Legal humor here “Trust me, white boy. Your life just got a whole lot more interesting.” “Drop your socks and grab your cock, sonny boy. Because you’re going places.” “Let’s see how Old Man Flu stands up to six quarts of whup-ass!” “Side effects? Well, how about ‘eternal life’!” “You’re familiar with the expression ‘no…
Author: Alan Vanneman
From the politeness of experts, Lord, deliver us
Rosa Brooks is a senior fellow at New America and a law professor at Georgetown University. From 2009 to 2011, she served as a senior adviser to the undersecretary of defense for policy. She is also the author of a book review in the April 16 Washington Post of Jessica Stern and J. M. Berger’s…
The Sad Sam Blues Jam—“Blue Bolivar Blues”
Sadie, Sam, and Joe, rippin’ it at the Café Django. Posted by the Sad Sam Blues Jam
Rand Paul, Gettin’ Rowdy
Ever since ISIS beheaded two Americans in Iraq, thereby convincing millions in the U.S. that they were sharpening their scimitars to do the same in Des Moines, Republican politicians who don’t insist that they’re fixin’ to kick some major though unspecified Middle Eastern ass in the near though not yet determined future have been hard…
Maybe we’re not so different after all!
The New York Times reports: Gao Yu, a 71-year-old Chinese journalist who has repeatedly challenged the Communist Party during a decades-long career, was sentenced to seven years in prison on Friday after a court in Beijing found her guilty of leaking state secrets abroad. Gao Yu is in fact a true hero of the freedom…
The fact that the “Cheryl Question” went viral shows not only that Americans are ignorant of mathematics, they don’t know how they are ignorant of mathematics
Here is the “Cheryl Question” from Singapore that, according to Terrance Ross of the Atlantic, provoked “hysteria” around the web: Albert and Bernard just became friends with Cheryl, and they want to know when her birthday is. Cheryl gives them a list of 10 possible dates. May 15 May 16 May 19 June 17 June…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here “I was wrong, Sylvia. You do have a death wish.” “I was just telling Harry we needed a window. Thanks to you the job’s half done!” “Sylvia, am I to consider this an expression of dissatisfaction with your ranking on this week’s tennis ladder or simply a boiling over of general ill…
Miles Davis & John Coltrane, Stockholm, 1960
No video again, but nice sound, especially for a 1960 live concert. Oh, and great musicians, too. Numbers: 1. So What. 2. Fran Dance. 3. All Blues/The Theme. 4. On Green Dolphin Street. 5. Walkin’ / The Theme. With Paul Chambers, bass, Wynton Kelly, piano, and Jimmy Cobb, drums. Posted by Fan No Sekai
Warts? Fuck yeah, we got warts!
I’ve been reading, with a great deal of pleasure, John Lewis Gaddis’ estimable We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History, written in 1997 after the release of much formerly secret material from the former Soviet Union. While writing about the Korean War, Gaddis quotes an unnamed (of course) source with the CIA to the effect…
The Judith Miller Show: Weaving new false narratives to replace the old
After the French Revolution, it was said that of the old aristocracy that they had forgotten nothing and learned nothing. After the disastrous second Iraqi war, it may be said of the Wall Street Journal that it had learned nothing and forgotten everything. The latest entropy effusion from the WSJ Memory Hole is Judith Miller’s…