Who are the semi-Never Trumpers? Perhaps the most famous/infamous is Ross Douthat, who recently spent a column, The Once and Future Threat of Trump, desperately trying to explain away the fact that his previous writings on Trump, both before the January 6 riot and after, were politely yet accurately skewered by Robert Kagan in his…
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Dan Drezner does my job for me. And does it better! Sometimes!
Yeah, that’s right. “Terrible Dan Drezner”, as I often call him—or, sometimes, illiterate Daniel Drezner—has been doing my job—bashing “the Blob” on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays and trashing the hawks/neocons on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Okay, neither my nor Dan’s schedule has been that tight, but, still, he has been working hard. One of my principal…
Shorter Joe Biden: I cans so be as stupid as Donald Trump! Even stupider!
Politico has the bad news: “Biden goes ‘full steam ahead’ on Trump’s nuclear expansion despite campaign rhetoric”. An article by Lara Seligman, Bryan Bender, and Connor O’Brien quotes Biden as telling the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in a speech given just before the close of the Obama administration in January 2017, the following: If…
Hell freezes over; Satan furious.
Well, who can blame him? The dude gets up in the morning and falls hard on his big red ass—on a floor which is freezing, by the way—all because National Review dude Charles Cooke told his National Review brethren that they should believe the New York Times! Yeah, I know you don’t believe me, so…
I wonder if Daniel Drezner even knows what “pessimism” means
Well, I certainly do. I mean, I wonder about a lot of things, and one of the things I wonder about is Dan’s article in the WashPost from a month or two back, which he called “The most pessimistic article I have read in 2021”, a “depressing read” (says Dan) found in a recent issue…
The screwing of Matt Gaetz: A Fuller Perspective
A couple of weeks ago I raised the interesting question of whether Rep. Matt Gaetz, who comes across as a walking parody of “Florida Man”, complete with nudie pics on the cellphone, is being framed as a sex trafficking pedophile, when in fact his only “crime” is, well, being a “Florida man”. Well, the sometimes…
Roy Jenkins was part of the solution, and part of the problem. Was that part of the problem?
Roy Jenkins had a fascinating life. Born in 1920 in Abersychan, a mining community in Wales, he came from a strongly “Labour” family—his father, Arthur Jenkins, was a leading official in the Union of Mineworkers, eventually becoming a member of Parliament. Jenkins himself was elected to Parliament at the age of 28, working his way…
Socio-cultural-politico-judicio notes from all over
Dr. Seuss and the New Iconoclasts The recent sturm und drang regarding Dr. Seuss leaves me a bit on the outside of things, because, unlike most people, to me the “old” Dr. Seuss is the real Dr. Seuss. I loved the outrageous creatures that populated If I Ran the Zoo, And to Think That I…
You know what Dan Drezner’s problem is? He isn’t pessimistic enough.
Has it really been four months since I made fun of Dan Drezner? Well, it is, and, again, I’m saying that Dan just isn’t pessimistic enough. The last time around, in October of 2020, I snickered at Dan for snickering at Donald Trump’s “shambolic campaign” for reelection, Dan endorsing Ross Douthat’s picture of Trump as…
Will Geography Damn Us? Probably.
Al Gore won the presidency in 2000 by almost half a million votes. Hillary Clinton won in 2016 by almost three million. Joe Biden would have won the presidency in 2020 sans COVID-19 by, probably, about six million votes. Yet, in fact, Gore lost to Bush, Hillary lost to Trump, and sans COVID Joe very…