Actually, that should read “Edgar Wright, writer/director of Baby Driver, doesn’t know Shakespeare”, but Big Jon said it in the picture, and who knows Edgar Wright, amirite? But it’s all Edgar’s fault that poor Jon (aka “Buddy”) is stuck with the line “Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo?” when it should be “Romeo! Romeo! Wherefore…
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Cass Sunstein, talking truth to no one in particular
Cass Sunstein doesn’t always get it wrong, so I’ve been told, but over at Bloomberg he can be observed lecturing Donald Trump on his manners—“A Graceless President, a National Betrayal”—which is rather like faulting a vulture on its breath.1 In the course of his peroration, Cass contrasts Trump unfavorably—as how could he not?—with Ronald Reagan….
Donald’s got a brand new tub!
A few weeks back, I noted that Donald Trump’s rejection of the Paris accords on global warming amounted to a “tub”, a high-visibility, low-significance virtual non-issue that would nevertheless promote much angst and heartburn among the liberal commentariat, both printwise and in talking-heads land, accompanied, in both media, by endless shots of El Donaldo’s great,…
University of Kentucky Mega-Sax Ensemble—Thelonious Monk’s Trinkle Tinkle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb9VQNuWwGE Different, right? Happy Fourth! Arranged by Dieter Rice. I can’t find personnel for the ensemble listed anywhere, but you can catch up with the guys here. Posted by Miles Osland
Communism still sucks, Chait explains
Well, it does, and it always did. Not only Stalin but Lenin and Trotsky were hungry for absolute power from the get-go. Trotsky bragged about the murder of the Romanov family, when the Tsar Nicolas II, his wife and five children and a handful of servants were shot, stabbed, and beaten to death by a…
Ramesh Ponnuru, not really up on the Constitution thing
Trump Derangement Syndrome! It’s everywhere! Not among Democrats, but among Republicans! Yes, it’s dismaying when “your president” acts like a two-year-old—because he is a two-year-old! So what’s a pundit to do? Well, “I know you are but what am I?” seems to be what may be called the “Ramesh Ponnuru defense”. Ramesh, writing in the…
Avik Roy, silently blowing both his own horn and the Republican Party
There was a time, not so long ago, when I praised Republican health care “expert” Avik Roy for his outspokenness on House Speaker Paul Ryan’s atrocious health care “plan” to repeal and replace Obamacare: “it’s curious”, Avik observed, “that extending tax cuts [to the rich] was a higher priority for the House than addressing the…
Mote and Beam Dept: WashPost does CNN
“CNN’s Russia story debacle came at the worst possible time for the network”, Paul Farhi reports for the Washington Post, describing the embarrassing collapse of CNN’s “exclusive” on a supposed Senate investigation of Wall Street bigshot/Trump insider Anthony Scaramucci’s supposed suspicious links with Russia: “When challenged on the particulars of the story, CNN acknowledged that…
Things that, if I had a wife, I would avoid saying to her
“The day the iPhone came out, June 29, 2007,” Tyler Cowen tells us, “I boasted to my wife that it would be one of the most important cultural events of our lifetimes, maybe the most important. I compared my purchase of one, which I wanted to justify, to going to see a “Don Giovanni” premiere…
Trevor Lawrence Quartet—“Trinkle Tinkle”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1y7uxSQexg With Eric Lewis, piano, Paul Beaudry, bass, and Ralph Penland, drums. Posted by FortressUSA FUSA