bad news is, everything else. Unsurprisingly, El Trumpo stayed on message for approximately two seconds, before veering off to denounce, you…
Daniel Drezner can’t spell
Dan, Dan, that Amazin’ Man, gives me another reason to make fun of him, thanks to the headline he’s given to his latest post at the Post, “Why Mike Pompeo is a colossal prig”. You see where I’m going with this one, right? Mikey, aka our secretary of state, may well be “one who offends…
Hey, Donald Trump! You haven’t just lost Ann Coulter! You’ve lost every self-involved, immigrant-hatin’ bottle blonde in the country! I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY!
I confess that I haven’t been keeping up with Ann Coulter much these days, for the simple reason that I have a life! Shuffleboard season is almost upon us—I refer, of course, to “deck shuffleboard”—real shuffleboard—not that banal travesty known as “table shuffleboard”—and those cues won’t polish themselves. Fortunately, the American Conservative’s Rod Dreher has…