Legal humor here. “’Cause daddy’s motherfuckin’ hungry, that’s why.” “Digitize this and have it on my desk by Monday.” “Break out the good mustard, girlfriend, because the white boys are having a party!” “It spoke to my inner Jew.” “Hold all my calls. For, like, forever.” “I’m redefining the hell out…
Author: Alan Vanneman
Chris Christie sez: “Yo, you think my belly is big? Check out my ego!”
Yes, if Chris Christie ever had a soul, he just sold it to Donald Trump. It’s a demonstration of just how rotten the Republican Party is when perhaps the most prestigious Republican governor in the country endorses a presidential candidate who has promised to torture innocent women and children. And for what? So he won’t…
Robert Kagan, struggling with the math
Bipartisan neocon Robert Kagan, who has served in the administrations of both Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama, has a prescient rap on the Donald Trump phenomenon up at the Washington Post, denying that Donald hijacked the GOP. Instead, says Bob, Donald is “the party’s creation, its Frankenstein monster, brought to life by the party, fed…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “You lower it slowly, slowly, until they expire in an agony of anticipation.” “This one is for venial sins.” “At this point I can’t figure out whether to market it as a form of punishment or a parlor game.” “And, for the Inquisition, we can just slip on the old…
Jo Alessi and Mark Nightingale—“Blue Monk”
No information on the other musicians. If you like the two trombone thing check out Trombone Heaven, a CD featuring Frank Rosolino and Carl Fontana. Posted by Sigurd Scodal
All too English, more or less
In the National Interest, English journalist and author Geoffrey Wheatcroft takes a rather dyspeptic look at the political situation on both sides of the Atlantic, coming to the conclusion that Europe’s Political Center Cannot Hold, though he finds a few shreds of hope in the U.K. itself. “There’s always been a healthy skepticism about parliamentary…
Why did the GOP fail to stop Trump? Because Republicans voted for him
At the Washington Post, Dan Drezner serves up “My very peculiar and speculative theory of why the GOP has not stopped Donald Trump”, receiving an approving nod from the American Conservative’s Daniel Larison, “How the GOP Failed To Stop Trump”. Drezner’s take: “My hypothesis is that GOP decision-makers also read the same analyses [from political…
Noam Chomsky explains it all for you—why standardized testing is bad
The Progressive Magazine has posted this interview with Noam Chomsky, in which the founder of modern linguistics explains why standardized testing in k-12 education is bad. According to Chomsky “tests that determine what’s going to happen to students and what’s going to happen to teachers is guaranteed to destroy any meaningful educational process.” Tests give…
What could be done, and why liberals won’t let it happen
It’s no secret that a large chunk of the American people are very upset these days, mad as hell and not going to take it any more, and also no secret that family incomes that have flat-lined for the past 15 years are a large part of the problem and also no secret that neither…
Reagan Speaks!
Over at Politico, Michael Kruse has a story up regarding the Jeb/Marco friendship/betrayal kerfuffle that includes a hoary/whorey chestnut attributed to Ronald Reagan, to wit: “There’s no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit.” Of course, what Ronnie meant was “there’s no…