Scrupulous readers of this blog, if such exist, may have come to the conclusion that I enjoy using Dana Milbank as a punching bag almost as much as I enjoy doing the same with Ross Douthat, but that isn’t true. Most of the time, Dana tells you what he thinks, which is, basically, “Washington vanilla,”…
How would you caption this picture?
This is a picture of Muhammad Mossadeq, the Iranian prime minister overthrown by British and American intelligence agencies in 1953 for the unspeakable crime of nationalizing the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (so named because the Iranians did all the work while the British took all the profits). How would you caption it? Well, if you worked…
Where were you in ’72? Bill ’n Hill, makin’ it real, back in the day
In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dreamAt night we ride through the mansions of glory in suicide machinesSprung from cages out on highway 9,Chrome wheeled, fuel injected,and steppin’ out over the lineh-Oh, Baby this town rips the bones from your backIt’s a death trap, it’s a suicide…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here “So, then, after you turned her into a pillar of salt, how did you feel?” “Well, I mean, if you say that the miscasting of Fifty Shades of Grey is a sign of the Apocalypse, then it is a sign of the Apocalypse. Isn’t that how it works?” “I’m sure that shutting…
Donald Trump or Donald Paul?
Lately, a few percipient observers, including myself have remarked that Bernie Sanders has been sounding just a bit Trumpy on the subjects of immigration and international competitiveness. Now, it seems, Donald Trump has been sounding a bit Rand Pauly on the Middle East. Bloomberg Politic’s Melinda Henneberger reports on the scene with the Donald at…
Conservatoire de Nantes—“Bye-Ya”
Pierrick Menuau: tenor sax; Simon Mary: bass; Jean Chevalier: drums; Jean-Marie Bellec: piano. Posted by Jean-Marie Bellec
Money don’t buy applause? Frank Sinatra, Meet Michael Bloomberg
Frank Sinatra, still hitting the road in his seventies, was asked why he was continuing to perform, when he was both richer than sin and too old to engage in it. Didn’t he have all the money he would ever need? “Money don’t applaud,” said Frankie. Well, that was then. Now, money do applaud, or…
Myths in a Mist
For the past year or so, the Washington Post has been running five-minute history lessons in the form of a feature that always begins “Five Myths About …”. A more honest head would be “Five Strawmen About …” A case in point—and one that, naturally, got under my skin—is a recent one by Gregg Herken,…
Joe Zawinul Syndicate—“Little Rootie Tootie”
Munich, 1989, with Cornell Rochester taking an extended drum solo that, for some reason, gets cut off. Run out of tape, guys? Posted by AURELIO58
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here “So I says to him ‘The 405? What’s a 405?’ Poor fucker never knew what hit him.” “Take-offs are about 3 Gs. Landings are about 4 Gs. Yeah, that’ll muss your hair.” “Unless I can get a decent Margarita in ten minutes I’m half-way to pre-ignition.” “Because the Major Deegan was like…