Big Band du Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris. Arrangement et direction: Stéphane Tsapis Clément Dautrey, saxophone ténor Clélya Abraham, piano Damien Coelo, vibraphone Florent Berteau, batterie Posted by annecy75
Prefer a new edition of the Spanish Inquisition? You’re in luck, dude.
If you’ve been following the case or controversy involving wicked Laura Kipnis, a seriously old school feminist who hangs out at Northwestern University, well, you may have thought that Laura’s recent articles on the absurdities of Title IX political correctness had more or less crushed that particular brand of political nonsense.1 Well, if that’s what…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here “Do you ever feel that you’ve taken this ‘What would Michael do?’ thing as far as you can take it?” “Well, is it helping you meet chicks? I mean, that’s the real question, isn’t it?” “Really? Well, I’m from the South, and in the South the dead do pay their bills.” “Okay,…
Today’s WP Headlines
Wassup in the Wash Post? Why an Army man says he committed mass murder The excuses men give for liking Taylor Swift So, if you’re a guy, you’re always guilty of something, right? According to the Washington Post.
The Republican Trifecta
Back in 1998 Republicans went through three Speakers of the House of Representatives before they finally impeached President Bill Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice: The president provided perjurious, false and misleading testimony to the grand jury regarding the Paula Jones case and his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. The president obstructed justice in an…
If Indian kids were really smart, they’d stop winning spelling bees
New York magazine has perhaps an unintentionally meaningful article on the latest “Scripps National Spelling Bee”, during which co-winners Vanya Shivashankar and Gokul Venkatachalam “tackled obscure and impossible words like myrmotherine, pyrrhuloxia, hippocrepiform, and sprachgefühl.” Is it rude to point out that 1) only two of these words can even remotely be considered English, 2)…
Rand Paul really, really evil, says Wash Post
Want to know the real deal about Rand Paul? The Washington Post will be glad to tell you. Check out these heads: Charles Lane: Rand Paul’s dark vision Jennifer Rubin: Rand Paul goes off the deep end Dana Milbank: The decline of Rand Paul Taking them in reverse order, Dana Milbank is the voice of…
Joey Alexander—“Round Midnight”
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here “Young Smedley here is shorting the dollar and everything else.” “He likes to call himself Bartleby the Gardener. Apparently that’s a thing these days.” “We take our hericots verts very seriously around here, Thomas. Very seriously indeed.” “We all eat at our desks. Smedley prefers to grow there as well.” “Smedley here…
Maybe we were not skeptical enough about Bob Schieffer
I was never a Bob Schieffer guy—I mean, I didn’t hate him—but, since I never watch TV news, I never saw him. But it seems that Bob has saved the worst for last, pausing before he shuffles off to oblivion by remarking “Maybe we [the media] were not skeptical enough” about President Obama back in…