Eric Levitz, writing for New York magazine, boils down Jeffrey Goldberg’s 20,000 word interview with President Obama in the Atlantic, during which the president sounds so gosh-darn reasonable that you’ll have a hard time swallowing all the brutal truths concerning the house of state terror that Bush and Obama built (and reinforced) collected by Conor…
Author: Alan Vanneman
Donald and the Bern: What’s a billionaire to do?
The big surprise Tuesday night was not Donald Trump’s wins. “Trump losing momentum” stories have been written so often that when we see one we automatically rewrite it to read “Trump on a roll!” No, the big story was Bernie Sanders’ big, big win over Hillary Clinton, a victory won almost entirely on the basis…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Well, first of all, I’d really like a glass of water.” “All of a sudden it’s against the law to have teeth, is that it?” “What you call bait I call an hors d’oeuvre. It’s the fucking law of the sea.” “Hey, I bite a lot of things. Who remembers…
Arūnė Jonavičiūtė—“Well, You Needn’t”
https://youtu.be/uTHkpTs2XPo Arūnė, totally rockin’ it, with Arnoldas Jankūnas (piano), Paulius Stonkus (bass guitar), and Viačeslav Krasnopiorov (percussion), performing at Klaipėda University Concert Hall, Nov. 5, 2014. Posted by Ku Ma
What Bernie Sanders still doesn’t get about arguing with Hillary Clinton? No, what Bernie Sanders still doesn’t get about arguing with anyone.
Bernie Sanders is getting some flak for getting all “Hey! Man talking, Lady!” on Hillary’s ass during last Sunday’s debate, but, really, it wasn’t a sexist thing. It was just a Bernie thing. Bernie talks to everybody like that, because Bernie lives in Bernieland, where he’s been living his entire life, where he’s right about…
Marco Rubio, Super Loser
Let’s all have a chuckle at the expense of Republican Establishment fair-haired boy Marco Rubio, who can’t understand why the old lies ain’t workin’: “If you had told me a year ago that the front-runner at this stage in the Republican campaign would be a supporter of Planned Parenthood, who says he doesn’t stand with…
Robert Kagan, hoist on Fareed Zakaria’s bare bodkin
At the Washington Post, Fareed Zakaria notes the long-time silence of “principled conservatives” regarding decades of Republican thuggery in the name of power. Zakaria seems to take particular pleasure in skewering Robert Kagan, whom I skewered earlier for his tardy recognition of Republican sins. Sure, Trump is terrible, says Fareed, but how and why is…
Luigi Martinale Trio plus Fabrizio Bosso—“In Walked Bud”
Fabrizio Bosso trumpet; Luigi Martinale piano; Reuben Rogers bass; Paolo Franciscone drums Posted by sweetandbitter63
Donald Trump: “I have been on top of some of the most beautiful women in the world. Oh, yeah, and one really fat governor. Some northeastern state. I don’t remember which one. It had a coastline, I’m pretty sure of that.”
Justice Scalia, very big, very fat liar REVISITED
Want to read words of praise for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin “Nino” Scalia by a renowned liberal legal scholar? Harvard’s Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, has just the article for you, praising both Nino’s integrity and his “extraordinary life-loving laugh.” Want to read an ill-tempered diatribe by a…