Yes, I am getting awfully tired to yelling insults at Megan McArdle. Why, it seems like I was yelling at Megan only three weeks ago for her arrant hypocrisy in blaming the fall of pro-seditionist Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker on the Democratic Party, because I was!. And now she’s turned around and written the…
Author: Alan Vanneman
Many Jewish University of Pennsylvania alumni are angry, and most of the time they have the right to be.
I will confess up front that this is a “yes but” story, but I would like to emphasize that the “yes” is just as strong as the “but”, if not stronger. A story in the New York Times by Stephanie Saul, Who Decides Penn’s Future: Donors or the University? gives us the backstory: the decision…
Shorter Ramesh Ponnuru on House Republicans unanimously electing Mike Johnson as Speaker: “Guys, guys, guys! I have a strong stomach—I have a VERY strong stomach—but GODDAMNIT!”
Yes, poor old Ramesh Ponnuru, whom I have sneered at ever since the Era of Trump began as the Toadie of Toadies, the Toadeater of Toadeaters, the anti anti Trumper of anti anti Trumpers, the man who was never without a “what about”, who always found a way to ingratiate himself with the True Trumpers…
Dan Drezner leaves me bewildered. Strange!
Yes, Dan Drezner, whom I alternately praise and despise, and just finished praising, a lot, yesterday, has come up with a definite “bewilderer”, feeling the need, for some reason, to waste a significant amount of brain cells replying to aging Silicon Valley wunderkind Marc Andressen’s “Techno-Optimist Manifesto”, a ponderous treatise that strikes me as nothing…
Danny Zeitlin—“Played Twice”
From 2015. Posted by Jazz Video Guy
Dan Drezner Impresses Me!
Damn straight he does! I’ve often been awfully hard on Dan, but, well, when Dan changes, I change too, and Dan has, in my opinion, served up a real stunner, bouncing off a recent piece by Paul Krugman, The Strange Decline of the Pax Americana, something I did too, but Dan and I bounce differently,…
Ross Douthat, devout Catholic or lying sack of sh*t? I report, you decide.
Writes Ross in his recent column re 9/11 versus present times, regarding our disastrously unnecessary and grotesquely mismanaged invasions of both Iraq and Afghanistan, In each of these case [the two invasions], the achievement of something relatively basic — preventing terrorist groups from existing in the kind of comfort required to pull off another Sept….
Stop the world. I want to get off. Immediately.
If you think the news from the Middle East couldn’t get any worse, well, wait ten minutes. This once inconceivable sequence of horrifying events seems destined to rumble on until, well, until it stops. I am generally a fan of finger pointing, but this constant barrage of disasters is, naturally, spawning an orgy of outrage…
There are two kinds of Republicans: True Trumpers and Cowards. Megan McArdle is not a True Trumper
I have, before—many times before—ridiculed dear Megan’s frequent efforts to find something—anything—to criticize about the Democratic Party rather than deal with the elephant-sized pile of dung in the room that is the current day Republican Party. In her latest “just trying to be helpful” effort—Democrats should have helped McCarthy hold his job — for their…
Played Twice—“Played Twice”
It doesn’t get any more meta than this. Dan Wood, piano, Nick Malcolm, trumpet, George Crowley, sax, Olie Brice, bass, and Simon Roth, drums. Recorded at the Servant Jazz Quarters in 2014. Posted by Dan Rhodes