Faute de mieux—or, really, faute de anything—I recently “found myself” watching the latest iteration of MacGyver, bailing after the first five minutes, though, back in the day, I bailed on “MacGyver I”, so beloved by Marge Simpson’s chain-smoking spinster sisters, even more quickly, in three minutes, when Big Mac made a bomb out of a…
Author: Alan Vanneman
I Am Jill’s Hyman
This is my latest novel, describing the travails and travels of one Hyman Bookbinder, who tires of his life as an all but dissertation Ph.D. candidate in linguistics and decides to join “Alabama Reads”, the brainchild of “legendary” linguist Lester Gomez. Hyman convinces his wife Rachel, already possessing a doctorate, that life in the South…
“Democrats need to beware their looney left,” says confirmed looney Max Boot
“As I’ve traveled around, speaking about my book on how extremists hijacked the Republican Party,” says WashPost pundit Max Boot. “I have been hearing from Democrats who are worried that the same thing is happening to their party. They have good cause for concern.” Well, that’s true, and much—but certainly not all—of what Max has…
Come on, Washington Post. Stop kissing Donald Trump’s ass.
It’s not often that I criticize the WashPost for, well, kissing Donald Trump’s ass, but today is “not often”. The Post has an editorial up, “Come on, lawmakers. Not another shutdown.” Yo, Post! Don’t you mean “Come on, Donald Trump. Not another shutdown.” It was Donald Trump who imposed the most recent shutdown, as a…
Ralph Northam: Virginia woke, or Virginia covering ass?
Poor Ralph Northam! Well, the “embattled” VA guv has put down the shoe polish and eschewed the moon walk, but he’s still having trouble with the indentured servant thing. See, Virginians of his generation (he was born in 1959) know that slavery was a bad thing, but the strategy appears to have been, not to…
Who’s dumber, Trump or the “Intelligence Community”?
I won’t keep you in suspense. IT’S TRUMP! The bad news—or, I guess, the worse news—is, it’s a close contest. And the worst news—for now—is that it’s not just funny dumb but, all too likely, disastrous dumb. Because the real objective for both sides—though they’re choosing different routes—is a new Cold War, with ever-tightening tensions,…
Brian D. Feinstein and Eric Schickle explain it all for you
Want a seriously detailed examination of the great role reversal in American politics, as the Democrats shifted from the party of segregation to the party of equal rights, losing the South but gaining its soul? Then check out “Platforms and Partners: The Civil Rights Realignment Reconsidered” by Brian D. Feinstein and Eric Schickle in Studies…
Random Rants
Max Boot, feelin’ full of pith n’ vinegar. Again. Back in the day, when invading other countries first began to seem like a good idea to some people, Max Boot rushed to the very front of the queue o’ stupidity by opining that “Afghanistan and other troubled lands cry out for the sort of enlightened…
Outrageous rage? Democrats v. Schultz
The possible independent candidacy for president of Starbucks coffee high muckety-muck/billionaire Howard Schultz has Democrats fuming like a vente on a January morning in Chicago, while Republicans snicker. What’s the matter, liberals? Don’t you believe in democracy? Well, yeah, we do, but we also believe in winning. Besides the which, rage is all the rage…
I won’t subject the lamestream media to ruthless censure for its craven and banal behavior re l’affaire Covington. I’ll let Andew Sullivan do it for me.
Fuck yeah, I will. Andy, sometimes but not always my favorite gay Catholic doubledome, puts the wood to a multitude of liberals folks for 1) their kneejerk bashing of teenage white boys with southern accents on the basis of a two-minute video clip passed around the Internet, constructing grotesque ideological edifices of PC punditude on…