Legal humor here “She burns methane ’stead a-burpin’ it, for one thing. Mother Nature thanks me, and you will too.” “Yeah, sure, manure is Nature’s way. But it ain’t my way. My way’s the highway, so excuse my exhaust.” “And another thing. She don’t draw no flies.” “You know that feller who said we don’t…
What’s more massively depressing than the Baltimore riots? William Kristol’s reaction to the Baltimore riots
I don’t buy the notion that “It was only a matter of time before Baltimore exploded,” an “explanation” given by reporter Michael Fletcher, a reporter who has lived there for 30 years. Arson, looting, and vandalism are not a response to injustice but a celebration of lawlessness. What could be worse than scenes of democratic…
T.S. Monk—Full Concert Newport Jazz Festival August 15, 1992
There’s an ad for a Disney film you probably won’t want to see, plus a few slow minutes while the band tunes up, but after that the sailing is pretty smooth. The tunes are “Monaco”, “Infra-Rae”, “Monk’s Dream”, “Round Midnight”, “Kelo”, and “Minor’s Holiday”. Posted by Music Vault
Beat the Press! It’s the Clinton’s favorite game!
Another Clinton scandal? Who could have seen this coming? Yes, the Clintons are thoughtless, sloppy, greedy, and self-indulgent—kind of like me, except they manage to make it pay better than I do. But why do they keep doing it? Why, why, why? Because they don’t think it matters. They don’t care what the press says…
Rewriting history: The Making of the President 1960
Over at Politico, Scott Porch and Mariel A. Klein have a retrospective look at the book that “invented” modern political reporting, Theodore White’s The Making of the President 1960. It’s not bad, but it misses a few things. As Porch and Klein note, Teddy White got his start reporting on China during World War II…
Auf Wiedersehen, Günter Grass
I missed remarking on the death of Günter Grass last week, death and taxes being just a little too much for me. As long as the Soviet Union existed, Grass was a welcome and intelligent voice, definitely “left” but never in the least willing to go along with the “Old Left” notion that the U.S….
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here “Trust me, white boy. Your life just got a whole lot more interesting.” “Drop your socks and grab your cock, sonny boy. Because you’re going places.” “Let’s see how Old Man Flu stands up to six quarts of whup-ass!” “Side effects? Well, how about ‘eternal life’!” “You’re familiar with the expression ‘no…
From the politeness of experts, Lord, deliver us
Rosa Brooks is a senior fellow at New America and a law professor at Georgetown University. From 2009 to 2011, she served as a senior adviser to the undersecretary of defense for policy. She is also the author of a book review in the April 16 Washington Post of Jessica Stern and J. M. Berger’s…
The Sad Sam Blues Jam—“Blue Bolivar Blues”
Rand Paul, Gettin’ Rowdy
Ever since ISIS beheaded two Americans in Iraq, thereby convincing millions in the U.S. that they were sharpening their scimitars to do the same in Des Moines, Republican politicians who don’t insist that they’re fixin’ to kick some major though unspecified Middle Eastern ass in the near though not yet determined future have been hard…