(NOTE: Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park series is one of the best franchises on film, particularly if you like dinosaurs. For the past several weeks 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
Jon Meacham’s biography of George H W Bush? I think it kind of sucks
I say I think so, because I haven’t read it yet, which is often considered a prerequisite for saying something intelligent about a book. However, I have read an extract that appeared in Politico Magazine, claiming that Bush 41 launched the first invasion of Iraq in 1991 out of moral revulsion, not realpolitik. Around Christmas…
Hillary Clinton, campaigning like its 1984
Sorry if I scared you, kids, but I’m talking Walter Mondale here, not George Orwell. It’s a sad commentary on contemporary liberalism that going “left” in 2015 consists of embracing the Democratic platform of 1984, the year in which the Democratic presidential ticket won precisely one state, the worst drubbing in Democratic history. Hillary’s domestic…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here “Oh, relax! Those windows are beyond bullet proof!” “That’s right people, it is a test! Because if you can’t stare down the working class, you don’t belong at this table.” “Well, what are we supposed to do? Feed them?” “Can’t they understand that if it weren’t for fat-assed rich guys like us,…
Yo, Bill! Want to reconsider that reconsideration?
Battlin’ Bill Kristol has a singularly ill-timed piece up at the Weekly Standard, “Ben Carson, Reconsidered”, repenting the Standard’s earlier claim that Carson would make an “unacceptable” nominee, After quoting that great conservative Edith Piaf, Bill admits that he was way too hard on Ben, in a rap that includes such “gee I wish I…
Jurassic Parks: Stevie and the Dinosaurs, Part 4
NOTE: Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park series is one of the best franchises on film, particularly if you like dinosaurs. For the past several weeks 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. If you’re…
Q: What’s the difference between a blimp and a bomber? A: There isn’t any!
If you’re at all blimp-aware, you’re certainly cognizant of the sudden demise of the U.S. Army’s Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System, provoked when one of the two JLACMDENSS blimps went rogue, accidentally shorting out the power to about 20,000 folks before being shot down over eastern Pennsylvania by state police,…
OK, that’s cool! Less than a block from Dupont Circle, you can get six kinds of Spam!
Yes, there’s a small grocery store on P St., less than a block from the Circle that offers six kinds of Spam, the taste sensation that’s sweeping the nation, to wit: • Original Spam! • Turkey Spam! • Odorless Spam! (Though I must say, if you object to the smell of Spam…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here “Listen up, people! They don’t call him ‘the Professor’ for nothing!” “Welcome to Contemporary Football, gentlemen. Or, as I like to call it, ‘Psych 101’!” “Bob, you’re obviously conflicted. Go short, or go long. And, as the song has it, don’t mess with Mr. In Between!” “And, Frank, your anal obsession is…
Hey, Paul! It isn’t the president the right wing doesn’t trust on immigration! It’s you!
Appearing on CNN, newly elected House Speaker Paul Ryan “explained” why he had promised conservative Republicans that he wouldn’t attempt to pass immigration reform legislation as long as Barack Obama is president. “Specifically on this issue, you cannot trust this president,” Ryan said, claiming that the president’s executive actions intended to improve the lot of…