https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaZVnvUQk_o Mauro Vicino, guitarra, Cristian Ferreira, contrabajo, and Hernán Mandelman, batería. Posted by Cristian Ferreira
Author: Alan Vanneman
The Apotheosis of Paul Ryan is the Apotheosis of Hypocrisy
It is likely that Republicans in Congress will pass something resembling House Speaker Paul Ryan’s tax package—because if they don’t they’ll look like complete fools, and they’d rather fuck up the country than look like that. It’s “amusing” that everyone, even me, has pointed to the massive Republican hypocrisy of having spent eight long years…
Dix pour cent? More like sept!
What if? What if “they” made Entourage for middle-aged, upper-middle-class Parisian cinéphiles instead of, you know, “Turtle”? Well, they did, and they have, and it’s called dix pour cent (“10 percent”), or Call My Agent! as Netflix has it, and I gave the first season a qualified thumb’s up last April. Why the “qualified”? Although…
Polite Conversation
(Editor’s Advice: If you don’t know who Colly Cibber is, you probably shouldn’t read this piece.) In one of W. H. Auden’s essays, he remarks that English literature had a strong tendency to become a sort of cozy, family affair, full of in-jokes that bound everyone who was in together and excluded all those who…
Shorter Sessions
Jennifer Rubin reports on the testimony of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, aka “the Alabama Fogbank”: “I do now recall the March 2016 meeting at Trump Hotel that Mr. Papadopoulos attended, but I have no clear recollection of the details of what he said at that meeting,” Sessions said. “After reading his account, and to the…
Which is worse, kissing a fourteen-year-old girl or torture?
Roy Moore, the kissin’ judge, seems to be just about the limit for a lot of people, everyone from the reptilian Mitch McConnell—“I believe the women”—to compassionate libertarian Nick Gillespie—“Roy Moore and the End of Republican Credibility”—not to mention one-time Republican hitman Rich Lowry—"He can’t quite bring himself to deny dating underage girls”. Of course,…
Joey Alexander—“Evidence”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_LFXNJzNwY Fourteen-year-old Joey Alexander, not playing “Bemsha Swing”, but here shown playing at an all Monk recital at Lincoln Center, now available as a CD, or whatever terminology we use nowadays for recordings. Jazz has never seen a talent as precocious as Joey’s. I feel it is safer not to speculate on what the future…
Tough to be a Republican Jew
Damn straight it is, enough to make this lapsed Episcopalian Democrat chuckle. Back in Dubya’s day, folks like Paul Wolfowitz and “Scooter” Libby walked the corridors of power. Today, not so much. Yes, conservative-leaning Jews have suffered one humiliation after another, but the recent revelations, so to speak, regarding Alabama Judge Roy Moore—revelations that, it…
What is the deal with Rand Paul?
Here is part of the deal: Last Friday night, Sen. Paul was attacked by his neighbor, Rene Boucher. Here’s what Politico had to say on Saturday, based on the police warrant issued for Boucher: ‘Boucher’s altercation with Paul left the senator having difficulty breathing as a result of a “possible rib injury” in addition to…
Republican Tax “Reform”—Lots of little lies on top of one huge one
Who knows what’s going to shake from sieve as the Republican tax “reform” package lurches towards Bethlehem? Well, not me, for sure. I don’t know what kind of last-minute gimcracks and switcheroos old Paulie Ryan will pull out of his ass to paste together a bill that will get through the House, whether he will…