The Washington Post’s Drew Harwell tells it like he wishes it was, “How theme parks like Disney World left the middle class behind”. Way back in 1971, Drew tells us, a ticket to Disney World cost $20.50 in 2014 dollars. The price today? A cool $105! Hey, middle class! Mickey don’t love you no more!…
Author: Alan Vanneman
The Disillusioning of the Left
Lefty standups Bill Maher and Lewis Black and lefty economist Paul Krugman all have shocking news from the lands of universal health care: The trains in Europe are as bad as they are here! Seriously, we’re talking Amtrak bad! Whatever happened to those magical trains that always seemed to be going nonstop from wherever you…
Baltimore cops: Where is the outrage?
On May 1, Maryland State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby filed charges against six Baltimore police officers involved in the death of Freddie Gray, who died of spinal injuries incurred in the course of his arrest and transport in a police van. The Washington Post offers a primer on the Gray case here. Following the indictments…
Edward Gibbon, Part II
In Part I of this near-random collection of jottings, I remarked that Edward Gibbon, despite his near-obsessive concern with politeness and polish, tells you more about the sex lives of historical figures than virtually any modern historian. I also remarked that his modern-day fans, despite their frequently amazing levels of erudition and enthusiasm, studiously avoid…
Big Band Paris CRR—“Evidence”
Big Band du Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris. Arrangement et direction: Stéphane Tsapis Clément Dautrey, saxophone ténor Clélya Abraham, piano Damien Coelo, vibraphone Florent Berteau, batterie Posted by annecy75
Prefer a new edition of the Spanish Inquisition? You’re in luck, dude.
If you’ve been following the case or controversy involving wicked Laura Kipnis, a seriously old school feminist who hangs out at Northwestern University, well, you may have thought that Laura’s recent articles on the absurdities of Title IX political correctness had more or less crushed that particular brand of political nonsense.1 Well, if that’s what…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here “Do you ever feel that you’ve taken this ‘What would Michael do?’ thing as far as you can take it?” “Well, is it helping you meet chicks? I mean, that’s the real question, isn’t it?” “Really? Well, I’m from the South, and in the South the dead do pay their bills.” “Okay,…
Today’s WP Headlines
Wassup in the Wash Post? Why an Army man says he committed mass murder The excuses men give for liking Taylor Swift So, if you’re a guy, you’re always guilty of something, right? According to the Washington Post.
The Republican Trifecta
Back in 1998 Republicans went through three Speakers of the House of Representatives before they finally impeached President Bill Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice: The president provided perjurious, false and misleading testimony to the grand jury regarding the Paula Jones case and his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. The president obstructed justice in an…
If Indian kids were really smart, they’d stop winning spelling bees
New York magazine has perhaps an unintentionally meaningful article on the latest “Scripps National Spelling Bee”, during which co-winners Vanya Shivashankar and Gokul Venkatachalam “tackled obscure and impossible words like myrmotherine, pyrrhuloxia, hippocrepiform, and sprachgefühl.” Is it rude to point out that 1) only two of these words can even remotely be considered English, 2)…