As is (fairly) well known, back in 1957, William F. Buckley wrote the following: “The central question that emerges…is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas where it does not predominate numerically? The sobering answer is Yes—the White community…
Just when you were thinking that Ted Cruz was maybe not totally shitty
Well, you knew you were a fool, didn’t you? Over at New York magazine, Eric Levitz has the totally shitty news of Ted’s new totally shitty foreign policy advisors, starting off with Frank Gaffney, a guy who thinks Obama is a Muslim, along with convicted criminal Elliott Abrams,1 and, well, others. Abrams avoided felony indictments…
Yay, Hillary! (I’ll explain)
Yay, Hillary! Okay, that is not something I say easily or often, but our gal’s five to zero sweep of the March 15 primaries over not so smokin’ Bernie Sanders, including a 2 to 1 beatdown in Florida, was welcome news indeed. Bernie’s big mouth had infused enough new blood in the beast known as…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “I’m part piranha, girlfriend. Don’t make me prove it.” “Hell, I’ll spawn right here. Like I give a fuck.” “Yeah, we were looking for Salmon Springs. Guess we took a wrong turn.” “Like the rest of the way up it’s bear country? That seems a little extreme.” “You could be eating some…
Neocons at the end of their tether
Over at the National Review, Jonah Goldberg has a second, and more anguished, cri de cœur—I discussed an earlier one here—remarking, not simply on the horror that is Donald Trump, but on the horror one feels when one observes one’s friends proudly embracing that horror—if one has such friends as Kevin Williamson, Charlie Cooke, or…
Francesca Prihasti Trio Four In One
Obama, all talk and no action? If only!
Eric Levitz, writing for New York magazine, boils down Jeffrey Goldberg’s 20,000 word interview with President Obama in the Atlantic, during which the president sounds so gosh-darn reasonable that you’ll have a hard time swallowing all the brutal truths concerning the house of state terror that Bush and Obama built (and reinforced) collected by Conor…
Donald and the Bern: What’s a billionaire to do?
The big surprise Tuesday night was not Donald Trump’s wins. “Trump losing momentum” stories have been written so often that when we see one we automatically rewrite it to read “Trump on a roll!” No, the big story was Bernie Sanders’ big, big win over Hillary Clinton, a victory won almost entirely on the basis…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Well, first of all, I’d really like a glass of water.” “All of a sudden it’s against the law to have teeth, is that it?” “What you call bait I call an hors d’oeuvre. It’s the fucking law of the sea.” “Hey, I bite a lot of things. Who remembers…
Arūnė Jonavičiūtė—“Well, You Needn’t”
https://youtu.be/uTHkpTs2XPo Arūnė, totally rockin’ it, with Arnoldas Jankūnas (piano), Paulius Stonkus (bass guitar), and Viačeslav Krasnopiorov (percussion), performing at Klaipėda University Concert Hall, Nov. 5, 2014. Posted by Ku Ma