https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-3NuPdtlXc Brief, but excellent. I like to hear Monk on the trombone, since it isn’t a natural fit. Posted by Andreoli
Author: Alan Vanneman
First Things First: Uncle Reno’s Just So Stories
What do you get when you click on an article in First Things, that heady brew of theological harrumphing first set in motion by frenzied spiritual striver Richard John Neuhaus, about whom I (mostly) snickered here? Well, judging from this piece by the site’s editor, R.R. (Richard Russell) Reno, “End Times Anxiety”, you’ll learn a…
The Wrath of Eli
Yo, Donald Trump! Eli Lake has so had it with you! Listen up! Condemn Putin, goddamnit! Condemn him and all his works! No more of your tricks! No more “tough action and words from the underlings, and baffling nonsense or sinister silence from the president.” Stop being so sinister! Eli is putting you on notice:…
Some Murderers Are More Equal Than Others
The recent attempted murder of Sergei Skripal and his daughter, using a nerve gas developed by the Soviet Union, is ghastly and horrifying and deserving of the severest condemnation. But I am reminded of another murder attempt—a successful one, this time—that occurred in Washington, DC on September 21, 1976, of Orlando Letelier, a prominent Chilean…
The Wrath of Farrakhan
Adam Serwer has a nice—nice but incomplete—post up at the Atlantic, “Why Tamika Mallory Won’t Condemn Farrakhan”, explaining why Tamika Mallory, national co-chair for the Women’s March, refuses to “apologize” for attending the Nation of Islam’s annual Saviour’s Day event last month, at which time Farrakhan engaged in his now standard apocalyptic anti-Semitic rhetoric, seasoned…
Maiko Jazz Violin—“Straight No Chaser”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGNLp_Lx0Ew Yeah, I know, “Straight No Chaser” was last month. But I wanted to do two Japanese violin chicks wailing on Monk in a row. Posted by Maiko Jazz Violin
Stormy Update: Memo to Karen: Get it in writing, honey!
Earlier this week, I remarked on the lack of attention being paid to Karen McDougal, 1998 Playmate of the Year, and sometime playmate for Donald Trump, according to the New Yorker, thanks to the now standard avalanche of new scandals and disasters that now fill what we must call “Trump Time”. Why not at least…
Daniel Drezner is shocked, shocked to discover that Paul Ryan is Paul Ryan
More in sorrow than in anger, it would seem, the WashPost’s Dan Drezner struggles with House Speaker Paul Ryan’s puzzling tendency to say, well, to say one thing (usually decent by what one might call “Mainstream Acela” standards) and then do another (almost invariably pusillanimous1). Reviewing Paulie’s record, Dan can wonder why, since “Ryan is…
We now interrupt this regularly scheduled bad news to bring you much much worse bad news
Several weeks ago—about a decade in Trump years, I would estimate1—I planned to write yet another article ridiculing our nation’s massive addiction to wasteful military spending, category “Star Wars”, springing off an article in Bloomsberg, by “the Editors” themselves, no less, “How to Blow North Korean Missiles Out of the Sky”, bemoaning the fact that,…
Post Bop Gypsies—“Four In One”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4hyowISWlw Tomoko Omura, 5-string violin; Alex Goodman, guitar; George DeLancey, bass. Posted by tomokoomuravideos