Legal humor here “Yeah, I should be ashamed of myself. But I’m not.” “Quit your bitchin! This is what makes New York New York!” “The traffic? Well, for the Major Deegan, it’s fabulous!” “These days, I’m pretty much King of the Mountain around here.” “It’s the apotheosis of something. That’s the good part.” “Well, I…
Author: Alan Vanneman
Steve Lacy/Roswell Rudd: The Monksiland Band does “Nutty”
Raucus, intriguing take, performed in 1986 by Steve Lacy, soprano sax, Roswell Rudd, trombone, Dave Douglas, trumpet, John Betsch, drums, and JJ Avenel, bass. Posted by Verna Gills/SOUNDSCAPE
Democrats actin’ more like Republicans every day
I recently made fun of the Republican presidential primary campaign tradition that I like to call “the freak o’ the week.” Well, Democrats can do that too, and right now we have two freaks, Bernie “Wild Man” Sanders and Joe “Gawd Help Us” Biden. Both are little more than surrogate candidates for the “real” “I’m…
Jeb Bush to Black Voters: “Under my Administration you’ll have to WORK for a living!”
No more free stuff for you guys!
Jonathan Rauch has words of wisdom. Or not.
Over at Reason, Nick Gillespie has a long interview with Brookings dude Jonathan Rauch, bearing the snappy title “The Case For Back-Room Deals, Party Hacks & Unlimited Money in Politics”, a thesis he spells out at greater length in his new book, bearing the somewhat less snappy title “Political Realism: How Hacks, Machines, Big Money,…
Regressin’ to Jeb: the Renascence of the Republican Mean
The recent, entertaining demise of Scott Walker has caused many to embrace Marco Rubio as the once and future king of the Republican Party, something I’ve been known to do myself. Well, not so fast, conventional wisdom. Let’s step back and take a serious look at the tea leaves. It seems that Donald Trump, while…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here “What do you mean you’re out of goldfish? I crawled twelve fucking blocks and you’re fucking out of fucking goldfish? Jesus fucking Christ!” “No Happy Hour? I am so out of here!” “Two Cosmos, please. On a second thought, make it three.” “You drained my life’s blood, Louie, so you may as…
Ronald Reagan and Abortion
Now that Carly Fiorina is waving the bloody video clip in lieu of actually taking a position on abortion, I’m tempted to go back 48 years to the time in 1967 when Ronald Reagan, governor’s of the nation’s largest state, signed the nation’s most permissive abortion law. Two years ago, Reagan biographer Lou Cannon, who…
“He kept us safe.” Except for the 2,700 on 9/11, and the 5,000 poor shmucks in Iraq
Thus Jeb Bush, still the odds-makers favorite to win the Republican nomination. What fools these mortals be!
The Hillary Clinton email non-scandal scandal: It’s worse than a crime, it’s a whole nother blunder
Over at Reason, Peter Suderman has a take on the Hillary Clinton email thing, coming to the totally unremarkable conclusion that “Hillary’s problem is not so much the email story itself, but how she’s handled it,” which is a way of (silently) acknowledging that the “scandal”, as Pete constantly refers to it, isn’t a scandal…