That will be the question in coming days. Donald Trump is all about winning—Cheating? It’s a good thing! No, it’s a great thing!—and DC talking heads, some of them, anyway, are realizing that Donald Trump’s Administration is already a guaranteed disaster, unlike any other in American history. David Brooks, my long-time whipping boy, is turning…
Author: Alan Vanneman
Tommy Flanagan & Barry Harris—“Well, You Needn’t”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFGuFfrpTVc Mid eighties. Kinda short, but, you know, illuminating. Posted by hoffmanjazz
Anna Whom? Vogue? Is that a magazine?
Hey, kids! (I use the term advisedly.) Remember that movie,The Devil Wears Prada, based on flesh-eating Vogue editor Anna Wintour, starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway, that came out about ten years back?1 Well, according to the New York Times, it’s going to be made into a Broadway musical! Really! With Elton John (helpfully identified…
Oh, that Donald Trump! He’s as bad as Barack Obama!
Really, that’s the meme du jour on the right, with the Wall Street Journal (of course) leading the way. “The President is treating our neighbor like Obama treated Israel”, sighs the Journal, though this probably doesn’t mean that Trump will be giving Mexico $4 billion a year, no strings attached, until the end of time.1…
I predicted this!
Well, I did. A couple of weeks back, I wrote a post, “Why Donald Trump will be our very worst president, by a very wide margin”, and, one week in, it’s already true. For the past seven days, Donald Trump has been running around like a chicken with its head cut off, except, you know,…
Pseudo New Yorker
“We will be making every effort to avoid further cutbacks in the future, but, sadly, nothing is certain in this life.” “Clearly, the fallout from the Christmas Party continues to reverberate.” “Furthermore, employees will be expected to provide their own beverages and pretzels.” “And then there was one, eh, Mrs. Hanson? But not to worry….
Queens to the Left of Me, Queens to the Right of Me
Oh, yeah. Whole lot of queenin’ going on these days. I just finished moaning (loudly) over The Crown, Netflix’s multi-part suck-up to Elizabeth II and now PBS has embarked on a similar enterprise, devoted to Victoria Regina and suitably titled “Victoria”, though I think “Victoria!” would have been more fun. I confess that I haven’t…
Red Mitchell and Bill Mays—“Well, You Needn’t”
Yeah, which one is “Red”, right? From 1982. Posted by “piano mays”
Russia hacks U.S. elections! Does this mean that Putin is as bad as Netanyahu?
Well, it’s a question to be asked, isn’t it? I mean, Netanyahu (and Israel) is always interfering with our elections! And now, so is Putin! I mean, who do they think they are, us? Afterwords The fact that Russia hacked the DNC computer network and deliberately released the information to weaken Hillary Clinton’s chances is,…
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Donald Trump
On November 9, 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte engineered a coup that made him First Consul and ended republican government in France. By the date of the Republican calendar then in effect in France, the date was 18 Brumaire in the year VIII.1 In 1852, Karl Marx wrote The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, commemorating in contempt…