Julian Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University and he writes like this: “Although President Ronald Reagan was mocked by some as an actor in the White House who followed his script, Reagan was like Gingrich in that he spent much of his early adulthood deeply immersed in journals such…
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Delfeayo Marsalis & Future Focus—“Blue Monk”
Delfeayo Marsalis, trombone; Marlon Jordan, trumpet; Mark Gross, alto; Vincent Gardner, trombone; Charnette Moffett, bass;, Herlin Riley, drums. I always like to hear Monk played by a good trombonist—it cuts across the grain, somehow. Posted by UptownMusicTheatrehttps://youtu.be/zgnNAEmbxTU Well, anything the brothers from the Big Easy can do, white chicks from Lakota West can do too….
Cats can talk! Turtles, not so much!
Another puzzler from Bicycle Ben from Harrisburg. Actually, the dude does most of the talking here, which is only right, until another species learns to draw. “Yeah, it is a race of sorts. The first one to figure out what the hell Jerry is doing with the bull fiddle wins.” “I know this is Friday,…
Chait and Frum, telling the truth all the way to the water’s edge
Over at NYMag, Jonathan Chait, liberal, and David Frum, conservative, take turns talking out of school and dumping on their respective parties. Chait has the easier task, because, as he tells it, it’s only the “liberals” who are out to lunch, but for Frum it’s the whole fucking party (which is totally fucking true). Chait…
A coupla National Review dudes, last seen thinking a whole lot about poor people
And not entirely without effect, either. In “The Freeloader Myth” Ramesh Ponnuru suggests politely to Republicans that they stop pissing on the 47 percent of the population who are so poor that they don’t have any federal income tax liability, on the grounds that, basically, it’s not nice to make fun of poor people, especially…
The Barack Obama Chinese-American Naval Full Employment Act of 2012
Last week President Obama traveled to the quasi-god-forsaken site of Darwin, Australia to twist the tail of the Chinese dragon by announcing that 2,500 U.S. Marines would now be spending time in Australia. “As a Pacific nation, the United States will play a larger and long-term role in shaping this region and its future,” the…
John Stetch trio—“Black Sea Suite” Part 1
Pianist John Stetch with Nicholas Walker on Bass and Tom Killian on Drums. Live at the Carriage House in Ithaca, New York. Posted by beatdweller
So Not The New Yorker
Go here for the real thing. “It started out as a metaphor, but I lost control. I know it means something, but I don’t know what. Up to my ass in bills? Up to my tie bar in treatises? New York after the Smash? You tell me.” “It’s called diving for paychecks, dude, and the…
What does the future hold? More of the same
When I was a little boy, I liked to take baths. And when I was taking a bath, I liked to rock back and forth, causing the water to swish back and forth, my ultimate goal being to cause the water to swish back and forth so violently that at one point all of the…
Felix Salmon, swimming upstream
I continue to be impressed by Felix Salmon’s column for Reuter’s “A Slice of Lime in the Soda” (well, everything but the title). I love his omnivorous appetite for economic data, his command of financial minutiae, his, well, a lot of things, but I also continue to be amazed at his intellectual flabbiness when confronted…