Ross Douthat, waxing witty, as is his wont, professes to be amused by “the most predictable of spectacles: a liberal holy war against Betsy DeVos, just confirmed as the new secretary of education by Mike Pence’s tiebreaking vote.” What’s the fuss, asks Ross: “the bulk of DeVos’s school-choice work places her only somewhat to the…
Tom Nichols is looking for work! And the Washington Post is helping him!
Tom Nichols, in case you don’t know him, is a professor at the Naval War College and the Harvard Extension School and the author of The Death of Expertise. Last year, Tom fired off a snappy little piece in The Federalist titled “I’ll Take Hillary Clinton Over Donald Trump. As Tom tells it, that was…
Freddie Hubbard & Johnny Griffin—“Well, You Needn’t”
Fuzzy picture, great jazz. According to online comments, Billy Higgins is the drummer, and Harry Pickens is on piano. No information for the bassman. Blue Note Jazz Festival, 1986. Posted by cminor7add9th.
George Will would rather write about the Black Death than Donald Trump
Well, you can hardly blame the man, can you? The Donald’s current reign of t/error is a lot less palatable than the centuries-old horror that reduced Europe’s population by a solid 25% back in the fourteenth century. But after you get past Georgie’s first paragraph, his current think piece becomes less a history lesson than…
Nazi Holocaust did not target Jews, Trump explains
Okay, two weeks of Trump and I’m a week behind on the outrages. Well, get used to it, because it won’t get any better. Last week, when Donald Trump was proving to the world that he hates foreigners, he was also proving to the world that he thinks Jews talk too much. It’s always about…
Pseudo New Yorker
“Relax! He’s more afraid of us than we are of him.” “Yo, big boy! Super models comin’ through!” “He’s good bad, but he’s not evil.” “Excuse me! Are you Scylla or Charybdis?” “We must be near Coney Island.” “If this is America, what’s with the Roman hands and Russian fingers?” “Okay, an Abe Lincoln he…
Which side are you on?
That will be the question in coming days. Donald Trump is all about winning—Cheating? It’s a good thing! No, it’s a great thing!—and DC talking heads, some of them, anyway, are realizing that Donald Trump’s Administration is already a guaranteed disaster, unlike any other in American history. David Brooks, my long-time whipping boy, is turning…
Tommy Flanagan & Barry Harris—“Well, You Needn’t”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFGuFfrpTVc Mid eighties. Kinda short, but, you know, illuminating. Posted by hoffmanjazz
Anna Whom? Vogue? Is that a magazine?
Hey, kids! (I use the term advisedly.) Remember that movie,The Devil Wears Prada, based on flesh-eating Vogue editor Anna Wintour, starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway, that came out about ten years back?1 Well, according to the New York Times, it’s going to be made into a Broadway musical! Really! With Elton John (helpfully identified…
Oh, that Donald Trump! He’s as bad as Barack Obama!
Really, that’s the meme du jour on the right, with the Wall Street Journal (of course) leading the way. “The President is treating our neighbor like Obama treated Israel”, sighs the Journal, though this probably doesn’t mean that Trump will be giving Mexico $4 billion a year, no strings attached, until the end of time.1…