(NOTE: Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park series is one of the best franchises on film, particularly if you like dinosaurs. For the past several months I’ve been running a strikingly unbalanced review of the four films, because I’m a big fan of parts 1 & 3, while distinctly unenthusiastic over parts 2 & 4. Today’s chapter…
Author: Alan Vanneman
The San Bernardino Murders
So the couple identified as the San Bernardino murderers were Muslims. Am I the only one who’s afraid Donald Trump just gained 10 points?
Yo, Kevie D! Do Black Lives Matter?
National Review “Roving Correspondent” Kevin D. Williamson has a column up at NR entitled “Chicago and Rahm Emanuel: Partners in Corruption” in which he opines “Mayor Emanuel is in a tough spot just now: A Chicago police officer was involved in a controversial shooting, and the mayor appears to have been involved in a cover-up,…
Three cheers for Ted Cruz! On select occasions only!
Yes, Teddie can be a shit, often, but his recent interview appearing in Bloomberg Politics, in which he denounced his quasi doppelganger/evil twin Marco Rubio as being basically Hillary Clinton in a mansuit, was something of an eye opener. Cruz, rapping with Bloomberg scribe Sahil Kapur, came up with the following bon mots, among others:…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here “Damn it, Smithers! This ‘Sword of Justice’ business is wearing mighty thin!” “Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everything is ‘urgent’ with you!” “I don’t care if Harrison gave you frontsies! Wait in line!” “All right, girlfriend! You just brought a knife to a gunfight! And this little missy shoots to kill!” “Well, shiver me…
Joey does Bird—“Anthropology”
Jazz prodigy Joey Alexander, with Russell Hall on bass and Sammy Miller on drums at the Jazz Standard in New York. Posted by trender18
Phony Evenhandedness, Case Nos. 377,421,904-6
Golly! That President Obama! When Republicans tell outrageous and disgusting lies, he just tells the truth! Why, he’s almost as bad as they are! That’s the gist of the bizarre rap of TV big-shot (five Emmys!) Jeff Greenfield in a recent piece for Politico Magazine, headed “Getting the Politics of Fear Right: Trump exploits our…
Mike Titlebaum Trio with Nicholas Walker and Greg Evans—“Stuffy Turkey”
Get it? One of Monk’s less frequently played tunes. Mike on sax, Nick on bass, Greg on drums. Recorded at The Gates in Ithaca, NY, 9/29/13. Posted by Mike Titlebaum
In which Ralph Douthat fashions a seemingly serviceable argument—though only seemingly so—out of a most dubious sow’s ear
When I first read Joyce Carol Oates’ now notorious tweet “All we hear of ISIS is puritanical & punitive; is there nothing celebratory & joyous? Or is query naive?”, I could only conclude that Joycie had been sipping too deeply of the elderberry wine, and decided to pass along. Ralph Douthat, however, took up the…
Thank you, General Petraeus!
I’m definitely not a fan of Gen. David Petreaus, who arguably should be a convicted felon rather than a self-confessed misdemeanorist, but he definitely merits a thumbs up from all thirteen of us in the “Let’s stay out of the damn Middle East” crowd, when he said publicly that sending U.S. troops to clean up…