Legal humor here. “Yeah, I was once as you are. And as I am you will be. Makes you think, doesn’t it?” “You 3-D types are a joke! What’s the point in having volume when you lack breadth?” “Hey, don’t mind me! I’m invisible!” “Yeah, he who falls on this stone will…
Author: Alan Vanneman
Victor Davis Hanson is God!
Well, he thinks so, because he has just handed down “Ten Commandments for Our Next Commander-in-Chief” of which it can be said that they are not as tedious as they might be, if only because they do not begin with “Thou shalt not”. Otherwise, they simply amount to “Be a Churchill, not an Obama”, though,…
Emmanuel Manos Saridakis Trio—“Brilliant Corners”
Emmanuel on piano, Vasilis Podaras, drums, and Ntinos Manos, bass, with special guests Takis Paterelis, tenor and Manos Theodosakis, cornet. Posted by Emmanuel Manos Saridakis
John Podhoretz, half right on Trump—okay, make that a quarter
Over at Commentary, definitely not one of my fave rave’s, Editor John Podhoretz has “A New Theory of Trump”, taking another crack at explaining the Donald. Podhoretz’s argument is stated rather elliptically—or perhaps obliquely—but what he’s getting at, basically, is that George W. Bush got a lot of things wrong, but Republicans were so obsessed…
William F. Buckley, still racist after all those years
As is (fairly) well known, back in 1957, William F. Buckley wrote the following: “The central question that emerges…is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas where it does not predominate numerically? The sobering answer is Yes—the White community…
Just when you were thinking that Ted Cruz was maybe not totally shitty
Well, you knew you were a fool, didn’t you? Over at New York magazine, Eric Levitz has the totally shitty news of Ted’s new totally shitty foreign policy advisors, starting off with Frank Gaffney, a guy who thinks Obama is a Muslim, along with convicted criminal Elliott Abrams,1 and, well, others. Abrams avoided felony indictments…
Yay, Hillary! (I’ll explain)
Yay, Hillary! Okay, that is not something I say easily or often, but our gal’s five to zero sweep of the March 15 primaries over not so smokin’ Bernie Sanders, including a 2 to 1 beatdown in Florida, was welcome news indeed. Bernie’s big mouth had infused enough new blood in the beast known as…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “I’m part piranha, girlfriend. Don’t make me prove it.” “Hell, I’ll spawn right here. Like I give a fuck.” “Yeah, we were looking for Salmon Springs. Guess we took a wrong turn.” “Like the rest of the way up it’s bear country? That seems a little extreme.” “You could be eating some…
Neocons at the end of their tether
Over at the National Review, Jonah Goldberg has a second, and more anguished, cri de cœur—I discussed an earlier one here—remarking, not simply on the horror that is Donald Trump, but on the horror one feels when one observes one’s friends proudly embracing that horror—if one has such friends as Kevin Williamson, Charlie Cooke, or…
Francesca Prihasti Trio Four In One
Jodie Michael (drums) and David Groves (double bass). Posted by Francesca Prihasti