Newspaper reporters are not like you and me. They believe newspaper reporters are important. That’s one of the takeaways from Timesgal Amy Chozick’s new opus, Chasing Hillary Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling, a political campaign book with a difference, because it’s more about Amy than about Hillary, about how a…
Author: Alan Vanneman
Intermediate Group B—“Four in One”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shZ517KIYJY Monk in cut-offs and tennis shoes? Deal with it! Intermediate Group B takes flight at Julian Joseph Jazz Academy. Featuring Ava Joseph, vocals; Kaidi Akinnibi, Ruben Ross, Alex Dmochowski, tenor sax; James Wade-Sired, trombone; Tommy Williams, guitar; Menelik Claffey, bass; Adam Hughes, piano; Zehy Al Dhabari, drums. Posted by Julian Joseph Jazz Academy Mo…
Nothing to see here, folks. Move along, move along.
Ramesh Ponnuru, perhaps to fulfill a quota of some sort, has dashed off what I like to think of as a semi, hemi, demi never Trumper, “Three Clichés About Trump That Have to Die”,1 soundly thumping those lazy, self-righteous liberals who say all sorts of mean things about the Donald which just are not true!…
Koch U? Why not?
The Koch brothers, aka the Dave n’ Charlie Show, have gotten some fairly negative publicity regarding a large number of donations they have either made or leveraged to George Mason University in Northern Virginia. A recent article in the New York Times by Erica Green and Stephanie Saul quotes Bethany Letiecq, an associate professor at…
Kenneth M. Pollack’s slights of hand
Damn the non-homographic homophones! Damn them to hell! They make fools of us all! Just last week I recounted my struggles with the “summery/summary” slough, and now, over at the National Review, poor Kenneth M. Pollack is having “slight” problems of his own, writing in his piece “Why Push Back On Iran?” “We can all…
Olinka Mitroshina—“Four In One”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXQooXwRGjc Olinka Mitroshina, who usually devotes her time to reinventing “traditional” jazz (Bessie Smith, George Gershwin, Billie Holiday), here gets Monkish. Posted by Olinka Mitroshina Mo Monk, Mo Monk, Mo Monk? Yes! Available now from Mostly Monk
Reihan Salam: Now with new, improved HYPERSONIC Bullsh*t!
Reihan Salam—the “thoughtful” bald conservative without the big, bushy beard—is off on a seriously non-thoughtful tear at the National Review, warning us of existential doom and existential boom in the form of the “Sarmat”, a hypersonic ICBM that Russian President Vladimir Putin is waving in our faces. According to Putin, who has never been known…
David Cannadine’s Victorious Century: A bit too victorious, if you ask me
A couple of months back I bounced a post, pithily entitled Forward!, off Kyle Sammin’s review in the National Review of David Cannadine’s new book, Victorious Century, The United Kingdom 1809-1906. I said at the time “I have read the introduction, and I’m definitely looking forward to the rest. Kyle’s review only encourages my appetite.”…
The “Crimes” of Joy Reid
Joy Reid, a celebrity hitherto unknown to me, since I don’t get cable, is in danger of being stripped of her celebrity status on the grounds of anti-gay wisecracks she ran on her blog some 10 years ago. Among other things, it appears that she repeatedly accused former Florida Governor Charlie Crist of being a…
“Summery” is the cruelest of homonyms
Or non-homographic homophones, to be more precise. That is to say, a word that “Word” will not mark as incorrectly spelled, even though it’s not the word you meant, because you misspelled the word you meant. The most common of these little buggers, to use a more convenient term, are possessives/plurals, which, I suspect, will…