De mortuis nihil nisi bonum? Speak nothing but good of the dead? Well, I leave that to the fancy outfits. If you want to read about what a wonderful guy Il Giorgio, aka “Aitch Dubya,” was, well, read the Post or the Times, or whomever. Here at Literature R Us, we mix the good with…
Author: Alan Vanneman
O My Democratic Party, Where the F*ck Art Thou?
Well, good question. If Happy Days aren’t here again, and they aren’t, life is better, definitely. To have the House of Representatives back in Democratic hands after eight long years is definitely a pleasure if not a treasure. As one representative put it “Being in the majority is a thousand times better.” Furthermore, the party’s…
Shorter Ramesh Ponnuru: “We don’t need no lousy, stinkin’ Independent Judiciary!”
Yes, I may have condensed (slightly) Mr. Ponnuru’s sentiments, so let me provide some backstory. A few days back, as Politico’s Matthew Choi reports, a federal district court judge in California, Judge Jon Tigar, ruled against President Trump in an immigration case, causing the president, unsurprisingly, to bellow in rage, claiming that Tigar ruled the…
“Grow up, Conservatives!” bellows the Weekly Standard, in its very best grown-up voice
Yes, grow up, conservatives, demands the Weekly Standard’s Chris Deaton, bemoaning the right’s “short game” critique of U.S. representative-elect and left-wing babe o’ the millennium Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Stop making fun of her wardrobe, particularly when, as it turns out, the outfit was a loaner, and concentrate on refuting her wacko long game, which as it…
Laugh at Me!
The dude above, in full 1965 black and white, is one Sonny Bono, once married to a woman named Cher, whom you may remember. Back in 1965, Sonny’s hair, clothes, and general assemblage were considered risible among the geriatric set, causing Sonny to protest. Today, since its selection as a co-site for almighty Amazon, Crystal…
Luxury Hotels know how to raise prices, but not wages
If you’ve ever even thought of staying in a luxury hotel, you know they aren’t cheap. Well, yes they are. Bloomsberg has a bit “Chinese 5-Star Hotels Apologize After Video Reveals Hygiene Horrors” suggesting that these videos show up from time to time, because “Worker shortages and low pay make it hard for hotels to…
Imagine how rich we would be if we didn’t pay taxes!
Well, it would be cool, wouldn’t it? How about if we just stayed home from work and did whatever we wanted? Our employers would be totally screwed! Yeah, and what if we bought a car on time and then didn’t make any payments! A Beemer for free? Yeah, I’d take that deal! That sort of…
The Evil that White Women Do
Conor Friedersdorf takes a deep dive into dangerous waters, the furious controversy among the woke folks on the left regarding the culpability of white women for Democratic losses in the recent midterm elections, and particularly the assumption that the failure of (many) white women to vote “correctly” proves that they’re, you know, TOTALLY RACIST! Well,…
Special Brexit edition: Pay Now AND Pay Later
If you’re not a frequent reader of this blog, and, if you’re at all normal, you most assuredly are not, you’re probably not aware that I make sort of a point of ignoring a lot of the big stories of the day, figuring that a lot of, you know, important people will be commenting on…
Dessy Tileva—“Blue Monk”
2015, somewhere east of the Elbe (I’m guessin’). Dessy Tileva, vocal; Martin Markov, piano; Emil Pehlivanov; drums; Dimitar Karamfilov, bass. Posted by Desi Tileva