Sopon Suwannakit, piano, Teerawat Tanboot, bass, and Ben Poovaviranon, drums. Posted by Sopon Suwannakit
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here “I can’t say I’m surprised, Smedley. I’ve always said that constrictors were good starters but bad finishers.” “Well, see if Accounting has use for someone who takes three weeks to process a termination.” “Old Harrellson called your bluff, eh, Smedley? Even a healthy anaconda can’t handle anything over two hundred and fifty…
Shorter Krauthammer: Hey, it’s only six million! What is that in cattle cars?
If I were a Jew, I think I’d be uncomfortable with the figure “six million”. It sends the wrong message, don’t you think? But that’s how many “illegals” Donald Trump targeted for deportation in his latest speech, and Charles Krauthammer, who is a Jew, is totally down with it.. Back in the day, Charlie wrote…
Rich Lowry, headed for the last round up
The Donald’s “new” immigration plan is “detailed and substantive,” Rich Lowry tells us at Politico: “If we aren’t going to have a sweeping amnesty or tolerate the status quo, illegal immigrants must be subject to deportation. All of them don’t have to be rounded up, as Trump ridiculously advocated in the primaries.” No, we won’t…
Woody Allen, last seen in search of lost innocence, and rich wood paneling!
https://youtu.be/FGRNkrvh1Dg I haven’t read USA Today since, well, since never, but if I had I’m sure I would have seen an article headed “We Like Wood” because we do. I first noticed America’s wood fetish while watching one of my favorite TV shows, Monk, in which I noticed a common theme—no matter what the crime,…
Benn Clatworthy quartet—“Little Rootie Tootie”
Benn Clatworthy tenor sax, John Donaldson piano, Simon Thorpe bass, Josh Morrison drums. Performed at Seven Jazz Leeds, Leeds, UK, on Aug. 11, 2012. Posted by Steve Crocker
Republicans say “Hurray for Hillary!” Democrats say “Hurrah for Trump!”
Yes, Republicans do. Suppose the Democrats had nominated a competent candidate—not necessarily a “dream” candidate à la Barack Obama—but one who, you know, hadn’t lied her 69-year-old ass off about pretty much everything under the sun while operating a multi-million-dollar shakedown racket cum non-profit cum political machine. Just suppose. Then the Democrats wouldn’t be beating…
Fronkensteen, Frankenstein—what’s in a name? Everything!
Why, in Young Frankenstein, the best film Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks ever made, does Frederick Frankenstein make such a point of, first, pronouncing his name “incorrectly”, and then correctly? Because Wilder and Brooks were both Jews. It’s not unusual for Jews, growing up in, well, not-Semitic if not anti-Semitic societies like the U.S., to…
David Ignatius and the Triumph of the Will
David Ignatius seems to be my whipping boy de jour or de month, or de whatever. Dave’s latest offense comes in a column nominally devoted to the disquiet with which Australians view Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, “Australians are mortified by Trump’s rise”. Well, seeing as I am American, my mortification far exceeds any Australian’s, but…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here “Call me Ishmael, motherfucker!” “First dibs, my ass! This is my ocean, short stuff!” “I’m holding you personally responsible for global warming, beachboy!” “I just hope you didn’t eat all the cocoanuts.” “Don’t sweat it. The tide comes in real quick in these latitudes.” “If you didn’t keep building these damn things,…