Hey, I hate to make fun of a fellow Dutchman, but over at Bloomberg News Simon van Zuylen-Wood really put his foot in it when he wrote the following: “Rent-stabilization laws have their critics, but they account for some of the last sensibly priced apartments in New York City, the second-most-expensive rental market in the…
Yumi Ito & Alessandro Pittini—“Straight No Chaser”
I spent $800 billion in Afghanistan and all they gave me was this lousy tee-shirt
As R. Jeffrey Smith, who hangs his hat at the Center for Public Integrity, so admirably demonstrates, every word of that headline is true, except the part about the tee-shirt. Jeff puts the blame on Hillary, but I’d give the lion’s share to President Obama, who rather gratuitously decided that Afghanistan was the “good war,”…
New Novel!
Like to escape to a better time? One not so Trumpy? Why not travel back to the Eighties, in my new Reagan-era satire, “Traveling North: the Education of Alice Barnstable,” now available from Amazon as both an ebook and a print on demand paperback. Alice Barnstable, a not so simple girl traveling from Valdosta, Georgia,…
Can’t stop the schadenfreude: Vivisecting the Republican Party
Well, if Trump wins you can laugh, but I won’t hear you because I’ll be sobbing too hard. Since I’m not too excited about a Hillary win—go here for a few dozen reasons why—it’s a lot more fun to speculate on what’s going to happen to the Republican Party post-November. For us Democrats, it’s going…
More Kudos for the K-Man
What is the deal with Charles Krauthammer? Yeah, sometimes I hate him, and sometimes I love him. Well, today I’m feeling all lovey-dovey, thanks to a column by Charles pointing out that Donald Trump’s recent threat to jail Hillary Clinton once he’s president is perhaps the worst thing he’s ever said, which, of course, is…
Is Paul Ryan Growing a Pair, or Growing a Pear?
OK, “growing a pear” does not mean anything, though, ipso facto, it does not mean “growing a pair,” and, since I am definitely not a fan of Paulie, I don’t want to start complimenting him all of a sudden. It was, after all, only a few weeks ago that Paulie was giving a glowing review…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here “It’s going to make us rich as sin, but I don’t know how.” “Of course, the real trick is figuring out how to make it roll uphill.” “We’ve already got a patent, so don’t get any ideas.” “Oh, I’ve stopped worrying about it. You know, ‘exceeding slow, exceeding fine.’ We’ll get there.”…
WRAVALJAZZ, Jazz Jam Quartet—“Straight, No Chaser”
Wouldn’t it be GREAT to have a jazz quartet right in your own living room? Well, not everyone would agree, but still. Winston Raval on Piano; Jonathan Bautista on Sax; Emerson Cardenas on Bass; Rehmannia-Dean Thomas on Drums. Posted by Winston
Donald Trump probably not as bad as the Spanish flu, Conor Friedersdorf avers
As World War I was coming to an end, the Spanish1 flu epidemic killed an estimated 675,000 Americans. Would a Trump presidency produce a similar body count? asks the Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf. Well, probably not, Conor, but I, in turn, have a question for you. Would the United States recover as quickly, and as completely,…