Battlin’ Bill Kristol has a singularly ill-timed piece up at the Weekly Standard, “Ben Carson, Reconsidered”, repenting the Standard’s earlier claim that Carson would make an “unacceptable” nominee, After quoting that great conservative Edith Piaf, Bill admits that he was way too hard on Ben, in a rap that includes such “gee I wish I…
Jurassic Parks: Stevie and the Dinosaurs, Part 4
NOTE: Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park series is one of the best franchises on film, particularly if you like dinosaurs. For the past several weeks I’ve been running a strikingly unbalanced review of the four films, because I’m a big fan of parts 1 & 3, while distinctly unenthusiastic over parts 2 & 4. If you’re…
Q: What’s the difference between a blimp and a bomber? A: There isn’t any!
If you’re at all blimp-aware, you’re certainly cognizant of the sudden demise of the U.S. Army’s Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System, provoked when one of the two JLACMDENSS blimps went rogue, accidentally shorting out the power to about 20,000 folks before being shot down over eastern Pennsylvania by state police,…
OK, that’s cool! Less than a block from Dupont Circle, you can get six kinds of Spam!
Yes, there’s a small grocery store on P St., less than a block from the Circle that offers six kinds of Spam, the taste sensation that’s sweeping the nation, to wit: • Original Spam! • Turkey Spam! • Odorless Spam! (Though I must say, if you object to the smell of Spam…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here “Listen up, people! They don’t call him ‘the Professor’ for nothing!” “Welcome to Contemporary Football, gentlemen. Or, as I like to call it, ‘Psych 101’!” “Bob, you’re obviously conflicted. Go short, or go long. And, as the song has it, don’t mess with Mr. In Between!” “And, Frank, your anal obsession is…
Hey, Paul! It isn’t the president the right wing doesn’t trust on immigration! It’s you!
Appearing on CNN, newly elected House Speaker Paul Ryan “explained” why he had promised conservative Republicans that he wouldn’t attempt to pass immigration reform legislation as long as Barack Obama is president. “Specifically on this issue, you cannot trust this president,” Ryan said, claiming that the president’s executive actions intended to improve the lot of…
Masahiko Watanabe—“In Walked Bud”
Masahiko Watanabe, Vibes, Yuko Sakuma, Piano, Satoshi Ikeda, Bass, and Hidehiro Kanaizuka, Drums. Yeah, Hidehiro’s a bit over-miked, but, hey, it’s live! Posted by yuzu yuzuyuno
When Geniuses Lie
Is Lowell Wood a genius? Totally. You can read his fascinating story at Bloomberg Business, “How an F Student Became America’s Most Prolific Inventor”, just a wee bit of a bullshit title, since Lowell was not an F student for very long. But that’s okay, because Lowell, even though a very real, and very serious,…
Jurassic Parks: Stevie and the Dinosaurs, Part 3
(NOTE: Jurassic Park is one of the best franchises on film, particularly if you like dinosaurs. Over the next six or seven weeks I’ll be running a strikingly unbalanced review of the four films, because I’m a big fan of parts 1 & 3, while distinctly unenthusiastic over parts 2 & 4.) Jurassic Parks, Part…
Phony Evenhandedness, Case No. 377,421,903
Wash Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson sez: “Hey, those Republicans and those Democrats! They both need to grow up, amirite or amirite?” Well, sure, Bob, but when it comes to your topic du jour, the national debt ceiling, it’s the Republicans, and only the Republicans, who need to grow up. Because it’s the Republicans, and…