(Editor’s Note: I was writing this, the Washington Post has more: Judge in Trump Georgia case orders hearing on Fani Willis misconduct claims.) Yeah, call me a Nervous Nelli if you will, but Georgia district attorney Fani Willis, who brought criminal charges against Donald Trump, and who has extracted guilty pleas from several Trump associates,…
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Is Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro” the best vanity project I’ve seen all week? I think so! But I do have questions!
Fuck yeah, I do! So many questions! Like, why the fuck did producer/director/star Bradley Cooper even make this movie? Did he wake up one morning and think to himself “You know what America needs to hear? It needs to hear how legendary composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein, having lost his way in life, ultimately found spiritual redemption…
Siskel & Ebert, together again
The no-doubt-aging fans of the once legendary film criticism tag-team duo of Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert have been done a solid by Matt Singer’s excellent study of their partnership, Opposable Thumbs, though I must say that the very best thing about Matt’s book is that inspired me to read Roger Ebert’s remarkable memoir, Life…
Many Jewish University of Pennsylvania alumni are angry, and most of the time they have the right to be.
I will confess up front that this is a “yes but” story, but I would like to emphasize that the “yes” is just as strong as the “but”, if not stronger. A story in the New York Times by Stephanie Saul, Who Decides Penn’s Future: Donors or the University? gives us the backstory: the decision…
The Coalition of the Swilling
Here are two questions that few today can answer, to wit: “During the Vietnam War, what could you buy in a Filipino PX that you couldn’t buy in an American PX?” “Johnnie Walker Black Label and Chivas Regal.” “What else could you buy in a Filipino PX?” “Nothing.” After Lyndon Johnson sent American ground troops…
Yeah, I flunked Econ 101! What’s your point?
As a matter of fact, I I didn’t flunk Econ 101, because I never took it! So what? To quote Mel Brooks, I’m an old man and I’ve got a right to talk. And, to quote another old man, Richard Nixon, “I am not an intellectual, but I do read books!” Well, I do and…
Socio-political-cultural notes from all over: Jack Goldsmith is a gosh-darn liar, Joe and Bibi may be pulling a fast one, and Oliver Anthony is a jive turkey
O mores O tempores, eh, motherfucker? What a list, what a list, what a list. Oy vey, oy vey, oy vey. First and worst is elegantly bearded Harvard prick in chief Jack Goldsmith, whose motto is “not as bad as John Yoo”, which may or not be true, because John stabs you in the chest…
David Brooks confesses his sins; just not the right ones
Frequent breast beater and all-around intellectual marshmallow David Brooks has touched off a real foofaraw, if not an outright hullabaloo, around the internet with his recent post for the New York Times, What if We’re the Bad Guys Here?, arguing that the rule of “us”, that horde of Ivy League educated sissy britches who hold…
Shorter Roberts Supreme Court: Let’s Make A Deal!
Originalist sin, anyone? The Volokh Conspiracy’s David Post has the scoop: Case or Controversy Requirement? What Case or Controversy Requirement?. As Dave points out, in a post that is, I would say, “thorough”, two of the many “big” decisions handed down by the Supreme Court in its recently concluded “summer session”—Moore v. Harper, shooting down…
Is Joe Biden toast?
Okay, Literature R Us has never scooped anyone in its 15 year existence, but this strangely seems to be a “speculation scoop”, to wit: How the hell is Joe Biden going to survive the testimony of “whistleblower” Gary Shapley appearing in today’s Washington Post, testimony that, if unrebutted, should convince just about everyone that Hunter…