Hepcat: Okay, what’s goin’ down here? One cat’s got a hatchet, the other one’s stealing a bicycle. This will not end well. Seriously, what is the deal here? Are these guys working together? So what, they’ll cut down a tree and carry it off on the bicycle? Okay, that does not make any sense….
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Democracy dies in the darkness, and the Washington Post just turned off the light.
This is the truth the Washington Post thinks you can’t handle. Does Hamas use civilians as human shields? Uh, yeah. Does Hamas indiscriminately murder civilians as a way of making a political point? Uh, yeah. Should this be said out loud? Uh, no. “Explains” WashPost editorial page editor David Shipley, “Our section [of the Post]…
Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” Q: What would life be like if smart girls ruled the world? A: Not so hot!
Mattel’s legendary high fashion gal on the go Barbie is pushing 65. Most of the jokes in Greta Gerwig’s monster, monster hit of the same name have a similar vintage. Seriously, is there a single gag in this movie that couldn’t have appeared on Saturday Night Live back in 1975? But the monster success of…
Yo, Jennifer Rubin! Who’s changed, Benjamin Netanyahu or you?
Meet the new Netanyahu. Not the same as the old Netanyahu, says WashPost rightie turned leftie gal Jennifer Rubin, more in sorrow than in anger. In case you haven’t been paying attention, frequent Israeli prime minister (and frequent AV non-fave rave) Benjamin Netanyahu has sunk from, well, atrocious to abysmal. Simply put, the man hath…
Meet the New Anti-Semitism, Same as the Old Anti-Semitism. Or is it worse?
Peter Beinart has a characteristically excellent post in Jewish Currents, Antisemitic Zionists Aren’t a Contradiction in Terms, explaining why, both historically and today, many anti-Semites around the world praise and admire Israel—because they want their countries to be as ethnically “pure” as they imagine Israel to be, and because they wish “their” Jews would get…
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Articles of Lasting Interest: Jazz: I post a jazz video every week, usually but not necessarily featuring a performance of a composition of Thelonious Monk. These videos can be accessed as a group here. “Harvard douchebaggery not exclusively a left-wing phenomenon, study reveals” is an unfriendly take on Harvard Professor Robert Barro’s disingenuous claim that…
Gregg Easterbrook watches the lying liberal media so you don’t have to
What is the deal with lying liberal media these days, those bad old legacy networks like CBS and NBC, filling the air with their bullshit lies? Deceit is the deal, and the Weekly Standard’s Gregg Easterbrook is on the case. Unfortunately, Gregg, in his role of “Tuesday Morning Quarterback,” tends to hide his epistemological light…
James Franco’s The Disaster Artist: Hollywood Caught In The Act Of Kissing Its Own Ass
Greg Sestero’s now reasonably famous book The Disaster Artist, co-written by Tom Bissell, is much better than Producer/Director/Star James Franco’s quite famous movie The Disaster Artist, each telling the story of the making of Tommy Wiseau’s all-conquering cult classic, The Room. Book beats film! Book beats film! Book beats film! Well, not necessarily, but the…
Who influenced our culture more, Hugh Hefner or Anne Jeffreys? The first of a two-part series on the memorable departed
Well, I guess it’s Hef, although I always wondered why people took someone so artificial and synthetic seriously, but I’m going to lead with Anne, shown above with co-star and husband Robert Sterling. I knew Anne and Bob entirely through Topper, as George and Marion Kerby, spirits who haunted the eponymous “Cosmo Topper” (Leo G….
Ramesh Ponnuru, defending Trump’s UN speech, lays an inverted curate’s egg
What is a curate’s egg? Webster’s Third International defines it thusly: “something with both good and bad parts or qualities [so called from a cartoon in the weekly Punch depicting a curate who was given a stale egg by his bishop and declared that parts of it were excellent]”. So what is an inverted curate’s…